Hopper Transfer Rates

A single vanilla hopper moves one item every 8 game ticks (2.5 items/second) - work out throughput, or dial in a custom/modded speed like DonutSMP-style servers use.

Throughput

Number of Hoppers (feeding in parallel)

Parallel hoppers each feeding their own line into a shared output add their rates together - this assumes nothing is bottlenecking downstream.

Items per Second

Items per Minute

Reverse: Hoppers Needed

Items you want to move per minute

Hoppers Needed

Based on the 2.5 items/second vanilla rate above.

Donut Hopper / Modded Server Speed

Servers like DonutSMP run modded/plugin hoppers with a configurable transfer delay instead of vanilla's fixed 8 ticks/item - some configs go as low as 1 tick/item (8× vanilla speed), and server marketing sometimes advertises even bigger multipliers on top of that (e.g. via stacked hopper minecarts or custom logic) that we can't verify exactly, so treat those numbers as approximate. Enter your server's actual tick delay below to get a real number.

Ticks per Item Transferred

Number of Hoppers

Items per Second

Speed vs Vanilla