Extra Succ Hopper
If you have ever built a water stream sorting system in Minecraft only to watch items slip past your hoppers, you already know the pain. Vanilla hoppers pick up items on the same cooldown they use to push and pull from inventories, and that shared timer is exactly why fast-moving items occasionally get missed. Extra Succ Hopper solves this problem with a small but brilliant change: it gives hoppers a separate cooldown for picking up items, independent of the transfer cooldown.
What Extra Succ Hopper Actually Changes
The core idea behind this add-on is simple. In vanilla Minecraft, a hopper has one cooldown that governs everything it does. When an item arrives one tick late, the hopper is often still busy with its transfer cycle and simply does not grab it. Extra Succ Hopper decouples these behaviors. Hoppers still move items at their normal transfer speed, still have all their familiar quirks, and still behave exactly as you expect everywhere else. The only difference is that pickup timing no longer competes with the transfer timer.
This makes double speed water stream sorting fully reliable. In a classic ilmango-style sorter, items travel along a stream and pass over a line of hoppers. With vanilla mechanics, that design already showed missed items in the version it was built for, and the problem got noticeably worse in 1.13. Extra Succ Hopper restores consistency, so every item that should be captured actually gets captured.
Why This Matters for Technical Players
- Water stream sorters run at full speed without dropping items.
- No changes to hopper transfer rates or vanilla quirks.
- Server-friendly: clients do not need the mod installed.
- Works alongside most other performance and utility mods.
Because the change is server-side, you can run Extra Succ Hopper on a multiplayer server and players connecting with unmodified clients will still benefit from the improved pickup behavior. That makes it an easy addition for survival servers and technical communities alike.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Extra Succ Hopper is built for the Fabric loader and targets the Minecraft 1.13 era and later releases where the hopper timing issue became most pronounced. If you are planning to download Extra Succ Hopper, check that your game version matches the build you grab, since Fabric mods are version-sensitive. The mod is lightweight, so it will not meaningfully affect your performance profile.
One important compatibility note: Extra Succ Hopper is not compatible with Lithium. If you rely on Lithium for performance and still want this pickup behavior, the recommended path is to download and build the author's dedicated fork instead. Do not install Extra Succ Hopper if you are already using that fork, since the two would conflict.
How to Install Extra Succ Hopper
Installing is straightforward for anyone comfortable with Fabric mods. First, make sure Fabric is set up for your Minecraft version. Next, place the Extra Succ Hopper jar file into your mods folder. Then launch the game through your Fabric profile and confirm the mod loads correctly. If you are running a server, drop the same jar into the server's mods directory, and remember that your players do not need it on their own clients.
For players who prefer a smoother setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path that handles Extra Succ Hopper and its dependencies automatically, so you can skip manual jar management entirely. The launcher's add-on catalog also keeps version compatibility in check and can auto-update your mods, which is handy when you switch between Minecraft releases.
Final Thoughts
Extra Succ Hopper is one of those small quality-of-life mods that quietly fixes a problem most players only notice when their sorting system fails. By separating the pickup cooldown from the transfer cooldown, it makes high-speed water stream sorting dependable again without altering hopper behavior anywhere else. If you run technical builds, sorters, or storage halls, this is a mod worth adding to your setup. Just keep the Lithium incompatibility in mind, choose the right build for your version, and enjoy hoppers that finally keep up with your items.