Upgraded Hoppers

The mod keeps the vanilla hopper as its starting point and adds a ladder of upgraded versions. The Iron Hopper runs at 7 ticks, the Copper Hopper at 6, the Gold Hopper at 5, the Emerald Hopper at 4, the Diamond Hopper at 3, the Obsidian Hopper at 2 and the Netherite Hopper at 1 tick. Every step removes one tick from the transfer delay, so the faster tiers are a direct upgrade of the earlier ones.

The top of the ladder is the Beacon Hopper. It does not funnel items through the hoppers in a chain. Instead it sends each item straight to the last hopper in the chain, which means a hopper placed below a funnel can receive items without them passing downward. Its technical delay is one tick because of how chaining works, so a line of hoppers moves one item per tick at the end of the chain, multiplied by the number of hoppers.

A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too. It is published for Fabric and Quilt, with builds for 1.20.1 and 1.20.2 and 0.0.1-1.20.1 as the latest file. The code is under the MIT License and is open source. The author describes it as a first project and plans further features over time.