How to Make a Hopper Clock in Minecraft

Redstone clocksare useful machines that allow you to trigger redstone component blocks in a loop. This means you can makeMinecraft farmsor other machines that’ll work independently. There are pretty simple redstone clock designs, and there are also the ones that are a bit more complex, but a lot better and more efficient. And in this guide, we will cover how you can make the hopper clock in Minecraft, one of the best redstone clocks in the game.

Required You Need to Make a Hopper Clock

This design was first introduced by one of the best Minecraft YouTubers —EthosLab. His originaltutorial videofor the machine was released over ten years ago, and it’s still perfectly functional. It’s not difficult or expensive to build and can even be easily modified to suit your needs.

There are a few different alternative designs for the Etho hopper clock, mostly differing in one or two extra requirements. To build it, you’ll need the following resources:

For crafting one hopper, you’ll need 5 iron ingots, onechest, and acrafting table. Place the chest in the central slot of the crafting grid and put iron ingots on either side of it and one below. Then, add two more iron ingots above the ones in the left and right column.

Redstone dust is a precious material obtainable when mining regular or deepslate redstone ore. We suggest you go through our guide onore distribution in Minecraftto easily locate the redstone ores. Redstone block is a resource block you can craft using 9 pieces of redstone dust, filling the crafting table’s grid completely.

To makeredstone repeaters,redstone comparators, andsticky pistons, you can follow our dedicated guides and find out all the details regarding those recipes.

Steps to Make a Minecraft Hopper Clock

Now that you’ve gathered the resources, let’s start constructing the Etho hopper clock.

Congrats, you have created a working hopper clock in Minecraft! To make it functional, you can just connect it to the redstone circuit you already have, like the one for flushing mobs in amob farm.

Simply place redstone dust attached to the redstone block. The redstone block will constantly move, so it will be both turning on and off the redstone dust. Then, you can connect that dust to whatever you need or place an observer “watching” the dust.

So, every time the dust turns on or off, the observer will detect it and send the redstone signal.

In order to turn off the hopper clock, you can power one of the two sticky pistons permanently using a lever. Place a solid block attached to the piston and a lever attached to it. Turning it on will disable the hopper clock.

There you have it, now you know how to make a hopper clock in this lovely blocky game. It’s a very useful redstone machine to know how to build, as you can use it in many different occasions, like in crop or mob farms or even in a massive prank on your friends. What do you think about this clock? Was our guide helpful to you? Tell us in the comment section below!

To set the hopper clock to trigger every minute, you will need to have 150 items (2 stacks + 22 items) inside the hoppers.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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