New to Applied Energistics - Help Required

[Snowwy]

Hey i am new to this mod pack and was just hoping to get some help with AE. I have the terminal, dive and control blocks for AE with 2 64k ME Storage - however i was watching a streamer and he had 3.6k of 1k storage cells and said this is more effective as 64k are too expensive and you dont really ever store that much of one item, or if u do you can use barrels.

So basically i was wondering what are the best, both expenses wise and efficiency wise storage cells for AE?

 

[Niels Henriksen]

For smaller amounts you can use the AE Storage Cells. What I do is that I preformat the cells so I know what is on them. For bigger storage you can use barrels or even Deep Storage Unit where you can have 2.000.000.000 units of one item.

 

[PhilHibbs]

I start off with a couple of 4K cells then add a couple of 16K cells when I've got plenty of quartz, and I use DSUs for my the four items that I have most of. Getting the items into the DSU is a little tricky as you have to fiddle with the sides setting. I used an export bus initially then swapped it for a storage bus. I've never made a 64k cell. I'd make some smaller ones and drop the big ones in an Uncrafting Table if I were you (but not before taking the items out of it!)

 

[cynric]

I like 4k cells, but that is just my personal opinion.

 

[Arbitrary]

It's actually pretty difficult to use up a 64-k drive because you are limited to 64 items per drive. So, you come home from adventuring and dump a bunch of single items into your ME system and you fill up that 64k drive with a bunch of single items. 64k drives, though, are just fine for things you will collect a lot of. You can use the partition editor to set which items can be stored on that drive. For example, you could take one of every ore and use the partition editor to only allow those on one of your 64k drives. I basically use a bunch of 4k drives and have deep storage units on me storage buses to keep my major ores, cobble, coal, etc.

 

[angelnc]

I would use 64k Cells only for Cobblestone, Dirt and maybe Gravel.

 

[BuzzSa]

I start drive of 10 1k then add drive of 10 4k and then onto drive of 16k that is loads of storage. and also use barrels for farms with storage busses

 

[Snowwy]

Ok sounds good thanks

 

[Zarkov]

I usually store items I have a lot of (cobble, saplings, wood, charcoal etc.) in DSUs connected to the AE system via storage buses.

Then I have 5 ME chests with 4k cells which are completely separate from my main AE system. Here I keep mob drops, tools, enchanted books, seeds and unusual saplings etc. That way, the main AE storage is basically only holding materials which are needed for automated crafting.

 

[WTFFFS]

I try to work on the JIT principle (just in time) and don't really store large amounts of anything, cobble I have an igneous\level emitter setup to keep a set amount in the drive, gravel\sand are made on demand from the cobble, glass on demand, wood is one of the few things I tend to end up storing a large amount of but that is mostly because the tree farming methods that are available are rather over the top other than that I try to balance my production with my usage either by installing more use (my golem powered farm ended up being able to supply 6 bio reactors with a very small positive growth of stored farm produce for example) or by lowering production (running an MFR treefarm at minimum size and at natural growth rates) also setting up automatic systems to provide the required resources on demand is fun.

So I tend to use a lot of 4k drives and one or 2 16k drives as well as a couple of misc junk chests (either ME or storage buses) which gives me plenty of storage for my playstyle.