# Item Sorters Item sorters are slightly modified on Vanilla+ due to reduced hopper speeds. ## Basic Item Sorter {% embed url="" %} This is the most basic version of an item sorter, they're effective for farms that have a low amount of item drops per second, however if your farm has a high number of drops per second, you'll need the following 8x hopper speed item sorter. *** ## 8x Hopper Minecart Item Sorter {% embed url="" %} \* skip to 10:47 {% endembed %} This tutorial shows how to build a 8x hopper speed item sorter by utilizing hopper minecarts, which is useful for farms such as raid farms, gold farms and any other high item drops per second farm.\ \ If you are having issues with your filters not working, break and replace all the Redstone comparators and Redstone torches.\ \ This item sorter utilizes a difference in mechanics between hoppers and hopper minecarts, in that a regular hopper only checks for items every 8 game-ticks, whereas a hopper minecart checks for items every one game-tick, hence it being named "8x". --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.vanillaplus.net/farm-additions/item-sorters.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.