ME Requester in All the Mods 11

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

ME Requester is an add-on for Applied Energistics 2 that keeps items and fluids in stock in your ME system. You set a target amount, and the requester asks your network to craft more whenever the stock drops below it.^[1][2]

This pack includes version 1.21.1-1.4.3 of the NeoForge build.^[3]

What it does

A single requester block hosts 5 requests by default. You can place as many requesters as you like on your system and manage them all remotely through the ME Requester Terminal, which lets you configure requests and monitor their status. The number of slots per requester, its channel usage and its idle energy usage are all configurable.^[1][2]

Each request can be toggled on or off and has an amount to stock and a batch size. A color-coded status bar shows whether the request is idling, crafting, exporting, missing ingredients or empty. If you used the Requester from Lazier AE2 before, this is the same feature split out into its own mod. It was rewritten and now supports fluids too.^[1][2]

Who it is for

This is for you if you already have an AE2 network with autocrafting and are tired of manually ordering crafts to refill your supplies. The requester only automates the ordering. Whatever you want stocked must already have a pattern and be craftable by hand-requesting it as a player, and your Crafting CPUs and pattern providers must be on the same network as the requester.^[2]

Where it fits in progression

It is a mid-game convenience layer on top of AE2 autocrafting. You will want a working crafting setup before it is useful.^[2]

Unverified The sources I was given do not place this mod on the ATM Star path or tie any quests to it, and they do not show any pack-specific change to its recipes or config values. The slot count per requester is configurable, but this pack's value is unconfirmed.

The ME Requester add-on keeps items and fluids in stock inside your Applied Energistics 2 ME system. You set a target amount, and the ME Requester asks your network to craft more whenever the stock drops below it. You can also temporarily disable a request while you are still editing it. Here's the order I'd tackle things in.^[1][4]

Step by step

1. Craft the ME Requester. It is the block that hosts your stock requests, so it's the first thing you need.^[1][5]
2. Place it and connect it to your network. Use the network where your autocrafting logic is located, which should host your Crafting CPUs and your patterns.^[4]
3. Make sure every item or fluid you want stocked has a pattern and can be crafted when you request it as a player. The Requester only automates the requesting, and the ME system does the crafting.^[4]
4. Craft the ME Requester Terminal. It lets you configure your requests and monitor their status remotely, for the Requesters you place on your system.^[1][5]
5. Optionally, craft the Wireless Requester Terminal, which the pack also has a recipe for.^[5]

ME RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any interface	any iron ingot
Crafting Accelerator	Engineering Processor	Crafting Accelerator
any copper ingot	Amethyst Shard	any copper ingot

Recipe id: merequester:requester

The Requester block, your first craft.

ME Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any illuminated panel
• Logic Processor
• ME Requester

Recipe id: merequester:requester_terminal

Configure and monitor your Requesters remotely.

Wireless Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Wireless Receiver

ME Requester Terminal

Dense Energy Cell

Recipe id: merequester:wireless/wireless_requester_terminal

The Wireless Requester Terminal recipe in this pack.

Setting up your first request

Open the Requester and you'll see one row per request. Tick the checkbox on the left to enable the row. A disabled row runs no checks and keeps nothing in stock, so you can use it to temporarily switch a request off while you edit it. A row that is currently crafting is locked. The number of slots a single block hosts is adjustable in the config.^[4]

• Drag the item into the second column. These are ghost slots, so nothing is consumed. Shift-click also sets the item type quickly, and you can drag from supported recipe viewers if you don't have the item on you.^[4]
• For fluids, drag in a bucket. Right click sets the contained fluid and left click sets the bucket itself.^[4]
• Fill in Amount to Stock after choosing what to stock. When the current stock falls below that amount, the Requester asks for more.^[4]
• Set the Batch Size, which is the amount requested once stock drops below the threshold. It's requested all at once rather than as many individual jobs, which puts less stress on your Crafting CPUs and machines.^[4]
• Press Enter or click the submit button on that row to apply your changes. Clicking into any other row resets the values to their previous state.^[4]

Reading the status bar

• Gray means the row is disabled or nothing to stock has been specified.^[4]
• Green means idling: the target amount is already reached, or there is no pattern for the request.^[4][6]
• Red means missing ingredients. The process continues as soon as the system finds enough of them.^[4][6]
• Yellow means the request is currently being crafted. The row's settings are locked until the job finishes.^[4][6]
• Purple means the Requester is exporting results into storage. It is usually not visible, and if it stays active for too long, your storage system is out of space.^[4][6]

The ME Requester keeps items and fluids in stock in your ME system. It only automates the requesting. The actual crafting is still done by your ME system, so you need patterns and Crafting CPUs for it.^[4][6]

Setting it up

1. Place a ME Requester and connect it to your network. It has to be on the same network as your autocrafting setup, the one that hosts your Crafting CPUs.^[4]
2. Make sure every item or fluid you want stocked has a pattern and can be crafted when you request it yourself. Without a pattern, the request just idles.^[4][6]
3. Open the GUI and configure one request per row.^[4]

You can place as many Requesters on your system as you like. The mod's default is 5 requests per Requester, and the slot count, channel usage and idle energy usage are all configurable.^[1][4]

Configuring a request

• Toggle checkbox: the box on the left enables or disables that row. While a request is disabled, no checks run and its stock is not maintained. You can use it to temporarily disable a specific request, or to stop the Requester from emitting crafting jobs while you are still making changes to a row.^[4]
• What to stock: these are ghost slots, so they will not hold actual items. Drag an item in and right click to set the amount to 1, or left click to use the amount of the stack you are dragging. With a fluid bucket, right click sets the contained fluid and left click sets the bucket itself. You can also shift-click an item to set the type, or drag it in from a recipe viewer that Applied Energistics supports.^[4]
• Amount to Stock: set what to stock first, then enter the value. For fluids, the field adapts to the type and shows a B for buckets. When the current stock falls below this amount, the Requester requests more.^[4]
• Batch Size: this is the amount requested once stock falls below the threshold. The full amount is requested at once rather than as many individual jobs, which puts less stress on your Crafting CPUs and the machines used in the craft.^[4]
• Submit: type your values, then press Enter or click the submit button on that row. If you click into a different row first, the values reset to their previous state. Values must be whole numbers.^[4][6]

Reading the status bar

The bar below the input boxes reflects the current status of each request, shown by color.^[4]

• Gray (Empty): the row is disabled, or nothing to stock has been specified.^[4]
• Green (Idling): the target amount is already reached, or there is no pattern for the configured item or fluid.^[4][6]
• Red (Missing Ingredients): the system is missing the ingredients to emit the job. It continues as soon as enough ingredients are found in the system.^[4][6]
• Yellow (Crafting): the request is currently being crafted and the Requester is waiting for the job to finish. While this status is active, the settings for that request are locked.^[4][6]
• Purple (Exporting): the Requester has received all results from the job and is trying to export them into the storage system. This status is usually not visible. If it stays active for too long, there is not enough space in your storage system.^[4][6]

There is also a message for when the system can't find a suitable CPU for the craft. The process is continued when a CPU is found.^[6]

The block changes its appearance whenever any of its requests has a status other than idle or empty, so you can spot an active Requester at a glance.^[4]

Remote access with the terminal

The ME Requester Terminal gives you access to every Requester on the same network from one place. It has the same features as the Requester GUI, so you can configure requests and monitor their status remotely. It also lets you search for a specific request.^[1][4]

All Requesters share the same name by default, so all their requests are grouped under one header. If you want a separate group in the terminal, you can rename those Requesters in an anvil.^[4]

Crafting the blocks

ME RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any interface	any iron ingot
Crafting Accelerator	Engineering Processor	Crafting Accelerator
any copper ingot	Amethyst Shard	any copper ingot

Recipe id: merequester:requester

The ME Requester is a shaped crafting recipe.

ME Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any illuminated panel
• Logic Processor
• ME Requester

Recipe id: merequester:requester_terminal

The ME Requester Terminal is a shapeless crafting recipe.

Wireless Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Wireless Receiver

ME Requester Terminal

Dense Energy Cell

Recipe id: merequester:wireless/wireless_requester_terminal

The Wireless Requester Terminal is a shaped crafting recipe.

Unverified The pack's values for the slots per Requester, its channel use and its idle energy use are set in the mod's config, and the sources here do not show them. The 5 requests mentioned above is the mod's default, not a confirmed pack value.

ME Requester doesn't come with a tier ladder in this pack. The mod adds the ME Requester, the ME Requester Terminal and the Wireless Requester Terminal. So progression is about the order you set them up in, and it builds on the ME system you already have.^[4][5]

First: the ME Requester

Start with the ME Requester. Place it and connect it to your network, the same one that holds your autocrafting setup with its Crafting CPUs. It keeps items and fluids in stock, but it only automates the requesting. Your ME system does the crafting, so the items or fluids you want to keep in stock need a pattern and must be craftable if you request them as a player.^[4]

ME RequesterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any interface	any iron ingot
Crafting Accelerator	Engineering Processor	Crafting Accelerator
any copper ingot	Amethyst Shard	any copper ingot

Recipe id: merequester:requester

Each row in its GUI is a separate request, and the number of slots a single block can host is adjustable in the config. Each row lets you set what to stock, the amount to stock and a batch size. Batching helps because the full batch is requested at once instead of as many small jobs, which puts less stress on your Crafting CPUs and machines.^[4]

Next: the ME Requester Terminal

Once you have several requesters, the ME Requester Terminal lets you reach all the requesters on the same network from a central point. It has the same features as the requester itself and lets you search for a specific request. All requesters share the same name by default, so their requests are grouped under one header. If you want separate groups, you can rename the requesters in an anvil.^[4][5]

ME Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any illuminated panel
• Logic Processor
• ME Requester

Recipe id: merequester:requester_terminal

Last: the Wireless Requester Terminal

The pack also has a craftable Wireless Requester Terminal. Here is its in-pack recipe.^[5]

Wireless Requester TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Wireless Receiver

ME Requester Terminal

Dense Energy Cell

Recipe id: merequester:wireless/wireless_requester_terminal

All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta ships with ME Requester version 26.1.2-1.5.1. The pack's mod list shows it was first included in this release or an earlier one, so there is no way to say from these sources exactly when it arrived.^[7]

Mod changelog: 26.1.2-1.5.1

• Added a custom icon for the Wireless Terminal integration.^[8]

The pack changelogs have no entries for this mod, and no other mod changelogs were provided, so that is the only notable change I can confirm.^[7]