Ok, this is a real problem now, lol...
I need a way to separate the equipment mobs drop from the rest of my loot. And I'm not sure it's possible without breaking something.
My solution to this before was to output everything not specifically sorted into a chest, and then I could pull out anything that is valuable, then hit a switch to auto destroy everything in the chest. But, I can't do that here for a couple of reasons: I am generating WAY too much too fast to keep up for one. For another, I'm using storage drawers for the spillover, so I can't just hit a switch and delete everything. And I'd like to continue to use the spillover area to put any new items I find there automatically until I get a chance to sort them.
So, I can't just set the spillover to a chest and auto delete everything. I keep an ender pouch with me to unload loot into the main storage from wherever I go. If I accidentally put my drill in there, it can't be deleted. I would literally cry. For like a second, like one manly tear and then if go build another one, but you get the point.
So, what I need is something between the vacuum hopper in the mob grinder and the ender chest it outputs to that can filter out equipment. Somebody please tell me there is a thing somewhere that can filter 'all equipment' out of an inventory. Otherwise, I think my only option is to whitelist every item they drop, which just now occurred to me, but I'd still rather not do. I want to continue adding spawners and want all the loot, including the stuff I don't even know I'll get yet.