Q&A for How to Use a Hopper in Minecraft

Stand in front of the hopper and press your drop item key.

Unfortunately, no. You could try connect multiple hopper to a hopper or chest.

Press shift and then place the item, it's that easy! You can place the furnace on top of or on the side of the hopper.

You will need to make it so that all the hoppers lead to the middlemost hopper by some path. Remember to crouch to connect hoppers without opening them. Also, make sure that the chest has 1 block of free space (no blocks) above it to allow it to open.

Place several hoppers together (pressing shift links the hoppers together, but it only works from the starting hopper), so dropping an item at one end of these line of hoppers will slowly shift that item to the starting hopper.

You can't make it turn, but you can make it run into any block by placing the hopper on that block. The input will be from above and the output will be into the lower block the hopper will be pointing toward.

You don't, it's not for that.

By filling its slots with a certain item whenever there is a new item on the hopper.

You cannot put water in the hopper, only a bucket full of water. You just have to drop the water bucket in the hopper.

You can throw an item into the hopper, and the hopper can hold so many items. (To increase storage, connect the hopper to a chest.) In this way, you can store items next to a crafting table for future use.

Use more than one hopper, or move the chest closer.

You can first place a block in place of chest, connect the hopper to this block, then crash the block and place the chest.

Yes, you can. If you have a single chest, you can place a hopper on top of it and on each of its 4 sides. If you have a double chest, you can put 2 hoppers on top of it, 2 hoppers on its 2 block sides, and 1 on its 1 block sides.

Hoppers cannot collect items that are a full block above them. However, certain “shorter” blocks like farmland and slabs allow hoppers to pick up items from below. You can also use a hopper minecart (crafted by putting a hopper directly above a minecart in the crafting menu) to pick up items from the block above.

Yes, you can link multiple hoppers into one storage. Make sure to place the hoppers against the one you want to connect, so that the items in the hopper will go into the other hoppers, instead of falling out on the floor.

No, it should work the same on all versions of Minecraft. If you find that the item hopper isn’t working for you, then you might’ve placed it incorrectly.

You can't. However, if you make a glass block tower in the shape of a plus sign, and then place a dropper facing up underneath the tower, the dropper will drop any items you put in it and they will float up in the glass. Then you can place a hopper on top of the tower and it will pick up the items.

Double tap the button in the middle of your movement controls to crouch in Minecraft Pocket Edition.

Hoppers can't deposit items into water, but you could hook up a hopper to a dispenser and use a redstone loop or lever/button to have the dispenser drop items into a waterway.

Make sure that the hopper is connected to the chest. You can do this by breaking the hopper, shifting, then placing the hopper on the chest on the side you want it to be at. You should also make sure that the chest isn't full.

Hoppers can't take items upwards. You'd have to place the hopper below the furnace for the smelted items to enter it.

Yes, all items can go into a chest with a hopper. The default key to drop the item is q.

You can’t put a hopper on its back and a chest doesn’t react to a hopper on its back.

You should check if the hopper is connected to the chest, and not a block. Also, check if the chest the hopper is connected to is full. If so, no items will transfer to the chest.

You can connect them by pressing SHIFT and then placing it on top or on the side of the Hopper that you've already placed (this of course has to be placed on the top or on one of the sides of the pre-existing Hopper instead of the floor or ceiling).

First, place a hopper against a block. Then remove the block and replace it with a hopper.

No. You used to be able to, but not anymore.

No. That is why crafting tables are not hoppers. You need to use hoppers. That would be cool, though.

You can't put water in a hopper, it is not a block that is able to be waterlogged. However, you can place a water bucket or water bottle inside the hopper's inventory.