Extended AE in FTB Skies 2

Extended AE is an add-on for Applied Energistics 2 that streamlines storage and crafting workflows. If you already have an ME network and you're tired of slow pattern handling, slow chip making or cramped buses, this is the mod for you.^[1]

The pack ships Extended AE 1.21-2.2.35 for NeoForge.^[2]

What it adds

• A 36-slot Pattern Provider and Interface, so you can craft or export huge recipe sets from one block.^[1]
• Tag, Mod and Precise buses: filter by item tag, filter inventories by mod ID, or export exactly per slot.^[1]
• An Extended Molecular Assembler with x8 parallel crafting, plus an Extended Inscriber and Extended Charger for parallel chip making and charging.^[1]
• The Assembler Matrix, a scalable multiblock crafter built for extreme speed.^[1]
• Quality-of-life tools like the Pattern Modifier, the ME Canner and the ME Wireless Connector for a long-range network bridge.^[1]

The Entro system

Most of the mod runs on Entro Crystal, the main crafting ingredient for most Extended AE items and machines. You get it by turning a block into Entroized Fluix Budding and harvesting the Entro Cluster it grows.^[3]

To start that process, right-click with an Entro Seed to turn a block into Entroized Fluix Budding. Many of the extended devices are too complex for a crafting table, so you'll craft most of them in the Crystal Assembler.^[4][5]

Where it fits in the progression

Extended AE lives in the AE2 quest chapter, and the quests give you a clear order to follow:^[6]

1. Start with "Growing Entro Crystals" quest, which asks for an Entro Seed and an Entro Crystal.^[6]
2. Next comes "Crystal Assembler" quest, which asks for the Crystal Assembler.^[6]
3. After that, "Inscriber Concurrent Press" quest asks for the Concurrent Processor and its Inscriber Concurrent Press. "Crystal Fixer" quest asks for the Crystal Fixer.^[6]
4. The Assembler Matrix quests unlock after the Concurrent Processor quest, starting with "The Assembler Matrix Structure" quest for the Assembler Matrix Wall. The frame, Craft Core, Pattern Core and Speed Core quests follow.^[6]
5. "Storage Bus" quest is a separate storage bus quest. It asks for the AE2 Storage Bus plus the ME Tag Storage Bus, ME Mod Storage Bus and ME Precise Storage Bus.^[6]

Why the Assembler Matrix matters

The Assembler Matrix is a rectangular multiblock with edge lengths between 3 and 7. It can run many crafting jobs at once and save channels for you. Each Assembler Matrix Pattern Core provides 36 pattern slots, and each Assembler Matrix Craft Core runs 8 crafting jobs at the same time.^[7]

The pack's quest line for this mod walks you through a sensible order: grow Entro Crystals, build the Crystal Assembler, make Concurrent Processors, and finish with the Assembler Matrix. Here is that path, step by step.^[6]

Step one: get Entro Crystals going

Most Extended AE items and machines are crafted from Entro Crystal, so it comes first. The quest "Growing Entro Crystals" quest asks for both Entro Seed and Entro Crystal.^[3][6]

Craft the seed, then right-click a Fluix Block in the world with it. The block becomes Budding Entroized Fluix, which grows Entro Crystals much like Certus Quartz does. Be aware that this budding block degrades unavoidably over time.^[4][8][9]

2× Entro SeedMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any sand
• any ender pearl dust
• any ender pearl dust
• any ender pearl dust
• any redstone dust
• any redstone dust
• any glowstone dust
• any glowstone dust
• Sky Stone Dust

Recipe id: extendedae:entro_seed

The pack also gives you other routes to Entro Crystal, and it changes at least one of them. Here is the changed fluid-reaction recipe, plus the in-world transformation recipe.^[10]

Entro CrystalChanged by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 32× Fluix Crystal
• 32× Entro Dust
• 500× Water

Recipe id: advanced_ae:entrocrystal

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Entro CrystalMod recipe

Transform (ae2)

• Fluix Crystal
• any entro dust

Recipe id: extendedae:transform/fix_entro

Step two: build the Crystal Assembler

Most Extended AE devices are too complex for a crafting table, so you need the Crystal Assembler to make them. It can also do certain in-world transformation recipes. The quest is "Crystal Assembler" quest. Its recipe uses the Extended Machine Frame, so make that first.^[5][6][10]

Extended Machine FrameMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any infused entro ingot	any copper ingot	any infused entro ingot
any iron ingot	Quartz Glass	any iron ingot
any infused entro ingot	any copper ingot	any infused entro ingot

Recipe id: extendedae:machine_frame

Crystal AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	ME Crafting Terminal	Empty slot
Logic Processor	Extended Machine Frame	Logic Processor
any glass cable	Sky Stone Tank	any glass cable

Recipe id: extendedae:crystal_assembler

Step three: make Concurrent Processors

The quest "Inscriber Concurrent Press" quest wants the Inscriber Concurrent Press and the Concurrent Processor. These processors are commonly used in multithreaded machines, which handle multiple tasks at once. The recipe for the speed core of the matrix uses one, so you will need them later.^[6][10][11]

Inscriber Concurrent PressMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• Inscriber Silicon Press
• 3× Ender Eye
• 4× any entro gem

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/concurrent_press

The pack changes the Crystal Assembler recipe for the processor itself. There is also a normal Inscriber recipe, and a recipe the pack adds for the Modern Industrialization assembler.^[10]

4× Concurrent ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 4× Printed Silicon
• 4× Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 4× any redstone dust

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/concurrent_processor

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Concurrent ProcessorMod recipe

Inscriber (ae2)

• Printed Silicon
• Printed Concurrent Circuit
• any redstone dust

Recipe id: extendedae:inscriber/concurrent_process

Concurrent ProcessorAdded by the pack

Assembler (modern_industrialization)

• Printed Silicon
• Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 90× Molten Redstone

Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/assembler/extendedae/concurrent_processor

This recipe is added by the pack.

Optional: the Crystal Fixer

The Crystal Fixer can repair a Budding Certus Quartz block and upgrade it. It needs power to work. Its quest, "Crystal Fixer" quest, comes right after the Crystal Assembler quest.^[6][12]

Crystal FixerMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 2× Quartz Fiber
• Extended Machine Frame
• 4× any all certu quartz

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/crystal_fixer

Work toward the Assembler Matrix

The Assembler Matrix Wall is the next step, with the quest "The Assembler Matrix Structure" quest, which follows the Concurrent Processor quest. After the wall come the quests for the frame, the pattern core, the craft core and the speed core, and the final matrix quest is "Max Size Assembler Matrix" quest.^[6]

2× Assembler Matrix WallMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars
any infused entro ingot	Chiseled Quartz Block or Quartz Block or Quartz Pillar	any infused entro ingot
Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_wall

Assembler Matrix FrameChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any quartz gem	any lapi gems	any quartz gem
any lapi gems	Extended Machine Frame	any lapi gems
any quartz gem	any lapi gems	any quartz gem

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_frame

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Assembler Matrix Pattern CoreAdded by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 6× Blue Lumen Paint Ball
• Engineering Processor
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• ME Extended Pattern Provider

Recipe id: ftb:assembler/assembler_matrix_pattern

This recipe is added by the pack.

Assembler Matrix Craft CoreMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• Logic Processor
• 6× Purple Lumen Paint Ball
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• Extended Molecular Assembler

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/assembler_matrix_crafter

Assembler Matrix Speed CoreMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 6× Red Lumen Paint Ball
• 8× Acceleration Card
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• Concurrent Processor

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/assembler_matrix_speed

The matrix is a rectangular prism with edge lengths between 3 and 7. Frames form the edges, walls or glass form the faces, and the interior is made up of Pattern, Craft and Speed Cores. It needs at least one Pattern Core and one Craft Core, and it must be completely filled, not hollow. When it is formed and powered, the lines on the frame turn blue.^[7]

• Each Pattern Core gives the matrix 36 pattern slots.^[7]
• Each Craft Core can run 8 crafting jobs at the same time.^[7]
• 5 Speed Cores give full speed, and more than 5 add no extra boost.^[7]

Extended AE is built around a few machines that do the heavy lifting: the Crystal Assembler crafts the mod's gear, the Extended Molecular Assembler and the Assembler Matrix run crafting jobs in parallel, and a family of buses and interfaces move items around your ME network. This section covers how each of them behaves in this pack.^{[5][7][13][14][15]}

Building the machines

Most block-form machines in the mod need an Extended Machine Frame. The devices are too complex for a crafting table, so you craft most of them in the Crystal Assembler. It can also run in-world style transformation recipes such as fluix transformation. The face with the screen cannot connect to the network.^[5][16]

Crystal AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	ME Crafting Terminal	Empty slot
Logic Processor	Extended Machine Frame	Logic Processor
any glass cable	Sky Stone Tank	any glass cable

Recipe id: extendedae:crystal_assembler

The machine that crafts most other Extended AE devices.

In this pack device.enable_crystal_assembler_inscribe_processors is true, so the Crystal Assembler is also allowed to do processor inscriber recipes.^[17]

Entro Crystal is the main ingredient for most Extended AE items and machines. Normally you grow it from budding Entroized Fluix, which you create by right-clicking a Fluix Block with an Entro Seed. This pack also adds a shaped recipe that makes 6 of them.^[3][4][10]

6× Entro CrystalAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

8 × Entro Crystal Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/essence/extended_ae2/entro_crystal

Added by the pack.

Budding Entroized Fluix degrades unavoidably and eventually turns into something else. The Crystal Fixer needs power to work, and the recipe below shows how it upgrades Budding Half Entroized Fluix into Budding Mostly Entroized Fluix.^[9][10][12]

Budding Mostly Entroized FluixMod recipe

Crystal Fixer (extendedae)

• Budding Half Entroized Fluix
• any ender pearl dust

Recipe id: extendedae:fixer/entro_half

The Concurrent Processor is used in multithreaded machines so they can handle several tasks at once. The pack changes its Crystal Assembler recipe from the mod's default, so check the recipe below rather than any other guide.^[10][11]

4× Concurrent ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 4× Printed Silicon
• 4× Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 4× any redstone dust

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/concurrent_processor

Changed by the pack.

Assembler Matrix

The Assembler Matrix is a multiblock that runs many crafting jobs at the same time and saves channels. It is a rectangular prism. The edges are Assembler Matrix Frame blocks, the faces are Wall or Glass, and the interior is Pattern, Craft and Speed Cores. It must be completely filled, not hollow, and it needs at least one Pattern Core and one Craft Core. When it is formed and powered, the lines on the frame turn blue.^[7]

The in-game guide says edge lengths run from 3 to 7. The pack's config sets device.assembler_matrix_max_size to 6 (the mod default is also 6, and the allowed range is 3 to 16), so 6 is the limit to plan around in this pack.^[7][17]

• Pattern Core: the matrix only takes patterns from its Pattern Cores, and each one provides 36 pattern slots. Only crafting patterns are accepted.^[7][8]
• Assembler Matrix Craft Core: the matrix hands crafting jobs to its Craft Cores, and each one runs 8 jobs at the same time.^[7]
• Speed Core: 5 speed cores give full speed, and more than 5 add nothing.^[7]

Right-click a formed, online matrix to open its screen. There you can add or search for patterns and see how many jobs are running. It also has a button that stops all crafting jobs and returns the ingredients.^[7][8]

The pack adds its own Crystal Assembler recipe for the Pattern Core. The Craft Core, Wall and Glass recipes are below.^[10][18]

Assembler Matrix Craft CoreMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• Logic Processor
• 6× Purple Lumen Paint Ball
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• Extended Molecular Assembler

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/assembler_matrix_crafter

2× Assembler Matrix WallMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars
any infused entro ingot	Chiseled Quartz Block or Quartz Block or Quartz Pillar	any infused entro ingot
Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_wall

2× Assembler Matrix GlassMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Glass	any fluix gem	Quartz Glass
any infused entro ingot	Chiseled Quartz Block or Quartz Block or Quartz Pillar	any infused entro ingot
Quartz Glass	any fluix gem	Quartz Glass

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_glass

Parallel machines

• Extended Molecular Assembler: runs eight crafting jobs at once and works twice as fast as the normal one. It only supports jobs sent to it, so you cannot put a pattern in it directly.^[13]
• Extended Inscriber: runs 4 inscribing jobs at the same time. A button changes its maximum stack size (the screen offers stack to 1, 4 or 64).^[8][19]
• Extended Charger: charges 4 items at the same time.^[20]
• Circuit Slicer: slices material blocks straight into processor prints, up to nine times faster than an Inscriber. Glass faces without a port cannot connect to the network.^[21]

Moving and filtering items

The extended import and export buses are faster than the normal ones and have more upgrade slots. The speed multiplier comes from device.extended_io_bus_multiplier, which is 8 in this pack (the mod default is also 8). The ME Extended IO Port is eight times faster than the normal IO Port and also has more upgrade slots.^[15][17][22]

Interfaces come in a few sizes. The ME Extended Interface has a larger configuration inventory, and the extended pattern provider has a larger pattern inventory. The ME Oversize Interface has the same number of slots as a normal interface but holds 16 times as many items per slot, which is 1024 (64 x 16). That comes from device.oversize_interface_multiplier. The pack also sets device.custom_oversize_interface_multiplier so that mana uses 2 and flux uses 4.^{[14][17][23][24]}

Storage is bigger too. The ME Extended Drive holds 20 storage cells, and the ME Ingredient Buffer holds 36 types of contents, from items to fluids.^[25][26]

If you already have normal AE2 devices, you do not need to rebuild them. Sneak and right-click a device with the matching upgrade, such as the Import/Export Bus Upgrade, and it becomes the extended version with all its settings and inventory kept.^[27]

Import/Export Bus UpgradeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• ME Extended Import Bus
• any ingot

Recipe id: extendedae:ex_bus_upgrade

The specialised buses give you finer control:^[28]

• ME Precise Export Bus: exports exact quantities, and only when the target container can accept the whole output. Set to 3 cobblestone, it stops once the network holds fewer than 3.^[28]
• ME Precise Storage Bus: takes a numerical limit and inserts items only up to that limit.^[29]
• ME Threshold Export Bus: works when the stored amount is above or below a threshold, depending on its mode. With copper set to 128 it exports above 128, or below 128 in BELOW mode.^[30]
• ME Threshold Level Emitter: behaves like a latch with a lower and an upper threshold. With 100 and 150, it turns on once the amount passes 150, stays on while the amount falls, and turns off below 100.^[31]
• Tag buses: the Tag Storage Bus filters by item or fluid tags and supports basic logic, for example the pattern c:ingots/* | c:gems/* accepts all ingots and gems. The Tag Export Bus filters by tags too.^[32][33]
• Mod buses: the Mod Storage Bus and Mod Export Bus filter by mod name or ID, with commas between several IDs.^[34][35]

ME Precise Storage BusMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Calculation Processor

ME Storage Bus

Calculation Processor

Recipe id: extendedae:precise_storage_bus

The ME Active Formation Plane places blocks or drops items without needing a subnet. The ME Smart Annihilation Plane is its mirror image, breaking blocks or absorbing items according to its configuration inventory.^[36][37]

ME Active Formation PlaneMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 2× Formation Core
• ME Formation Plane
• ME Extended Export Bus
• 3× Piston

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/active_formation_plane

Power, fluids and wireless links

The ME Canner fills containers: the first slot holds the filling material and the second the item to fill. Each operation costs 80 AE. By default it fills only fluids, and addons (Applied Flux, Applied Mekanistics and Applied Botanics Addon) let it handle other materials. Only its top and bottom sides accept energy and connect to the network. In autocrafting, the pattern must contain only the filling material and the container. Swap the inputs and outputs in the pattern, in Empty mode, to drain a container instead.^[38]

The ME Wireless Connector links two networks one-to-one. It has limited range and cannot cross dimensions. This pack keeps device.wireless_connector_max_range at 1000. Link the pair with the ME Wireless Setup Kit, and note that connectors only join cables or connectors of the same colour. Power use rises with distance on a curve that is not linear, so very long links get expensive. Each power-saving card reduces the cost by 10%, and the pack leaves device.wireless_connector_power_multiplier at 1.^[17][39]

For many-to-many links use the ME Wireless Hub, which has 8 ports and picks a free one automatically when you link it. When all ports are used, you must disconnect one with the X button before adding another.^[39][40]

Infinity cells hold 2.1 billion items or fluids, and the pack keeps their idle energy cost at 8 AE/t through item.infinity_cell_energy_cost.^[17][41]

Bulk tools

The Config Modifier changes configuration inventories in bulk, such as an Interface's. Its modes are Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Maximize, Minimize, Set and Clear, and most of them use an amount X. Click a device or part in the world to apply it.^[42]

Config ModifierMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any blue dye	Blank Pattern	any blue dye
Empty slot	Engineering Processor	Empty slot

Recipe id: extendedae:config_modifier

The Pattern Modifier edits patterns in bulk. Multiply mode scales a processing pattern's inputs and outputs, and the pack's item.pattern_modifier_multipliers is set to 2, 3, 5 and 7. Division only works when the amount divides evenly, and multiplication stops at 999,999 per ingredient. Replace mode swaps one ingredient for another, Property mode edits a crafting pattern's substitution modes, and Clone mode copies a pattern.^[17][43]

The ME Packing Tape packs a device into an item with its settings and inventory intact. Sneak and right-click the device to pack it, then right-click with the package to place it again. It only works on the devices on the whitelist, which is set in item.me_packing_tape_whitelist. This pack's list covers the extended and normal interfaces, pattern providers and drives.^[17][44]

The pack's quest chapter for this mod gives you a clear ladder to climb: Entro materials first, then the Crystal Assembler, then Concurrent Processors and the Crystal Fixer, and finally the Assembler Matrix. Everything below follows that order, and I'll flag every spot where the pack changed or added a recipe.^[6]

Tier 1: Entro Seed and Entro Crystal

Your first stop is quest "Growing Entro Crystals" quest, which asks you to get an Entro Seed and an Entro Crystal. It unlocks after an earlier quest in the same chapter.^[6]

2× Entro SeedMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any sand
• any ender pearl dust
• any ender pearl dust
• any ender pearl dust
• any redstone dust
• any redstone dust
• any glowstone dust
• any glowstone dust
• Sky Stone Dust

Recipe id: extendedae:entro_seed

A shapeless crafting recipe.

The pack gives you several ways to get Entro Crystals. The reaction recipe is marked as changed by the pack. You can also unpack an Entro Block, recycle an Entro Shard, or use a pack-added recipe built on Mystical Agriculture's Entro Crystal Essence. There is also a pack-changed Productive Bees centrifuge recipe, but the recipe dump shows no item inputs for it, so there is nothing more to say about it here.^[10]

Entro CrystalChanged by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 32× Fluix Crystal
• 32× Entro Dust
• 500× Water

Recipe id: advanced_ae:entrocrystal

Changed by the pack.

6× Entro CrystalAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

8 × Entro Crystal Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/essence/extended_ae2/entro_crystal

Added by the pack.

Tier 2: Crystal Assembler

Quest "Crystal Assembler" quest asks for the Crystal Assembler. It needs the Entro quest above plus one other prerequisite quest. You craft it in a normal crafting grid, and once you have it, many of the later parts in this pack are made inside it, such as the Concurrent Press, the Crystal Fixer and the Assembler Matrix cores.^[6][10]

Crystal AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	ME Crafting Terminal	Empty slot
Logic Processor	Extended Machine Frame	Logic Processor
any glass cable	Sky Stone Tank	any glass cable

Recipe id: extendedae:crystal_assembler

The Extended Machine Frame appears in several of the later recipes, including the Crystal Assembler itself, so it is worth knowing how it is made.^[10]

Extended Machine FrameMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any infused entro ingot	any copper ingot	any infused entro ingot
any iron ingot	Quartz Glass	any iron ingot
any infused entro ingot	any copper ingot	any infused entro ingot

Recipe id: extendedae:machine_frame

The Entro Infused Ingot has a pack-changed recipe too, so check it before you plan your Entro supply.^[10]

Entro Infused IngotChanged by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 32× Entro Dust
• 32× Gold Ingot
• 32× Lapis Lazuli
• 500× Water

Recipe id: advanced_ae:entroingot

Changed by the pack.

Tier 3: Concurrent Processors and the Crystal Fixer

Two quests unlock after the Crystal Assembler. Quest "Inscriber Concurrent Press" quest wants an Inscriber Concurrent Press and an Concurrent Processor. Quest "Crystal Fixer" quest wants the Crystal Fixer. Concurrent Processors are commonly used in multithreaded machines, which let them handle several tasks at once.^[6][11]

Inscriber Concurrent PressMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• Inscriber Silicon Press
• 3× Ender Eye
• 4× any entro gem

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/concurrent_press

You can make the processor itself in an Inscriber, in the Crystal Assembler (a recipe changed by the pack), or in a Modern Industrialization assembler (a recipe added by the pack).^[10]

4× Concurrent ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 4× Printed Silicon
• 4× Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 4× any redstone dust

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/concurrent_processor

Crystal Assembler version, changed by the pack.

Concurrent ProcessorAdded by the pack

Assembler (modern_industrialization)

• Printed Silicon
• Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 90× Molten Redstone

Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/assembler/extendedae/concurrent_processor

Added by the pack.

Crystal FixerMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 2× Quartz Fiber
• Extended Machine Frame
• 4× any all certu quartz

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/crystal_fixer

The Circuit Slicer isn't a task in this quest chapter, but it makes a nice side goal. It slices material blocks straight into processor prints and is up to nine times faster than an Inscriber.^[6][21]

Tier 4: Assembler Matrix

The Concurrent Processor quest leads to quest "The Assembler Matrix Structure" quest, which asks for the Assembler Matrix Wall. That quest opens five more: the Assembler Matrix Frame ("Assembler Matrix Frame" quest), the Assembler Matrix Craft Core ("Assembler Matrix Craft Core" quest), the Assembler Matrix Pattern Core ("Assembler Matrix Pattern Core" quest), the Assembler Matrix Speed Core ("Assembler Matrix Speed Core" quest), and a final quest, "Max Size Assembler Matrix" quest, that asks for one of each part. For that last quest, a wall or the Assembler Matrix Glass both count.^[6]

2× Assembler Matrix WallMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars
any infused entro ingot	Chiseled Quartz Block or Quartz Block or Quartz Pillar	any infused entro ingot
Iron Bars	any fluix gem	Iron Bars

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_wall

Assembler Matrix FrameChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any quartz gem	any lapi gems	any quartz gem
any lapi gems	Extended Machine Frame	any lapi gems
any quartz gem	any lapi gems	any quartz gem

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler_matrix_frame

Changed by the pack.

Assembler Matrix Pattern CoreAdded by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 6× Blue Lumen Paint Ball
• Engineering Processor
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• ME Extended Pattern Provider

Recipe id: ftb:assembler/assembler_matrix_pattern

Added by the pack, made in the Crystal Assembler.

Assembler Matrix Craft CoreMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• Logic Processor
• 6× Purple Lumen Paint Ball
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• Extended Molecular Assembler

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/assembler_matrix_crafter

Assembler Matrix Speed CoreMod recipe

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 6× Red Lumen Paint Ball
• 8× Acceleration Card
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• Concurrent Processor

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/assembler_matrix_speed

The Matrix is a rectangular multiblock with edge lengths between 3 and 7. The edges are Frames, the faces are Walls or Glass, and the filled interior holds the cores. It needs at least one Pattern Core and one Craft Core, and it can't be hollow. The frame lines turn blue when it is formed and powered.^[7]

• Pattern Core: each one gives the Matrix 36 pattern slots.^[7]
• Craft Core: each one can run 8 crafting jobs at the same time.^[7]
• Speed Core: 5 of them let the Matrix run at full speed, and installing more than 5 gives no extra boost.^[7]

Extended AE is an add-on for Applied Energistics 2, so almost everything it adds plugs straight into your AE2 network. A handful of recipes in the pack also pull in Modern Industrialization, Mystical Agriculture, Productive Bees, Mekanism and Advanced AE. Here is how it all connects.^[1][10]

Applied Energistics 2

Most extended devices are too complex for a crafting table, so you need the Crystal Assembler to craft them. Its own recipe is built from AE2 parts and the Extended Machine Frame.^[5][10]

Crystal AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	ME Crafting Terminal	Empty slot
Logic Processor	Extended Machine Frame	Logic Processor
any glass cable	Sky Stone Tank	any glass cable

Recipe id: extendedae:crystal_assembler

Many extended devices are upgrades of an AE2 original: ME Extended Drive, ME Extended IO Port, Extended Inscriber, Extended Charger and Extended Molecular Assembler. Each is crafted in the Crystal Assembler from the matching AE2 machine, and most also need a Concurrent Processor. The same goes for the buses: ME Extended Export Bus, ME Extended Import Bus and the storage-bus variants all build on AE2 buses.^[10]

The storage-bus quest "Storage Bus" quest asks for the ME Storage Bus together with the tag, mod and precise storage buses.^[6]

Concurrent Processor

The Concurrent Processor is the key part that links Extended AE to AE2's processor line, since it is made from Printed Silicon. You can make it in the AE2 Inscriber or in the Crystal Assembler, and the pack changed the Crystal Assembler recipe. The pack also added a Modern Industrialization Assembler recipe that uses Molten Redstone.^[10]

Concurrent ProcessorAdded by the pack

Assembler (modern_industrialization)

• Printed Silicon
• Printed Concurrent Circuit
• 90× Molten Redstone

Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/assembler/extendedae/concurrent_processor

The quest "Inscriber Concurrent Press" quest asks for both the Inscriber Concurrent Press and the processor itself, and it unlocks after the Crystal Assembler quest.^[6]

Entro Crystal and Entro Dust

Entro Crystal ties in several mods. Besides the in-world Fluix Crystal transformation, the pack has an Advanced AE reaction recipe (changed by the pack) and a Mystical Agriculture route. The Mystical Agriculture recipes were added by the pack and turn Entro Crystal Essence into either Entro Crystal or Entro Dust.^[10]

6× Entro CrystalAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

8 × Entro Crystal Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/essence/extended_ae2/entro_crystal

Entro Dust also shows up in a Productive Bees recipe, changed by the pack. It is an AE2 transform recipe that uses the dust, a configurable bee and water, and it returns a configurable bee plus a configurable bee spawn egg.^[10]

Spawn Egg Configurable BeeChanged by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Entro Dust
• Configurable Bee
• any water

Recipe id: productivebees:ae2/transform/entro_bee

The quest "Growing Entro Crystals" quest asks for the Entro Seed and the Entro Crystal, and the Crystal Assembler quest comes after it.^[6]

Silicon

Quartz Blend becomes Silicon by smelting, blasting or Mekanism enriching, and the pack changed all three recipes. The pack also changed the recipe that unpacks a Block of Silicon into Silicon.^[10]

6× SiliconChanged by the pack

Enriching (mekanism)

• Quartz Blend

Recipe id: extendedae:mek/quartz_blend

Advanced AE

Advanced AE's pattern provider and quantum computer parts are built on Extended AE items. The pack changed the recipes for the Advanced Extended Pattern Provider, the Advanced Pattern Provider Capacity Upgrade and the quantum computer parts. Those parts are the Quantum Crafting Unit, Quantum Computer Accelerator and Quantum Computer Multi-Threader. The pattern provider uses the ME Extended Pattern Provider, and the others use the Concurrent Processor.^[10]

Advanced Extended Pattern ProviderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

ME Extended Pattern Provider	Redstone
Ender Pearl	Logic Processor

Recipe id: advanced_ae:eaeadvpatpro

Wireless terminals

The Wireless Extended Pattern Access Terminal is built from AE2 parts and the extended pattern access terminal. The pack changed three AE2 Wireless Terminal Library combine recipes that merge it with the Wireless Crafting Terminal, the Wireless Pattern Access Terminal or the Wireless Pattern Encoding Terminal.^[10]

Assembler Matrix

The pack added its own Crystal Assembler recipe for the Assembler Matrix Pattern Core. It uses AE2 parts and the ME Extended Pattern Provider. The matrix quests start with "The Assembler Matrix Structure" quest, which asks for the Assembler Matrix Wall.^[6][10]

Assembler Matrix Pattern CoreAdded by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

• 6× Blue Lumen Paint Ball
• Engineering Processor
• Assembler Matrix Wall
• ME Extended Pattern Provider

Recipe id: ftb:assembler/assembler_matrix_pattern

ME Canner

By default the ME Canner only fills fluids. To fill other materials, the mod lists Applied Flux, Applied Mekanistics and the Applied Botanics Addon as supported addons.^[38]

Unverified Whether any of those three canner addons are installed in this pack could not be confirmed from the available sources.

Everything for this mod sits in a single quest chapter, "ae2". The quests there have no titles, so you'll know them by their IDs and by the items they ask for. Each quest asks you to obtain the listed items, and the order below follows the prerequisite links between quests.^[6]

The crystal and processor line

1. "Growing Entro Crystals" quest is where it starts. It asks for Entro Seed and Entro Crystal, and it unlocks after an earlier quest in the same chapter.^[6]
2. "Crystal Assembler" quest asks for the Crystal Assembler. It needs the Entro quest above plus one other earlier quest in the chapter.^[6]
3. "Inscriber Concurrent Press" quest asks for the Inscriber Concurrent Press and the Concurrent Processor. It follows the Crystal Assembler quest.^[6]
4. "Crystal Fixer" quest asks for the Crystal Fixer. It also unlocks right after the Crystal Assembler quest, so you can do it in either order relative to the processor quest.^[6]

The Assembler Matrix

The matrix quests open once you finish the Concurrent Processor quest. "The Assembler Matrix Structure" quest comes first and asks for the Assembler Matrix Wall.^[6]

After that, four quests unlock in parallel, each asking for one matrix part:^[6]

• "Assembler Matrix Craft Core" quest: the Assembler Matrix Craft Core.^[6]
• "Assembler Matrix Frame" quest: the Assembler Matrix Frame.^[6]
• "Assembler Matrix Pattern Core" quest: the Assembler Matrix Pattern Core.^[6]
• "Assembler Matrix Speed Core" quest: the Assembler Matrix Speed Core.^[6]

"Max Size Assembler Matrix" quest also unlocks after the wall quest, and it asks for a full set of matrix parts. It accepts either the Assembler Matrix Wall or the Assembler Matrix Glass. It also wants the frame, pattern core, craft core and speed core.^[6]

Storage buses

"Storage Bus" quest sits on a separate branch. It asks for the standard ME Storage Bus along with three buses from this mod: the ME Tag Storage Bus, the ME Mod Storage Bus and the ME Precise Storage Bus. It unlocks after an earlier quest in the chapter that isn't part of the crystal line.^[6]

Everything for Extended AE lives in one file, config/extendedae-common.toml. Every option in it that lists a mod default is set to exactly that default in this pack. The values below are what you get here.^[17]

Crafting and interface sizes

• device.assembler_matrix_max_size is 6, the same as the mod default. The allowed range is 3 to 16.^[17]
• device.extended_io_bus_multiplier is 8, the same as the mod default. It sets the speed multiplier of the ME Extend Import/Export Bus, and the range is 2 to 128.^[17]
• device.oversize_interface_multiplier is 16, the same as the mod default. It is the size multiplier of the oversize interface, with a range of 2 to 4,096.^[17]
• device.custom_oversize_interface_multiplier is set to appbot:mana 2 and appflux:flux 4. These are per-key-type multipliers for the oversize interface.^[17]
• device.enable_crystal_assembler_inscribe_processors is true, so the Crystal Assembler is allowed to do processor inscriber recipes.^[17]

Wireless connector and Infinity Cells

• device.wireless_connector_max_range is 1,000, the same as the mod default. It is the max range between two wireless connectors.^[17]
• device.wireless_connector_power_multiplier is 1, the same as the mod default. It is the power usage multiplier for wireless connectors.^[17]
• item.infinity_cell_energy_cost is 8 AE/t, the same as the mod default. It is the idle energy cost of an ME Infinity Cell.^[17]

Pattern Modifier and ME Packing Tape

item.pattern_modifier_multipliers is set to 2, 3, 5 and 7 in this pack.^[17]

item.me_packing_tape_whitelist decides which AE devices and parts the ME Packing Tape can pack. In this pack it covers the Extended AE interface, pattern provider and drive, plus their part versions for the interface and pattern provider. It also covers the ae2 interface, pattern provider and drive, and the ae2 cable versions of the interface and pattern provider.^[17]

Client and debug options

client.disable_inscriber_item_render is false, so the Extended Inscriber's item render stays on. It only works client side. misc.debug_mode is false, so debug logging is off.^[17]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Extended AE 1.21-2.2.35-neoforge. The mod was first included in FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier.^[2]

Changes in the 2.2.26 to 2.2.28 releases

These come from the mod's own changelogs for releases that came before the 2.2.35 build your pack uses. Each of them also updated the localization files, which I'll skip from here on.^{[2][45][46][47]}

• 2.2.26: added the Wireless Connector Upgrade, added shift-click support for the Extended Pattern Access Terminal, and added channel usage to the Wireless Hub GUI tooltip.^[47]
• 2.2.27: added AppliedE support and fixed a crash involving the ME Smart Annihilation Plane.^[46]
• 2.2.28: the ME Precise Output Bus can now be accelerated, the Pattern Modifier can remove the target ingredient from a pattern, and the GUI got a better search match rule.^[45]

Unverified The pack changelogs available to this guide have no entries for this mod, so any changes FTB Skies 2 itself made to Extended AE across its releases are not shown in the sources here.