Applied Energistics 2¶

Welcome to Applied Energistics 2 and my attempt at a guide that’s simple enough for anyone to understand.

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Capabilities of AE2¶

AE2 probably one of the most well-known mods out there, and the best (completely unbiased) mod out there.

Logistic¶

With AE2 you can move so many different things around and in probably the best performing way any mod does. Using your ME System you can move any item anywhere at any point at near instant speeds.

Storage¶

The Matter Energy System can be used to store many different things, ranging from items and fluids to mana and energy. You can store billions of items without much effort, search for them and use all those items to craft even more.

Autocrafting¶

Using all the stored items from your system, you can autocraft both using AE2’s Molecular Assemblers or machines from other mods. You can make ginormous crafts, using millions of items and dozens of machines and AE2 will take all this effort from you with a single click.

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Limitations of AE2¶

I know many people out there prefer Refined Storage because of its simpler approach to a lot of things, so I want to use this opportunity to address some of the seemingly nonsensical limitations right away.

Channels¶

Probably the biggest complaint right at the beginning: Channels. Channels aren’t as much of a problem as so many people make it seem.

You can easily get thousands of Channels, and when using P2P, moving all those Channels isn’t much of an issue as well.

For more info on channels, check Channels.

Type Limit¶

The so despaired Type Limit the ME Storage Cells have, once again exists for a very simple reason: Protecting you from yourself.

NBT Items or items with unique data on them, cannot be stacked unlike regular items and therefore take up quite a bit of memory. If you have too much memory in a single chunk, your game will crash, and you will be locked out of your world.

AE2 directly discourages you from having too many NBT Items inside your ME System by making them fill your storage incredibly quickly. Other Mods like Refined Storage do not have this limitation and therefore will very quickly run into issues.

There are also some Applied Energistics Addons that promise to either remove or increase the type limit. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TRUST THEM! Some of the mods that remove the Type limit have some ways to prolong the effects of NBT Overflow, but especially the ones that just increase the limit often have absolutely no protection!.

For more info on Types, check Storage.

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