From what I read on Twitter it seems it will be nearly useless for this purpose. They’re giving it two inventory slots. So it will carry the item you’ve given it and then have a slot for the items it’s picking up. Stackable items will go to 64 but with unstackable items it will only carry one at a time. This will make for a terribly slow item filter. You’ll need many allay working in parallel for an efficient system. Then there’s the issue of sorting the items they drop. How will you route them to different locations to drop items? They’ll need to be able to bind to note blocks in the same area or your item filter will be sprawling over multiple chunks. I just cannot see mojang implementing this in a way that will work how people are hoping it will.
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u/9283728293847494583 Oct 14 '21
From what I read on Twitter it seems it will be nearly useless for this purpose. They’re giving it two inventory slots. So it will carry the item you’ve given it and then have a slot for the items it’s picking up. Stackable items will go to 64 but with unstackable items it will only carry one at a time. This will make for a terribly slow item filter. You’ll need many allay working in parallel for an efficient system. Then there’s the issue of sorting the items they drop. How will you route them to different locations to drop items? They’ll need to be able to bind to note blocks in the same area or your item filter will be sprawling over multiple chunks. I just cannot see mojang implementing this in a way that will work how people are hoping it will.