Not to lag. For a start, a simple 1k Crafting Storage should be enough. 8 in normal cables. I relearned a lot but I still don't totally get it and I don't really like the channel mechanic. place ME cable connected to the acceptor and then connect the charger, make sure the charges base or top are connected to the cable, else it won't work. ago. This mod adds an insane. Without it, only up to 8 devices can interact, any more and everything stops working. Channels are not as complex as you make it sound like. The next lesson we need to learn about is efficiency. 1. You can use ender tanks and put the fluid storage bus interfaces all together on a single P2P channel. g. If you are looking for buckets, you can use a modification of either of these methods. 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. Most devices such as standard cables, and machines can only support up to 8 channels. Interior: 135 Tunnels giving 4320 channels, 5 sides on the outside are required to extract these tunnels. The only catch is that you have to run a separate p2p tunnel to access the auto crafting capabilities. You can get power to the subnet by bringing a quartz fiber off the side of the storage bus and interface and connecting those with fluix cable. Add a hopper to the side of the new inscriber and looking at the back f the old inscribers, place the fifth inscriber. AE2 hands out challenges constantly, from the ever present channel system to figuring out how to automate the in-world (water) crafting using the tools provided. The most common mistake with a no-channel ME Network is to not add any AE2 Energy Cells. Jan 20, 2016. Makes ae2 so much more interesting. Welcome to the Applied Energistics Mod!This mod is all about digital storage and is much more complicated to it's counter part Refined Storage. With over 800 million mods downloaded every month and over 11 million active monthly users, we are a growing community of avid gamers, always on the hunt for the next thing in user-generated content. 0. I thought i made sure that that I got a full 32 channels for 4 sets of 8 providers. I. Place assemblers on every exposed interface face. You could use smart cables instead of the regulars if you wanna see your channel usage. With subnetworks you can automate nearly anything that can be automated. Then hooked up an import and export bus for the subnetwork out of the same chest each set to filter the incoming product (for the sub's import bus) and. To have a working network in Applied Energistics 2, you’ll have to understand how channels work. If a device successfully connects to a channel, you usually see it changing color to the cable's color, and Waila shows "Device Online". If multiple cables or devices are put together, the system just reroutes the signal path. Get a crafting terminal (this is a world changer here). BUT I fear I might be out of channels one day, once I have so many ME Storage Buses. thatsIch AE2 Dev • 9 yr. You could easily have 9 things on a non-dense cable line, or have a long string of blocks eating channels out of an adjacent dense cable. /ae2 channelmode Options are "default" (8 normal, 32 Dense), "x2" (16, 64), "x3" (24, 96) , and "x4" (32, 128) to significantly. Again, turn it 90 °. What any P2P tunnel does is connect 1 input to any number of outputs for a specific resource. The last bit is power. The conventional way to send "a bunch of channels" from A to B is to use a p2p tunnel. There can only be 1 broadcaster per channel network, however you can have as many receivers as you want. In games like Factorio, getting resources is automated right away. It's effectively Dense Cable at the 1/4th cost of normal cable, but with more expensive endpoints. I have an Empowerer from Actually Additions 2, but it seems to be fighting for bandwidth with my Molecular Assemblers. . It's not 32 * 32 because each P2P tunnel. By the end of E2:E I had 5 full channels full. Making oak planks is 1 oak log, crafted 1 time, results in 4 planks, so that's 6 bytes. 12. 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. Even if you have enough overall power to cover everything, you might not have enough tick-to-tick surge. The other way round may be harder. And I'm totally in love with the channel system. With channels enabled, people use (often a lot of) ME Controllers, which come with a small power buffer. • 1. On a more meta note, this has been talked to death on this sub. When I connect a dense cable to the center of one face of the cube, the connection shrinks to a smart cable size/display scheme and shows only 8/32 channels used. Then wire it a bit downwards/upwards and branch of one two smart cables for each side. Channels in AE2 - need help. There may be more. Now its working to the maximum potential it has. In short, to use ID, all you need to do is use a world block exporter, with a logic card set to filter the block placed to be the one you want the flower converting, and a world block importer with the logic card set as a filter to import only the transformed product. ago. The ME Controller is the routing hub of a ME Network. For things like EnderIO or Thermal, for example, that. However. you are also advised to use storage drawers with ae2. 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. With over 800 million mods downloaded every month and over 11 million active monthly users, we are a growing community of avid gamers, always on the hunt for the next thing in user-generated content. I'd like to see the setup where you have 1024 channels in use in a situation where you couldn't run another cable. It works to get more channels with the cable on an indoor antenna too. AE2 disks can only store 63 types of items. Device missing channel #3142. 1. Dense, P2P and Quantum Ring all support 32 channels. Storing 64 item types would take up half your storage, and reaching 128 would be "a. e. 1. So within rule 2, there are 6 corner blocks (max 3 connections), 60. If it is already possible with vanilla and AE2 itself, the suggestion will be considered invalid. ago. In between the input and output tunnels, you can use standard glass cables, as the tunnels themselves only use one channel. AE2 is definitely more powerful than Refined Storage except for fluid handling. You need to path the dense close to your target and then branch off a normal cable. The subnet interfaces fine with my main network (i. json" in the folder "config/ae2". You are out of channels. Welcome to the Applied Energistics Mod! This mod is all about digital storage and is much more complicated to it's counter part Refined Storage. In total: 22816 channels through P2P tunnels, but there are a few more that I forgot when I recorded the video. You need to put a bit of quartz fibre on the controller and then attach the glass fibre to that. Other than that, make sure that the entire network has power (as p2p tunnels don't transfer power over each other). The point of P2P isn't to get more channels, simply to get more channels through a smaller cable. ago. The item type cap is 61 *per drive*, so once you get 3-4 drives you're pretty much set. ago. Each solid block is capable of passing up to 8 channels through it. The quantum network bridges are connected via dense cable directly to my me controllers in the overworld so they're not hooked up. 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. So, there are two types of autocrafting: Craft-on-demand, and always-craft. Only the interfaces need a channel. A controller can power 32 devices from one face, but a normal ME cable only has space in it to carry 8. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. There are 5 types: Redstone signal, set using a Redstone. Leaves no channels for the p2ps on the other side. 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. The 6th Terminal doesnt get powered (or it steals the power from a Terminal further away which then goes offline). Key things to remember about channels: Each side of a controller block can support 32 channels. I'm using the ME Dense Cable. Furious1964. Take four covered cables, combine with redstone and glowstone, and you get a. The Terminals, Crafting CPUs, and ME Interfaces all have to be on the same network. Surround the interface with 6 assemblers. You can read more about it her: Channels . *SEE OUR NEW AE2 TUTORIAL SERIES FOR MC V1. So you can have as many inserters (conduits) and belts and whatever items that you need to automate your factory. 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. Even though it might look complicated at first it really isn't, like at all, and is such a cool mechanic to play. It's like the regular item storage turning matter into data, but these can turn a cubic region of the world into data. the single export bus feeding my dynamos I didn't bother. AE2 seems to have way more addons to allow stuff like Botania Mana transfer and other mod compatibilities. Very basic setup, but it should give you the idea. Pictures aren't the best but I've tried to emulate a data centre, cables are all under the floor connected using subnets, there's a section of. But honestly, i wouldn't reccomend doing it. P2P connections are not unique. #9. My Very First Quartz. Devices from AE2 take up channels; so an interface takes a channel, a terminal takes a channel, a drive takes a channel (note that a drive can hold a number of storage cells, and always takes 1 channel). There are 16 coloured Smart Cables available to. That basically broke everything. 2. Without autocrafting there is absolutly no need for a controller. If it's more than 8 use Dense Cables if it's less just use Normal Cables (smart cables are only needed to identify channel usage) also if you have AE2 stuff you could just use the. Applied Energistics 2's ME Networks require Channels to support devices which use networked storage, or other network services. • 2 yr. It does not break your cables. 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. And since RS is simpler than AE2 it is not hard for me to wrap my head around it. . Every block you are connecting to the ring in the distance is going to take up a channel of your main network. The P2P tunnel block itself needs 1 Channel. but autocrafting is unavailable for more than 8. For more info check out the AE2 guide. You can get definitely get more than 32 channels as each face of the controller block makes 32 channels available (when using dense ME cable). The data channels connect to a network-related block. The file you are looking for is "common. I already have dense cables running through my entire system, so that's not going to be a problem. TY. Storage, 1-32 depending on how much you want to store. Additional channels can be added to network via placing additional controllers adjacent to current controller (with a few structure rules) Dense lines from each side must be completely independent of another, or else the network interferes. I have a question regarding AE2. Then you'll need a way to take the items out of the inscribers, either a import bus on each, or a different method and put it into a chest with a single import bus to save channels. com AE2 10. Just for funz, you could set the distance to 0 and see its result. The ME Export Bus will try to export any of the items. ME Controllers output 32 channels per side. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. Now your next recipe should be named item 1 + the next 8 components = named item 2. Agreed. I've added The One Probe to see if it was a HWYLA issue, but that isn't showing me channels either (though it does let me see the energy in my EnderIO capacitor banks). Master_Builder_800, GreekAnalyzer, adamich and 1 other person. Interfaces consume 1 channel, while Assemblers just need power. I was going to do a poll, but this subreddit doesn't allow them. That way you could run 8 dense cables (256 channels) on a single regular ME cable. I know AE2 is definitely more balanced and has more depth than refinedstorage, but AE2 has some things I dislike even outside of the channel system. The 5 sides can carry 160 channels, and since 135 are for. Just my two cents, but should the larger pattern providers with more rows be an option in future I suggest there be the catch that they only support processing patterns when going beyond 9 slots. Watch us on Twitch: for a practical guide on AE2 P2P tunnels and networks? Look no further! ** Need a server? Get 20% off Fo. Place an interface. Just my two cents, but should the larger pattern providers with more rows be an option in future I suggest there be the catch that they only support processing patterns when going beyond 9 slots. #3142. Add a Comment. Next - for bonus points, a p2p tunnel spans a network over another network. If it runs out between ticks you can get network resets. github-actions bot locked as resolved and limited conversation to collaborators Mar 28, 2020. Networking and Channels: AE2 adds a whole new level of strategy to your Minecraft builds with its networking and channel system. 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 p2p devices need their own channels. Suppose you have 32 channels going into a P2P tunnel, you can pass those channels to another point on your network. If you have smart, covered, or normal ME cables attached to dense cables, the dense cables still can carry the same 32 channels but the other cables can only continue up to 8 of those channels of the 32 in that line. It shows that it supports 32 channels. My controller outputs 32 channels from one side directly into a p2p bus. An easy (ish) way to debug P2P networks is to put a dense cable on a controller and put your p2p tunnel on the dense cable, so that way you can tell how many channels the p2p tunnel is pulling in. Then wire it a bit downwards/upwards and branch of one two smart cables for each side. 3 Controlling the Network . . manually mine. For the easiest way to automate inscribers, you need: (1) One ME interface. Any help would be greatly appreciated. so the further the next meteor is, the higher spawn chance you have. I usually end up partitioning disks as well to hold specific large quantity items. Each building or area gets its own P2P tunnel. Im Using P2P Channels to get more Channels out and build a Sub-network out of my regular Channels - Like all Smelteries are one Sub-Network, the Drives are its own Sub-Network etc. • 15 days ago. So you typically can dispense with the glass fiber power connections on one of the sides. 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. Welcome to the Applied Energistics Mod!This mod is all about digital storage and is much more complicated to it's counter part Refined Storage. The version of AE2 is:AE2 Channel Surfing for Newbies (A Reference Guide for the Rest Of Us!) By request, I've taken it upon myself to tackle this tricky subject: how to manage your channels for an AE2 ME Network. Join. If you need more specific help, giving a bit more specific. Start with this. Think of these as data lines. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. rhn18 • Obsessive Builder • 1 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. I can access all the main storage from the subnet, the main network can access everything inside. The ME Controller is a block added by Applied Energistics 2. . If I move the devices in closer by as little as a single block, I can get a channel. The second most commonly used type would be the FE P2P Tunnel, which transfers Forge Energy (the most common energy system; same as RF, µI, CF, IF, and possibly others). But honestly, i wouldn't reccomend doing it. AE2 tends to be much more server friendly though as it ramps up processing speed rather than have it at max all the time. That showed 1 channel in use. 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. maybe check the cable to the controller. NotYourReddit18 • 1 yr. An example: Let's say you have your main bulding A and a factory B that is 50 blocks away from that. g. There's a new configuration option in the general section (channels) which controls this option, and a new in-game comman for operators to change the mode and the config from inside the game. fscan closed this as completed Oct 8, 2017. Note that you can send P2P channels through quantum bridges (but not other P2P tunnels), so if you're careful about P2P'ing everything in the most efficient way possible, you in effect get 32*32 = 1024 channels through a single bridge. My solution was adding a chest to the subnetwork and attaching the interface to that, and an import bus set to only accept the finished products to pull out of the chest back into main network. Most modpacks with AE2 also have Integrated Dynamics with the Tunnels addon. Most AE2 user interfaces will also offer a help button to open the most relevant guide page. The more devices an AE network has, the more power it requires. 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. AE2 itself adds Certus Quartz Crystal, and makes use of vanilla's Nether Quartz as well. This means you can output to as many points as you want, but only input at a single point per tunnel. [deleted] • 4 yr. Refined Storage is easier to set up as a storage system and can autocraft everything that goes into a crafting table past that, AE2 is pretty much the winner. You get dozens of channels for $25 per month, but spending just $15 more gets you nearly 50 channels. • 11 days ago. AE2 channels appear to be affected by distance. They are usually very limited in scope and rarely directly accessed by the player (mostly for automation). Main network on that one p2p system: 56 channels / 32 max Subnetwork: 8/8 channels. 1. r/feedthebeast. CREDAAAAAAAOOOO. Now that they are all loaded. You can also use p2p tunnels for getting extra. More Topics. the one facing out needs to be connected directly to the controller with a cable. I think I read that the no-channel-usage list was expanded in 1. you can feed power into your network via an energy acceptor or using quartz cable (not fluix). 10, Forge 10. You can theoretically expand a near infinite amount of channels on 1 cable, using P2P extensions. . Energy, Fluid, and Item pipes often use Capabilities built into Forge to transmit these things, and thus connect perfectly fine. Also, interesting thing to note about most AE2 devices (such as ME drives): they can transfer power and channels to adjacent AE2 devices without needing cables for that, so all but about 3 of the cables you put in the back are redundant. 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. N. You can also jump into P2P tunnels if you need to multiply the number of channels you want to send across the quantum bridges. Dalarrus • 4 yr. Okay here we go again, I hope this explains it a little bit better. The complexity of AE2 was prohibitive for many people. It is easiest to break your in half so that they can't try to pass all 16 channels out one end. Most devices such as standard cables, and machines can only support up to 8 channels. Put a chest on the place the new hopper is pointing to. Channels aren't a difficult concept to understand if you actually take the time to learn how they work and I think they're pretty fundamental to the way AE2 is designed and balanced. . Just disable the channels. For most people, the power buffer provided by their Controllers is enough for everything they want to do. Then it showed 2 channels. 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. You can't do much in AE without them. If you can find algorithmX's youtube video, he breaks down quickly and simply how to do this. This allows AE2 to accept several different forms of power without introducing an extremely abusable Open Power Conversion. E. If you wanted to craft more, you'd need to add more Crafting Storages to your CPU. So 1 dense cable can serve 4 of those crafting towers. Both Interfaces and Molecular Assemblers transfer both power and up to 8 channels, like with most other AE2 blocks. RefinedStorage users I guess you fall into the channels off category. 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). 10, you should be able to use RF P2P Tunnels. I don't think there's a way in the current version, though I haven't personally tried. And this is how ae2 work my friend . The new micro-parts allow for incredible compact builds. The point of P2P isn't to get more channels, simply to get more channels through a smaller cable. ago. Hey everyone, I'd be really fascinated to see what people have built for their AE2 setups, especially epic auto crafting. 0 for Minecraft 1. Compact Machine Tunnels (the connection from inside walls to the outside faces) will replicate any Forge Capabilities (a code thing used in many mods) between the blocks next to the tunnel and outside face. 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,. Exactly. Side note: this is being done in the mining dimension since server restrictions keep me from doing all this in my main stoneblock base. You can use storage busses. The main thing to rember, P2P is single input, multiple output. Controllers can have maximum of 2 adjacent blocks in at most 1 axis (the cannot have a plus sign rule). But even a second dense cable placed on a bottom corner only picks up 2 more channels instead of the other 6. So you have to remove 3 of the drive arrays to properly max out the main network. There have been massive overhauls and changes to Applied Energistics when it updated for 1. net The server is not on prestige mode Certain aspects. I assume p2p tunnels can't be used to go from 1 flux duct to many. P2P does not increase the amount of channels you have. For every 32 drives, you'll need one P2P tunnel on the controller. So it looks like each P2P node is taking up a channel. ago. Two biggest differences are the way items are stored, and the fact that AE2 has channels (Not too much of a limit, tbh). as long as it isn't full of exported materials it will add any added items into. 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. com wrote: Maybe we should call it infinite channels — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub #1369 (comment). The command is /ae2 channelmode <mode> to. So a cuboid crafting tower with 8 providers and 8 to 48 assemblers will use all the channels on one cable. So at each p2p point you can imagine that it is directly connected to the controller. OP already did that but was asking about the scripts that were bugging out. There's 32 channel cables the bigger ones if you are interested. Put an anchor on the bridge at the bank end and add a dense cable to the top of the controller. for ae2 stuff their network tool shows power levels. That will give you 8 channels. I want to say this is correct from my experience. 18+: There's a command for it now. fscan marked this as a duplicate of #3134 Oct 8, 2017. I'm unsure how the controllers function. 3. Unlike most ME Network devices, the ME Controller does not require channels, rather it emits them 8 or 32 per side, depending how many channels the. (Or maybe also if. Im not quite sure about how energy cells work, where would the cell go?In your example, there would be 2 channels in use. The CPU must contain at least 1 storage component. ago. yep it requires more channels since each interface uses one. ctrl + click: crafts one ‘unit’ and places it into your inventory. P2P Tunnel. The other advantage of a Controller is the number of channels it can provide. e. 7 of which are in use between the IO port and the SCS, and 8 in use between the controller and the IO Port. 1 prudentium with 4 inferium and 1 master infusion crystal). In Minecraft version 1. For some reason when multiple channels are in use in an AE system, the entire area to which your system is housed lags uncontrollably to the point it took me 10 minuets to get through a door. 4. 6 P2P MLG Pro . Even though it might look complicated at first it really isn't, like at all, and is such a cool mechanic to play. I've got a couple floors of crafting CPU's and molecular assemblers that I'm trying to hook up, but I can't seem to run more than 4 p2p tunnels over a cable, with 8 p2p tunnel devices. Use quartz fiber to connect power only to separate AE2 network. I will say that AE2 has some cool and creative mechanics, like having to grow crystals that are "purified" with sand and water and. Channels just make the mod not brain dead easy or overpowered, and once you think about it it’s not really something hard to overcome. Go to topic listing. AE2 autcrafting is a life saver!! I recently migrated my small controller to my twin 7x7 skeleton controllers (the second controller is for managing the p2p channels) and hooked up 80 more interfaces with 40 molecular assemblers to my pre existing 60 with 30, literal walls of crafters. It can only perform one task at a time, the Co-Processing unit gives it the ability to process one additional unit per unit simultaneously. More Topics. Keep in mind that a single controller can handle 192 channels, 32 per side, most players use large controllers for looks/laziness when planning their ae networks. #1. . Transparent block. Formatting was added by TheSatanicSanta. mc-complex. The new mechanics (and especially the use of multiparts) in AE2 are awesome. Slap another ME Storage bus on top tier assembler to. anabsolutesloth • 3 yr. 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. You’d need to store energy in an actual battery that can output power to either your ae2 network or machinery. This is mainly because, like many modded players, I use this mod. Every block you are connecting to the ring in the distance is going to take up a channel of your main network. just got this glitch myself i run a 3 man server and the first one to connect can see channels fine after there are 2 or more players online it start acting up and eventually only showing the channels to one player. Last time I used AE2 I had my main network tunneling through itself, I don't see a problem with that. What I don't understand is when I try running a dense cable for my p2p tunnels, I still hit that 8 p2p tunnel devices limit. Good guide, but still don't get how to use P2P tunnels, in practice. ME Drives are a device in Applied Energistics 2 which allow users to store up to 10 ME Storage Cells as opposed to a single cell that can be placed in a ME Chest . Place 5 additional interfaces on the assemblers on the top and each of the 4 cardinal directions. Every part in AE2 has an internal energy buffer, but it's small. Or use other mods to insert into any ME Interface. 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. Crafting CPU. So, it would go 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512 unique items per cell. Yes, jus to go the . An ME Cable is used to inter connect ME Network devices. The drives will act a bit weird until you get all the tunnels configured with your memory card. Other than that though, nothing that I know of. My Very First Quartz. Take your memory card and SHIFT + RIGHTCLICK on the p2p and a message should pop up saying "new configuration created".