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yeah, no, the items in this example do make it to the end, i am fairly certain based on testing that if a chute in a loaded chunk tries to move something into an unloaded chunk the item it moved just vanishes into the ether

fair enough, my main issue really was just the speed at which it moves unfortunately chutes are pretty gimped in actually moving items? really most the time i just use them to put things automatically into containers and to take out for anything that requires any form of actual distance its not reliable at all because of how they delete items between chunks, and their slow speed, combined with the distance limiter

has anyone ever been able to make a good autosorter design? this design can be chained super far and even move either way vertically, but its just so painfully slow and because chutes delete things that move between chunks (from what i can tell) it requires you to afk for hours just for it to move an actual fair amount of things and at that point it'd be faster to just manually sort things it uses crates as a filter, with each item going down into a crate if it matches the items in the crate as crates only have 1 slot, so it makes them better at this than a chest with an item in each slot i'd love to make a good item sorter! it'd be fantastic for survival playthroughs of any kind, i just cant find a way to make one thats actually fast enough to be worth it with ingame mechanics