How to Use Funnels in Minecraft

This article will show you how to craft and use a hopper in the video game Minecraft. A funnel is a collection of items to be poured into another storage object, like a chest or a furnace. You can craft funnels in all versions of Minecraft, including the desktop version, the Pocket Edition version, and the console version (Conspe Edition).

Table of Contents

Crafting funnels

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Gather the necessary crafting materials. To craft a hopper, you need the following items:

5 iron ore (iron ore) – Iron ore is a gray mass with orange/peach dots on top, mainly found in caves or cliff faces. At a minimum, you need a stone pickaxe to mine iron.
2 wood blocks – Chop two blocks from nearly any tree in Minecraft. This is the step to get eight wooden planks for you to craft a chest.
Fuel source – You can use coal, found when mining the gray block with black dots on it, or you can use wooden planks.
Furnace – Furnace is crafted by placing eight cobblestone blocks around the edge of the crafting table.
Crafting Table – The crafting table is created by placing 2×2 wooden boards in the “crafting” frame in the inventory.

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Turn wooden blocks into wooden planks. Open the inventory, place the block in a square in the “crafting” pane, then click and drag the created board into the inventory.

In Minecraft PE, tap ⋯ , tap the crafting table icon, tap the plank icon, and tap 4 x twice.
In Minecraft for consoles, press X (on Xbox) or square (on PlayStation), scroll down to select the correct wood, and press A or X twice.

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Fusing iron (iron). Right-click the furnace to open it, drag the fuel source to the bottom tile, and drag the iron ore to the top tile. The furnace will begin to produce iron bars.

In Minecraft PE, tap the bottom tile, tap the fuel source, tap the top tile, and tap iron ore.
In Minecraft for consoles, you need to select your icon and press Y or triangle , then fuel selection and press Y or triangle .

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Crafting chests (chest). Open the crafting table, place a block of wood in each border slot (except the center one), then drag the chest into the inventory.

In Minecraft PE, you need to tap the chest icon, then tap 1 x .
In Minecraft for handhelds, scroll to the chest icon and press A or X .

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Get the iron bar. Open the furnace and drag the iron from the rightmost slot into the inventory.

In Minecraft PE, you need to open the furnace and tap the iron bar icon on the far right.
In Minecraft for handhelds, select the furnace, select the iron bar icon, then press Y or the triangle .

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Reopen the crafting table. Now that you have all the necessary materials, you are ready to build the hopper.

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Crafting funnels. Place the iron blocks in the top left, left middle row, top right, middle and bottom middle row squares in the crafting frame, then place the chest in the center slot. Drag the newly crafted hopper from the crafting table into the inventory to complete the crafting process. Now that you have a funnel, you can start using it.

In Minecraft PE, you need to tap the cone funnel icon, then tap 1 x .
In Minecraft for consoles, scroll to the “Mechanisms” tab, then select the cone icon and press A or X .

Using funnels

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Set the ground platform for the hopper. You need to place the hopper at least one block off the ground, so place the earth block on the ground where you want the hopper.

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Place the funnel on the soil. You simply face the top of the earth block and press the “Place” key/button. The funnel will appear in the state that the wide cone is above and the narrow pipe is facing the ground.

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Remove the earth block. This is the step that allows you to place something else in the bottom of the funnel.

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Place the chest below the hopper. This is the step that makes the hopper catch all the items that are poured into the chest without spilling all over the ground.

You can hold ⇧ Shift and right click to place the chest here without opening the hopper.
To place a chest without opening a hopper in Minecraft PE or the console version, simply crouch when placing it.

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Funnel selection. Right click, tap or press the left Trigger button on the hopper to open it. From now on, you can add items to the hopper. Any items you add will be immediately picked up at the bottom of the hopper.

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Create monster traps. Place the hopper and chest on top of each other at the bottom of the 30-block deep cannula, then if a monster is lured to your location, it will drop dead and drop any items holding onto the chest at the bottom of the hopper.

Pay attention to the capacity of the chest, because if the chest is full, the trap will not help you collect items from monsters anymore.

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Create automatic (stove) furnace. Place the kiln on top of the hopper, add fuel to the kiln, then place the chest in the bottom of the hopper. After you do, you can place the unprocessed food (such as chicken) in the oven to cook. When cooking is complete, that food will be automatically moved to the chest.

Make sure that the pipe part of the hopper is facing the chest. Otherwise, the food will fall out of the hopper.

Advice

You can attach a redstone switch to the hopper if you want to turn the hopper on and off at will.

Warning

Usually hoppers are not needed during the game, unless you have a lot of items to move or want to create monster traps or automatic furnaces as mentioned above.

Steps

Crafting funnels

Using funnels

Advice

Warning

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