Anti pattern drop style is being re-worked at the moment, I am planning on making it work the same way as my fishing script's dropping system. So there will be 3 options: normal dropping, antipattern dropping and mousekey dropping
As for breaks, they can be useful, but as long as bot under 12 hours/day you should be fine with bans
As for the hopper, it's all up to you, I recommend trying it out first, see how it goes. turning it off/on and seeing the best way to use it
thanks for the post