How do you get Hopper in Minecraft?

Hopper is crafted from Iron Ingot and Chest at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

When was Hopper added to Minecraft?

Hopper was added in version 1.5.

How many Hopper can you stack?

64 Hopper fill one slot, and filling it costs 320 Iron Ingot and 64 Chest: 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Hopper comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.

What is Hopper used for?

Hopper is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Minecart with Hopper.

How long does Hopper take to break?

For Hopper the game keeps hardness at 3, and it holds blast resistance 4.8. Explosions and tools work against separate figures on Hopper, which is why it breaks at two speeds. The tool tag on Hopper is a pickaxe, with no tier requirement behind it. Java 26.2 keeps Hopper on file as printed, which is what it shows here.

RedstoneCraftable

Hopper

A redstone component that collects items dropped on top and transfers them into containers below or beside it.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Hopper at a glance

Crafting gives you Hopper, a redstone component filed under Redstone. Carrying Hopper is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

As a redstone component, Hopper is wired into contraptions and circuits, and what it does with a signal is what gives builders the logic and timing behind automatic farms, doors and machines. It additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Minecart with Hopper. Hardness 3 is what Hopper is worth in the block data. Its blast resistance is 4.8. The tool tag on Hopper is a pickaxe, with no tier requirement behind it. It sits between Dropper and Lectern in Redstone, number 8 of 29 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Chest
Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot
Hopper
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Hopper has the grid for Hopper

Used to craft

Minecart with Hopper is the one recipe that asks for Hopper, and the link below opens that grid. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Hopper in it.

Minecart with Hopper

How to obtain

Crafting

Notes

Transfers items at a rate of 2.5 items per second. Can be locked by powering it with redstone.

Frequently asked questions about Hopper

How do you get Hopper in Minecraft?
Hopper is crafted from Iron Ingot and Chest at a Crafting Table, in a single step.
When was Hopper added to Minecraft?
Hopper was added in version 1.5.
How many Hopper can you stack?
64 Hopper fill one slot, and filling it costs 320 Iron Ingot and 64 Chest: 64 crafts. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once. A double chest of Hopper comes to 3,456, spread over 54 slots.
What is Hopper used for?
Hopper is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Minecart with Hopper.
How long does Hopper take to break?
For Hopper the game keeps hardness at 3, and it holds blast resistance 4.8. Explosions and tools work against separate figures on Hopper, which is why it breaks at two speeds. The tool tag on Hopper is a pickaxe, with no tier requirement behind it. Java 26.2 keeps Hopper on file as printed, which is what it shows here.

Building with it

Five iron and a chest give a hopper, and it is the conveyor belt of the game: it pulls items from above and pushes them into whatever it points at. Sorting systems, furnace arrays and collection floors are all hoppers with a little redstone on top.

In practice

A hopper moves one item every four game ticks, which is two and a half items a second, and it pulls from the block above whether or not that block wants to give. Pointing one into a chest that fills up stops the line, so a sorter needs somewhere for overflow to go.

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