Chests, barrels, and shulker boxes all exist inMinecraftto help players store their possessions.

With the vast amount of blocks available in the game, it’s still very easy to become disorganized.

Rather than spending countless hours sorting and re-sorting your items, build this auto-sorter!

An image of an auto-sorter from Minecraft, showing the entire machine with a sign chest.

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This auto-sorter includes enough chests to store five different materials.

You should have two rows of chests now, totaling ten double chests.

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To place them in this direction, stand behind the five placed building blocks, facing the hoppers.

Placing repeaters from this position will point them toward the build.

This will power the build.

A player in Minecraft with items to make a auto-sorter in their inventory.

To do this, stand on the hoppers and place the comparators in front.

Now, stand on top of the chests facing the comparator.

Attach a hopper to each one, as shown above.

The first step in making Minecraft auto-sorter, with chests and hoppers placed.

To get this positioning right,hold shift and attach the hopper to the side of each comparator.

On every remaining block, place restone dust.

From the front of your build, place two temporary blocks coming off the side of your hopper.

The beginning steps of a Minecraft auto-sorter, showing blocks and repeaters.

These can be any block because they will be removed after this step.

Attach hoppers coming from the top block.

The hoppers should be directly over the row below.

A half-built Minecraft auto-sorter, showing the chests, hoppers, and blocks.

Remove these blocks after placing the hoppers.

This is where you will put items to be sorted.

Justattach a chest directly to the last hopper in the top row to gather these unsorted items.

The process of building a Minecraft auto-sorter, with redstone dust being placed.

That’s all there is to the main part of this build.

You have completed the frame, but we still have to create a filter.

Check out how to create a filter below.

The process of building a Minecraft auto-sorter, with two rows of hoppers being placed.

At an anvil,you will need to rename at least 20 blocks as filter blocks.

Your build should have a 5x4 wall of hoppers.

The bottom two hopper rows attach to the chests, while the other two are over the chests.

A completed auto-sorter in Minecraft, showing the chests at the top.

To create a filter system, you will need the hopper row second from the top.

This is also the hopper row that you attached to the side of the comparators.

Above, you’re free to see the correct row for creating the filter system highlighted.

filter block for minecraft auto sorter

The items should filter, andyou will be left with 41 blocks.Keep these blocks here.

The stack you place will become the item that the chests below will carry.

Above, you might see dirt placed.

A Minecraft auto-sorter, with a row of five hoppers highlighted with an orange box.

This means that the chest in front will be sorted to only hold dirt blocks.

Continue doing this for each hopper.

Fortunately, it’s possible for you to easily expand this build.

A hopper menu with items filtering for a Minecraft Auto-Sorter.

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The front view of a completed auto-sorter in Minecraft.

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