In my opinion it's kinda rubbish you aren't allowed to craft a hopper as a regular member. It's stopping me to improve my faction and compete with the others Thanks for reading and I hope you guys will change this quick -Harrydehulk / Eric
You have to buy them from the /shop. The point is that you have to get money in order to get MORE money. An easy way to get money before you can get hoppers is a sugarcane farm.
Hoppers are in the shop for a reason no one can craft them. There are many other ways of directing items though to save buying loads of hoppers, water, droppers with a timed redstone pulse etc. Hoppers will not become craftable anytime soon, thread closed