Applied Energistics 2 in FTB StoneBlock 4

Applied Energistics 2 is one of the big automation and storage mods. It replaces your room full of chests with a compact ME (Matter Energy) network, where items are stored digitally inside storage cells and you can reach all of them from terminals.^[1][2][3]

Storage is only the start. Autocrafting is one of the mod's main features. You can request a complex crafting chain with a single click, keep certain items in stock, or move items around your base. It also works with modded machines through processing patterns, so it ties the rest of your tech together.^[3][4]

If you love automating processes and running large, efficient systems, this mod is for you. Expect some planning, because the channel system limits how many devices a single cable can connect.^[1]

This pack runs Applied Energistics 2 version 19.2.17.^[5]

Where it fits in the pack

The pack's logistics and storage quest chapter walks you through the mod step by step. It starts with "Digital Storage" quest, which asks for a Flawless Budding Certus Quartz, and builds up from there.^[6]

1. Materials: Certus Quartz Dust and Certus Quartz Crystal, then Fluix Crystal and the Mysterious Cube.^[6]
2. Power and growth: the Energy Acceptor and Crystal Resonance Generator, followed by the Growth Accelerator.^[6]
3. Your first network: processors, fluix cables, the ME Controller, an ME Drive with storage cells, the Cell Workbench and the ME Crafting Terminal.^[6]
4. Autocrafting: the Crafting Unit, crafting storage, the Crafting Co-Processing Unit, the ME Pattern Encoding Terminal, then the ME Pattern Provider and Molecular Assembler.^[6]
5. Going wireless: the ME Wireless Access Point and Wireless Crafting Terminal, then the Quantum Entangled Singularity, ME Quantum Link Chamber and ME Quantum Ring.^[6]

AE2 stays relevant later on. Quests in the tier 3 World Engine chapter ask for the ME Quantum Ring, ME Quantum Link Chamber and ME Pattern Provider. The creative chapter's "Creative Energy Cell" quest also needs a Certus Quartz Crystal alongside items from other mods.^[7][8]

Applied Energistics 2 is the backbone of your storage in this pack, and the storage quest chapter walks you through it step by step. Each step unlocks the next, so here is that order, why each piece matters, and the in-pack recipes you'll actually use.^[1][6]

Step 1: Get certus quartz growing

The chapter opens with "Digital Storage" quest, which asks for a Flawless Budding Certus Quartz. Next comes "Certus Quartz" quest, which wants Certus Quartz Dust and Certus Quartz Crystal. Certus buds sprout from budding certus blocks, a lot like amethyst. If you break a bud before it's finished growing, you get one dust. A fully grown cluster drops four crystals, and Fortune increases that.^[6][9]

Unverified The sources don't show how this pack gives you your first flawless budding certus or the Mysterious Cube. The official guide says to get them from meteorites, but it's not confirmed that meteorites generate in this pack. Check the quest book for how the pack hands them out.

Budding certus comes in 4 tiers: Flawless, Flawed, Chipped and Damaged. The lower tiers can degrade each time a bud grows. You can repair them by throwing them in water with Charged Certus Quartz Crystal, which you make in a Charger. This pack also has a reaction recipe that turns certus dust into crystals, so those bud drops don't go to waste.^[9][11]

Certus Quartz CrystalMod recipe

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 16× Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• 500× Water
• 16× any certu quartz dusts

Recipe id: advanced_ae:quartzcrystal

Turns certus dust into crystals

Step 2: Make Fluix

"Fluix Crystals" quest asks for a Fluix Crystal. You'll need Fluix for almost everything that follows, including growth accelerators and cables. Besides the mod's throw-it-in-water method, this pack includes reaction recipes for Fluix.^[6][9][11]

Fluix CrystalMod recipe

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 16× Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• 16× Quartz
• 16× Redstone
• 500× Water

Recipe id: advanced_ae:fluixcrystals

Fluix CrystalMod recipe

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 32× Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• 32× Fluix Dust
• 500× Water

Recipe id: advanced_ae:fluixcrystalfromdust

Step 3: Power and growth accelerators

"Powering Your Network" quest wants an Energy Acceptor and a Crystal Resonance Generator. After that, a quest in "Storage" unlocks the Growth Accelerator. On their own, certus buds grow very slowly. A powered accelerator placed next to a budding block massively speeds that up, so build a few of these as your first priority.^[6][9][10]

Growth AcceleratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Fluix ME Glass Cable	any iron ingot
Quartz Glass	Fluix Block	Quartz Glass
any iron ingot	Fluix ME Glass Cable	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/crystal_processing_growth_accelerator

Step 4: Processors

"Processors O' Plenty" quest includes the Mysterious Cube. Mining it gives you all 4 inscriber presses. You use those presses in an Inscriber to make the three processors: Logic Processor, Calculation Processor and Engineering Processor. "AE2 Processors" quest only needs one of them, but make a few of each, because your first network uses all three.^[6][9]

Step 5: Your first ME network

Next, "Cables and Channels" quest asks for cable: glass, covered or smart all count. Start with Fluix ME Glass Cable, since the other two are crafted from it.^[6][11]

4× Fluix ME Glass CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Quartz Fiber
• any all fluix
• any all fluix

Recipe id: ae2:network/cables/glass_fluix

Cables open up a group of quests: "Adding More Channels" quest for the ME Controller, "The Start of Digital Storage!" quest for an ME Drive, a storage cell and a Cell Workbench, and "ME Crafting Terminal" quest for the ME Crafting Terminal. The drive holds your cells, and the terminal is how you actually get at your items.^[6][9]

ME DriveMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Engineering Processor	any iron ingot
Fluix ME Glass Cable	Empty slot	Fluix ME Glass Cable
any iron ingot	Engineering Processor	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/storage_drive

ME Crafting TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• ME Terminal
• Crafting Table
• Calculation Processor

Recipe id: ae2:network/parts/terminals_crafting

4k ME Item Storage CellMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Glass	any redstone dust	Quartz Glass
any redstone dust	4k ME Storage Component	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any copper ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/cells/item_storage_cell_4k

Cell WorkbenchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wool	Calculation Processor	any wool
any iron ingot	any wooden chest	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/cell_workbench

The guide recommends 4k cells for your first system because they give a good mix of capacity and types. A 4k cell holds 4,096 bytes across up to 63 types. Rushing the biggest cells isn't worth it, because every tier still holds only 63 types.^[2][12]

Once your storage works, "Autocrafting" quest asks for a Crafting Unit. That starts the autocrafting branch, which leads to a ME Pattern Encoding Terminal, Blank Pattern, an ME Pattern Provider and a Molecular Assembler.^[6]

Applied Energistics 2 turns your storage into a digital network. Items, fluids and more live inside storage cells, devices share one energy pool, and the system can autocraft whole recipe trees for you. Once you understand a few core ideas (networks, channels, energy, bytes and types, and patterns), the rest of the mod clicks into place.^[1][14][15]

Networks and channels

A network is a group of devices linked by blocks that can pass channels. That means cables, but also full-block machines and devices like the Charger, ME Interface and ME Drive. Where a device sits doesn't matter. All that counts is which network it's connected to. To check what's actually connected, right-click with a Network Tool and it lists every component on the network.^[16]

Channels work like USB ports. Every device that uses networked storage takes one. In the mod's standard behaviour, most machines, full-block devices and normal cables carry up to 8 channels, while dense cables, ME P2P Tunnels and the Quantum Network Bridge carry up to 32. Level Emitters are the notable device that doesn't need a channel. Cable colour has nothing to do with channels. It only stops differently coloured cables from connecting to each other.^[17][18]

Unverified The exact per-cable channel counts and the ad-hoc device limit under the pack's X4 mode aren't stated in the sources. Use smart cables in game to see real usage.

On a network with a controller, channels route in 3 steps. First they take the shortest path through adjacent machines to the nearest normal cable. Then they follow that cable to the nearest dense cable. Finally they follow the dense cable back to the controller. Because channels always take the shortest path, one cable can overload while another sits empty. Build tree-like networks with dense cables branching from the controller, regular cables branching from those, and small clusters of devices on the regular cables. Use colours, Cable Anchor and tunnels to steer the paths. Smart cables show you exactly where channels flow.^[17]

A network without a controller is ad-hoc. Each device uses 1 channel network-wide, and in the standard mode the network supports up to 8 channel-using devices before they all shut down. Channels also cost 1⁄128 AE/t per node they pass through.^[17]

You can mount many devices as subparts on a cable in the same block for compact builds. Shift-right-click with a Certus Quartz Wrench or Network Tool to pop off a single subpart without breaking the whole block.^[20]

Energy

Every network has one shared energy pool. Devices pull from it, and Energy Acceptors, Vibration Chambers and controllers add to it. There are no transfer rate limits, so it's best to treat the whole network as one big multiblock machine when you plan your power. AE2 converts Forge Energy into its own unit, AE, at 2 FE = 1 AE. This conversion only goes one way, and the pack keeps the mod's default ratio.^[14][19]

A network can't use or take in more energy in a single tick than it can store. That's why dumping a full inventory of cobblestone into a tiny network can drain it and make it reboot. The fix is simple: add energy storage.^[14]

• Every cable, machine or part adds 25 AE of built-in buffer. The pack keeps this at the mod default.^[14][19]
• A controller holds 8,000 AE internally.^[14]
• An Energy Cell stores 200k AE, and one is enough for most networks.^[14]
• A Dense Energy Cell stores 1.6M AE, for running off stored power or feeding big spatial IO setups.^[14]

For built-in generation, the Vibration Chamber makes 5 AE per fuel burn tick. It speeds up to 40 AE/t when the energy is being used and slows down to 4 AE/t when it's being wasted. The Crystal Resonance Generator makes 20 AE per tick. All of these are the mod defaults in this pack. AE2 is designed to be paired with other tech mods for serious power.^[14][19]

Storage: bytes, types and priority

Storage cells are limited by both bytes and types. Each item costs one bit, so 8 items take 1 byte, and fluid cells store 8 buckets per byte. Every distinct item is one type, and each type also costs some bytes up front. Every cell tier holds 63 types, so a drive full of cells gives you 630 types. Keep randomly damaged gear from mob farms out of your system, because each unique piece counts as its own type.^[21]

• 1k cell: 1,024 bytes, holding 8,128 items with 1 type in use or 4,160 with all 63.^[21]
• 4k cell: 4,096 bytes, holding 32,512 items with 1 type or 16,640 with 63.^[21]
• 16k cell: 16,384 bytes, holding 130,048 items with 1 type or 66,560 with 63.^[21]
• 64k cell: 65,536 bytes, holding 520,192 items with 1 type or 266,240 with 63.^[21]
• 256k cell: 262,144 bytes, holding 2,080,768 items with 1 type or 1,064,960 with 63.^[21]

Because bigger cells don't add types, smaller cells stay useful all game. Network storage is whatever your cells hold, plus any inventory a Storage Bus points at. Import Buses push items into it, Export Buses pull items out, and Interfaces and terminals do both.^[21][22]

You set priority with the wrench icon in the top-right of a GUI. Incoming items go to the highest-priority storage first. When priorities tie, storage that already holds the item wins, and whitelisted cells count as already holding it. Extraction starts from the lowest priority.^[10][22]

Autocrafting

1. Something makes a crafting request. That can be you in a terminal, or an Export Bus or Interface with a Crafting Card. Use your pick-block key (usually middle mouse) to request items you already have in stock.^[15]
2. The system works out every ingredient and sub-step and stores the job in a crafting CPU.^[15]
3. An ME Pattern Provider pushes the pattern's ingredients into the adjacent inventory. That's a Molecular Assembler for crafting patterns, or any machine for processing patterns.^[15]
4. The result has to come back through a real item-entering-the-system event, like an Import Bus, an Interface or the provider itself. Piping it into a chest with a Storage Bus on it won't work.^[15]

Crafting CardMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Crafting Table
• Basic Card

Recipe id: ae2:materials/cardcrafting

Lets Export Buses and Interfaces request crafts.

Crafting, smithing and stonecutting patterns all run on a provider next to a Molecular Assembler, and they can share one setup. Processing patterns are the flexible option. They only promise that pushing these ingredients out will eventually bring the result back, so they drive furnaces, modded machines or entire factories. Several providers with identical patterns run in parallel, and a pattern like 8 in, 8 out pushes a whole batch at once.^[4][15]

Pattern providers have a blocking mode that holds back new ingredients while the target inventory still contains pattern inputs. Processing patterns can also have secondary results. These can't be requested directly, but they get used before stored items in multi-step crafts.^[10]

Subnetworks and P2P

A subnet is just a separate network. Use one to limit what devices can reach, like an Import Bus plus Storage Bus acting as a pipe, or to save main-network channels by sending one pattern provider into an Interface that feeds several machines. Watch out for full-block devices that quietly join your subnet to the main network. Quartz Fiber shares energy without connecting networks, while a Quantum Bridge acts like a wireless dense cable, so both ends count as one network.^[16][23]

P2P tunnels are taxed. Energy through an energy tunnel costs 0.025 of the amount moved, and items or fluids cost 0.025 AE per equivalent I/O bus operation. Both are the mod defaults in this pack.^[19]

Certus growth

Certus buds grow on budding certus blocks, which come in Flawless, Flawed, Chipped and Damaged tiers. Imperfect blocks can degrade each time a bud grows. Flawless ones never degrade, but you can't mine them, even with Silk Touch. Throw a budding block or certus block into water with Charged Certus Quartz Crystal to repair or create budding blocks. Broken unfinished buds drop dust, and fully grown clusters drop four Certus Quartz Crystal, with more from Fortune.^[10][24]

A powered Growth Accelerator next to the budding block speeds growth massively. In this pack it ticks every 10 ticks, the mod default. Covering too many sides of a budding block eventually cancels out the benefit of adding more accelerators.^[19][24]

Spatial IO

Spatial IO swaps a volume of your world with a matching volume in the spatial storage dimension. You need one Spatial IO Port per network, so a subnet is recommended. Insert a spatial cell and pulse the port with redstone to trigger it. Anything inside the volume, including you, goes along for the ride.^[25]

• The volume is the pylons' outer bounding box shrunk by 1 block on every side. The minimum is 3x3x3, which defines a 1x1x1 volume.^[25]
• All pylons must sit in that outer shell, be on the same network and be at least 2 blocks long. Filling more of the shell improves efficiency.^[25]
• The energy is used instantly and can be huge, so stock up on Dense Energy Cells.^[14][25]

Pack settings worth knowing

In this pack, an Annihilation Plane facing up at maximum world height passively generates sky stone. Matter Cannon and Tiny TNT block damage are both turned off.^[19]

Applied Energistics 2 progression in this pack runs through a storage and logistics quest chapter. You start with certus quartz, branch into fluix, power and processors, build your first ME network, and finish with autocrafting, wireless access and quantum links. Here's the path the quests take, stage by stage.^[6]

Getting started with certus quartz

The first quest, "Digital Storage" quest, asks for a Flawless Budding Certus Quartz. The next one, "Certus Quartz" quest, wants Certus Quartz Dust and Certus Quartz Crystal, and it unlocks the rest of the chapter.^[6]

If you only have a Flawed Budding Certus Quartz, there's a Crystal Fixer recipe that upgrades it into the flawless version.^[11]

Flawless Budding Certus QuartzMod recipe

Crystal Fixer (extendedae)

• Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• Flawed Budding Certus Quartz

Recipe id: extendedae:fixer/certus_flawed

You can make dust in more than one way. This pack changed the Create milling recipe for certus quartz dust, and it adds its own Ars Nouveau crush recipe for the same dust. Once you have dust, AE2's transform recipe grows it back into fresh crystals.^[11]

2× Certus Quartz CrystalMod recipe

Transform (ae2)

• Certus Quartz Dust
• Charged Certus Quartz Crystal

Recipe id: ae2:transform/certus_quartz_crystals

Fluix, power and matter

Right after certus, "Fluix Crystals" quest asks for a Fluix Crystal. Several machines can make it, including AE2's own transform recipe, a Create mixing recipe that this pack changed, an ExtendedAE Crystal Assembler recipe and an Advanced AE reaction recipe.^[6][11]

2× Fluix CrystalMod recipe

Transform (ae2)

• Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• Quartz
• Redstone

Recipe id: ae2:transform/fluix_crystals

2× Fluix CrystalChanged by the pack

Mixing (create)

• Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• 250× Water
• any redstone dust
• any quartz gem

Recipe id: create:mixing/compat/ae2/fluix_crystal

Changed by the pack

Fluix opens up two side branches. "Powering Your Network" quest asks for an Energy Acceptor and a Crystal Resonance Generator, and it leads on to a quest in "Storage" for a Growth Accelerator. Separately, "The Matter Condenser" quest asks for a Matter Condenser and a Singularity.^[6]

Growth AcceleratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Fluix ME Glass Cable	any iron ingot
Quartz Glass	Fluix Block	Quartz Glass
any iron ingot	Fluix ME Glass Cable	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/crystal_processing_growth_accelerator

Matter CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any cheap glass blocks	any iron ingot
any cheap glass blocks	any fluix dust	any cheap glass blocks
any iron ingot	any cheap glass blocks	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/io_condenser

Processors and sky stone

The other branch off certus is "Processors O' Plenty" quest. It asks for a Custom Machine Item, Blue Sheetmetal, Vibrant Quartz Glass and a Mysterious Cube. After that, "AE2 Processors" quest accepts any one of Logic Processor, Calculation Processor or Engineering Processor, and "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest wants Sky Stone Dust and Sky Stone.^[6]

Unverified The pack files don't say what the custom machine in this quest does, so check its quest text in-game.

4× Logic ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crystal Assembler (extendedae)

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

Recipe id: extendedae:assembler/logic_processor

Calculation and Engineering Processors have matching assembler recipes

Sky stone dust smelts into Sky Stone, and a Create milling recipe that this pack changed turns the block back into dust.^[11]

Sky StoneMod recipe

Smelting

• Sky Stone Dust

Recipe id: ae2:blasting/sky_stone_block

Building your first network

Processors unlock "Cables and Channels" quest, which accepts any of Fluix ME Glass Cable, Fluix ME Covered Cable or Fluix ME Smart Cable. They also unlock a quest in "Storage", which asks for a regular ME Storage Bus plus the ME Tag Storage Bus, ME Mod Storage Bus and ME Precise Storage Bus.^[6]

4× Fluix ME Glass CableMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Quartz Fiber
• any all fluix
• any all fluix

Recipe id: ae2:network/cables/glass_fluix

Cables open up the core of the network:^[6]

• "Adding More Channels" quest asks for an ME Controller.^[6]
• a quest in "Storage" accepts an ME Import Bus or an ME Export Bus.^[6]
• "ME Crafting Terminal" quest asks for an ME Crafting Terminal.^[6]
• "The Start of Digital Storage!" quest asks for an ME Drive, any item storage cell, any AE2 Things disk drive and a Cell Workbench.^[6]
• "Autocrafting" quest asks for a Crafting Unit.^[6]

ME DriveMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Engineering Processor	any iron ingot
Fluix ME Glass Cable	Empty slot	Fluix ME Glass Cable
any iron ingot	Engineering Processor	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/storage_drive

Storage tiers

Item storage cells and crafting storage both come in the same tiers, and each tier uses its matching storage component. Every cell tier has a full shaped recipe and a shapeless shortcut that uses an ME Item Cell Housing.^[11]

• 1k: 1k ME Item Storage Cell and 1k Crafting Storage^[11]
• 4k: 4k ME Item Storage Cell and 4k Crafting Storage^[11]
• 16k: 16k ME Item Storage Cell and 16k Crafting Storage^[11]
• 64k: 64k ME Item Storage Cell and 64k Crafting Storage^[11]
• 256k: 256k ME Item Storage Cell and 256k Crafting Storage^[11]

1k ME Item Storage CellMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Glass	any redstone dust	Quartz Glass
any redstone dust	1k ME Storage Component	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any copper ingot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/cells/item_storage_cell_1k

1k ME Item Storage CellMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• ME Item Cell Housing
• 1k ME Storage Component

Recipe id: ae2:network/cells/item_storage_cell_1k_storage

Housing shortcut; every tier has one

Autocrafting

1. After the crafting unit, "The Autocrafting Multiblock" quest asks for crafting storage of any tier plus a Crafting Co-Processing Unit.^[6]
2. "Creating Patterns" quest asks for an ME Pattern Encoding Terminal and a Blank Pattern.^[6]
3. That leads to "Storing Patterns" quest, which asks for an ME Pattern Provider and a Molecular Assembler.^[6]

ME Pattern Encoding TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Engineering Processor
• ME Crafting Terminal

Recipe id: ae2:network/parts/terminals_pattern_encoding

ME Pattern ProviderMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Crafting Table	any iron ingot
Annihilation Core	Empty slot	Formation Core
any iron ingot	Crafting Table	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/pattern_providers_interface

Molecular AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Quartz Glass	any iron ingot
Annihilation Core	Crafting Table	Formation Core
any iron ingot	Quartz Glass	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/crafting/molecular_assembler

Wireless and quantum links

The crafting terminal also leads to "Wireless Network Access" quest, which asks for an ME Wireless Access Point and a Wireless Crafting Terminal. The chapter ends with "Quantum Network Bridges" quest, which asks for a Quantum Entangled Singularity, an ME Quantum Link Chamber and an ME Quantum Ring.^[6]

Wireless Crafting TerminalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Wireless Receiver

ME Crafting Terminal

Dense Energy Cell

Recipe id: ae2:network/wireless_crafting_terminal

2× Quantum Entangled SingularityMod recipe

Transform (ae2)

• Singularity
• any ender pearl

Recipe id: ae2:transform/entangled_singularity_from_pearl

ME Quantum RingMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Logic Processor	any iron ingot
Engineering Processor	Energy Cell	any smart dense cable
any iron ingot	Logic Processor	any iron ingot

Recipe id: ae2:network/blocks/quantum_ring

Quantum gear matters outside this chapter too. In the World Engine tier 3 chapter, "The Start of Automation" quest asks for a quantum ring, a quantum link chamber and a pattern provider, and "Auto-Build The Quantum Tunnel Upgrade" quest asks for a ring and a link chamber.^[7]

Plain certus quartz also shows up late: the creative chapter quest "Creative Energy Cell" quest includes a Certus Quartz Crystal among its tasks.^[8]

Applied Energistics 2 is the backbone for a whole family of addons in this pack. Many of their recipes are built on AE2 parts like processors, storage components and Sky Stone, and the pack has changed several of them. If you've already got an ME network running, most of these extras are just a few crafts away.^[11]

Better pattern providers and quantum crafting

Once your autocrafting outgrows the basic ME Pattern Provider, you can move up to the Advanced Pattern Provider. The larger Advanced Extended Pattern Provider builds on the ME Extended Pattern Provider, and the pack changed its recipe. The pack also changed the recipes for the Advanced Pattern Provider Upgrade and for the Advanced Pattern Provider Capacity Upgrade, which is made in a Crystal Assembler.^[11]

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

Recipe changed by the pack

The Quantum Crafting Unit also has a pack-changed recipe. It combines AE2 crafting parts with a Concurrent Processor, and it leads on to the Quantum Computer Core and the Quantum Crafter.^[11]

Quantum Crafting UnitChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Crafting Unit
• Singularity
• Concurrent Processor

Recipe id: advanced_ae:eaequantumunit

Recipe changed by the pack

Alloys and crystals from reactions

The pack adds reaction recipes that use AE2 materials to make ingots for other addons. You can make the Sky Bronze Ingot, Sky Steel Ingot and Sky Osmium Ingot this way, and the pack changed all three recipes. The Redstone Crystal and Entro Crystal also come from pack-changed reactions that use a Fluix Crystal.^[11]

Sky Steel IngotChanged by the pack

Reaction (advanced_ae)

• 16× Charged Certus Quartz Crystal
• 16× Sky Stone
• 16× Iron Ingot
• 500× Lava

Recipe id: advanced_ae:skysteel

Recipe changed by the pack

More storage options

Your AE2 storage components do more than go into regular cells. They also make ME DISK Drives, either through a full recipe or by combining a component with an ME DISK Housing. The same components go into experience storage cells, such as the 1k ME Experience Storage Cell.^[11]

1k ME DISK DriveMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• ME DISK Housing
• 1k ME Storage Component

Recipe id: ae2things:disk_drive_1k_with_housing

The storage quest "The Start of Digital Storage!" quest asks for an ME Drive, an item storage cell, a DISK drive and a Cell Workbench, so the two storage styles are introduced together. Quest a quest in "Storage" pairs the ME Storage Bus with several addon storage bus variants.^[6]

Wireless terminals and cards

AE2's Wireless Receiver and Dense Energy Cell turn the pattern terminals into the Wireless Pattern Access Terminal and the Wireless Pattern Encoding Terminal. You can combine these with a Wireless Crafting Terminal. The Quantum Bridge Card uses AE2's quantum bridge parts, and the Magnet Card has a pack-changed recipe.^[11]

Magnet CardChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone Block	ME Annihilation Plane	any lapi storage blocks
any iron storage block	Advanced Card	any iron storage block
any iron storage block	any iron storage block	any iron storage block

Recipe id: ae2wtlib:magnet_card

Recipe changed by the pack

Computers, diagnostics and other chapters

The ME Bridge links your network to computer peripherals, and its recipe is changed by the pack. For troubleshooting, the ME Network Analyzer is crafted from AE2 parts.^[11]

AE2 items also appear in quests outside the storage chapter. "The Start of Automation" quest and "Auto-Build The Quantum Tunnel Upgrade" quest in the world engine chapter ask for the ME Quantum Ring and ME Quantum Link Chamber, and a creative-chapter quest, "Creative Energy Cell" quest, includes a Certus Quartz Crystal alongside items from other mods.^[7][8]

Applied Energistics 2 shows up in three quest chapters in this pack. Most of it sits in the logistics and storage chapter, which walks you from your first quartz all the way to autocrafting and quantum bridges. It also appears in the World Engine tier 3 chapter and in the creative chapter.^[6][7][8]

Logistics and storage: getting started

The chain opens with "Digital Storage" quest, which asks for a Flawless Budding Certus Quartz. Next comes "Certus Quartz" quest, where you hand in Certus Quartz Dust and a Certus Quartz Crystal. From there the chapter splits into two branches.^[6]

• The fluix branch starts with "Fluix Crystals" quest, which asks for a Fluix Crystal. That unlocks "Powering Your Network" quest, which asks for an Energy Acceptor and a Crystal Resonance Generator and leads to a quest in "Storage" for a Growth Accelerator. The fluix crystal quest also unlocks "The Matter Condenser" quest, which asks for a Matter Condenser and a Singularity.^[6]
• The processor branch starts with "Processors O' Plenty" quest. It wants Vibrant Quartz Glass and a Mysterious Cube, plus a Custom Machinery item and blue colored sheet metal from Immersive Engineering. It opens "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest, which asks for Sky Stone Dust and Sky Stone. It also opens "AE2 Processors" quest, where any one of Engineering Processor, Logic Processor or Calculation Processor counts.^[6]

Building your ME network

After the processor quest you can do a quest in "Storage". It asks for an ME Storage Bus plus the tag, mod and precise storage bus variants from ExtendedAE. You can also do "Cables and Channels" quest, where any fluix cable works: Fluix ME Glass Cable, Fluix ME Covered Cable or Fluix ME Smart Cable. The cable quest is the big hub of the chapter and unlocks five quests at once.^[6]

• "Adding More Channels" quest asks for an ME Controller.^[6]
• a quest in "Storage" asks for either an ME Import Bus or an ME Export Bus.^[6]
• "The Start of Digital Storage!" quest asks for an ME Drive, any item storage cell from 1k ME Item Storage Cell up to 256k ME Item Storage Cell, any size of AE2 Things disk drive, and a Cell Workbench.^[6]
• "ME Crafting Terminal" quest asks for an ME Crafting Terminal.^[6]
• "Autocrafting" quest asks for a Crafting Unit.^[6]

Autocrafting and wireless

The crafting unit quest branches into autocrafting. "The Autocrafting Multiblock" quest wants any crafting storage, from 1k Crafting Storage up to 256k Crafting Storage, plus a Crafting Co-Processing Unit. "Creating Patterns" quest asks for an ME Pattern Encoding Terminal and a Blank Pattern. That one leads to "Storing Patterns" quest, where you make an ME Pattern Provider and a Molecular Assembler.^[6]

The crafting terminal quest leads to "Wireless Network Access" quest, which asks for an ME Wireless Access Point and a Wireless Crafting Terminal. The last quest in this line is "Quantum Network Bridges" quest. For that one you need a Quantum Entangled Singularity, an ME Quantum Link Chamber and an ME Quantum Ring.^[6]

World Engine and creative chapters

Your quantum bridge parts come back in the World Engine tier 3 chapter. "The Start of Automation" quest asks for an ME Quantum Ring, an ME Quantum Link Chamber and an ME Pattern Provider. "Auto-Build The Quantum Tunnel Upgrade" quest asks for the ring and link again. Both quests come after other quests in that chapter.^[7]

In the creative chapter, "Creative Energy Cell" quest asks for a Certus Quartz Crystal along with items from several other mods, including MEGA Cells, Applied Flux, Mekanism and Avaritia.^[8]

Good news first: this pack leaves nearly all of AE2's numbers at the mod defaults, so most tutorials and wiki numbers will match your game. The settings below are the ones you're most likely to care about, plus a few client-side choices the pack ships that change how your terminals look.^[19][26]

Channels

The channel setting is the one to know. general.channels controls the channel capacity your cables provide, and this pack sets it to X4. The allowed options are INFINITE, DEFAULT, X2, X3 and X4, so this pack uses the biggest multiplier option instead of turning channels off completely.^[19]

Because channels aren't infinite, the channel system still limits how many devices a single cable can carry. You'll still want to plan your cable layout, just with a lot more room to work with.^[1][19]

Unverified The exact number of channels each cable type carries under the X4 setting isn't documented in the sources for this section, so check a cable in-game before planning a big build around it.

Power

The pack sets client.powerUnit to FE, so AE2's screens show power in FE instead of AE. The underlying generation and cost values are all at mod defaults.^[19][26]

• The Vibration Chamber makes 5 AE per fuel burn tick with vibrationChamber.baseEnergyPerFuelTick. It speeds up to a maximum of 40 AE/t when all its energy is being used and slows down to a minimum of 4 AE/t when energy is being wasted.^[19]
• The Crystal Resonance Generator produces 20 energy per tick with powerRatios.crystalResonanceGeneratorRate.^[19]
• P2P tunnels charge a tax of 0.025. For energy P2P it's a factor of the energy moved (powerRatios.p2pTunnelEnergyTax). For items and fluids it's AE per item or per 125mb (powerRatios.p2pTunnelTransportTax).^[19]
• Each node on your grid adds 25 energy of internal buffer storage with powerRatios.gridEnergyStoragePerNode. The overall usage multiplier stays at 1.^[19]

Wireless and portable gear

• Wireless access points have a base range of 16 with wireless.wirelessBaseRange and a base cost of 8. The booster range multiplier is 1 and the booster exponent is 1.5, all mod defaults.^[19]
• The wireless terminal's battery holds 1,600,000 with battery.wirelessTerminal. The drain multiplier is left at 1.^[19]
• Portable cells and the color applicator each hold 20,000. The matter cannon and entropy manipulator hold 200,000, and the charged staff holds 8,000.^[19]
• The charger runs at its normal speed. battery.chargerChargeRate is 1, where 2 would mean twice as fast.^[19]

Handy toggles

• crafting.annihilationPlaneSkyDustGeneration is on. An annihilation plane placed face up at maximum world height passively generates sky stone.^[19]
• The Matter Cannon and Tiny TNT can't break blocks in this pack. Both general.matterCannonBlockDamage and general.tinyTntBlockDamage are off.^[19]
• Spatial Anchors do force random chunk ticks and entity spawning, because general.spatialAnchorEnableRandomTicks is on.^[19]
• The crystal growth accelerator ticks every 10 ticks with crafting.growthAccelerator.^[19]
• The condenser needs 256 for matter balls and 256,000 for a singularity, both unchanged from the mod defaults.^[19]

Client defaults

The pack ships terminals in the TALL style with terminals.terminalStyle. It also shows a toast when long crafting jobs finish, pins items you auto-craft to the top of the terminal, and remembers your last search. Storage cell tooltips preview up to 5 content entries and show installed upgrades. AE2 uses its own search box by default, because search.useExternalSearch is off.^[26]

In FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0, the pack ships Applied Energistics 2 version 19.2.17, from the file appliedenergistics2-19.2.17.jar. The mod was first included in version 1.21.0 of the pack or an earlier release.^[5]

Unverified There are no pack changelog entries or stored mod changelogs for this mod. Changes to Applied Energistics 2 across the pack's releases, such as version bumps, recipe tweaks or config edits, can't be listed here yet.