Applied Energistics 2 (1.18) Autocrafting - Basic Setup (Tutorial)

[@donbert]

I believe your issue is the type of cable you’re using. The most basic quartz cable can only handle 1 “channel” aka 1 interface. Much like if you add a 9th interface to a Smart Cable which can handle 8 “channels” the whole system shuts down. If you use a Smart Cable or a Dense Cable (32 “channels”) in that setup it will work.

[@donbert]

You can think of each “channel” being a separate lane on a road and in your example you need one lane going into the furnace and another lane going out of the furnace back to the system. The basic glass cable is like a one way single lane road that you stared from the ME system to the furnace but when you try to route another one way road out of the furnace in the wrong direction it causes a crash. By using the “smart” cable you’re using a wide 8 lane highway where everyone gets their own lane/direction.

[@Failgames47]

Thanks a lot for your comments, to be completely honest I forgot entirely that that's how AE2 works these days

[@MalawisLilleKanal]

Basic cable can handle up to 8 channels, after that you need a larger cable.

[@doormaat5033]

i thought the basic glass cables can hold 8 as well?

[@ch1kn_tenders]

If anyone else is seeing this, i managed to fix by simply adding more cables weapped around the interface, it says you gain 8 channels per side that is connected, so just wrap it with cables somewhere

[@iceflece]

Honestly helped me COMPLETELY understand what i should be doing, thank you so so so much dude I never understood old tutorials but this one, this one is all i ever needed

[@Failgames47]

No problem, glad to help!

[@customersevice1025]

This actually helped me understand ae2 for once! All other tutorials I find are these 30-40 min documentaries where they stretch and/or over explain everything making it very hard to watch. I take info as fast as its provided so a short and sweet video simply showing how the cogs fit together and making it spin a bit is exactly what I need!

[@Failgames47]

That's exactly why I make these videos, more than anything they're for myself so I know there's a video that'll give me the basics haha

[@fabianschulz2661]

Love you so much tank you for mentioning the old name for the pattern encoder none of the other youtubers were able to do that and the website of AE2 is shit aswell absolutly love you right now

[@Daddyanity]

Important note I wish I knew: in 1.18.2 you can CHARGE quartz crystals with only power now. You don't need to find a charged quartz ore first (In fact the ore has been removed). I spent hours and collected 35 64 stacks of quartz dust before giving up searching and looking online.

[@Daddyanity]

Sorry I posted this on the wrong video. :)

[@TheGrandePiano]

If you're playing AE2 with othe mods such as mekanism or iron furnaces, the use of the import terminal is not needed, when the machine (or furnace) can be set to input/output from one side. In this case only the pattern provider can act as the I/O and the network will handle the rest.

[@Fusiks]

bro you are a lifesaver ! Thank you

[@spitfireGamesVR]

So you’re saying that you’d need a pattern provider on both sides of the furnace?

[@elmakarumius1923]

No only on one side and make the machine able to input and output from one side, where the provider is​@@spitfireGamesVR

[@julioernany1503]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! i was trying to use import and export bus but it keep burning cobblestone into stone even when i didnt asked for it

[@ThorHanson7531]

Thank you, I just built my entire crafting unit with the interfaces and was wondering why the ME system wasn't recognizing it. I was unaware that they changed it. Also, the ME system just wants to make sure the item after being crafted exists in the system, you can import it with a ender chest as well

[@Failgames47]

Glad to help! Also the idea with the ender chest is brilliant thank you!

[@ThorHanson7531]

@@Failgames47 Welcome. the normal way before was to hook the output from the crafting machines directly into an ME interface. The way that I've always used auto crafting that just makes it easy to do is I discovered all the way back in 1.6.4 that you could simply place a diamond chest on top of the ME interface, and then it would just output the items directly into the chest, and then you pump them out with a item duct or Ender IO item conduit. Since we unfortunately don't have either of those mods updated to 1.18.2 yet, you have to use the clunky and basic Pipez mod to be able to move items from one inventory to another. I'm sure there's a way to do it with applied and logistics, but I don't prefer to use the automation from that mod because it's difficult. You should make your next video about how to set up a Auto crafting system for the Ae2 processors using the auto crafting and the Pipez mod. This would definitely make people's lives a lot easier in 1.18.2, since many of the mods aren't updated and up until about July 1.18.2 was basically unplayable.

[@Failgames47]

The even older way was just better. Just a huge cube hooked up by one cable that did everything haha I'll definitely look into it as I need one of them myself but I can't promise anything as Minecraft isn't the main focus of the channel

[@MasthaX]

Thanks for the little tips. I was used doing it the old way, was looking where to put my patterns. As many probably pointed out AE2 has channels now where you need to wire everything with multichannel cables in order to hook up more stuff.

[@supertreesuper27]

Hello fail i am just looking at your most popular video and wow i had no idea you had over 100k views on one of your vidoes well done

[@ViciousVinnyD]

channel system is confusing due to lack of in-game information but it's very fun to work with. basic cable and device can carry 8 and dense cable 32. each controller face provides 32 so a single controller with dense cable gives you plenty. protip for tiny networks and subgrids: devices don't need an me controller to work as long as theres 8 or less, then controller is needed to fix them by providing more channel

[@Liineeeee]

actually a controller face can provide up to 32 * 7 channels the use of P2P tunnel allow to create a subnet containing 8 P2P tunnels with 1 connected directly to a controller s face. (a P2P interface can only be placed with a 8 channel cable because of it s size) and then, you can put dense cable for each of the 7 P2P tunnel that serves as "output"

[@karlspel]

great tutorial, it's very nice how the tutorial is nice and simple for a mod that can be very overwhelming at times, atleast for me.

[@buddhawilliams]

I don't have it in front of me, but I think you can put an export bus on the pattern provider to send the processed item back into the network, rather than the long cable back.

[@Failgames47]

Will confirm when I have time, but thanks very much!

[@Failgames47]

Just tested it, doesn't seem to work

[@buddhawilliams]

@@Failgames47 odd.. maybe it's something to do with the modpack I'm using. I'll try tomorrow on a AE2 only and see. Sorry!

[@Failgames47]

@@buddhawilliams no worries! Thanks anyway

[@buddhawilliams]

had a play on just AE2 and Thermal Series for the machines... you just need to link it back to the cable coming in to the pattern provider. so ignoring coal, you put a cable into the pattern provider on the top of the furnace, an importer under the furnace and a cable going back up to the cable connecting to the pattern provider. Then, if you want coal, a side cable with exporter with coal in it. This is working well. Although, using a redstone furnace from thermal is both neater and faster to smelt :D

[@RedSmileTV]

A bit annoying how they changed it from ME interface into ME pattern provider and now ME interfaces have litterly no use anymore and I crafted them already xd

[@Failgames47]

The only positive thing I can draw from this is that in terms of names it makes more sense..? Haha

[@filbertpatricio1022]

ME interface are still extremely useful for saving channels by pairing it with storage bus for subnetting and saving a ton of channels in the long run.

[@kellyedwards8074]

How do you import/export the items with create? Nvm i found out how

[@Indrakrn]

If someone using ae2 most probably they're playing modpack and forced to use ae2 (lets be honest, refined storage is indeed refined compared to ae2) so that channel problem could be eliminated by using furnace that could auto input and output

[@Failgames47]

Yeah that's basically why I didn't really look into it that much Noone plays ONLY AE2 but for the sake of the tutorial it made sense to do it this way

[@plumbplum]

May be simple but, it helps out a lot to get started

[@gamemasterminecraft3027]

Just use that one mod with better ender chests, then hook all the chests to each other and into the me system

[@guccioreo356]

You keep calling it a crafting processor and a crafting CPU. Those are the same thing. That says a “CO-processor”. CPU stands for compute processing unit.

[@IrradiatedOne]

On 1.19 so might be different but import bus on furnace to pattern provider works.

[@tutix2423]

After 2h trying make crafting system i did it bc in 1.20.1 that item it crafts dont go back and import bus helps to make it come back in terminal Thanks for help :))

[@fergus247]

this is more simple than i thought. thanks for demonstrating. upvoted.

[@Failgames47]

Happy to help!

[@matheusminami1651]

thx for the video!

[@la_calvitie]

I need help, please. When I do an autocraft, the manufactured object stays in the molecular assembler and does not go into the system. Is there a solution?

[@Failgames47]

Have you attached an input bus that pulls items out of the assembler? If no do that, if yes: - check the input bus is online (in the ME controller's interface, or it could say in the WAILA box at the top of your screen if you have that mod enabled) - check you don't have any filters applied to the input bus (item filters or redstone enabled) Hope this helps!

[@la_calvitie]

@@Failgames47 with an input bus, it works fecatively but there is no way for it to come out without anything? just with the pattern provider ?

[@Failgames47]

Unfortunately I'm not quite sure what you mean and may not be able to help you

[@la_calvitie]

@@Failgames47 I mean that there is no other way to recover the manufactured object? As with cables connecting to the Pattern provider

[@Failgames47]

Not that I'm aware of. I sometimes use an export bus and then pull from the ME System to a chest so i can connect "normal" pipes to the chest to move around items though

[@piwpom]

i started my first modpack and it has AE2 i really hated it really didnt like how confusing it was but luckily i played stoneblock 3 recently and i worked with refined storage and it was very very simple to understand and easy to work with i wish they made AE2 a bit more simple like refined storage XD and i only played 4 modpacks for now so maybe i learn more about AE2

[@Failgames47]

AE2's basics are quite simple once you get the hang of them Though I must say I'm enjoying messing around with Ref storage

[@piwpom]

@@Failgames47 yeah i watched a lot of videos just to understand the basics lol maybe if play another modpack ill try to use AE2...

[@o-hogameplay185]

about the channels: you can do /ae2 channelmode (and here either default, x2, x4, or infinite). i just use infinite, so even the simplest cable has infinite channels

[@Failgames47]

I had no idea that existed lol, thanks for letting me know

[@Loresette]

It isn't working even though i did everything correctly. Items are not showing in the patter terminal, they are only shown in the crafting terminal

[@Failgames47]

That sounds like it is working correctly although I may be misunderstanding. The pattern terminal only shows stuff from the patterns you put in the terminal. This allows you to modify them but not use them. From the crafting terminal you can order the item

[@clover_aimz7687]

DO you have to have a pattern modular on top of every machine? or can you just stack em in a corner and hook them all up with all the patterns in them

[@Failgames47]

One would have to verify in creative but I'm pretty sure you do have to

[@Daddyanity]

Thank you!!!

[@Failgames47]

Glad to help :)

[@bilbo6322]

playing atm 8 rn and this just aint working, got literally the same setup to try it and it doesnt wanna work

[@spitfireGamesVR]

Because you need better cables, IE dense smart cables with more channels

[@leabee1844]

Is there a way to make this constantly crafting at all? So instead of you having to ask it to it'll just do it as it gets the necessary items?

[@Failgames47]

Not that I'm aware of I'm sorry to say :(

[@leabee1844]

@@Failgames47 Ah thanks anyways!

[@JackieTheYeen]

How can i automate smithing with this? Eg: Creating Netherite armour from diamond armour and Netherite

[@Failgames47]

Sorry, I don't know. If I had to guess I'd try making a pattern as if for a furnace recipe and putting an interface aboth the smithing table Maybe try asking a related subreddit or Discord

[@Itual]

In the newest versions, the smithing table has its own unique type of pattern. It’s not a processing pattern nor crafting, it’s another option you need to choose in the encoder the same way you’d chose wether to make a processing pattern or a crafting one. Same goes for works as well.

[@absentchronicler9063]

molecular assemblers handle smithing

[@nathanthecreator5872]

what if you wanted it to smelt all ores automatically?

[@Failgames47]

I usually use a seperate system that is basically Ore chest (--> pulverizer) --> furnace --> chest --> ME system storage

[@notsoswa6576]

I don’t have the me Pattern provider. Why?

[@filbertpatricio1022]

Are you using old AE2? Pattern provider only exists in newer version of AE2

[@elizabethcfennell123]

it says no crafting cpu's when trying to craft over 500 of something. help?

[@Failgames47]

I think It means you don't have enough co processing unit power. You might want to try upgrade yours or add more (I'm 90% sure that's what it means)

[@Liineeeee]

no he is wrong, you re not missing co processing, you re missing crafting capacity, to craft something, the crafting unit will get everything into its memory. As such, if you need to store more items in the waiting list, you need more memory, either you make a bigger crafting unit with more storage units, either you improve your units to handle more

[@filbertpatricio1022]

Upgrade your crafting CPU. The system automatically choose CPU with sufficient crafting capacity. Otherwise it will not work.

[@MotoMisch]

Is this a specific Modpack ?

[@Failgames47]

No it's not

[@Zach014G]

I did everything you said but i cant get it to work wioth making ingots from nuggets

[@Failgames47]

You might have to program the crafting recepie to output 9 ingots, but other than that I have no idea what the problem could be :/

[@Zach014G]

@Failgames how do i use automate function? cpu 1# works fine but automate says in red text i cant oddly enough lol But recipes work now :)

[@Failgames47]

I'll be honest I had bo idea "automate function" was a thing so I wont be able to help you :(

[@Zach014G]

no no its alright 😆

[@JacobPalin]

better way i found was to make outputs lead into the pattern provider through a storage bus

[@affableelf99710]

Pretends that I understand this.

[@Failgames47]

Clearly this video isn't aimed at the likes of Forza enthusiast Elves xD

[@almsy2617]

The whole, pattern and interface changes are messing me up... I made a crap ton of interfaces... but uhh.. nope ha ha old school stuff I guess

[@Failgames47]

1.4 was sooo much easier hahaha

[@modifiedlandfish]

is the import bus importing into blocks or into the system?

[@Failgames47]

Yes

[@Denas.r]

Import buses import INTO the system. And export buses export OUT of the system

[@Failgames47]

That's a lot more helpful than my answer of yes lol I have no clue what happened there xD

[@GamingwithJohn]

I started a moded smp with all the ae2 addons, would you like to join it? Its 1.19.2

[@Failgames47]

Don't really have the time unfortunately, but thanks for the invite :)

[@showmyrage]

Wait theres an AE 2

[@Failgames47]

Im convinced it's been called AE2 since 1.4 (like industrial craft which was seemingly also always ic2)

[@TheAL9090]

use dense cable and 2p2 busses

[@absentchronicler9063]

not a very good tutorial, doesn't explain a lot and shows stuff that doesn't work well. mainly talking about the furnace part. A truly basic setup doesn't even need an ME controller, you don't need the co-processor for it to work either, especially with the setup shown it wouldn't do anything but waste space and resources. Your setup doesn't involve managing the furnace's fuel at all. The way you wired it made it automatically push any valid fuel available on the network (wooden tools, logs, blaze rods, things you wouldn't want to smelt usually) into the furnaces fuel slots. The way it works is that the furnace only accepts items for smelting from the top, fuel from the sides and you can only get the the result of the process at the bottom. The pattern provider works by pushing the items from the process into any adjacent inventory and waits for the results to be pushed into it or into the network that the pattern provided is a part of. The reason you had an error pop up with missing channels was because you've had all the devices (including the interface) were connected together, the regular cable (naked and covered) can only handle up to 8 channels, and you had 9 when you connected them all together (3 terminals, 2 interfaces, 2 buses, 1 crafting CPU and the ME Drive). After you isolated the furnace export bus into it's own cable connected to a different face of the controller only then you were able to get this working. The proper way to make this work is to put the raw materials + the fuel into the pattern (ex. 8 cobble, 1 coal -> 8 stone (can be 1 cobble, 1 coal but that would waste coal in the long run)), make the pattern provider push into a barrel so it can be handled with hoppers or an AE2 sub-network. It wouldn't waste tons of channels on the main network which you would probably be expanding with the time. I'm not here to ridicule, but i just wanted to point out the flaws in this tutorial and help just a little bit.

[@Failgames47]

Thank you very much for your comment, I appreciate the detail and will certainly re-read it in the event I make another video on this topic (or even just for personal use when using AE2). I'm by no means an expert, especially concerning the channel system, as I never looked into "new" AE2 versions (since Java 1.4.7) that precisely. If I didn't make that clear in the video, I would certainly do so in the event of future iterations. Again I thank you for your detailed response and appreciate you taking the time out of your day to write it :)

[@absentchronicler9063]

@@Failgames47 no problem, I just know the frustration that comes with trying something you see online and it doesn’t work exactly as shown. cheers!

[@lemonke5341]

Why are these youtubers so unhelpful man