Hopper

The Hopper is a craftable item purchased from Qi's Walnut Room for Qi Gems, and its recipe is also bought there for Qi Gems. When placed directly behind a compatible machine, it automatically loads items placed inside it into the machine in front of it, as long as that item can be used by the machine and the machine is not already processing something.

Items dispensed by a Hopper still have to be taken out of the machine manually. The Hopper will not begin loading the next item until the finished product is removed, so it is best used to streamline feeding machines rather than fully automate them.

• Multiple valid input items can be stored in a Hopper at the same time.
• It can handle two different input items at once.
• A practical use is connecting it to a Furnace with Coal plus several ores, letting the Furnace smelt the ores automatically from left to right.