AE storage and MFR Deep Storage Unit

  • The FTB Forum is now read-only, and is here as an archive. To participate in our community discussions, please join our Discord! https://ftb.team/discord
P

PierceSG

New Member
Jul 29, 2019
2,047
0
0
Is it worthwhile to craft the DSUs in conjunction with AE's storage system for those items you keep a shit ton of? (Just because you can and not because you need to. :p) And if you do use DSU, how would you link them? Import and export bus on each and everyone of them, using AE's system to sort them out? Or only export bus on it for getting the item and having some other sorting system place them into the DSUs?
 
Using DSU's on common materials, such as cobble and dirt is usually worthwhile (far superior to lines of chests, and saves disk space). I personally use it on mob grinders and the such, as it is a better alternative to chests in my opinion. And as Crownz said, you can use a Storage BUS to access the contents via AE.
 
PierceSG said:
So a Storage Bus can both extract and insert items into the DSUs? Nice. :)
Click to expand...
Yep. A storage bus can integrate storage into the AE system, the controller treats it like an ME chest. They work on normal chests too, but that's only marginally useful.

Before you hook up the DSUs, make sure you don't have any what's going in them in the AE system, as usual AE will keep putting materials where they already exist
 
If you stick a storage bus on an inventory -- and this could be a machine like a Furnace too, any valid inventory -- the contents of that inventory will be treated as part of the network and if that is the highest priority location (of course your disks will be higher priority) they'll go there first. You may need to export all of the contents that are already on your disks into the DSU to clear them first.
 
if you have a ton of cobble (for example) in the your drives then using an export bus before you connect the storage bus will transfer all the disk stored cobble to the DSU
 
My first line of "processing" from my quarry tesseract is a series of diamond pipes and a bunch of DSUs. Anything that doesn't have a filter on one of the diamond pipe/DSU connections ends up in a chest with a basic import bus on it. Simple, and easy to expand.

Oh, and if you have an ME storage disk with a bunch of (example) cobble on it, pull that out of your ME system. Attach your DSU and prime it with a stack of cobble. Then pop your storage disk in an I/O port and tell it to export into your ME system. This will unload the cobble from the disk into the dsu.
 
If I have no cobble stone on any disks will the cobble stone that go into the system then automaticly go into the DSU or will they start a new place on a disk?
 
Wekmor said:
If I have no cobble stone on any disks will the cobble stone that go into the system then automaticly go into the DSU or will they start a new place on a disk?
Click to expand...
It will go into the DSU if you put a bit of cobble in it first. If you don't put cobble in the DSU first to "prime" it, the cobble will go to a disk
 
  • Like
Reactions: AlanEsh
You might want to use an export bus on the DSU first to empty the system of whatever item you're storing because the drives won't auto-eject into the DSU. All new items will be stored there. Last I checked at least.

Wekmor said:
--snip--
Click to expand...

Why is the conveyor belt in your signature going the wrong way?
 
  • Like
Reactions: PeggleFrank
Seraph089 said:
It will go into the DSU if you put a bit of cobble in it first. If you don't put cobble in the DSU first to "prime" it, the cobble will go to a disk
Click to expand...


The way I understand it, AE will treat any storage unit that already has some of that item as the highest priority. Once that storage space is filled, it will then roll over to the highest configured priority. This is how you can auto-void/recycle items when the current space gets filled.
 
netmc said:
The way I understand it, AE will treat any storage unit that already has some of that item as the highest priority. Once that storage space is filled, it will then roll over to the highest configured priority. This is how you can auto-void/recycle items when the current space gets filled.
Click to expand...
This is true. The difference with the DSU (and barrels) is that at least one item needs to be put in manually (to set storage auto-priority) before anything else will go in. As far as I have tested, AE will never put anything into an empty DSU or Barrel that's connected to a storage bus, at least until all other storage is filled
 
I see, great. So that would also mean I do not have to build any storage disk for the AE system at all?
 
PierceSG said:
I see, great. So that would also mean I do not have to build any storage disk for the AE system at all?
Click to expand...

Technically, yes. You would never have to build a storage disk for the AE system when using the storage buses. It just kind of defeats the purpose of an AE system and you might as well use logistics pipes.
 
PierceSG said:
I see, great. So that would also mean I do not have to build any storage disk for the AE system at all?
Click to expand...
Running with only storage buses is a horribly inefficient use of AE, if you were doing that you'd be better off with logistics pipes and/or routers. Most of your storage with AE should be disks, storage buses on DSUs/barrels are only good for things that you bring in massive amounts of (cobble, dirt, etc.) if you don't want to just void them.
 
Democretes said:
Technically, yes. You would never have to build a storage disk for the AE system when using the storage buses. It just kind of defeats the purpose of an AE system and you might as well use logistics pipes.
Click to expand...

Well, the point is I could still setup a rudimentary AE system before I get enough of those GD Certus Quartz for those GD disks. T-T)
 
PierceSG said:
Well, the point is I could still setup a rudimentary AE system before I get enough of those GD Certus Quartz for those GD disks. T-T)
Click to expand...

Start off with Several 4k storage disk and one or 2 8k or 16k storage disks. Not that much certus quartz, but it will be able to store all your items for you as most of the time, the amount of items you have hardly exceeds 8,000, people just have many different items. If you have barrels or DSUs with the major storage in them, you can save up your quartz for later. Even adding a diamond chest with a storage bus will greatly help remove the different types of items you have that generally fills up people disk drives.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom