Guide to New Applied Energistics 2 from Simple to Advanced

Welcome to my guide for Applied Energistics 2 (AE2), the advanced storage and automation mod for Minecraft! Whether you're new to AE2 or looking to master its intricacies, this tutorial will walk you through this powerful mod's fundamentals and advanced techniques, helping you streamline your storage and automation systems like never before. Join me as we dive into the world of AE2 and unlock its full potential!
00:00 - Intro to Applied Energistics 2
00:54 - Meteorite Location
01:22 - Certus Quartz & Presses
02:32 - AE2 In Game Guide
02:53 - Cables & Channels
04:50 - How to Power AE2
05:30 - How AE2 Channels Work
07:40 - Starting Storage Network
10:07 - ME Drive
12:26 - Disk Drive Recommendation
12:58 - Handling ME Cells
15:40 - ME IO Port
16:41 - AE2 Power Generator
17:19 - Energy Cells
17:52 - AE2 Import and Export Buses
20:46 - ME Exporter Sub Net
24:13 - AE2 Autocrafting Setup
33:29 - AE2 Furnace Autocrafting
36:21 - AE2 Basic Subnet
40:03 - AE2 Wireless Terminals
41:20 - AE2 Cross Dimintional
44:35 - AE2 Controler
45:00 - ME Toggle Bus
45:19 - ME Level Emitter
45:59 - ME Formation & Annihilation Planes
49:01 - Certus Quartz Farm
50:22 - AE2 P2P Networks
53:47 - Redstone P2P
54:56 - AE2 Inscriber Automation
56:58 - Outro
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[@ChosenArchitect]

*Here, I will provide updates and fact checks for these videos.* (I will try my best to add corrections if needed) - Dense Cables can connect to devices. However, I wouldn't recommend using them for direct connections, as it consumes space on your 8-channel line, limiting connections for other devices. - The setup featuring the 2x4x2 Molecular Assembler + Pattern Provider is merely illustrative of how things can connect. You're free to build it according to your needs. Additionally, you can always add more Molecular Assemblers to the sides of the Pattern Providers if desired, as they only require power and not an additional channel. What I showcased in the video was just an example. - I was mistaken when I said Level Emitters use a channel. They don't use a channel (the more you know!)

[@camer5371]

yo just so you know level emitters don't use a channel

[@memo3994]

Which part of the video shows the best setup for everything

[@camer5371]

@@memo3994there isnt really a best setup for everything as its dependant on your world and modpack

[@zackzeed]

Missed or said a few incorrect things here and there in the video but I can imagine it's not easy getting everything right, even with a script. I myself have used AE2 quite extensively (except for p2p tunnels xD) so I noticed the inconsistencies right away. Seems to me that you really tried to make a good video 👍 Personally I always wanted to make a video similar to this myself but I have zero video making experience so I haven't been motivated enough to do it 😂

[@Psyzenn]

This video is really good. The only part I disliked it and it is confusing to understand is P2P. You used words such as things and I would prefer example such as sub-nets with furnace. I think that example was so clear it can not be anymore clear and this is coming from a new person to minecraft and a modded one as well.

[@X33N]

I've always preferred the molecular assembler 'chandelier' setup personally but yours is very clear for demonstration purposes. Additional little tips that some might find useful: - If you're confused about the whole 'types' vs. 'bytes' on drives, just picture the drives the same as a chest. You have 36 slots in a chest, one slot might hold 64 cobble or one slot might hold one sword. For non-stackable items a chest can hold max 36 items. For stackable items it's 36 stacks of 64, or 2,304 items. Storage drives are just simulated chests; people talk about this 'confusing' mechanic when it's core Minecraft. - As you use an ME system over time, the items get fragmented with items spread across multiple storage disks. Again, imagining a series of chests, you might have 3 ender pearls in one chest and another 3 in a second chest, taking two slots. Same thing can happen on storage disks. So to defragment, use the IO Port shown at 15:43. AE fills up disks left to right, top to bottom in a given drive. So take the top left disk out and put it in the IO Port. This will empty everything off that disk into the network and onto the other disks leaving you with an empty disk. Then, pull the rest of the disks out of the drive and off of the network, and place the emptied disk back into top left. Then place all of your remaining disks into the IO Port to be exported. They will fill up the one singular drive as full as possible, including topping off anything that can stack. Take your next emptiest (or empty) disk and put it in top right slot of your drive, and again it will be filled up with as much stackable as possible. Repeat until everything is re-imported, and now you've consolidated your items on disks as much as can be and probably freed up quite a few 'type' slots. - The toggle bus and level emitters are pretty quickly gone over, but you can use those paired together to have entire auto-farm subnets only be active when you need items from that farm. Disabling the subnet running the farm can save you unnecessary sounds, energy, and resources depending on what goes into running that particular set of generation. i.e. if you're full of amethyst shards you can turn off the 'ping' 'pong' sounds by disabling the subnet running the formation/destruction planes until more are needed, rather than just using the overflow destruction card and having it running at full blast. - Finally, I don't know if AE has optimized around it, but a best practice I have always found for channel maintenance and AE performance is to avoid having loops in the cable. This might be moot now and just a holdover from ye olde days, but I use cable anchors to never have my network have multiple paths the channels might flow. Hub and spoke 100% is safest in my mind. Nice work Chosen!

[@ChosenArchitect]

Thanks bud!

[@tasty8186]

Thank you both! One question which I find it hard to get a straight answer on. Should i avoid putting NBT items inside ALL ae2 searchable storages? For instance if I just had a chest or (create) Vault with storage bus, could I keep a few specific tools in there or will it lag

[@Kraus-]

I would be more concerned with the clutter than lag. Even if you're not filling up storage disks with NBT items they're still cluttering the interface.

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

The chandelier is a top tier setup tho, where you can have all the acceleration cards already made. once it's full of patterns, the chandelier is a PITA to take down to get to everything and fill it out with accel cards.

[@surr3ald3sign]

This is, quite possibly, the most well articulated and explained AE2 tutorial on this entire website. Ive been looking for a high quality guide like this for months but it seems that most creators assume you are atleast fairly compitent with AE2 which i am not lmao, ive played it alot but i never really go past early game with it bc it always breaks my brain

[@thenflsonic5880]

Hey Guys, this one off episode covering AE2 is a tool to help players when they are doing the Gregtech Star in ATM9 as it is the main ideal storage option to go for when doing Gregtech. ATM9 Videos return tomorrow. Enjoy the video!

[@yuvrajdas9552]

Sir, are you the editor

[@thenflsonic5880]

@@yuvrajdas9552 No but I occasionally do things like this so if people that don't have access to discord understand what is going on. Chosen does all the edits himself. I did this sort of thing too when he did his ATM7 To the Sky LP where he went away and he pinned my comment in regards to the videos this week.

[@yuvrajdas9552]

👍

[@surr3ald3sign]

​@@thenflsonic5880yo thats actually really cool of you thank you 🙂

[@alexjackyperson101]

I say it's needed for enigmatica 2 expert, because you need alot of space and storage and automation for crafting

[@Yilx]

This is amazing, thank you. Most modpacks tend to have a lack of real modern documentation or guides, and this helps with that a ton.

[@FolixOrision]

Thank you for the effort you put into this video to make it easy to understand with examples. - Subnets have always confused me, your videos has helped with some concepts that I didn't fully understand while tinkering with AE2 off and on with mod packs. - Wireless, hasn't been something I've used but now want to. - Chunk loading with anchors, didn't know that was a thing - Toggle bus looks helpful - I had always used one net, including for the creation and destruction. Thank you for the recommendation to do this on a subnet - The farm was neat - The P2P I've used, it was a good refresher - OMG, making the components for AE2 is so much easier now, I had built so many contraptions in the past

[@TheIceLeopard]

A like just for dark mode. Thank you.

[@YooGurt13]

Man, you explained this in the way that really made me understand. There’s a few tutorials out there but none explained AE2 as you did. Great job and thank you.

[@kps393]

Imo the best and most useful way to understand subnets is to make an infinitely expandable drive setup. To do this on one of the cables from your main network place a storage bus, on the back of that place an ME interface, then a fluix cable coming off of that. This fluix cable wont be powered so you need to connect a quartz fiber to it and connect that to your main network, you can just connect it to the cable thats attached to the storage bus. Now you can add 6 ME drives and fill them with as many storage disks as you want and this will only take up 1 channel from your main network. To expand this infinitely, just do the same thing with the storage bus connected to an interface but on the cable connected to the ME drives and repeat. Remember though you can only use 8 channels in each of these subnets so 6 ME drives, interface, and 1 storage bus. Hope this helps.

[@kryolith3330]

Nice coverage of the basics of AE2! You should mention the Chandelier for autocrafting, it is the most efficient way to use a full dense cable worth of pattern providers (32) with maximum molecular assemblers attached for each. Another thing would be the limit of 8 channels in subnets can be circumvented by adding a controller to the subnet, this opens up the flexibility a lot and same rules apply for linking it to the main net with storage bus and interface.

[@swastikgoomber]

Oh wow! I wasnt expecting a tutorial from you but really appreciate it!

[@filipeoliveiraladislau4533]

chosen doing direct guides now? amazing! honestly i many times refer to your LPs wen in doubts about some mods looking foward to new entries

[@danlfrickinsullivan]

Chosen, This is unbelievable helpful. Thank you so much! I have always stayed away from AE2 because of how complicated it looks

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Some interesting tidbit i want to share/add: 1. Molecular Assemblers can do recipe for stonecutter and smithing table. 2. Think of formation plane as insert-only storage bus, and annihilation plane as import bus. It's weird, but that's just how it works. 3. Partitioned disk >> drawers! Each item count as 1 bit (8 bits = 1 byte), meaning a 256k disk can store ~2M items. (Caveat: 1 byte can store 8 identical items.) 4. Storage bus into ME interface to make subnets. Think of the storage bus "reading" ME interface's storage. Just don't abuse it too much or it'll lag heavily. 5. Molecular assembler can act as a crafter. Just insert the pattern into it. Probably very underrated feature, especially now it can do more than crafting table. 6. There's other use for energy cells. If you do spatial IO, energy cells are a must. 7. Co-processor is optional, so long as there's at least 1 crafting storage, it'll work. Highly recommend AE2 tutorial by The MindCrafters.

[@spok_real]

Drawers are hella cheap and store items in the billions though, taking one channel for the controller

[@RealQuarlie]

​@@spok_realYou can use a drawer Controller to link all nearby drawers onto one block... So you can also have tons of drawers, each Storing millions of items, with just a single storage bus

[@lupowo3966]

nice to see a fresh, very comprehensive, and deep guide to (in my opinion) one of the best technic and storage mods out there.

[@xJay600x]

Awesome guide, I am currently playing divine journey 2 making it my first real time diving deep into AE2

[@WilliamComartin]

This was immensely helpful. Would love to see more mods showcased with tutorials in the future

[@Vendettie]

Wow thank you so much for this, I was watching your previous videos on this for a while. This is a nice surprise

[@SkyCaspian42]

This is so helpful! I really hope we get more tutorials like this

[@Oceanfrbeeze]

I always go to your videos to learn modpacks so I really appreciate the video

[@AK-iz3ts]

Really happy to see you making guides, as you tend to explain mods well in your modpack videos, although there does seem to be a typo in the title ( Also, you misspelled Certus quartz as certis quarts a few times in the video chapters)

[@gogzy606]

I see this is the start of a playlist. Can't wait to see what's next.

[@senseiplay8290]

This is surely one of the Guilds On AE 2

[@darkkrafter]

finaly a wel to understand and uptodate guide to ae2 thank you soo mutch

[@baardmannetje1979]

Thank you for taking all this time to create this guide

[@RealCraftspirit]

Now im currently clearing up my cluttered chests to purely use this mod. Its such a game changer. Thank you so much

[@rdmcfoxinator2131]

Once again you have saved me hours of troubleshooting in my Stoneblock World

[@SometimesHappy]

Extremely helpful, thank you for your work!

[@victrur]

Amazing! Thank you very much!

[@ClickWell]

The most clearly stated and easy to understand AE2 tutorial on KZbin ^ Thanks Chosen! I have a feeling this will be the new "go-to" for AE2 questions 👌

[@santiagosagariego3321]

thanks for make it so simple to understand tutorial for dummies like myself ,the p2p connection i always tried to make it to be able to have a lot of channel in one network never knew i had to use the memory card. Love your content

[@Ouranos.]

clear explaining for every lil feature nice video choosen

[@thoriummammet5945]

Fantastic guide! i was really stumped on automatic crafting and I/O - with mild confusion of channels. At least now i can automate the dumb inscriptors, cause THAT gets tedious fast

[@johncollins9779]

You typod big dawg🔥

[@goldeygamer1224]

What did they typo?

[@yygffgg]

I….Really liked, enjoyed, and so appreciated this guide video. I’m with the other person that said we need this for ATM9 mod pack. As a semi noob to modded MC, it’s either simple or super complex and it takes time to figure it all out. Getting sidetracked doesn’t help the ones with ADHD and of courses when starting there’s A Lot of resources needed constantly to keep it flowing. Thanks for taking time to help out the “old timers of vanilla” and “newcomers of ATM9” ! I’ll probably watch this again after I get enough resources stockpiled.. going find a meteorite.

[@williamhayduk6865]

I absolutely love the one off episodes of tutorials.

[@josephcasamatta339]

SO HELPFUL thank you Chosen

[@Captain.Mystic]

One of my favorite mods, theres very few developers that can pick an aesthetic and theme for a mod and full send it to its logical extreme quite like Applied Energistics. Its kinda funny how meta "Physical Items As Data" is in context of how minecraft works while still feeling like its not breaking immersion. Note, while it may be recommended to have your recipes vertical in the pattern interface terminal for speed, for organization this is pretty annoying to deal with for relatively little return. if youre at a point where AE2 autocrafting at max speed becomes a priority to the point where acceleration cards wont cut it, then you are most likely going to be crafting them in large batches anyways. If your modpack allows it, use passive crafting(or multiple machines running parallel in a subnet) if responsiveness is something you are after, but most modpacks arent factorio, the limiting factor wont be your processing speed but the rate of how fast you are going to get materials, and concurrency at the AE/ME level wont really be a limiting factor unless youre playing something insane like gregtech(and even then, youre better off with a subnet). Although i am a little confused, did the pattern provider replace the ME Interface in the new update?

[@jamesmcinnes525]

I would love to see this for all the mods!!

[@alexandregirerd6177]

need more tutorials like this, I'm a noob at complex tech mods like this and i love to learn, also i love your videos

[@ChosenArchitect]

More to come!

[@user-on6wt9hv2l]

Thanks chosen i really needed this video

[@threeuniquefingers]

Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the dark mode video format is new and UNDERRATEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THANKS YOU MY EYES THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!

[@Sxnti.1]

Amazing work!!!!

[@user-mf5eg3ob8v]

Hey chosen just wanted to let you know that you are my inspiration for playing modded minecraft . Thanks to you and your videos I have started playing modded Minecraft . I really admire your lets play videos . Love from Nepal 🇳🇵

[@liamrimmer7267]

This is AMAZING!!! Thank you!

[@panzerkitti1212]

nice decided to change to ae yesterady started today and was looking for a 1.20 guide couldnt be more pefect timing thanks

[@ChosenArchitect]

Glad I could help!

[@LittleCazzy]

This makes me want to re-learn how to make the Storage Drive tree I used to make and actually use AE2 again

[@slickchit6526]

I love watching your videos for a while now but this video was amazing. The way u format your videos and go about explaining it is so simple to understand. Would u be able to cover other mods that can be confusing in ATM9 such as Mekanism/Advanced Mekanism?

[@nojuxnojux]

I love these informational type vids.

[@ChosenArchitect]

Glad you like them!

[@entropic-decay]

fun little fact: several cable anchors arranged on the side of a vertical cable can be climbed from the side like a ladder

[@GeorgeCowsert]

Protip: Use Sophisticated Storage Barrels hooked up to Storage Busses in order to get more efficient storage. Drives can only hold so much stuff, but Sophisticated Storage can accept upgrades that increase both the stack size and the number of stacks you can use. In one Soph barrel, you can hold over 32k cobblestone in one slot when that'd take up several drives in the ME system.

[@palmberry5576]

???? Wdym? A 256k drive can hold around 2 million of a single item type, or 1 million (total) of multiple item types

[@palmberry5576]

Even a 4K drive can hold 32k cobblestone

[@MadAliceInWonderland]

Thank you very much, this is super helpful! Definitely going to help make a storage I can keep track of. Sadly though I cannot use the auto crafter method in this since the server I've been playing on uses the Dungeons Dragons and Space Shuttles modpack which removed the pattern processes used in AE2 in favor of the more complicated mod Packaged Auto which I'm not a fan of. But oh well, I'll figure something out.

[@2542sb]

Great tutorial thank you

[@JTCF]

I don't know what specifically is about autocrafting in AE2 or Logistics Pipes or Pretty Pipes is making me so, well _excited_, but I freaking love this feeling of the system figuring out how to use the materials and doing the whole chain by itself. I love automation.

[@ozzyisapothead]

amazing video. thank you :)

[@liquidsquid5295]

as someone that hasnt seen ae2 since there was a sky chest in the meteor, i feel like this is so much better and want to get back into it. i think the last ae2 system i built was on the official foolcraft 3 server

[@spoopythescout]

Keep in mind that people also make mods for AE2 as well, for instance someone made a mod that adds a digital storage drive for Botania's Mana. While another person made a mod that adds a digital storage drive for Chemicals from the Mekanism mod. On top of that, there is a mod called AE2 things that adds deep storage drives that doesn't have the item type limit. Meaning you could very well have 1,024 swords of varying damage and enchantments levels. However I would still personally recommend against this, as storing large amounts of items with lots of NBT data in a single chunk can corrupt the chunk and cause damage to your world files.

[@MarijnRoorda]

You forgot thaumic energistics! Yes, thaumcraft is no longer updated, but it allowed for autocrafting through the use of wands and essentia! Probably the best pack to experience that would be the Crackpack 2.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Isn't the deep storage disk stores it's data in separate file (kinda like RS)? Not that you should store that much NBT, but...

[@spoopythescout]

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989I am unaware of how exactly RS and AE2 store items digitally as the raw files. However the ATM9 modpack has a quest telling people to store apotheosis gems and tools/armor inside normal chests and barrels to avoid having chunks corrupted, as do people discussing things on reddit.

[@sea_kerman]

yeah the actual issue is too many types overwhelms the sorting and cataloging algorithms@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989

[@MarijnRoorda]

OMFG! He actually told us to put them vertically! (31:15) I have been ranting in the comment sections of video's about this since the days of 1.7. Great video Chosen! Some minor mistakes, and it's a very basic tutorial, and covers practically nothing advanced, but it's very decent. It will do well to stand the test of time, like the video's of plenty of others on KZbin. Such as The Mindcrafters and Nonsanity.

[@timklafke4712]

AE2 is my absolute favorite mod of all time. I know people love refined storage because of how simple it is. Tbh i have actually never used refined storage because whenever its been in a pack for me, so has ae2 so i go with that lol. I love the complexity of what you can do with ae2. I played divine journey 2 last year which was my first expert pack, and i really expanded my ae2 knowledge from that. I had a massive controller cube in the center of my base, and had space for over 100 p2ps to connect around my base. Everything was color coordinated and it was super fun to use. Also it was my first time even knowing level emitters were a thing, but they are such a godsend for a pack like dj2 where you need to passively automate sooo many things. I love ae2

[@immrsv]

Came looking for an explanation of subnets. Found amazing tutorials! Subnet explanation was superb! I describe P2P (is it not point-to-point?) as VPN! Thank you!

[@joltganda]

Thank you for the guide. I likely still won’t be using the mod due to how much it outclasses Create (my favorite) but if I end up playing without that I have a general gist of what to do.

[@Essentially_Empy]

Keep up the guilds

[@darkmift]

Dark mode vids! Love it!

[@ManuelNagler]

You actually don't need Co-Processing Units for the Pattern Provider to use more than one Molecular Assembler. You only need the Crafting Storage. The Co-Processors are only used to parallize multi stage crafting chains like "to make a fence i need sticks and planks, i can make sticks and planks in parallel". This can use 3 Co-Processors. You could have three Pattern Provider for the three recipes with their own Molecular Assemblers. You can see the Co-Processors working when looking in your crafting status.

[@ChosenArchitect]

Example shown were straight out of the guidebook for the mod itself :D

[@ABaumstumpf]

@@ChosenArchitect from the mods own description: " These only help if your setup has steps properly separated so the system can run multiple tasks in parallel, or even split the same pattern across multiple interfaces." So you need to setup multiple of the same recipe for the co-processors to help, or have multi-stage recipes.

[@samvsmedia8680]

AE2 guild rise up

[@sethroos6718]

we have been blessed this is so good

[@tommyhetrick]

nice Guild

[@sebi9522]

Ive tried using the energy accepters the way he does at 9:30 with the same combustion generator from cyclic and it doesnt seem to work the same for me, no power will get transmitted via the accepter unless i use a energy cable from cyclic and connect it straight to my ME controller, would anyone know why? am i missing some kind of mod maybe that allows them to work together?

[@RealQuarlie]

To correct how storage cells work: They have certain amounts of bytes and always 63 types. Each type used up will consume 8 bytes, no matter what. Each 8 items will consume 1 byte. This means, with 32 logs inside, it will need 1 type, and it will require 12 bytes, because 8 bytes are needed for a type, and the other 4 are the 32 logs (32/8=4)... This means, if you technically only store logs in a 1k (1024) disk, you have enough storage for 1024-8 = 1016 bytes, which with 8 items per byte would mean 8124 logs.... Not 1024... This is extremely important... As for the example with when he put a bit more items inside afterwards: You have 3 types, so already 24 bytes, and then you have 37 total items, which divided by 8 would be 4.625 bytes... and because you can't have fractional bytes, it will always round up, to 5 bytes here... So in total: 29 bytes, like it said on the storage cell...

[@sea_kerman]

How did you miss that you can upgrade the power and efficiency of vibration chambers with upgrade cards? I specifically took several days to code in the upgrade functionality lol.

[@ChosenArchitect]

Im sorry! I just went over the basic functions of a lot of things and the video was still an hour long LUL

[@ABaumstumpf]

With assemblers: Going vertically with the patterns helps a bit, but it does not prevent dependent recipes from sharing assemblers. In the worst case the recipe needs 4 crafts and they are in the 4 providers sharing the crafters. With this tower-design that might be as bad as the 4 recipes having "only" 6 assemblers. So if you go for high-volume crafting where you want large assembler-builds then you want to manually spread out the patterns to different towers as much as possible. for these 4 recipes that could be as much as a 4x speedup for the exact same machine-layout (worst-case 6, best-case 24 assemblers).

[@Frankium]

this feels like a well structured university lecture about networking

[@zekodun]

oh... one completely forgot about teleportation, power transfer of RF/FE, cobble gen/ tree farms, void bases, tardis like rooms... yeah AE2 is the OG OP mod that more players should grok :D

[@raymo9197]

Hey ChoseArchitect, great tutorial, if there are corrections in the future may I request putting “update/correction” or something that lets us the viewer know that there was a correction there in the time stamp list? It would everyone’s life easier to just go to that particular time stamp to see what was changed.

[@ChosenArchitect]

Noted!

[@RuslanKovtun]

Controller doesn't require to be powered by Energy Acceptor, he can accept power directly (in case of resource shortage) and you don't **have to** put controller at all, you can build perferctly fine system without it using subnets.

[@Error404-BG]

Hi,just to know you can straight conect dense smart cable to anything,is conect as normal cable.

[@Lionelius]

What mod do you use to see information of channels on the cable. Or any other information about block you look at?

[@SarungStreams]

I added this video to my watch later the moment I saw it and youtube insists on reccomending it whenever I only have 2 brain cells left after a long day. I will actually watch this eventually.

[@elodkotro5936]

I came here with the scope of deciding between rf and ae2 in atm8/9. Correct me if I`m wrong, but it seems like both of these storage mods do basically the same thing. It`s comparable to the linux vs windows debate, ae2 being a more in-depth mod, giving you more control over the whole network, while rf is like windows, much more simple to understand and set up, sacrificing a little bit here and there, ( i don`t know how the speed of auto crafting and processing compares, but i don`t think there would be that much of a difference). So for super advanced and technical players ea2 is the go to, while for the little bit casual rf is the go to. I`ve always used rf and haven`t tried ea2 just yet, so my opinion might not be the best, so correct me if I misunderstood something. Btw, great video!

[@rekohart]

Can you add what version of AE2 you are covering in the title or description? I've tried some of these things and the blocks/functionality isn't there. I assume this for 15.0.X versions.

[@surr3ald3sign]

Ah yes the energy cell segment talking abt my greatest pain with this mod, the fuckin brownouts if you move too much stuff without having a cell or 2 set up. It took me weeks to figure out that little trick i always assumed the cells were nothing more than a novelty bc i hadnt really pushed my power grid hard enough to get brownouts in my AE system but yeah once i figured that one out the early game became MUCH less painful (im not joking yall get a power cell down super early and just let it fill up the first tier of them are basically dirt cheap and even just one will keep your power supply alive until you start getting into larger craft orders and shit like that

[@yoRRnl]

What an awesome video Chosen architect. Thankyou. I will use thuis 9n my own atm9 play. But i have a question: why should you prefer AE2 above Refined Storage? This mods feels a bit easier to handle and does a bit more relaxed with storage. Like a 16k disk can handle 16k single items. So what makes AE2 the way to go?

[@NikoTheTerrible]

Your tutorial gave me a bunch of helpful tips and insight, but ngl, I think AE2 is always gonna make my brain hurt no matter what xD.

[@spadeofhearts713]

Question. In the auto crafting part where you hook up the 4 pattern provider / assembler pillars to the network, why can’t you just push them all together into one multi block structure and hook them up with a dense cable?

[@wolfsquared]

People that get confused about drives and types, think of them as chests with 1 extra row. Each slot holds one type. Some slots are stacks. So bigger drives are good for many items that stack. Several smaller drives are good for lots of unique items

[@wolfsquared]

Wow didn't know you could configure drives to work like drawers with void overflow

[@darthvitiate393]

I'm working with some Project E integration into AE2 and whenever I put emc items in it always prioritizes putting them into the discs instead of the Project Expansion block. Is there any way to set this up in order to make it try and go into the Integration Block first I also had the same problem with RS.

[@JefAlanLong]

I really want to do ae2... but every time I get a little ways in and ugh.. channels..? And things somehow become refined. I want to get it but I never do..

[@draimomdpdr]

what version is this because my inscriber doesn't have any options along the left side and pattern providers dont interact with inscribers when placed under them. I'm using AE2 12.9.9

[@ChosenArchitect]

This is for 1.20 and up for the inscribers

[@problemchild959]

Just side note on the overflow destruction cards. I learned this the hard way in another pack. Make sure you ALWAYS partition the drive before adding one. If the drive is not partitioned and anything you add or craft hits that drive it will get deleted. Took me 2 hours of debugging an me system to figure out why every time I crafted an item it was not in the system.

[@zuzoscorner]

Always was rough at figuring out subnets and how to make them talk to the main net while also sharing resoruces

[@ender_M1]

For me, the best way to represent chanels are by imagining a cable from the machine to the controller inside the cables and that only 8 fit in normal cables and 32 in thick cables

[@Agora2021]

I saw a comment elsewhere saying using nothing but smart cable on a very large network can cause fps lag, because they're always rendered. If true, this would also be a good reason to use covered cables and only use the smart ones in areas where you need to see how many channels are in use.

[@smeggeruk]

The subnet you describe at around 22:00 is not a subnet. It is a separate network that is being POWERED from the main network, it is not a sub of that network. To be a subnet it needs to be connected to and accessible from the main network (doable within AE2, but you didn't explain that in the subnet section)

[@Klungklung123]

quick question can i use the annihilation plane for a grape farm in lets do vinery cause its annoying to click everytime and we love automation

[@ChosenArchitect]

If the vine grows potentially because what the annihilation plane will do is actually break the block and it will take in the contents that came from breaking that block. So you would also need some system for filtering. I think some sort of clicking machine would work much better if you could right click harvest vines that you're talking about.

[@hadar2win609]

OMFG i love you so much better now

[@Lauchaeldios]

Very good video! I've a problem with autocrafting inscriber, when try crafting 64 Calculation Processor, de terminal say me, i need 64 Inscriber and 64 Inscriber Silicon, why happen that?

[@MCSchuscha]

Thanks for the dark mode ❤

[@SavageSki13]

So I have AE2 in my modpack with create. Obviously I don't want all my create farms in one location for sake of frames and lag. However I also don't want to run cables 1000 blocks from area to area. I'd also like to run less trains to move my items to one place.... is this possible to have network connections without running the cables or training everything to my main network..??

[@jakeburch9992]

learning how to use P2P's a couple years ago was game changing on expert packs.