AE Molecular Assembler Chamber
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Okay, I have a question about sizes, can you do like a 3-D "L" shape? I have a base and I want to wrap the MAC around my staircase to the level, if not I will just make 2 MACs and call it good.
I understand the "well I have 10k iron why not" approach, but I really don't see the point in >5 CPU's. This will craft a couple stacks of anything in no time. Not to mention the biggest bottleneck, is almost always your processing (furnaces, assembly machines, plate benders, grinders w/e). What's the point in having 10 CPU's idle while they wait for refined iron to be cooked up (just an example).
In terms of cubes, 4x4x4 (exterior dimensions) is slightly too small, 6x6x6 is too big, and 5x5x5 is plenty big enough. With 5x5x5, you get 3x3x3 interior, which is enough for 27 pattern providers + CPUs, which should be plenty, ex: 12 patterns + 15 CPUs or 10 patterns, 17 CPUs, etc.,. You can always change the ratio or even expand your MAC later if need be.
Unless you encode *everything* from NEI into your MAC (and end up not using most of it), I have a hard time imagining you will need more than 10 to 12 pages of patterns. And, as discussed earlier in this thread, there's not much point in spamming CPUs beyond a certain point.
In terms of hard lmiits, the only MAC size limit I've seen is power. You *can* build a MAC that requires too much power to boot up, seriously.
Unless you encode *everything* from NEI into your MAC (and end up not using most of it), I have a hard time imagining you will need more than 10 to 12 pages of patterns. And, as discussed earlier in this thread, there's not much point in spamming CPUs beyond a certain point.
In terms of hard lmiits, the only MAC size limit I've seen is power. You *can* build a MAC that requires too much power to boot up, seriously.
I would also be careful with MAC's that go beyond chunk boundaries. There is a bug with AE which can (not always) cause MAC's to stop crafting even with enough materials present. This seems to happen more when the MAC is not in a single chunk.
To be fair the rate limiting step in octocobble isn't thr speed of your MAC. It took me AGES to make enough cobble even running 1072 igneous extruders
Adding my thanks for explaining the math of the Assembly Chamber CPUs, I always wondered about it. My rule of thumb was to put half CPUs and half Pattern Providers but now I will shoot for a productivity goal instead.[DOUBLEPOST=1401503596][/DOUBLEPOST]
I design my base around my MAC. lol Even before I have one. I identify a center chunk where eventually my chunk loader will go, and that chunk will also house my AE stuff. Then I build radially from this chunk, say a 3x3 or 5x5 chunk area. This helps minimize my runs of ME cable to conserve power early on. I agree, people should pay more attention to chunks, hitting the F9 key to check them is so easy in these modpacks (apologies for not knowing the name of the mod that does the F9 thing, but it's really handy).
I design my base around my MAC. lol Even before I have one. I identify a center chunk where eventually my chunk loader will go, and that chunk will also house my AE stuff. Then I build radially from this chunk, say a 3x3 or 5x5 chunk area. This helps minimize my runs of ME cable to conserve power early on. I agree, people should pay more attention to chunks, hitting the F9 key to check them is so easy in these modpacks (apologies for not knowing the name of the mod that does the F9 thing, but it's really handy).
