It's project ozone 2. That way you could run 8 dense cables (256 channels) on a single regular ME cable. Now a crafting network is completely different. Definitions. But I definitely wouldn't like to have ae2stuff in every pack. While hovering over an item that has a guide page, hold the W key to open the corresponding guide page. Having one big system made adding new factory additions easier, until the network had so much IO that simply breaking a cable would cause a second of lag while AE2 was recalculating the network. 10+ due to competing RF APIs. The easiest would be using EnderIO using an advanced filter so that all items from mod (thermal foundation) go to your ore processing facility instead of going to your ME Network. will post updates on free time to show my advancement in the base. A Quick Guide to AE2. So those outer controllers are indeed necessary since you want to transmit 32 channels (each connected to a a p2p tunnel carrying up to 32 channels itself). The last bit is power. Think of these as data lines. If you use smart cables you'll see how many channels are in use. Just stick an energy acceptor on your main cable and you should be good. You then have a line through the middle to get the center spike, you can have two spikes just off to the sides and then a little bit up the top for the last two. By the end of E2:E I had 5 full channels full. It does not break your cables. Mousing over a cable shows how many channels are in use. The more complex the recipe, and the more of that item you are wanting, the more CPU it takes to make the job. So a cuboid crafting tower with 8 providers and 8 to 48 assemblers will use all the channels on one cable. When I was doing an Omnifactory playthrough, I believe the default was to use AE2 in channel-less mode, to be similar to refined storage. More Topics. Storing 64 item types would take up half your storage, and reaching 128 would be "a. The P2P network will transfer power, but won't use power it's transfering. 18+: There's a command for it now. You will also need a couple of. r/feedthebeast. Contents. One for all the export busses and one for all the import busses. More Topics Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing, and Literature Religion and Spirituality Science Tabletop. The type of the P2P Tunnel is determined by the type of the item used by the Player (Right-click with the item). 3 sides total of 24 channels instead of using 4 sides using 4-6 channels. . 1. I think your question has already been answered, but I just wanted to point out that the AE2 controller being removed from existence is normal when you disable channels - you don't need a controller if you are playing without channels. 2 and the version i'm on rv4-alpha-11 seems to get a problem with the channels on dense cables not registering, on most of the cables i can only see up to about 14 channels at most and once i go over that they will not show at all in the console or in the cable info. The mod includes a network-based. The other way round may be harder. In between the input and output tunnels, you can use standard glass cables, as the tunnels themselves only use one channel. The ME Smart Cable - Fluix is a block added by the Applied Energistics 2 mod. The ME Controller is a block added by the Applied Energistics 2 mod. 0. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. A couple facts: Each side of the controller can handle up to 32 channels. Most, but not all, AE2 devices require a channel before it will turn on. NotYourReddit18 • 1 yr. you might be missing one channel there and the nearest things get one first. rhn18 • Obsessive Builder • 1 yr. Place one between the controller and P2P and one or two on the other end to split regular. This allows you to connect channels from that dense cable and, since you can have multiple outputs with P2P tunnels, you could always hook up 16 P2P outputs and use those 32 channels sparingly. The AE2 wiki says, the ME Storage Bus needs its own channel. The command is: /ae2 channelmode <mode>: to change it This guide was originally created by ShneekeyTheLost. You need to path the dense close to your target and then branch off a normal cable. CREDAAAAAAAOOOO. Angelin01. There can only be 1 broadcaster per channel network, however you can have as many receivers as you want. My Very First Quartz. So it looks like each P2P node is taking up a channel. use that as a connector (like a Cable Anchor or another cable attachment) to send power to a sub-net without connecting it. It works to get more channels with the cable on an indoor antenna too. 7. Don't connect filing cabinets to an ME system as it will turn the items to "air" inside the filing cabinet. e. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. Exterior: 578 Tunnels giving 18496 channels. Although I still like the idea of having the extra dense cable for a challenge to overcome early ae2 with channels, then having the extra dense cable really expensive to have a resource challenge later. Hey everyone, I'd be really fascinated to see what people have built for their AE2 setups, especially epic auto crafting. If you put an interface and storage bus facing each other, the storage bus can see everything in the network the interface is connected to. To get to use the full 32 channels per face, you need to have a dense cable connected from (excluding p2p) the ME Controller to carry the 32 channel signal long enough for you to branch out with normal fluix cables. I've used the setting before and all dense, smart, etc cables will be removed from the game, deleted out of the world, and not be able to be crafted or used. 10 today I realized, that you cant use more than 5 terminals onto one system. 2 Steve's First Network . Take your memory card and SHIFT + RIGHTCLICK on the p2p and a message should pop up saying "new configuration created". They are manually linked, so one input can have multiple outputs if they are all on the same sub-network. place the energy accepter connected to an external power source. I relearned a lot but I still don't totally get it and I don't really like the channel mechanic. Start with this. Not quite. AE2 has the channel system. Not quite. The first step to getting started in AE2 is to acquire Quartz. You can craft in 4 ways: normal click: like in the normal crafting table, you get one ‘unit’ to your cursor. I'm kinda surprised that most packs don't call that feature out. In RS, iirc, a disk stores as many items as it shows in its name. You get dozens of channels for $25 per month, but spending just $15 more gets you nearly 50 channels. As modded_weeb wrote, you can disable it in the config files (if you have access to the server). Everything else, including most blocks from AE2, transfer only 8 channels. . etc. aka the connection here to controller is exceeded by at least 1 channel (9 or 33 devices depending on cable) thelooter2204. RIGHTCLICK on the p2p with the same memory card. Nah, I have a ring with a zig zag of 6 tall spikes around it to do most of them. I highly suggest anyone concerned with AE2 play it and get an understanding of it before judging it off one part of a spotlight. The main thing to rember, P2P is single input, multiple output. However. I have cleared space around the entire assembler tower to make sure there are no other connections interfering with the channel. Then I start to automate ore processing and item creation. Surround the interface with 6 assemblers. Now your next recipe should be named item 1 + the next 8 components = named item 2. As all cables except dense cables only can. Channels. So instead you should be able to use dense cable for the main cabling, and put a smart (or regular) fluix cable right before each P2P node. I'm not sure what the problem is because the Dense cables that I'm using only list 2/8 channels used, nowhere. Basically what you'd want to do so that it only takes one channel on your main network, is: Remove the middle 'network' including the two P2P buses. And this is how ae2 work my friend . I imagine otherwise it could become clunky for large Molecular Assembler / Pattern Provider arrays to have to deal with yet more stored patterns. • 15 days ago. You set P2P tunnels by crafting the default ME Tunnels, and then right clicking them with an appropriate item. Controllers, dense, and smart cables are only useful in the context of showing channel details. So I am pretty sure the mod author has it set where there is a small delay between checking every connection so that it causes less strain. Here you can see we have 64 ME Drives, each need one channel. . If you have a factory floor with 30/32 channels allocated, you'll likely be very annoyed when some machine that should thematically placed on that factory floor puts you up to 33/32. The maximum size of the connected block ix 7x7x7 (343 blocks). However ME Dense Cable can support up to 32 channels, the only other devices capable of transmitting 32 are P2P Tunnel and the. Furious1964. Each p2p uses a channel. Also cable anchors disable a connection. It shows that it supports 32 channels. temporary_login • 2 yr. P2P points act as a 32 channel input to a single carrier channel. ; Fluid, set using a Water Bucket or any fluid bucket. cfg file in your installation folder and open it with notepad, there should be an option to disable channels entirely. This makes it the Input Tunnel. On a 3rd color, extract from that 5th inscriber to output back into the original ME Interface. P2P Tunnel. The Energy Acceptor accepts 16k/tic. With channels enabled, people use (often a lot of) ME Controllers, which come with a small power buffer. e. Im not quite sure about how energy cells work, where would the cell go?In your example, there would be 2 channels in use. You can run a single Dense Cable around your base and branch the P2P tunnels into/off of that. Then wire it a bit downwards/upwards and branch of one two smart cables for each side. P2P tunnels are a way of transporting things without making them an actual part of your network. Now you need to get named item 1 into the second inscriber which contains a different name plate press that’ll turn it into named item 2. You can read more about it her: Channels . 1. . With channels/controllers disabled you no longer have to worry about how many connections are on a line. Agreed. 1. In total: 22816 channels through P2P tunnels, but there are a few more that I forgot when I recorded the video. Different devices can be connected to the ME Network, such as an ME Drive, for the. There are 2. " Such networks are limited to only 8 Channels. Other than that, make sure that the entire network has power (as p2p tunnels don't transfer power over each other). We try to simplify complicated matter so that everyone can enjoy the mods being shown. I decided to go with the subnet design you talked about in your video, although I decided to put a crafting CPU on the subnet and use interfaces, instead of the level emitter/export bus approach. It is the new and overhauled version of the original Applied Energistics mod. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. . Get a network controller going. all sides of the controller are fully functional and plugged in to each other creating one massive controller with the ability to add more sections if i need more channels. . Networking and Channels: AE2 adds a whole new level of strategy to your Minecraft builds with its networking and channel system. The channel usage hasn't been maxed out, so I don't know why it's not showing them in the interface terminal (which keeps scrolling automatically. As I recently discovered when the kids and I fired up FTB Plexiglass Mountain (We've been playing FTB Rev for ~4 years), you can turn off all the channel guff in AE2! That would have saved me SO much complexity! Although it was pretty fun over the last few years having to plan out upgrades very carefully and get p2p tunnels to the right places. The only complaint I have are the much too complicated ways to craft things and get materials. I've come to the conclusion that people who complain about running out of channels are either not trying very hard, or haven't ever actually used AE2. AE2 channel and p2p question. thatsIch AE2 Dev • 9 yr. So 1 dense cable can serve 4 of those crafting towers. An ME Cable is used to inter connect ME Network devices. ago. Suppose you have 32 channels going into a P2P tunnel, you can pass those channels to another point on your network. If you have a dense cable on the quantum link Ring, which is on the main network side, you are going to have 32 channels and 8 if you use a smart/ fluix cable, respectively. This configuration seems to allow me to have as much as 9408 channels and i know that i don't really need this many, but it's fun to reach the limits sometimes. ago. Now a crafting network is completely different. I've seen other posts that say you can power via RF machines over your existing AE network using. Stick It in the Soil. AE2 storage is limited by the confines of the Java Runtime Environment, the computer you are running it on, and your. 180. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment 6210classick • Additional comment actions. Regular ME cables carry 8 channels, while their Dense counterpart can carry up to 32 channels. 7 of which are in use between the IO port and the SCS, and 8 in use between the controller and the IO Port. #2. An expandable and versatile advanced data storage system with a multitude of applications. Asking for a smaller version, more compact version, or more efficient version of something will also be considered invalid. There is a new configuration option in the general section (channels) that controls this, and a new in-game command for the operator to change modes and profiles from within the game. I haven't messed with AE2 in a while, so I'm a bit rusty. Neither. it might be just the distance so it doesnt get the channel from another device. Since you can place a cable on each side of the ME Controller, and each cable has 8 channels, that's a total of 48 channels. If you can find algorithmX's youtube video, he breaks down quickly and simply how to do this. One for all the export busses and one for all the import busses. 188 ME Controller blocks. The mod includes a network-based storage sy. More Topics Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing, and Literature Religion and Spirituality Science Tabletop. Jan 20, 2016. 7, just about everything you used to know about it is now different, and there's new mechanics that need addressing. Bear in mind that you are still limited by the maximum number of channels from AE2(32 by default). Reply. Those haven't ported to 1. That will give you 8 channels. This means you can output to as many points as you want, but only input at a single point per tunnel. Also 1 More question Lets say I put 3 controllers in a straight line Like - - - with - being a controller If i put a row of dense cables right in front of it and they attach are those cables only capable of 32 channels or 96 channels Like (, is Me controller ) (. AE2's devices are often modular, i. as long as it isn't full of exported materials it will add any added items into. Channels have made AE2 harder to use and a bit less convenient but it is more nuanced and interesting to technical minded people. For things like EnderIO or Thermal, for example, that. Personally, I go with efficiency, i. I added an "output" p2p tunnel and linked them using the memory card. With the channel mechanics that are currently in place, you can place a controller surrounded by 6 different color dense cables and then place 32 p2p connections on each cable, for a theoretical max of 6144 channels per controller, so why in the world would you ever need to have more than one controller. Device missing channel #3142. (5) some EnderIO basic conduit filters. Always-craft is the much simpler way, and is what you will be able to do first. RefinedStorage users I guess you fall into the channels off category. Today is going. Many people weren't able to have fun in the game when trying to fight with AE2 The hunt for all four inscriber plates is not a very fun mechanic. Both Interfaces and Molecular Assemblers transfer both power and up to 8 channels, like with most other AE2 blocks. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. fandom. Create a minimum of 12 p2p channel configs. In games like Factorio, getting resources is automated right away. There's 32 channel cables the bigger ones if you are interested. . 188 ME Controller blocks. For example if i built a 2x2 multi block of the controllers. Neither. I was going to do a poll, but this subreddit doesn't allow them. I rarely make more than 16 of each color dense cable. Still not enough channels? Well, there's a solution to that. There are 2 different overarching types of cables, “ME Cables” and “ME Dense Cables”. Note: this advice assumes you're using AE2 Stuff Advanced Inscribers and that you can I/O from all sides of the machine. With auto crafting accessible via a p2p connected to the yellow network. It's like the regular item storage turning matter into data, but these can turn a cubic region of the world into data. If you are really worried about wasting channels, you could use a subnet to handle the p2p tunnels . Hey Sky Factory 4 players, So you decided to play on our Sky Factory 4 server? That's Awesome! this post is to give you a quick start on the basic commands to get you started! A few things before you start: The server IP is: sf4. Edit: I should add, I understand the fun of using subnetworks for organizational purposes. Your one 1k Crafting Storage provides 1024 bytes, so you can ask your AE System with its puny 1k Crafting CPU to run this craft 170x, but it'll flat out refuse to do it 171x. In games like Factorio, getting resources is automated right away. So after some tinkering and testing I came to something you could call a solution: Pros: You can use importer/export. The drives will act a bit weird until you get all the tunnels configured with your memory card. To carry out 32 channels use a dense cable (any color, different colors don't connect) and then you could use a dense cable to connect your p2p on other dense cables coming off the controllers. Otherwise it will split the channels. The next lesson we need to learn about is efficiency. Turn off channels in config. 2 channels dedicated to to 5 crafting CPU’s (4 small, 1 large) with the rest on interfaces surrounded by assemblers. Put a silicone press into this inscriber, the logic press into the other side's middle inscriber and the remaining presses into left and right. Apr 7, 2015. 1 AE2 Channel Surfing for Newbies (A Reference Guide for the Rest Of Us!) 1. Now when we know the basics of how things works, we can expand it with a dense cable to get m. Jun 26, 2016. hey all, i have 2 questions about AE2 and its channeling and p2p. The problem is as of now you can get 2304 channels in a 3x3 with all the centers punched out so it’s hard to beat that. Making other mechanics more relevant again. Each block has a placed or gap state, so 2 ^ 343 = 1. But a 3x3x3 controller has like several hundreds of channels, so I think you don't need to be too worried. This breaks the recipe scripts as it disable blocks as well. No idea what you're attempting but from the explanation I don't think it's possible. More Topics. Main network on that one p2p system: 56 channels / 32 max Subnetwork: 8/8 channels. So with just my auto crafters I'm using 240 channels! The P2P Tunnel for ME, for instance, passes through channels. Second is to simply fill a tank and use a fluid storage bus to show it to the network. Interior: 135 Tunnels giving 4320 channels, 5 sides on the outside are required to extract these tunnels. Join. AE2 is more complicated, even if you ignore Channels, but far smoother, is constantly developing, and some people just want to work with the complexity. Since all the tunnels connect directly to the controller and are equal to a length 1 hop, the channels will never route sideways through the machines. The level emitter have always worked this way. I have use Skyfactory 2 as the example. Its closest competition, Refined Storage, is more of a tool; it provides a very similar set of abilities, but lacks any significant challenges of its own. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. AE2 has a 'spatial storage' component. Though you shouldn’t need too many duplicate machines. I've been trying to make a larger AE2 system and I find in a lot of the AE2 videos people end up talking about stuff I don't need to know right now. #1. No, it disables all cables except the default ones. The key to large networks in AE2 is using P2P tunnels hooked up to dense cables on controllers. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. The only time you'll have to burn though channels then is for AE2's crippled autocrafting (which I still find to be annoying as all hell). As already mentioned above, most AE2 devices need a channel to work. r/feedthebeast. It's like if Thaumcraft had an option to completely remove research from the game, or Blood Magic an option to make it so you can't actually be killed by any of. 3 Controlling the Network . AE2 is more complicated, but more versatile, and less laggy. 32 channels in and 32 channels out, and it only takes 2 sub-net channels so this can be a simple Ad-Hoc network. In one instance, I set up a production line, started adding the little bits of AE I needed and ran out of channels on that line and had move most of it over to a separate line. Get a crafting terminal (this is a world changer here). There was a 45 minute video to explain channels, if you could watch the whole thing. Minecraft Version: 1. TIL how awesome P2P networks are in Applied Energistics. Controllers can have maximum of 2 adjacent blocks in at most 1 axis (the cannot have a plus sign rule). Applied Energistics 2's ME Networks require Channels to support devices which use networked storage, or other network services. MODPACK RELEASE: Autumnful. shadowfactsdev. Without a controller, an ME network can handle only up to 8 channels, with a controller it can handle more (well, 32 per side of the controller, as usual). I have a question regarding AE2. Every part in AE2 has an internal energy buffer, but it's small. • 2 yr. The best way to get your head round it all (I found) is to have a length of dense cable from the ME Controller then 4 other cables as off shoots - each normal cable will take 8 channels from the dense cable, meaning you use all channels available. Of course, it is limited by the number of channels a cable attached to it can carry. You Shift-right click on a P2P tunnel with the memory card to save its setting to the card. Storage, 1-32 depending on how much you want to store. Place 5 additional interfaces on the assemblers on the top and each of the 4 cardinal directions. AE2 Tutorials (2023) MC 1. You need a AE controller to have more than eight channels on a network, and the "normal" (fluix, smart, ect) can only carry eight channels, so you need dense cable to have access to those extra channels. This type of network is known as an "ad-hoc" network. Like having to search for meteorites to get the pattern thingies. . I have to document using signs atm, but is there a tool or something I am missing that I can see how many channels are being unbundled at the parent p2p interface? You could just slap on a dense cable at the working end of the p2p channel. ago. The Pink Dense Cable is giving Channels to the P2P tunnels - NOT THE ME DRIVES -. A dense cable with 32 channels going into a P2P only takes one channel to transmit to the other end. Each face can provide up to 32 channels when connected with an ME Dense Covered Cable. Since AE2 only directly handles the 5% "tax" then each one of those would theoretically increase your transfer speed of FE P2P Tunnels by 16,000,000 RF/t. It is the heart of ME Networks and is used to provide more channels to the network. Then wire it a bit downwards/upwards and branch of one two smart cables for each side. 99 for more than 50. It is easiest to break your in half so that they can't try to pass all 16 channels out one end. level 1 VT-14 · 3y Request Based Autocrafting (in mass). The ME Dense Cable is the only cable that can support 32 channel simultaneously so it can be used as a main data line to connect to another ME Controller or branch off into 8 channel distribution lines via ME Glass Cable, ME. Power will flow but not data, so those 8 devices will not use channels on your main network. Interfaces consume 1 channel, while Assemblers just need power. That basically broke everything. Exterior: 578 Tunnels giving 18496 channels. View attachment 14508. The command is /ae2 channelmode <mode> to. P2P connections are not unique. Doesn't mean it's bad, it just seems. The usual advice I see for autocrafting those byproducts is to make a processing pattern with way more input items than you would need to make one output item. I have an Empowerer from Actually Additions 2, but it seems to be fighting for bandwidth with my Molecular Assemblers. P2P does not increase the amount of channels you have. While the new channels add a lot of nuance in AE2 that wasn't in it's predecessor you now have to really plan out your setup well for it to not. Devices connected to the same network can communicate and interact with each other, and the channel system limits the number of devices that can be connected to a single cable, adding a layer of planning and. Yes, jus to go the . I. But in Minecraft you need to. Interface as an input, one Storage Bus to your main network, and one Storage Bus to your processing line. I grew up with AE2, so naturally I enjoy that more. tterrag1098 • EnderIO/Chisel Dev • 9 yr. e. leytilera opened this issue Feb 18, 2016 · 10 comments. (The more you have of them, the more of a mess it becomes keeping track of what connects to what. My Very First Quartz. 10, Forge 10. While leaving channels off let's you focus on whatever you're automating, you miss out on having to plan out your network and utilize P2P and the various cables provided in the mod. Next - for bonus points, a p2p tunnel spans a network over another network. Your "main network" just needs 1 channel for an interface as an input/output for all other networks and another channel for a storage bus attached to a storage network like a SSD, but there are better designs in my opinion. fscan closed this as completed Oct 8, 2017. If i connected 1 cable to one controller would that support 32 channels or does a cable need to be connected to each individual controller each representing a different channel. [deleted] • 4 yr. If it runs out between ticks you can get network resets. With subnetworks you can automate nearly anything that can be automated. All the stuff along the outside could be improved and you could easily add a couple of hundred by not having everything feed back into the controller as I did. That showed 1 channel in use. Your "main network" just needs 1 channel for an interface as an input/output for all other networks and another channel for a storage bus attached to a storage network like a SSD, but there are better designs in my opinion. . The Controller has the ability to transmit data throughout the ME Network using 32 channels per side. #3142. I'm unsure how the controllers function. ago. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. To avoid channel bleed, consider painting the adjacent cables coming directly from your Controller. If I move the devices in closer by as little as a single block, I can get a channel. It's called Dense Cable. You would be able to get 63 different recipes in, but only 9 per machine. OP already did that but was asking about the scripts that were bugging out. An example: Let's say you have your main bulding A and a factory B that is 50 blocks away from that. Key things to remember about channels: Each side of a controller block can support 32 channels. I connected the Red network and the Purple networks together like this: Cable (Red Network) > Storage Bus > Interface > Cable (Purple Network) and if I had one of the import buses on one of the machines import an item, it would be able to access the drive in the Red network and vice versa.