Dropper/hopper chains not working as expected

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I have made the following circuit:

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I'm expecting to move the item one dropper ahead everytime I send a pulse, eventually making it back to the first dropper after 4 pulses. According to the outputs, however, it's jumping back and forth between the left 2 droppers.

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The image above is a 3-state machine that I'm actually trying to build. This works as intended, but only in this exact configuration. If I switch the right hopper and dropper (updating their directions), or build the circuit elsewhere in my world with the same orientation, the same issue of skipping the right side occurs.

Can someone explain this behaviour to me, and give me a way to achieve the desired behaviour (consistently)?






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Do hoppers work with droppers?

Droppers. Droppers eject items gently, or feed them into an adjacent container such as a chest or hopper.

How do you activate the dropper on the hopper?

A dropper pipe must be clocked to move items, but can be clocked to move items faster than a hopper pipe's transfer rate. When a dropper pipe pushes items upwards, it is known as a droppervator (short for "dropper elevator").



Gob's Quickies - Minecraft Tutorial - Redstone for beginners - The Hopper, Dropper and Dispenser




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