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Especially since you can't (easily) see how much fakessentia there is in the system, it is very important that you never interact with essentia in the system yourself. If you want to use machines that drain essentia, for example, the Thaumic Restorer, or the Ovrechanting Table, you will need to build a separate system for them.
If you are still getting used to this system, you could use some large external storage, for example, a compressed chest or a drawer system, to store fakessentia in a way that you can see it. Use a storage bus formatted to hold fakessentia (see below for how to do this) and set it to a high priority. As you use your ME system, make sure that the amount of fakessentia in this storage and the amount of real essentia visible in the Essentia Terminal stay exactly the same. However, in a real setup, amounts of essentia in the system quickly become way too high for any such setup to continue being practical, as fakessentia still only stacks up to 64. You will eventually want to move to a purely ME-based storage system, and so you need to make sure that the ME system can use fakessentia correctly.
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This plan executes correctly and crafts the pickaxe.
== Importing Essentia from Other Systems ==
Maybe you already have some essentia stored in your ME system, or even in warded jars, and you want to move it to your new Energistics system. Remember that the system needs to hold the same amount of fakessentia as it does real essentia, so this is not as simple as using an input bus or clicking on the Essentia Terminal with a warded jar. We need to also create the correct amount of fakessentia.
To do this, we need to trick the ME system to think that essentia is being crafted. First create a crafting pattern using two dummy items, we will use Dirt and Stone. (Any two cheap items work for this.) The pattern should consume one Dirt, and create one Stone plus exactly as much fakessentia as you want to import real essentia into the system. Once again drag the fakessentia from your NEI bookmarks.
[[File:Thaumic_Energistics_-_Pattern_for_importing_essentia.png|center|frame|A pattern to create fakessentia.]]
Place an ME Interface on a chest that is not connected to any automation, and put this pattern into this interface. Put one dirt block into the ME system. Request the stone block. You should see the ME system insert the dirt block into the chest. Now insert exactly the amount and type of essentia that you specified in the pattern (in the example above, 64 Praecantatio). You can do this using either an Essentia Import Bus, or simply by placing Warded Jars or other containers of essentia into the Essentia Terminal.
If you did this correctly, the crafting progress screen in the ME system should look like this:
[[File:Thaumic_Energistics_-_Successful_import_of_essentia.png|center|frame|Crafting status after successfully importing essentia.]]
Notice that all the essentia (this is in fact fakessentia) is stored in the crafting storage; and the real essentia is already stored in the ME system.
When you see this, ''cancel the craft''. This will move the fakessentia from the crafting storage into the ME system. If you did this correctly, you have created the same amount of fakessentia as you have inserted real essentia, and the ME system is ready to use both for crafting.
Repeat this for all types of essentia that you want to import. You can also use larger patterns (using the Processing Terminal) to import many different types of essentia at the same time with one craft. Just remember that ''the amount of fakessentia in the pattern must be exactly equal to the amount of real essentia that you are inserting into the system''.
== Things Not to Do ==
Do not under any circumstances do any of these things with your system, as doing this will unbalance the amount of real essentia and fakessentia for various reasons:
* Request crafting of essentia directly from the Essentia Terminal. This will produce real essentia, but it will not create fakessentia correctly.
* Use a Level Maintainer to try to maintain an amount of essentia in the system. This will create different amounts of real and fakessentia (usually more real than fake). However, maintaining an amount of some item that is crafted using essentia (for example, Alumentum) works fine.
* Insert or extract any essentia into or out of the system using anything other than requesting ME crafts. This includes using warded jars, essentia import/export buses, manually using the Thaumatorium or the infusion altar to craft anything, or any other tools or machines that use essentia, such as a Thaumic Restorer, Overchanting Table, etc.
* Allow an infusion to attain ''any level'' of instability at all. This can cause it to consume extra essentia, which will not be properly subtracted from fakessentia in the system. I recommend placing a large amount of extra stabilizers just to be sure, especially if you plan to WA the infusion matrix.
If you ever run into essentia-related problems, for example the system reusing to start a craft even though it has enough essentia, or running out of essentia during a craft, it is possible that the amounts of real and fake essentia in the system have drifted apart from each other. Use an ME IO port to export all fakessentia into a chest (or other large storage), and manually insert the correct amounts into the system, exactly equal to the amount of real essentia stored.
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