Applied Energistics 2: Difference between revisions

 

==Autocrafting==

 

The key thing to know is that, for processing patterns, the ME network will simply dump all the "input" items of the encoded pattern into the interface's attached inventory and will expect the "output" item to be inserted into the network at some later point in time. The output item doesn't have to be inserted into the same ME Interface that started the recipe; it can inserted from anywhere in the network and it will satisfy the recipe. With this in mind, autocrafting in AE2 is actually very simple. The ME network has no idea what kind of inventory you are dumping the input items to, it simply dumps items (assuming there is enough space) and expects the exact number of output (specified by the pattern) back into the system. If it doesn't ever get the expected item(s) back, it will hang and not allow you start another autocrafting recipe, so make sure that you have set the recipe properly. Recipes can also be cancelled at any point.