
The player placing items into a sorter or furnace "input" chest is the same as the player toggling an on/off switch. A single-hopper chicken egg machine is probably creating more lag per-machine than any item sorter would do (if all of the item sorter hoppers are covered properly), because the sorter is effectively the same structure as an auto-furnace, and its redstone circuit is nearly always emitting no signal. Simply place furnaces on top of the hoppers on the top row, and the entire mechanism will be relatively lag-free.



Furthermore, one of the most common reasons to build a long hopper chain is not creating significant hopper lag:Ī hopper-driven inventory sorter creates hopper lag only on its top row of hoppers, and that can be fixed with inventory slot blocks, per Accidental Gaming's demonstration.
