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[[Category:Guides]][[Category:Automation]][[Category:Applied Energistics 2]][[Category:Mods]]
=A Quick Guide to AE2=
This guide will only focus on item storage and autocrafting through AE2 and the foundations of a simple Matter Energy (ME) network, but please note that AE2 is not limited to just this purpose. It is possible to transport energy, fluids, vis, redstone signals, light, and even space. It can do all these things cross-dimensionally on top of this!
A guide to [[Chemistry Automation]] exists as well.
==Channels==
Most, but not all, AE2 devices require a channel before it will turn on.
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*Smart cables can hold up to 8 channels and power. In addition to this, they will visually show how many of the 8 channels are currently being used. This makes it very useful for debugging issues that will inevitably arise with any moderately complex network.
*Dense cables can hold up to 32 channels and power. Just like smart cables, they visually display how many channels are currently in use. The downside is that they cannot connect directly to most other devices except P2P Tunnels and other cables. This means that one of their main purposes is to carry an entire Controller face's worth of channels over long distances.
*ME Conduits can hold up to
*Dense ME Conduits can hold up to 32 channels and power. They are the dense version of the Ender IO ME conduits.
Note that glass cables, covered cables, smart cables, and dense cables can all be colored with dye using a shaped crafting recipe. Colored cables will not connect to cables of a different color. The one exception is the default fluix color, which can connect to all other colors. Dyes can also be removed by shaped crafting with a water bucket.
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Cable anchors can also be used to prevent same-colored cables from connecting to each other.
=== P2P Tunnels ===
P2P tunnels can carry items or fluids from one place to another without showing up on the rest of the network. In addition, they can bundle network channels to carry more channels from one point to another across a separate transport network. Details here http://blog.mcmodguides.com/applied-energistics-2-part-2-cable-management/#P2P_Tunnels
You may use [[fluid_P2P_tunnels]] to transport fluids at unlimited rate.
==Terminals==
* A regular terminal will allow the manual insertion/extraction of items
* A pattern terminal is essentially a regular terminal but will also allow one to create patterns for autocrafting purposes (explained below).
* A crafting terminal is essentially a regular terminal with a crafting grid for 3x3 shaped crafting recipes.
* An interface terminal allows for the insert/extraction of crafting patterns into/from any interfaces that are connected to the ME network.
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==Storage Bus==
Storage buses connect to other inventory-like devices, such as JABBA barrels, and treats those inventories like they were storage cells, allowing you to insert/extract from those inventory-like devices. Right clicking on a storage bus will bring up a UI in which one can specifiy which items will be stored by this storage bus, essentially acting as a filter of sorts. Since the inventory is treated as a medium to hold item, like a storage cell, one could theoretically have a drive-less ME network and use pure storage buses instead. Storage buses can be very useful in instances where an upgraded barrel (or a super chest) can hold more of a single item than a storage cell ever could. Storage busses can also be used on Drawer controllers for easy mass storage of multiple types with only one storage bus.
Furthermore, connecting a storage bus to an ME Interface will expose the contents of the network connected to that Interface to the network connected to the storage bus. In other words, if Network A has a storage bus and Network B has an ME Interface, connecting Network A's storage bus to Network B's interface allows Network A to see and interact with all items stored in Network B. This interaction is not two-way. In the aforementioned scenario, A can see the contents of B, but B does not see the contents of A. This allows one to create subnetworks. This feature should be used sparingly for performance reasons.
[[File:Subnetwork.png|thumb|A simple subnetwork. On the left is Network A's storage bus and on the right is Network B's interface. Network A can see all the storage cell contents of Network B. Notice that Network A is sharing power with Network B via quartz fibre on the top.]]▼
==Interfaces==
A sample ME Interface UI is shown on Figure 1:
▲[[File:Subnetwork.png|thumb|A simple subnetwork. On the left is Network A's storage bus and on the right is Network B's interface. Network A can see all the storage cell contents of Network B. Notice that Network A is sharing power with Network B via quartz fibre on the top.]]
▲[[File:Interface.png|thumb|Figure 1: Interface UI]]
ME Interfaces serve a number of purposes. Firstly, they can act as a glorified import and export bus. Inserting items directly into an interface will insert the item into the ME network. Inserting items into slot B shown on Figure 1 will also insert items into the network. Placing an item(s) into one of the 8 slots of slot A in Figure 1 will force it to export that many item(s) into slot B. Something will need to pull the item out of the interface after, since it does not auto-output like an export bus.
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As previously mentioned, interfaces also expose the contents of its network to any storage bus that connects to it.
Interfaces also allow for autocrafting. The bottommost row of 9 slots (slot C in Figure 1) can hold crafting/processing patterns (will be explained shortly). The top right slot (slot D in Figure 1) can hold upgrade cards.
Interfaces can be
==Molecular Assembler==
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[[File:Pattern.png|thumb|Figure 2: A pattern terminal]]
It is possible to toggle between creating crafting or processing patterns by clicking on the
Crafting patterns are for 3x3 shaped crafting recipes. If a valid 3x3 combination of items is set in slot A of the diagram, the corresponding item will automatically show up in the output slot B, which allows you to actually encode the pattern; an empty output is not a valid pattern and cannot be encoded yet. Crafting patterns should be inserted into ME Interfaces that are connected to a Molecular Assembler. Note that any tools used in a shaped crafting recipe will be inserted back into the ME network after the recipe is finished.
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Note that you would probably also need to set up autocrafting for the 1x tin wires as well: 1 tin ingot->2 1x tin wires. This recipe could be hooked up directly to a Gregtech wiremill. But note if you do this, you will literally have a limit of 4x9 wiremill recipes. This is because interfaces can only hold 9 recipes each and only 4 of the 6 faces of a Gregtech machine can have an interface attached to it: one is a non-insertible "face" of the machine and the other would be used for EU input. To get around this, we can do what we did before and instead connect the interface to a chest. The chest can then have items transported from it to the machine. You will notice that doing it this way is also easily expandable since we can easily just add more chests/interfaces. As long as the ME network receives 2 1x tin wires after dumping a tin ingot into the chest, any setup is valid.
[[File:Interfacetochest.png|thumb|An interface connected to a chest
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1 EU = 2 AE
Right clicking with an AE2
==Devices==
* Controller = 15 EU/t
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