First ME Encoded Patterns
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I make a MAC that's at least 10x10 with 5 pattern providers. I proceed to add recipes for all wooden things, all stone things, all iron things, etc. Some things like gears get special treatment and get done before the other patterns because I need them more.
You never know when you'll need a stack of boats and a few bowls. Or a bunch of wooden shovels.
You never know when you'll need a stack of boats and a few bowls. Or a bunch of wooden shovels.
This and the god awful builds to make storage chips.
Gah! I would certainly have made a 3x3 first, with patterns for Assembler Containment Wall, Heat vents, and substeps for pattern providers. You sir, seem to be the sort that buries his proverbial tech tree the long hard slow way using a spoon so as to start at the top after all that effort.
Honestly, just the time spent collecting your quantity of materials, I'd have made so many gears, boats, and bowls that auto-crafting them would be pointless. My last game I powered my ME storage and crafting with the first 3 MJ producers I made so I could make more.
Props for going big and not going home, though.
That begs an interesting question: When you have multiple methods to create something, like say, smoothstone, how would your AE system decide which programmed method to use? I'd hate to end up with all my UU burned up when it just needed to send cobble to my cooker. (Sure, you could just exclude the UU>Stone recipe, but it seems like there ought to be a way to prioritize which patterns (or ME interfaces with patterns) get used first, just in case I manage to use 124k cobble. I'm sure it could happen.)
I usually start with the basic AE components, I don't usually make patterns for the "finished products" until I have plenty of spare quartz. So the Pattern Encoder, the ME Interface, Import Bus, etc. these I make in the Crafting Terminal using NEI. Fluix Dust, Silicon, Basic and Advanced Processors etc. are the first things I make the patterns for. Then a few basic items like cobble->sand, sand->glass, glass->panes, and then I consider filling out the placeable AE components as my quartz supply increases.
The chances are, you're using up your last few quartz crystals to make as many blank patterns as you can afford. Why would you want waste one of them on a pattern to make something that you can't afford to make?
The chances are, you're using up your last few quartz crystals to make as many blank patterns as you can afford. Why would you want waste one of them on a pattern to make something that you can't afford to make?
I made the first with the empty pattern. Very fast I made for my powersuit - its good when you drown in the middle of the ocean and can have a new suit within a few clicks 
I have also made Ultimate solar panel with patterns. Then its very useful.
I have also made Ultimate solar panel with patterns. Then its very useful.
The MAC creates items in the order they are put into the pages.
Put all of your Minium/UU recipes on the very last page, and if you have other recipes for the same item that don't use this, it will use those recipes before it uses minium/uu recipes.
And thats how humanity ends.... the birth of the replicators.
My first pattern is the blank pattern pattern (obviously), the next few are import/export/storage buses (since im always automating at that time) and then TE machines and machine pieces.
How do you make the MAC prioritize external processing patterns in the ME Interface over patterns in the Pattern Provider(s)?
(Interesting project idea, Juanitierno: make a full MAC that makes more MACs that make quarries or turtles and scripts for turtles to dig more materials to produce more MACs... I don't know enough about turtles to know if that's possible or the best way. *scurries to the wiki*
(Interesting project idea, Juanitierno: make a full MAC that makes more MACs that make quarries or turtles and scripts for turtles to dig more materials to produce more MACs... I don't know enough about turtles to know if that's possible or the best way. *scurries to the wiki*
For some reason my first pattern is always a piston. Kind of silly, I could just make 256 pistons at once and leave them there instead.
I doubt that a turtle could program an ME Blank Pattern.[DOUBLEPOST=1379942425][/DOUBLEPOST]
The first time I built an AE system, I did just that. The second time, I was too low on redstone to waste that much, as I'd used a ton of it buffing up my TiC tools.
No, but if all AE functions were supported in OpenPeripheral, things could get *really* scary !
My first ME Patterns are always more AE stuff, such as ME cables, buses, storage chips, etc.,.
As for pattern pages, the first time I used AE, anything and everything I crafted went into AE. I filled up about 9 pages. These days, however, I just encode the stuff I know I'm going to make 10+ of. 5 pages is more than enough.