General Storage

This chapter covers most of the basic ways to store your items!

Your inventory is going to get full pretty quick. It is modded MC after all. The solution is to make a Sophisticated Backpack. These Backpacks provide a simple solution to your inventory problems! They can also be upgraded to hold even more items, and have tons of cool upgrades to help you in your adventures, like the Crafting Upgrade for a portable crafting table. You can place these in a Curio Slot as well for easy access using a keybind. These can also be placed down in the world by Sneak + Right-clicking while it's in your main hand.

Asks for: Backpack

Backpacks can also be dyed! This is useful for color-coding your backpacks, or if you just want to look really cool with a black backpack on.

Inventory management is pretty important, and that's what Pocket Storage is for! These devices will automatically pickup items that you collect based on what is placed inside of them. This is perfect for keeping your inventory clear of cobblestone on your mining trips. Note: These will automatically void excess items, meaning once you've collected the stack limit, those items will be voided. Upgrade the tier to store more at once!

Asks for: Pocket Storage Unit Tier: 1, Pocket Storage Unit Tier: 2, Pocket Storage Unit Tier: 3, Pocket Storage Unit Tier: 4

To make any of the upgrades for your backpack, you'll first need to craft an Upgrade Base. There are a ton of useful upgrades you can make, like Stack Upgrades to increase the slot stack limit for storing tons of items, or the Feeding Upgrade that can automatically feed you when you are hungry! Make sure to check them all out!

Asks for: Upgrade Base

Ender Storage allows for cross-dimensional storage of items and fluids. Ender Chests link their inventories to others with matching color patterns. You can use any colored dye on the wool pads to change its color. Ender Pouches allow you to remotely access an Ender Chest of the same color pattern. Right-clicking the pouch on any Ender Chest will change the pouch's color to match that of the chest. Ender Tanks work in the same way as Ender Chests but store liquids instead of items. Using a Diamond on the latch of an Ender Chest will move it to a separate private network for the player that used the diamond. This is especially good for server use.

Asks for: Ender Chest, Ender Pouch, Ender Tank

You can increase the overall storage size of a backpack by upgrading it to the next tier! From the basic backpack, you can upgrade to either Copper or Iron. Upgrading to Copper first allows you to save iron, as you only need 4 Iron Ingots to upgrade from Copper. Each tier also allows for more Upgrade Slots!

Asks for: Copper Backpack, Diamond Backpack, Gold Backpack, Iron Backpack, Netherite Backpack

Stack Upgrades multiply the stack size of each slot in a backpack. These are super useful for storing tons of the same types of items! When combined with other upgrades like Tank or Battery upgrades, these also increase the overall storage limit of those upgrades as well.

Asks for: Stack Upgrade Omega Tier, Stack Upgrade Starter Tier, Stack Upgrade Tier 1, Stack Upgrade Tier 2, Stack Upgrade Tier 3, Stack Upgrade Tier 4

Hate having to run to a crafting table to craft things? Make a Crafting Upgrade! This upgrade will add a crafting table to your backpack inventory to craft on the go. You can also make the Stonecutter or Anvil upgrades to provide those tables as well!

Asks for: Anvil Upgrade, Crafting Upgrade, Stonecutter Upgrade

Obtaining Certus Quartz, the key ingredient for this digital storage system, can be done one of two ways: Purifying Budding Black Quartz using some Advanced DireGoo. Trading for some with a villager who has a charger job site known as a Fluix Researcher. Information on presses on the next page -> The presses for making digital circuits can either be made through Essence Crafting, or by further trading with the Fluix Researcher. Multiple Researchers may be required, however, if you're patient, the wandering traders that sometimes appear might sell a Mysterious Cube that drops one of each press when broken.

Asks for: Certus Quartz Crystal, Charger

Sophisticated Storage allows you to create and upgrade your chests, barrels, and more! These Storages can hold even more items, hold fluids, or even automate certain tasks like smelting down ores. To start out, you can craft a Sophisticated Chest or Sophisticated Barrel by combining the vanilla item with a redstone torch. If you've already placed down your storage in the world, you can craft the Basic Tier Upgrade and use it on the storage to upgrade it.

Asks for: Basic Tier Upgrade

Just like Sophisticated Backpacks, you can upgrade your storage to the different metal tiers. This can be done by making a Basic To Iron upgrade and using it on your storage in the world. Note: You can also upgrade to the higher tiers from the basic tier as well!

Asks for: Basic to Diamond Tier Upgrade, Basic to Gold Tier Upgrade, Basic to Iron Tier Upgrade, Basic to Netherite Tier Upgrade

Sky Stone can be obtained from the Fluix Researcher villager through trading, from a friendly Wandering Trader, or by smelting some sky stone dust. Many floating structures also contain an abundance of sky stone that you can mine while exploring. This dust is mined by placing an Annihilation Plane facing up at the build limit and linking it to storage.

Asks for: Sky Stone Dust, Sky Stone

Refined Storage 2 (RS2) is a mass storage mod that offers a network-based storage system, allowing for item, fluid, and gas storage on an expandable device network. Before crafting your first Machine Core, which is used for many network components, you'll need to obtain Sky Steel Ingots. Check the attached quest to see how that can be done.

Asks for: Sky Steel Ingot, Machine Casing, Quartz Enriched Iron

The Regulator Upgrade controls the amount of items imported/exported from your system. To set it up, right-click it and place down the item you want to configure in the right interface slot, and the number of said item you wish to keep in the target inventory. When used in an Exporter, it will export an item until it matches the configured amount, but, when used in an Importer, it will only keep the configured item amount in the inventory and import excess items into your storage network.

Asks for: Regulator Upgrade

The Wrench can be used to rotate network devices or dismantle them when used while crouching. Dismantling a network device retains all its current settings and upgrades.

Asks for: Wrench

Speed Upgrades increase the speed at which a network device operates. Stack Upgrades increase the amount of items the network device can handle at once.

Asks for: Speed Upgrade, Stack Upgrade

Fortune and Silk Touch upgrades can be used in Destructors to apply their enchantment to the mined block.

Asks for: Fortune 1 Upgrade, Fortune 2 Upgrade, Fortune 3 Upgrade, Silk Touch Upgrade

Relays can be used to create new branches of your network or switch on/off sections of your storage network. Storage Monitors can be configured to display how much of a certain resource is stored in your storage network. Detectors emit a configurable redstone signal depending on how much of a resource is in your network.

Asks for: Detector, Relay, Storage Monitor

Functional Drawers is a storage mod that aims to provide an easy solution to storing tons of items in a single block! Drawers come in three varieties: Single Drawers, 1x2 Drawers, and 2x2 Drawers. While a 2x2 drawer can store 4 separate items, the total base storage amount is also divided by 4. To place an item in, simply right-click on the Drawer with the item. Double Right-clicking will deposit multiple stacks at a time. To remove items from a Drawer, Left-clicking it will remove 1 item at a time, while Sneak + Left-clicking will pull out a full stack.

Don't like the look of Drawers? Make Framed Drawers instead! These drawers can be crafted together with other items to change the look of the drawer to your liking. Each slot in the crafting table corresponds to a specific texture on the drawer. - 1st Slot: Outside Texture - 2nd Slot: Inside Texture - 3rd Slot: Framed Drawer - 4th Slot: Divider Texture

Asks for: Framed Compacting Drawer, Framed Drawer (1x1), Framed Drawer (1x2), Framed Drawer (2x2), Framed Simple Compacting Drawer

When setting up automation, pushing and pulling items into Drawers can get complicated. That's where the Storage Tools come in! The Configuration Tool is used to lock Drawers to only interact with certain items. This is super useful when you are constantly pulling or pushing items from Drawers! Pro Tip: If you've connected Drawers to a Storage Controller, you can use the Configuration Tool on the Controller to lock all of the Drawers that are linked, all at once! You can also sneak-use the tool in the air to change modes. There are several modes that you can configure for drawers, like hiding the count amount or disabling the render of items on a Drawer to save FPS.

Asks for: Configuration Tool

If you plan on creating a Drawer Wall, you'll need to make the Linking Tool! The Linking Tool is used to link drawers to a Storage Controller, or to link separate Ender Drawers together. For more on how to use it, check the next page! By default, this tool is set to link a single drawer at a time. To do this, first sneak-use the tool on a Controller, then use the tool on the drawer you wish to add to the Controller's network. You'll also see the range that the Controller can reach when you hover over it with the tool in hand. This can be upgraded with Storage Upgrades! While looking into the air, using the tool will switch between adding or removing drawers. If you sneak-use the tool in the air, it will switch between adding a single drawer at a time, or multiple!

Asks for: Linking Tool

Storage Controllers allow you to connect and interact with several drawers at once. These are amazing for automating items going in and out of your drawer system! Once you've linked your drawers to the controller using the Linking Tool, you can double right-click the controller to deposit all items from your inventory directly into the drawer network! This also means you can pipe in items into the controller as well. Controller Access Points can be used as extra controllers as long as it is linked to the main controller.

Asks for: Controller Access Point, Framed Controller Access Point, Framed Storage Controller, Storage Controller

These Drawer Generators can be extremely helpful for generating water, lava, and obsidian.

Asks for: Dripping Upgrade, Obsidian Generator Upgrade, Water Generator Upgrade

Functional Storage can also handle storing fluids using Fluid Drawers! You can pump fluids directly into the drawer to set it, or just by using a bucket of the fluid onto the drawer.

Asks for: Fluid Drawer (1x1), Fluid Drawer (1x2), Fluid Drawer (2x2)

Just like Ender Chests, Ender Drawers will store items that can be accessed across dimensions. To do this, you'll need 2 Ender Drawers linked together using the Linking Tool. Left-click the Linking Tool onto the top of the first Ender Drawer to grab the frequency of the drawer. Next, place down another Ender Drawer where you'd like to use it, and then sneak-use the Linking Tool to set the frequency of the drawer.

Asks for: Ender Drawer

You are probably tired of picking up SO MUCH COBBLE when you are out on your mining trips. Why not make a Void Upgrade to help get rid of them? By itself, this upgrade can be set up to automatically void specific items that you set inside of its filter. Upgrading to the Advanced version allows for more filtering options!

Asks for: Advanced Void Upgrade, Void Upgrade

The Autocrafting Upgrade will start an automatic request for the missing resource when it is exported.

Asks for: Autocrafting Upgrade

The Range Upgrade increases the range of the Wireless Transmitter, from 16 up to 48 blocks.

Asks for: Range Upgrade

The Infinity Range Booster grants you access to your network anywhere within the same dimension.

Asks for: Infinity Range Booster

The Dimension Card grants you access to your network across dimensions at a hefty energy cost.

Asks for: Dimension Card

Making Pickup and Magnet upgrades can allow the backpack to pick up items for you while out on your adventures. You can also set the backpack to only pick up certain items using the filter settings for the upgrade! While this is great for mining adventures, you can also use the Magnet upgrades to automate farms by placing the backpack down in the world!

Asks for: Advanced Magnet Upgrade, Advanced Pickup Upgrade, Magnet Upgrade, Pickup Upgrade

Collector Upgrade- Adds an internal magnet to pick items up off the ground around it. Puller Upgrade- Allows the drawer to pull from adjacent inventories. Pusher Upgrade- Allows the drawer to push to adjacent inventories. These can be configured by right-clicking the upgrade while inside of the drawer.

Asks for: Collector Upgrade, Puller Upgrade, Pusher Upgrade

The Configuration Card is a very useful tool that allows you to copy and paste a network device's settings and upgrades. Sneak + Right-click a network device to copy and paste its settings onto another device. Sneak + Right-click the air to clear stored settings.

Asks for: Configuration Card

Limited Barrels function like Drawers from Functional Storage. These Barrels can only hold up to 4 types of items, but will hold several stacks of each. The amount of item types it can hold depends on the type of Limited Barrel you craft, with I holding a single item type, and IV holding 4 item types.

Asks for: Limited Barrel 1, Limited Barrel 2, Limited Barrel 3, Limited Barrel 4

By default, drawers can only hold a base amount of items depending on their size. You can upgrade this with these upgrades! For example, a standard Drawer that holds one type of item can hold up to around 2,000 items for the base amount. Each upgrade multiplies the total storage amount, meaning the upgrades stack. Most drawers can hold 4 Inventory Size Upgrades of any tier. Pro Tip: You can also place these inside of a Storage Controller to increase the linking range.

Asks for: Copper Upgrade, Diamond Upgrade, Gold Upgrade, Netherite Upgrade

The Controller is the main device that provides energy to your RS2 network. You can have Controllers anywhere on your network, unlike AE2 Controllers.

By default, you can't place a backpack into another backpack. You can get around this by installing an Inception Upgrade! "Yo dawg, I heard you like backpacks, so we put a backpack in your backpack so you can store more items while you store items!"

Asks for: Inception Upgrade

Moving chests has always been a pain. But not anymore! Packing Tape allows you to pack up Sophisticated chests for you to easily move them. Use the packing tape on it first, then break it to get the chest as a single item. Once you've placed it down, the tape will disappear! Note: Chests with Stack Upgrades will need to be packed up first before moving.

Asks for: Packing Tape

Disk Drives accept Storage Disks capable of holding items or fluids, and have several configuration options such as storage priority, insert/extract mode, void mode, and more. You can also filter what items can be stored within a Disk Drive by placing that item on one of the top 9 slots. Storage Disks can be upgraded directly into the next tier by crafting the upgraded part with the existing Storage Disk, returning your old one in the process while keeping all of your items stored. Storage Disks can be separated from their housing by Sneak + Right-clicking when it has no items stored inside it.

Asks for: Disk Drive, Storage Housing

The Disk Interface transfers items between the storage network and provided Storage Disks. Remember that Storage Disks can also be upgraded directly into the next tier by combining the upgraded part with the existing disk in a crafting grid, returning your old disk in the process while keeping all of your items. Cable Tiers Disk Interfaces upgrade the speed at which items are transferred and have more filter slots. Check the item's tooltip for exact speeds.

Asks for: Creative Disk Interface, Elite Disk Interface, Mega Disk Interface, Ultra Disk Interface, Disk Interface

Grids allow you to interact with and view parts of your network in different ways. The standard Grid allows you to view, remove, and insert resources into your storage network, send recipe requests, and many more things. The Crafting Grid, also provides you with all the functionality of the regular Grid, but also provides you with a crafting table.

Asks for: Crafting Grid, Grid

Patterns are used to store crafting or processing recipes. This can be done inside the Pattern Grid, which can hold up to a stack of Patterns at once. To set up a recipe, first select the mode from the right-most interface. Then, search up the item you wish to craft in JEI and click the '+' icon next to its recipe. This will automatically set up the Pattern, but you can still do it manually if you wish. Resources capable of being autocrafted will have a yellow backdrop when viewed on a grid.

Asks for: Pattern, Pattern Grid

The Autocrafting Monitor allows you to see the status of all active crafting requests.

Asks for: Autocrafting Monitor

The Autocrafter accepts up to 9 configured recipe Patterns and 4 Speed Upgrades. If the Autocrafter is pointing at a machine or chest, it will attempt to push the process' recipe items into that block, otherwise it will attempt to perform a crafting recipe. Autocrafters will place down facing the block you are looking at.

Asks for: Autocrafter

The Iron Autocrafter has 27 Pattern slots and works as fast as a fully upgraded Autocrafter.

Asks for: Iron Autocrafter

The Autocrafter Manager allows you to configure all your Autocrafters from this single block.

Asks for: Autocrafter Manager

By binding a Network Card to a Network Receiver and placing that Network Card into a Network Transmitter connected to your main network, you are able to use your network anywhere, even across dimensions. Make sure your main system is chunkloaded.

Asks for: Network Card, Network Receiver, Network Transmitter

The Wireless Transmitter allows Wireless Grids to access your network when within its set range, which can be extended with up to 4 Range Upgrades. The default range is 16 blocks, which can be extended up to 48.

Asks for: Wireless Transmitter

Wireless Grids allow remote access to your storage network when within range of the Wireless Transmitter. Each Wireless Grid provides the same functionality as their corresponding Grids.

Asks for: Wireless Autocrafting Monitor, Wireless Grid, Wireless Crafting Grid

AE2 comes with a built-in guide that you can access at any time within JEI. When hovering an item from the mod, you'll be prompted to hold the keybind to open up the guide. This guide is incredibly detailed and can be super helpful if you need help along the way!

Instead of storing Iron Nuggets, Ingots, and Blocks in 3 separate drawers, you can store them all in a Compacting Drawer. These are special drawers that store and convert items directly into their compressed versions. This is useful for items like Iron or Gold to easily convert back and forth! With Simple Compacting Drawers, you can store items that only use a base and block recipe. This is great for items like Redstone, Diamonds, and Emeralds!

Asks for: Compacting Drawer, Simple Compacting Drawer

To craft any of the upgrades, you'll need to make an Upgrade Base.

Asks for: Upgrade Base

Just like the same upgrade for backpacks, the Void Upgrade is probably one of the most useful upgrades that you can install. This allows you to void specific items that go into the chest, and comes with a filter that can do some pretty awesome stuff. You could even set the filter to void everything from a certain mod!

Asks for: Advanced Void Upgrade, Void Upgrade

This is one of the essential upgrades for your chests! The Stack Upgrade increases the stack limit for each slot inside of the chest. These upgrades are also much cheaper than the Sophisticated Backpack upgrades.

Asks for: Stack Upgrade Tier 1, Stack Upgrade Tier 1 Plus, Stack Upgrade Tier 2, Stack Upgrade Tier 3, Stack Upgrade Tier 4, Stack Upgrade Tier 5

There are plenty of great upgrades for your chests, but these upgrades provide some nice quality of life options! For example, adding a Crafting Upgrade allows you to craft within the chest!

Asks for: Crafting Upgrade, Smelting Upgrade, Stonecutter Upgrade

The Hopper Upgrade allows the chest to function like a Hopper would, meaning it can pull items in from the top or push items out from the bottom.

Asks for: Advanced Hopper Upgrade, Hopper Upgrade

There are different upgrades that you can use to allow your chests to pickup nearby items. The base level is just a Pickup Upgrade, but upgrading to the Magnet Upgrade allows for more options and a wider range!

Asks for: Advanced Magnet Upgrade, Advanced Pickup Upgrade, Magnet Upgrade, Pickup Upgrade

Cables are used to connect network devices with each other. Full blocks will connect to any adjacent block regardless of their color, while Cable blocks will only connect to those of the same color.

Asks for: Cable

Importers and Exporters are used to input and output resources from your network. Interfaces are able to serve both input and output needs within the same blockspace.

Constructors can place resources from your network into the world. Each Cable Tiers upgrade works faster than its previous tier and has more filter slots. Check the item's tooltip for exact speeds.

Destructors can harvest resources in the world into your storage network.

External Storages can access inventories outside of your storage network (chests, drawers, tanks, etc...)

Asks for: External Storage

If you plan on using Drawers for storing the massive amount of items you'll get from farms or quarries, you'll need a backup plan just in case your storage gets a little full. The Void Upgrade is a utility upgrade that automatically voids items above the current stack limit. This is super useful for things like voiding excess cobblestone from quarries!

Asks for: Void Upgrade

The Gold Autocrafter has 45 Pattern slots and works as fast as a fully upgraded Iron Autocrafter.

Asks for: Gold Autocrafter

The Diamond Autocrafter has 63 Pattern slots and works as fast as a fully upgraded Gold Autocrafter.

Asks for: Diamond Autocrafter

The Netherite Autocrafter has 81 Pattern slots and works as fast as a fully upgraded Diamond Autocrafter.

Asks for: Netherite Autocrafter

Budding Certus Quartz works similarly to amethyst and will bud crystals over time. Each time a crystal is formed, or if the block is broken, the budding block has a chance to decay to a lower tier version and must be repaired by throwing it in water with Charged Certus Quartz Crystals. Flawless Budding Certus Quartz do not suffer this drawback and can be grown indefinitely! These will decay into Flawed Budding Certus Quartz if mined, but can be moved safely using things like a Cardboard Box. Harvesting the Certus Crystals before they are fully grown will only give dust, while fully grown crystals will give full Certus Quartz crystals. It is worth it to fully automate harvesting crystals as soon as possible, but that requires some Certus to get started with. That's why you can twerk to grow the crystals in the early game! To do this, hold a hoe in your hand and start crouching.

Asks for: Certus Quartz Crystal, Certus Quartz Dust

The Inscriber is one of the most important machines in AE2. These machines create processors for all of your network parts and technology. These do require power but can accept regular FE power from other modded sources. You'll want one for each of Inscriber Press you have, and should look to automate this as soon as possible. Each Inscriber can take up to 4 Acceleration Cards to greatly increase their working speed.

Asks for: Inscriber, Printed Calculation Circuit, Printed Engineering Circuit, Printed Logic Circuit

Silicon is needed for crafting most of the electronic parts in AE2, including creating completed Processors. You'll want to have a dedicated Inscriber that is automated and pumps out Printed Silicon as soon as possible!

Asks for: Printed Silicon, Silicon

In another Inscriber, you can combine a Printed Circuit with Printed Silicon and a piece of Redstone to craft a complete Processor. These Processors are the main crafting components needed for most of the electronics you'll use, like Terminals, Disk Drives, and lots more. It's worth automating the production of these as soon as possible! As a tip for automation, you can use a 5th Inscriber to complete Processors in the chain. You can set filters to pipe Redstone into the back, Printed Silicon into the top, and any Printed Processor into the bottom. The finished Processors can then be piped out of the front. A simple way to achieve this is using locked Functional Drawers.

Asks for: Calculation Processor, Engineering Processor, Logic Processor

Interfaces have many uses, mainly that they are a fluid/item storage block that can have 9 individually configured slots to fill and/or empty itself from a network storage. They're essentially just chests/multi-fluid tanks with built-in Import Busses, Export Busses, and Level Emitters. Interfaces come in 2 different variants (normal and flat/subpart) which changes where their inventories can be accessed from and what they can provide a network connection to. Interfaces also have a few special functionalities with other AE2 devices: Connecting a Storage Bus to an Interface will allow the Storage Bus' entire storage network to connect to the Interface as if it were placed on one big chest. If a Pattern Provider is connected to an unconfigured interface on subnets, it will skip the interface entirely and push directly to that subnet's storage, not filling it with recipe batches, and more importantly, not inserting the next batch until there's space in storage.

Import and Export Buses will allow you to pipe items into and out of your system and any other connected inventories. This, along with interfaces and pattern providers, will allow you to fully automate your entire base! These devices can be upgraded with Cards to be redstone sensitive, accept NBT specific items or not (Fuzzy), or to increase speed and capacity with Acceleration and Capacity Cards. You can also export power to connected machines by Right-clicking a Mekanism Energy Tablet onto the Exporter interface.

Asks for: ME Export Bus, ME Import Bus

Right-clicking specific items in an import/export bus will have the following special interactions: Ars Energistics exports Source using Source Jars. Applied Pneumatics exports Air Pressure using Air Tanks. Applied Flux exports Energy using Energy Tablets.

Before you start building out your AE Network, it's time to talk about Channels. Don't worry, the pack's default is set to 4x by default with the intention of having an easier time for players who might be new to AE2. Channels are essentially the limit of the total number of devices that your Network can interact with at one time. This can be increased with some clever mechanics and the use of multiblock Controllers, which will be discussed in a different quest. With the increased settings, you have 32 Channels per network before needing to add more channels. To connect different parts of your networks, you can do this by using 3 different types of ME Cables: Glass Cables, Dense Cables, and Smart Cables. Each of these cables carry a different amount of Channels. This means you might run into issues if you run Glass Cables to every single part of your network when you get towards the end game. Glass Cables transfer power, but can also transfer up to 32 Channels with the pack's settings. Smart Cables don't add more channels, but give you a visual of how many channels are being used with lines on the cable itself. Dense Cables can transfer up to 128 Channels, but does not support connecting to Buses or Panels. You can also make Dense Smart Cables!

Asks for: Fluix ME Covered Cable, Fluix ME Glass Cable, Fluix ME Smart Cable

Controllers are used to increase the amount of channels a network has. These aren't necessary to use in the early game, especially since you have 32 channels to work with by default. Networks without a Controller are considered Ad-Hocs. The Controller is considered the routing hub of your ME network. You cannot have 2 separate ME Controllers in the same network, but you can build a massive multiblock setup if you need the extra channels. A single Controller will provide 128 Channels per face with the pack's settings. This makes it where if you add a controller, you will most likely never have to worry about channels. You can find more info and rules for building multiblock controllers in the AE2 Guide.

Asks for: ME Controller

The Crafting Grid allows you to access all connected inventories and craft with them at one central location. Just like other Panels, these cannot connect to Dense Cables. Glass, Covered, or Smart Cables will work! The Storage Bus allows you to connect your existing storages to your network.

Asks for: ME Crafting Terminal

The Wireless Access Point will allow you to access your AE system remotely by using a Wireless Grid. Using Wireless Boosters will extend the range but cost more energy to operate. You can also have multiple wireless access points around your base instead of trying to extend the signal from a central location.

Asks for: ME Wireless Access Point

Storage Buses allow your network to see and interact with items inside an external storage block/network, such as a chest, or Storage Controller (from Functional Storage mod). Storage Buses come in different types, and can also be filtered to only allow certain items to be stored and interacted with. It is possible to create an essentially infinite storage network that only takes up one channel.

Asks for: ME Storage Bus, ME Mod Storage Bus, ME Precise Storage Bus, ME Tag Storage Bus

To make use of your Wireless Access Points, you'll need to craft the Wireless Crafting Terminal. This device will allow you to link to a wireless access point in your network by placing it in the slot in its interface. Once linked, you can access all of your items and even craft on the go anywhere you have signal!

Asks for: Wireless Crafting Terminal

The Wireless Universal Terminal allows you to make use of the several different types of Wireless Terminals. This can be crafted by combining your Wireless Crafting Grid with another Wireless Terminal, like the Wireless Pattern Access Terminal.

Asks for: Wireless Pattern Access Terminal, Wireless Universal Terminal

Say you want to build or connect a part of your network in another location that cables can't reach, like another dimension. To do this, you'll need to create a Quantum Network Bridge. To make this, you'll need to build 2 identical multiblock structures: one connected to your main network, and one connected to the new place you want to build in. Each multiblock will consist of 8 Quantum Rings with an ME Quantum Link Chamber in the center. To connect the two, you'll need to craft and use a Quantum Entangled Singularity on each of the Link Chambers to connect them. The Quantum Ring only allows 128 channels total from it, no matter which face you connect to. You can also only connect to the 4 Quantum Rings that are adjacent to the Link Chamber, as the corners do not connect. Note: Both sides will need to be chunk loaded to work.

Asks for: Quantum Entangled Singularity, ME Quantum Link Chamber, ME Quantum Ring

After you have formed the Quantum Bridge multiblock for your base, you can craft and link the Quantum Bridge Card to install in your Wireless Terminal! This card allows you to access your network from any dimension wirelessly. To link the two, you'll need to create a pair of Quantum Entangled Singularities, and place one into a Quantum Network Bridge and the other into your Wireless Terminal, along with the card itself.

Asks for: Quantum Bridge Card

The Stock Export bus will allow you to keep a certain amount of items to be always exported to the target inventory.

Asks for: ME Stock Export Bus

If you're looking to store your items Digitally, you'll want to make the ME Drive and some Storage Cells. The ME Drive can house up to 10 AE Disks. When connected to your network, items can automatically be stored as digital media and accessed via interfaces, I/O Buses and Terminals. Each regular Item Storage Cell can store up to 63 different item types. The size of the Storage Cell will determine how many of each item type it can store, which is measured in Bytes. There are, however, addons in this pack that change what gets stored and how it gets stored. For example: A 1k Item Storage Cell can hold up to 8,128 items of a single type. If you were using all 63 types on that disk, you could hold a maximum of 4160 items. This may seem confusing at first, but it becomes fairly easy to understand when you start using them. If you really want to avoid typed drives however, AE2Things allows you to make typeless drives for a slightly higher cost. This quest rewards you with a choice of the storage type of your choosing.

Asks for: 1k ME Storage Component, ME Drive

The Cell Workbench allows you to configure what types of items you want to allow onto an AE Storage Cell. The Cells can also be upgraded with Equal Distribution, which will ensure that all of the configured slots are allocated the same amount of space and a single item type won't overtake all available bytes of storage. The Overflow Destruction upgrade will also void any additional items of a specific item type that is stored on the system. By using this upgrade, you can create a drive that is configured to act like an entire wall of storage drawers with void upgrades. Very handy!

Asks for: Cell Workbench

Sometimes, you gotta go big. The MEGA mod gives you that option. To create the storage components for the mod, you'll need to make some Sky Steel. You'll also need a new type of Inscription Press, which can be crafted using a Singularity.

Asks for: Inscriber Accumulation Press, 1M MEGA Storage Component, Sky Steel Ingot

Fluix is at the heart of all of technology in Applied Energistics. To make the Fluix Crystal, you'll first need to charge Certus Quartz Crystal in the charger. Next, toss the crystal with a piece of redstone and nether quartz in a pool of water out in the world. The components will react and form a Fluix Crystal that is ready for refinement! You can do many of these at once to speed up the process, as well as eventually making machines that can automate the creation process for you.

Asks for: Fluix Crystal

AE2 has its own power unit called AE. By default, it does not accept power directly from other sources. However, you can use an Energy Acceptor to convert FE power into AE power for your network, which can be distributed out using Glass Cables. If you start running out of power as you add more machines to your network, it might help to create an energy buffer using Energy Cells, which store power for future use. You can also generate free power using the Crystal Resonance Generator. This generator extracts free energy from the vibrations of the crystals within it to generate around 20 AE/t. These vibrations limit your system to only have one of these per AE network.

Asks for: Crystal Resonance Generator, Energy Acceptor, Fluix ME Glass Cable

The Matter Condenser will destroy any item inserted into it like a trashcan. If you provide it a Cell to act as a buffer, it can instead convert the items into Matter Balls(1-16k) or Singularities (64k+). These Singularities are critical for creating massive storages and inter-dimensional links.

Asks for: Matter Condenser, Singularity

The Reaction Chamber is a very fast machine that can produce many of the common AE2 materials at the cost of large amounts of power. It's important to make sure you have adequate power buffers as the crafts will not start without enough available power. You can export water or lava into these to process the recipes that require them. This machine is also required for crafting some of the more advanced materials such as Sky Steel and Sky Bronze.

Asks for: Reaction Chamber

Applied Flux is an addon that allows your AE Network to store and automatically transfer power (FE) to connected machines. The Flux Accessor serves as your input/output block for managing FE within your system, which is stored within the relevant storage cells. Machines connected to a Pattern Provider can also be powered by inserting an Induction Card into said Pattern Providers, automatically powering those machines using FE within your system.

Asks for: 16k ME FE Storage Cell, 16M ME FE Storage Cell, 1k ME FE Storage Cell, 1M ME FE Storage Cell, 256k ME FE Storage Cell, 256M ME FE Storage Cell

Budding Crystals can take some time to grow and when you're trying to get your system up and running, no one wants to do a bunch of waiting around. Growth Accelerators can be crafted and placed under the budding block to speed up the rate they grow substantially. These do require power to work.

Asks for: Growth Accelerator

Entro Crystals are harvested from budding blocks, just like harvesting Certus! To create the budding block that grows Entro Crystals, you'll need to make an Entro Seed first and then right-click them on a Fluix Block in the world to convert it over. It's a good idea to get these crystals growing early, especially if you plan on getting into Extended AE!

Asks for: Entro Crystal, Entro Seed

The Crystal Assembler is used to craft many of the complex items from ExtendedAE. It can also be used to craft 4 Processors at once!

Asks for: Crystal Assembler

Concurrent Processors are high end processors used to calculate data on a quantum level. You'll need Entro Crystals, lots of power, and Singularities to begin crafting with these.

Asks for: Concurrent Processor, Inscriber Concurrent Press

The Crystal Fixer is a very useful machine that can repair and upgrade Budding Crystals in-world. This is a good way to improve your Certus and Entro Crystal generation, especially if your Flawless Budding Crystals have degraded.

Asks for: Crystal Fixer

The Assembler Matrix is a multiblock structure that combines the functionality of Molecular Assemblers and Pattern Providers, and it can run many crafting jobs simultaneously. The Assembler Matrix can be between 3x3x4 and 7x7x7, must contain at least 1 Matrix Pattern Core and 1 Matrix Craft Core, and it must also not contain any hollow spaces. - The edges must be composed of Assembler Matrix Frames, - The faces can be composed of Assembler Matrix Wall/Glass, - The interior must be composed of Matrix Cores.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Wall

Each Assembler Matrix Craft Core can run up to 8 crafting jobs simultaneously.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Craft Core

The Assembler Matrix Frame must form the outer edges of the Matrix Assembler multiblock.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Frame

These are all of the blocks you'll need to complete a typical high-end Assembler Matrix setup focusing on pattern storage, speed, and processing power. This will be a 7x7x7 structure.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Craft Core, Assembler Matrix Frame, Assembler Matrix Glass, Assembler Matrix Pattern Core, Assembler Matrix Speed Core, Assembler Matrix Wall

Each Assembler Matrix Pattern Core provides 36 pattern slots to the Assembler Matrix.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Pattern Core

Each Assembler Matrix Speed Core counts as an Acceleration Card for the overall structure. The Assembler Matrix will run at full speed with 5 Speed Cores. Any more will have no extra effect on its processing speeds.

Asks for: Assembler Matrix Speed Core

If you want to connect and create all of your storage into a single network, this can easily be done by making the Storage Controller. Any storage container that is placed next to the Controller will automatically link to it. This allows you to item dump by right-clicking or Sneak + Right-clicking on the Controller for easy inventory management! Placing storage next to anything that is linked to the Controller will also add it to the network as well, like a big multiblock chest! You can make Storage Links to connect any storage container that might be separate from your main storage hub, and can use the Storage Tool to link them up to the Controller!

Asks for: Storage Controller, Storage Link, Storage Tool

The Security Manager allows you to control who has access to different network functions. Right-click a Security Card to bind it to a player and configure it. Sneak + Right-click to clear the configuration.

Asks for: Fallback Security Card, Security Card, Security Manager

One of the main uses of digital storage is the ability to Autocraft Items. In AE2, this is done by creating custom multiblocks that make use of Crafting CPUs, Co-Processors, and more. To get started, you'll need to make the main crafting component: the Crafting Unit.

Asks for: Crafting Unit

Using the power of Entro Crystals, you can create the fastest autocrafting setups using Quantum Autocrafting. The base crafting block is the Quantum Crafting Unit, which is needed for both the Quantum Crafter and the Quantum Computer Multiblock.

Asks for: Quantum Crafting Unit

The Quantum Computer will be your ultimate autocrafting multiblock, capable of crafting an unlimited amount of crafting tasks at the same time, as long as it has the crafting storage for it. The Quantum Computer Core is the core of this multiblock, and acts as 8 Co-Processors and 256M of storage all on its own. It can be used for autocrafting by itself, but using it within the Quantum Computer multiblock will extend its processing power even further.

Asks for: Quantum Computer Core

The structure of the Quantum Computer multiblock can range from a 3x3x3 to a 7x7x7 square. The minimum must contain at least a Quantum Computer Core, and all edges and sides of the cube must be Quantum Structure Blocks. Quantum Crafting Units can be used to fill in empty spaces within the multiblock, but do not serve a purpose otherwise when placed inside.

Asks for: Quantum Computer Structural Glass

The Quantum Entangler will effectively multiply all Quantum Storage by 4. You can only use 1 per multiblock structure.

Asks for: Quantum Data Entangler

Quantum Computer Accelerators add 8 Co-Processors each to the multiblock. These are nice to have many of inside of the multiblock structure.

Asks for: Quantum Computer Accelerator

The inside of the Quantum Computer multiblock can be customized using a mix of different blocks, including extra Quantum Storage. Quantum Computer Storage blocks effectively increase the amount of concurrent tasks the multiblock can handle at once.

Asks for: 128M Quantum Computer Storage

The Crafting CPU Multiblock is the heart of autocrafting within AE2. These multiblocks must be built as rectangular prisms in shape with no empty blocks, and contain at least 1 or more Crafting Storages. While optional, Crafting Co-Processors are recommended to use as well. Crafting Storage blocks are used to store the ingredients of a craft. The storage amount will determine how many items you can request to be autocrafted at once. For example, if you want to craft 1k Crafting Tables, you will need to have enough crafting storage to store the ingredients of all 1k of them. The Crafting Co-Processor is an optional block but is recommended as each additional Co-Processor allows for more sub tasks to be queued at once, and somewhat speeds up complex autocrafting operations. For example, crafting 1k Crafting Tables might require turning logs into planks, then planks into tables. With multiple Co-Processors, your multiblock can craft the logs into planks at the same time as it crafts planks into tables. Otherwise, it would craft all of the logs into planks until finished, then craft the planks into the tables all at once. One important thing to note is that each Crafting CPU Multiblock can only handle one type of task at a time. For example, if you wanted to craft both 1k Crafting Tables and autosmelt 1k Iron Ingots at the same time, you will need 2 separate CPU Multiblocks to achieve this. For more info, you can always refer to the AE2 Guide.

Asks for: 16k Crafting Storage, 1k Crafting Storage, 256k Crafting Storage, 4k Crafting Storage, 64k Crafting Storage, Crafting Co-Processing Unit

The Quantum Crafter acts like a Molecular Assembler, Pattern Provider, AND an ME Requester all in one. It also crafts blazingly fast, can be configured to keep stock on multiple items at once, and can even be upgraded with Acceleration Cards. The only limit it has is that it can only store 9 Patterns total.

Asks for: Quantum Crafter

The Quantum Multi-Threader will effectively multiply all Co-Processors in the multiblock by 4. You can only use 1 per multiblock structure.

Asks for: Quantum Computer Multi-Threader

The ME Requester allows you to set certain thresholds for items to keep in stock. As an example, if you tell the Requester you want to keep 20 crafting tables in stock at all times in the network, and your inventory drops below 20, it will automatically trigger crafting operations provided you've taught your system the recipe. You can also achieve similar functionality using level emitters and redstone cards on interfaces set to export a set amount of ingredients.

Asks for: ME Requester, ME Requester Terminal

To teach your system how to craft items, you'll need to provide it with Crafting Patterns. These are created inside of a Pattern Encoding Terminal. By providing the terminal with Blank Patterns, you can use JEI to search for an item you want to make a pattern for, then clicking the + to add the recipe onto the terminal. Once the pattern is on the table, you can click the button below the Blank Pattern to encode the recipe onto the pattern to be used in autocrafting!

Asks for: Blank Pattern, ME Pattern Encoding Terminal

Once you've encoded some patterns using the Pattern Encoding Terminal, you can place them into a Pattern Provider. The Providers will try to complete the craft using whatever block it is attached to. For doing shaped and shapeless craft recipes that don't require machines, you can place the Provider next to a Molecular Assembler, which are just fancy autocrafters! For other autocrafting tasks that require some type of processing, you'd place the Provider facing the machine you want to craft in. Check the next page for more information. For example, you can set up autosmelting for recipes by placing a Furnace in front of the Provider, and then encoding the appropriate smelting recipes onto patterns to be placed into the Providers. Not Enough Patterns mod simplifies many mod automations to simply placing the Provider next to the main processing block and placing your Pattern inside it, NEP handles the rest. It also adds an Import Card, which allows it to automatically pull results from that block back into the system. For more information about how to make the Pattern Providers and Assemblers work faster, check out the AE2 Guide!

Asks for: Molecular Assembler, ME Pattern Provider

You can upgrade your Providers to the AdvancedAE version using Advanced Pattern Provider Upgrades. This advanced version allows you to upgrade how many pattern slots are available by using Pattern Provider Capacity Upgrades.

Asks for: Advanced Pattern Provider Upgrade, Pattern Provider Upgrade

These are all of the blocks you'll need to complete the most optimal Quantum Computer setup. Though you can have more 256M storage units within, 1 unit should be more than enough to handle all your crafting needs in this pack. This will be a 7x7x7 structure.

Asks for: Quantum Data Entangler, Quantum Computer Accelerator, Quantum Computer Core, Quantum Computer Multi-Threader, 256M Quantum Computer Storage, Quantum Computer Structural Glass