Hello, My in-game name is NorthWestTrees, I would like to share with the community my experience when I first discoverer that the hoppers where nerfed and why I think they should be fixed.
I can't remember when I joined first but me and my friend where looking for a server to settle on and play together like most people looking to play on a server. It was going fine, all was going well, I just built my farm using hoppers going in to a chest. it was not a big for or wide at least the hoppers only need to travel 16 blocks to reach the chest witch was the with of the farm. I get it done log off for the night after harvesting it making sure its works fine.
I get on in the morning and I let the garden grow then go to harvest it and the hoppers don't work.
All my items out side what was stored in the empty hoppers despawned after 5 min because I needed to go up to my house to get a pick and a chest to store all the items of 18 farm levels that hold 64 crops each.
I did do the right thing brought it up to staff by MSG, I was insured that there was nothing wrong with the hoppers and that I Quote! "It was just me." harsh words to tell a new player that's letting staff know about a bug on the server. maybe its just me, but its not the point.
the point is without hoppers you cant transport items for lest then 5 min or they will despawn even then you cant store them in chests because without having more then one hopper collecting it will back up large over flows of items leaving many to despawn like it did in my case for my semi automatic garden.
last but not least hoppers don't travel (North, West, South, East or Up) more then one block, making transporting items out of the question to any same level location.
this means the only way you can go is down, me and my friend have tried number of things getting it to work every thing from Hopper Minecarts to unloading the chunk by logging off and then joining again we have tested diforent items and also in single player and the result is the same that hoppers don't work on this sever because they where nerfed by the server.
Please vote to get this problem fixed, if the over all community stands up and says it should be fixed they will be forced to fix the problem.
Thank you for your time for reading,
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NorthWestTrees.