jaquadro
Add vanilla comparator support
The redstone upgrades are nice, but the fact that they emit redstone on all sides can cause some issues. For example, I just ran into an issue where I was feeding items into a drawer with a hopper and I wanted to detect when the barrel was half full. The redstone signal worked, but it also turned off the hopper.
Found another use case for this. Now that drawers keep their inventory when broken, I'm building a bulk storage system that places, fills and breaks drawers to keep in deep storage. Sort of like a cheaper bulk storage system.
The issue is that upgrades cannot be inserted automatically, which sort of defeats the point of this contraption. I can detect when the hopper backs up, but this is more complex and less obvious to most players.
Is the upgrade insertion thing a separate issue/request or is it related to comparators?
It's a separate issue. I was explaining a situation where comparator support would be useful.
I want to create a machine that crafts a brand new storage drawer and places in the world. Then the machine will fill up the drawer, break it and place a new one. It would work like a shulker box loader, storing huge amounts of items in a small space.
To create a system like this, I need to automatically detect when a storage drawer is completely full. Since a freshly crafted storage drawer can't contain any upgrades, comparator support would be convenient.
I was going to publish the same thing, it was very useful for a "purchase" system that I had planned to do (that detects 4 items and returns another) but I need to use a hopper for it to work, but with the redstone system it blocks it, and the comparator it doesn't detect anything so I just can't use it.
It makes sense for the hopper to crash since the entire block is energized, and I don't know if it's possible to disable only the bottom part, but I don't understand why the comparator doesn't work with this as it detects almost everything in the game.
I realise this is an old issue, but is it a feature likely to be added ever? I'm playing 1.19.2 and want to use a hopper to pull from a drawer, but stop the system from running if a drawer is empty. a comparator reading the drawer would be the vanilla way, but the redstone upgrade locks the hopper below, making the drawer much less versatile for vanilla+ type packs without pipes as an alternative extraction method
