Storage

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

Sophisticated 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. You can place these in a curio slot for easy access using the keybind . Note: Backpacks do not connect to pipes or cables.

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 pick up 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

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

The Iron Chests mod adds basic metal upgrades to the standard chest. These can be easily crafted, or you might have gotten one from being bonked by a Loot Bee.

Asks for: Copper Chest, Copper to Iron Chest Upgrade, Crystal Chest, Diamond Chest, Diamond to Crystal Chest Upgrade, Diamond to Obsidian Chest Upgrade

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. Note: Crafting these requires the Chroniton Glass World Engine Upgrade. 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

Create has a very unique way of storing items as well as doing autocrafting! Item Vaults can store a ton of items, but don't have an interface to see what is in it. You can use Packagers to wrap items up and ship them off to other storages to create an inventory sorting system! Stock Links help connect items in a storage to your storage network. Combine this with a Stock Ticker, you can request items from those linked storages.

Asks for: Item Vault, Packager, Stock Link, Stock Ticker

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

To get started with Digital Storage with either Applied Energistics 2 or Refined Storage 2, you'll want to first craft a Flawless Budding Certus Block using the World Engine. This requires the Machine Block upgrade. Yes, the reward is for decoration. This is not a bug.

Asks for: Flawless Budding Certus Quartz

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 convert a regular chest or barrel into a Sophisticated Chest or Sophisticated Barrel by using Basic To Copper Tier Upgrade on it. Note: The Basic To Copper Tier Upgrade can only be acquired by purchasing it from the shop. Storage Tier Upgrades past copper can be crafted.

Asks for: Basic to Copper Tier Upgrade

The Basic Bin stores a lot of a single item type. It can also generate cobble with a Stone Generator upgrade installed. The Basic Fluid Tank can store 32 buckets of a single type of fluid, but also works as a bucket. While holding this in your hand and sneaking, you can change the mode to Bucket by scrolling your mouse wheel. This will allow you to scoop up multiple buckets worth of fluids like water or lava.

Asks for: Basic Bin, Basic Fluid Tank

The Quantum Item Orchestration (QIO) system is Mekanism's wireless, power-free, and expandable digital storage solution. The QIO operates on frequencies similar to teleporters and machine security, so items can be accessed from any QIO Dashboard that's connected to the frequency of a QIO Drive Array. Applied Mekanistics allows a ME System to access a QIO storage by placing a Dashboard onto an AE2 Storage Bus and setting the desired frequency.

Asks for: QIO Dashboard, QIO Drive Array

Drives are the storage medium for QIO systems, with up to ten fitting in each Drive Array. There is no limit on the number of drives or arrays per frequency. Each tier increases both the variety of items that can be stored and the total amount of items it can store.

Asks for: QIO Drive, Hyper-Dense QIO Drive, Supermassive QIO Drive, Time-Dilating QIO Drive

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 Controller Access Point, Framed Fluid Drawer (1x1)

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, Linking Tool, Storage Controller

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

These Drawer Generators can be extremely helpful for generating water, lava, and obsidian. These items are only available through the shop.

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

Functional Storage can also handle fluid storage using Fluid Drawers! You can either pump fluids directly into the drawer or just use a fluid bucket on it to set its fluid.

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

You are probably tired of picking up SO MUCH COBBLE. 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

There are different upgrades that you can use to allow your chests to pick up 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

While simply placing a QIO Dashboard down whenever you need to access your storage is powerful, what if you didn't need to place it down at all?

Asks for: Portable QIO Dashboard

By default, drawers can only hold a base number 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

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

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 different upgrades that you can use to allow your chests to pick up 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

Void Upgrade - Automatically voids items above the current stack limit. 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, Void Upgrade

Budding Certus Quartz works similarly to amethyst and will bud crystals over time. These will decay into Flawed Budding Certus Quartz if mined, but can be moved safely using things like a Cardboard Box. Note: Squat grow does work on the budding blocks.

Asks for: Certus Quartz Crystal, Certus Quartz Dust

The Circuit Fabricator is a multiblock that creates processors for both AE2 and RS2. These do require power but can accept regular FE power from other modded sources. To create the multiblock, you will need some Blue Sheetmetal and Vibrant Quartz Glass, and a Mysterious Cube, which can be purchased from the Machinist, or traded from a Wandering Trader or Fluix Researcher. The Circuit Fabricator utilizes the same dimensional parallaxing as the World Engine and is able to process up to 16 recipes at once! You can overclock the fabricator by placing up to 3 Acceleration Cards into its upgrade slot. Fully upgraded this machine has the potential to consume A LOT of power!

Asks for: Mysterious Cube, Vibrant Quartz Glass, Custom Machine Item, Blue Sheetmetal

Combining a Printed Circuit with Printed Silicon and a piece of Redstone, you can 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!

Asks for: Calculation Processor, Engineering Processor, Logic Processor

Refined Storage 2 (RS2) is an expandable digital storage network mod that can store items, fluids, and gasses. To get started with RS2 you'll need to get some Certus Quartz to make Quartz Enriched Iron and Quartz Enriched Copper. Processors are used to craft most of the core components of your RS2 network. These can only be assembled inside a Circuit Fabricator.

Asks for: Advanced Processor, Basic Processor, Improved Processor, Machine Casing, Processor Binding, Quartz Enriched Iron

The Regulator Upgrade controls the amount of items imported/exported from your system. When used in an Exporter, it will push items out of your system until the target inventory contains the configured quantity of items. When used in an Importer, it will keep the configured quantity of items in the target inventory and import all excess items into your storage network. To set it up, Right-click to open the interface and place the item you want to configure in the right slot then type in the quantity of items you wish to configure.

Asks for: Regulator Upgrade

Custom Machinery has a built-in structure preview function that allows you to see where the blocks should be placed in the world. To access this feature, simply click the Recipe arrow inside of the UI, then click the structure block in JEI to see the block placements in the world. The next page contains screenshots to help guide you, and the final page contains a screenshot of the fully-built structure. -> {image:ftb:textures/quests/ae2/circuit_fabricator_jei.png width:205 height:144 align:center) The final structure should look like the picture below, with vibrant quartz glass on all the three sides of the mysterious cube block.

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, upgrades, and patterns.

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 move at once.

Asks for: Speed Upgrade, Stack 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. You can also find blocks in the Telepad structures for each ring. The Void Ring also has Sky Stone blocks in the lower section.

Asks for: Sky Stone Dust, Sky Stone

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

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 number 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 number 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. Note: Controllers require the Fortron Infused Block World Engine Upgrade to craft. 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

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.

Asks for: ME Export Bus, ME Import Bus

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

To access your AE2 system wirelessly, you can make a Wireless Access Point and a Wireless Crafting Terminal. Installing Wireless Boosters into the access point will extend the range but cost more energy to operate. The Wireless Crafting Terminal allows 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: ME Wireless Access Point, Wireless Crafting Terminal

The Quantum Network Bridge allows you to connect machines and storages far from your base to your AE2 network, allowing you to automate from afar. This is how you can automate the World Engine! 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

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

The AE2-Replication Bridge connects your ME Network with a Replication Matter Network, seamlessly integrating the two systems. To link both systems, the AE2-Rep Bridge must be connected via cables to both systems. This will allow you to: - View matter quantities using AE2 terminals. - Request replications using AE2 autocrafting. - Configure crafting priorities. You can check GuideME documentation for further setup information.

Asks for: AE2-Replication Bridge

The Autocrafting Upgrade will start an automatic crafting request for the missing resource when it is trying to export it from your network.

Asks for: Autocrafting Upgrade

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

Asks for: Configuration Card

Soulplied Energistics is an addon mod for IF Souls that allows the transferring of souls using AE2. Attaching a Storage Bus to the Soul Laser Base will allow your network to access the Warden Souls inside it. Then, Right-click any IF Souls item on an Interface Filter to request Souls stored in your system. Finally, attach a Soul Pipe to the Interface and it will use its Warden Souls to power Soul Surges.

The Controller is the main device that provides energy to your RS2 network. More than one controller can be present on a network if more power is needed. Controllers can also be placed anywhere across your network, unlike AE2 Controllers.

Asks for: Controller

Disk Drives accept Storage Disks capable of holding different resources 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 inside its interface. 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 Shift + 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. Storage Disks can alternatively 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.

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

Look up "@refinedtypes FE" in JEI to extract power.

Asks for: 1024K Energy Storage Part, 1048576K Energy Storage Part, 256K Energy Storage Part, 262144K Energy Storage Part, 64K Energy Storage Part, 65536K Energy Storage Part

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 provides you with all the functionality of the regular Grid, but also provides you with an integrated 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 Autocrafter Manager allows you to configure all your Autocrafters from this single block.

Asks for: Autocrafter Manager

You can connect a second network to your main RS2 network wirelessly by binding a Network Card to the secondary network's Network Receiver, then placing that same Network Card into a Network Transmitter connected to your main network. This even works across dimensions as long as 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: Range Upgrade, Wireless Autocrafting Monitor, Wireless Grid, Wireless Crafting Grid

The Infinity Range Booster grants you access to your network anywhere within the same dimension. The Dimension Card grants you access to your network across dimensions at a hefty energy cost.

Asks for: Dimension Card, Infinity Range Booster

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!

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. There are 2 types of item storage drives. Item Storage Cells can store 63 different types of items, while ME DISK Drives can store an infinite number of item types, with a higher crafting cost. The Cell Workbench allows you to configure what types of items you want to allow onto an AE Storage Cell.

Asks for: Cell Workbench, ME Drive, 16k ME Item Storage Cell, 1k ME Item Storage Cell, 256k ME Item Storage Cell, 4k ME Item Storage Cell

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 are used to input resources into your network, while Exporters export items from your network. Interfaces can input into and output from your network at the same time, functioning as an Importer and Exporter within the same blockspace.

Asks for: Elite Exporter, Elite Importer, Mega Exporter, Mega Importer, Ultra Exporter, Ultra Importer

Relays can be used to create new branches of your network or switch on/off sections of your storage network. Detectors emit a configurable redstone signal depending on how much of a resource is in your network. Storage Monitors can be configured to display how much of a certain resource is stored in your storage network. You can also pull items directly from this monitor by clicking on it.

Asks for: Detector, Relay, Storage Monitor

Constructors can place blocks or items in the world from your storage network. Destructors can break blocks or items in the world and place them into your storage network. Each Cable Tiers upgrade works faster than its previous tier and has more filter slots.

Asks for: Elite Constructor, Elite Destructor, Mega Constructor, Mega Destructor, Ultra Constructor, Ultra Destructor

External Storages can access inventories outside of your storage network like Chests, Drawers, Tanks, and many others.

Asks for: External Storage

Occultism's upgradeable storage system allows you to store your items in a separate dimension of The Otherworld. The Storage Actuator Base is the first of two parts needed to access your storage dimension. This block functions very much like a big shulker box. This means that when breaking the Dimensional Storage Actuator, your items will stay safe inside the block. Storage Stabilizers increase the storage space in the Storage Actuator. Higher tier Storage Stabilizers provide a bigger storage increase for both items and item types. Storage Stabilizers can be placed up to five blocks away, facing the Dimensional Matrix texture. Check the Dictionary of Spirits for the exact layout. Each Tier 1 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer adds 512000 items, and 64 item types, up to four Stabilizers. The Stable Wormhole allows access to a Dimensional Storage from a remote destination. Shift-click the Dimensional Storage Actuator to link it, then place the Stable Wormhole in the world to use as a remote access point. Shift + right-click a Dimensional Storage Actuator with a Storage Accessor to link them, allowing you to access your items from anywhere in the world, even across dimensions.

Asks for: Stable Wormhole, Dimensional Storage Actuator, Storage Accessor, Tier 1 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer, Tier 2 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer, Tier 3 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer

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

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

Budding Crystals can take some time to grow and when you're trying to get your system up and running. 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

Importers and Exporters are able to wirelessly insert into and pull from a QIO system set to their frequency. With the ability to make multiple frequencies, this can be used to create isolated item systems, or just be used as a main storage network. QIO Redstone Adapters can be configured to emit a redstone signal depending on the number of items in a set frequency, useful for automating systems without flooding your storage system with items.

Asks for: QIO Exporter, QIO Importer, QIO Redstone Adapter

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, Extended Machine Frame

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: Concurrent Processor, Crystal Assembler

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. Note: The Reaction Chamber requires both the ME Quantum Ring and Advanced Machine Block World Engine Upgrades to craft.

Asks for: Reaction Chamber

If you want to connect 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! Note: The Storage Controller requires the Machine Block World Engine Upgrade to craft. 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. Note: Crafting Units require the Fortron Infused Block World Engine Upgrade to craft.

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. It's nice to have many of these 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 number 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 would 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 Multithreader 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

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. 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. Pattern Providers can also be renamed by using a Cutting Knife on them, which can help you find them easier in your Pattern Terminals! 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

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 build 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

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 build 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

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