Can hoppers pull evenly divisible amounts from inventories?

[Cadde]

@Cadde

Or another way of saying it, i want the functionality of the hopper outputting 9 items at a time but i want it to have a lot more room inside.

@Gregorius

And here is a question for you, where do you wanna store the Items that are not divisible by 9 if not in a Hopper that waits for them to become divisible?

Another inventory. A compartment drawer for example. That has 144 slots.
That is as far as i want to go in terms of item compactness if you get what i mean. I wanna make use of logistics rather than storing insane amounts of something in a single block.
But as i said, a cooler solution to this would be the ability to just use vanilla chests connected to one hopper/cover/machine that will pull (directly from those chests, without them pushing into item pipes)

I am currently using ultimet hoppers (which i would replace with tungsten ones later) because they have 27 slots. I am compacting dusts with dust funnels. And there’s an insane amount of different types of dust in GT so it’s getting “interesting” to have something like ten hoppers for each size of dust to be fed into dust funnels.

It’s all about avoiding them backing up waiting for that one 1/72th dust that would trickle down to a block…

Thanks, i will look at the retriever cover.