Nathan Fortune

Hello, i just started messing around with hoppers and wanted to test out my options on automated baking machine. I was putting flax dough in a chest that sits above a hopper, no items would transfer down. I tried to add the dough straight to the hopper so it can fill a oven but the game crashed. I had dough in the oven almost done and added 4 dough to the hopper, the dough disappeared like it was filling the oven but it crashed when tried to leave the hopper. Im playing solo most days and though i needed a automated system to stock up for winter. Does anyone have any suggestions on what im doing wrong or another way that work?