Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-33185350-20171009191817

So I really think millstones are an awesome addition to the mod. They are useful and the moving texture looks cool. However I was just wondering why they don't work with vanilla hoppers. I would really like to have a series of millstones where, for example, I could grind cobblestone to gravel then gravel to flint automatically, or grind multiple stacks of items and automatically put it into a chest. I know the mod is staying away from redstone machinery, but hoppers don't actually require redstone. It would just be a lot more convenient if the millstones could be automated. So is this a plausible feature? Or is the mod going to replace hoppers with something else? Or are they just staying away from this kind of machinery altogether? 