AE stress test

[Ehrlingby]

Going to leave this contraption to run for a few hours. It'll be interesting to see how Applied Energistics will cope. If this thing still works in a few hours I'm definitely switching over to AE even though the drives don't provide physical access to your stuff, like chests do. Applied energistics is SO awesome.

 

[Abdiel]

Replace the tube with another chest (forming a double chest). No need for items going through tubes needlessly.

What's the router for?

 

[Ehrlingby]

Replace the tube with another chest (forming a double chest). No need for items going through tubes needlessly.

What's the router for?

Yeah, changing it to a double chest right now. Oh I just used the router to put in all the drives into the drives (Driveception) without having to put the drives in manually.

 

[kilteroff]

Mixing RP and AE seems just fundamentally, philosophically bad to me. Like in a "imagine every atom in your body exploding at the speed of light" way.

 

[Ehrlingby]

Mixing RP and AE seems just fundamentally, philosophically bad to me. Like in a "imagine every atom in your body exploding at the speed of light" way.

I get that feeling too. xD I don't intend to use RP with AE in the future, just used it to handle the scrap boxes.

 

[jumpfight5]

You could use Scrapboxinators, they open the box with no entities dropped.

 

[Ehrlingby]

You could use Scrapboxinators, they open the box with no entities dropped.

Hmm, why didn't I think of that? GregTech is my favorite mod after all...

 

[jumpfight5]

Well, it does cost 32 eu/t, and it's more expensive than the deployer+transposer combo. And it's unknown.

 

[Zjarek_S]

Well, even without GT you can just use dispensers to open scrapboxes. And dispensers are cheaper if you autocraft them.

 

[jumpfight5]

I was trying to avoid use of spewing entities into the world, just to pick them up, but that's another viable option.

 

[DoctorOr]

I did fairly similar



Duplicator feeding scrapboxes to a scrapinator, three more duplicators feeding sand, dirt, and cobblestone direct into the system.

Furnace with 12 overclockers cooking cobblestone, another furnace cooking sand

Three fabricators turning glass into glass panes, smooth stone into stone bricks and sand into sandstone.

The system actually runs out of sand. The fabricator and furnace are faster than the duplicator.

 

[Ehrlingby]

I just realized the pos

I did fairly similar

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Duplicator feeding scrapboxes to a scrapinator, three more duplicators feeding sand, dirt, and cobblestone direct into the system.

Furnace with 12 overclockers cooking cobblestone, another furnace cooking sand

Three fabricators turning glass into glass panes, smooth stone into stone bricks and sand into sandstone.

The system actually runs out of sand. The fabricator and furnace are faster than the duplicator.

That's a nice concept! I literally just realized the possibilities with fabricators working together with AE, my brain is disintegrating.

 

[jumpfight5]

I just realized the pos
That's a nice concept! I literally just realized the possibilities with fabricators working together with AE, my brain is disintegrating.

O.O
Must. Learn. A. E.

 

[Dackstrus]

The maker of this mod did'nt create gold, he made diamonds.

Goodby pipes and tubes. I have AE now.

 

[kheeler]

The maker of this mod did'nt create gold, he made diamonds.

Goodby pipes and tubes. I have AE now.

^^ This!!

 

[Greyed]

If this thing still works in a few hours I'm definitely switching over to AE even though the drives don't provide physical access to your stuff, like chests do.

For people who are familiar with request pipes from Logistics Pipes, it actually isn't that large of a leap. In fact my current favorite crafting station setup is a request pipe sitting next to an RP Project Table. The request pipe deposits its requests into an adjacent inventory. So my normal work process is to slap the request pipe, order up what I need, in the quantities I need it, which gets delivered to the project table. Once there I either plop in or construct the plan, pull items as needed. Normally the request step is often "I need this, this and this, just pull a stack of each, I'll drop it back into the input chest when done."

AE's crafting terminal simplifies that by providing access to the entire network's inventory without the need to request items. It has the same multi-craft functionality as RP's project table. The only difference is the lack of plans. And honestly, there are very few plans I use once I get LP's autocrafting up and running. Which AE has.

Basically AE folds 3 things I consider core to how I play Minecraft now.

1: RP's Project Table.
2: Iron chests.
3: Logistics Pipes.

While I cannot get rid of RP as there is nothing to replace its wiring, logic gates and lighting options, I could easily drop Iron Chests and LP and keep on trucking with AE. For me, that is a win, as I am trying to increase functionality while simultaneously reducing the number of mods and the number of mods which duplicate functions.

 

[Dackstrus]

AE's crafting terminal simplifies that by providing access to the entire network's inventory without the need to request items. It has the same multi-craft functionality as RP's project table. The only difference is the lack of plans. And honestly, there are very few plans I use once I get LP's autocrafting up and running.

It has plans.

http://ae-mod.info/ME-Crafting/

Kinda expensive to make though considering.

 

[netmc]

The autocrafter is expensive. I figured out that it takes 80 gold just to make the frame for a 3x3 cube with just one crafting pattern block. So not something available early game.

 

[Guswut]

It has plans.

http://ae-mod.info/ME-Crafting/

Kinda expensive to make though considering.

That is not "plans". That is autocrafting. "Plans" allow for manual crafting with an overlay that tells you what you currently have and what you need. NEI provides part of this function (shows you what you need, but not telling you what you currently have in that regard that fills said need).

But, as Greyed said already:

And honestly, there are very few plans I use once I get LP's autocrafting up and running. Which AE has.

Which makes it a non-issue. Perhaps just keep around a RP project table with a few plans that you don't want to make into autocrafts, or make them into autocrafts and be done with it.

The autocrafter is expensive. I figured out that it takes 80 gold just to make the frame for a 3x3 cube with just one crafting pattern block. So not something available early game.

RP2 project tables and plans can still be made fairly early on, so you get to use those until you start to think of anything under three digits of a base metal type as "pretty much nothing", or you are willing to invest some of your hard earned (fairly useless, after bullet casings and whatnot) gold.

 

[Dackstrus]

The autocrafter is expensive. I figured out that it takes 80 gold just to make the frame for a 3x3 cube with just one crafting pattern block. So not something available early game.

Must be at least 4x4.