Applied Energistics Interface Processing

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swemoney

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I'm looking for a way to somehow "stack" ME-Interfaces in my auto-crafting setup so I can have more processing patterns than a single interface offers. Anyone know if this is a possibility or is the only solution to create another processing machine to process extra patterns?
 

Algester

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create another processing machine thats what we would recommend because you have to think of having outputs and inputs to the machine... else for basic crafting just use the MAC else you can stack ME interfaces and make them point to your processing machine... and connect them with cables and have that processing machine import from the ME interfaces
 

swemoney

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create another processing machine thats what we would recommend because you have to think of having outputs and inputs to the machine... else for basic crafting just use the MAC else you can stack ME interfaces and make them point to your processing machine... and connect them with cables and have that processing machine import from the ME interfaces

This is what I'm looking for. I know I need to make more ME-interfaces, but it would be nice to be able to stack them in order to add more patterns without needing a whole new processing machine. I'll give the arrows a shot tomorrow. I thought I tried it that way in creative before posting but I might have missed something.
 

Omegatron

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You could try having lots of chests and put the ME interfaces next to them. Then use itemducts or something to move the ingredients from the chests to the machine.
 

Loufmier

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You could try having lots of chests and put the ME interfaces next to them. Then use itemducts or something to move the ingredients from the chests to the machine.
this. or you can use BC pipes to route items into machine. i suggest to use iron or apiarist's(for bonus speed) pipes to make sure items from one interface don't go into another.
 

rhn

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This is getting way to overcomplicated. Put a Hopper/Chute on the machine and then stick several ME interfaces on to the Hopper/Chute. You can shift+click the ME interface with a wrench to shifts its export direction to allow much more compact designs. You can also stack multiple Hoppers/Chutes to allow even more Me interfaces etc. on the same machine.

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Here I have 2 IC2 Induction Furnaces next to each other. Closest one with 3 ME interfaces. Furthest one with 6 ME Precision export bus(5 of them controlled by Level emitters). All made possible by stacking Chutes
 
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kaovalin

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You could do what I used to do. Have a tesseract that the interfaces connect to, then pipe them out at the other side. Then you can put the machines in a dedicated room without having to have long lines of ME cable. Just need to route the materials when they get on the other side. Many mods can handle this without issue (BC, TE, or LP come to mind).

Another thing I did was have a bank of machines (30-60 pulverizers with 2x as many redstone furnaces) with Factorization Routers to push and pull items from the banks. Made things much simpler on the eyes and more space conscious.