Hopper
| Hopper | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Qi's Walnut Room for 50 |
The Hopper is a small storage box that feeds whatever machine stands in front of it. Items dropped inside are loaded into that machine automatically whenever it is free and can use them. It takes care of the input side of an artisan setup, which saves carrying stacks of fruit, ore or Coal around the farm. The finished goods still have to be collected by hand. Hoppers come from Mr. Qi's shop on Ginger Island, either ready-made or as a recipe for crafting more.
Recipe
Qi's Walnut Room on Ginger Island sells both the Hopper itself and its recipe for Qi Gems. A single Hopper is cheap, while the recipe costs five times as much. The Walnut Room door itself only opens after a hundred Golden Walnuts have turned up. Qi Gems then come from Mr. Qi's harder Special Orders, from the Shrine of Challenge and from trading Golden Walnuts at two gems each.
Crafting one takes ten Hardwood, one Iridium Bar and one Radioactive Bar. The Radioactive Bar is the slowest part. It needs ore from the dangerous versions of the Mines or the Skull Cavern.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Hardwood | 
|
10 |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
1 |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
1 |
Use
The machine goes on the tile in front of the Hopper. Anything placed inside waits there until the machine is free. When the machine is empty and the item is something it accepts, the Hopper loads it in.
After that, the Hopper waits. It does not take the finished product out, and it will not load the next batch until someone collects the result. A row of Kegs with Hoppers behind them still needs a walk along the row, but only to harvest.
A Hopper can hold several different items at once. Filling one with Coal and a mix of ores in front of a Furnace makes the Furnace smelt each ore in turn without any more help. It feeds a Heavy Furnace in the same way.
Notes
It works with any machine that takes an input, from Seed Makers to Kegs. A big harvest, such as a pile of Coffee Beans, can be split across a row of Kegs, one Hopper each. A Hopper in front of a Deconstructor can also feed it spare crafted items one after another.
The Iridium Bar in the recipe is the other large cost. Iridium Ore comes mostly from the Skull Cavern, and five pieces with a Coal smelt into one bar.
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