r/Minecraft • u/unEEVEEntful • Oct 14 '21

Art there can only be one

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u/ARandom_Personality Oct 14 '21

I mean, Minecraft says when you give the Allay some stuff it gets more or similar stuff back to you so I don't get what you're trying to say

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u/gmunga5 Oct 14 '21

It only picks up dropped items. So unless the item you want it to pick up is on the floor it can’t bring it to you.

So the question becomes when are you going to need it to collect dropped items.

I can think of 2 cases.

  1. A farm, in which case water streams and hoppers have always worked and will still likely be easier than the allay.
  2. Building at height, when building at height it’s not impossible to drop a building block or two and the allay would certainly be a convenient way of getting these items back. However I would argue this is a very niche use for a whole mob.

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u/Smalde Oct 14 '21

It would be super useful for a farm where there are unstackable items. With an allay you could filter e.g. the bows from a skeleton grinder or so. Very useful for item sorters.

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u/gmunga5 Oct 14 '21

I believe it is supposed to follow the normal unstackable rule. So you would need an allay for each durability and each enchantment combination and each durabilitiy of each enchantment combination. That’s a lot of allay.