Getting Started

Getting The Initial Materials

To get started with Applied Energistics 2, one must first find a meteorite. These are fairly common and tend to leave massive holes in the terrain, so you've probably encountered one in your travels. If you haven't, you can craft a Метеоритный компас, which will point toward the nearest Таинственный куб.

Once you have found a meteorite, mine into its center. You will find certus quartz clusters, certus quartz buds, budding certus blocks of various types, and a Mysterious Cube in the center.

Mine the certus quartz clusters and any certus quartz blocks you find. You can also pick up the budding certus blocks, but without Silk Touch, they will degrade by 1 tier.

Do not break any flawless budding certus, as even with Silk Touch, they will degrade to flawed budding certus, and it is impossible to repair them back to flawless.

Also mine the Mysterious Cube in the center of the meteorite to gain all 4 inscriber presses.

Growing Certus Quartz

Certus quartz buds will sprout from budding certus blocks, similar to amethyst. If you break a bud that is not finished growing, it will drop one Пыль истинного кварца, unchanged by fortune. If you break a fully grown cluster, it will drop four Кристалл истинного кварцаs, and fortune will increase this number.

There are 4 tiers of budding certus blocks: Flawless, Flawed, Chipped, and Damaged.

Every time a bud grows by another stage, the budding block has a chance to degrade by one tier, eventually turning into a plain certus quartz block. They can be repaired (and new budding blocks created) by throwing the budding block (or a certus quartz block) in water with one or more Заряженный кристалл истинного кварца.

Flawless budding certus blocks will not degrade and will generate certus infinitely. However, they cannot be crafted or moved with a pickaxe, even with Silk Touch. (they can be moved with spatial storage though)

By themselves, certus quartz buds grow very slowly. Luckily, the Ускоритель роста massively accelerates this process when placed adjacent to the budding block. You should build a few of these as your first priority.

If you don't have enough quartz to also make an Приёмщик энергии or Резонирующая камера, you can make a Деревянная рукоять and stick it on the end of your accelerator.

Harvesting the certus automatically is described here.

A Quick Aside on Fluix

Another material you will need is Fluix, which you have already encountered in making growth accelerators. It is made by throwing charged certus, redstone, and nether quartz in water. Doing this automatically is "left as an exercise for the reader."

The Зарядник is required to produce Заряженный кристалл истинного кварца, if you haven't made one already.

Inscribing Some Processors

In your looting of a meteorite, you will have found four "presses" from breaking the Mysterious Cube. These are used in the Высекатель to make the three types of processor.

The inscriber is a sided machine, much like the vanilla furnace. Inserting from the top or bottom places items in the top or bottom slots, and inserting from the side or back inserts into the center slot. Results can be pulled from the side or back.

To facilitate automation with hoppers (and possibly reduce pipe spaghetti), inscribers can be rotated with a Гаечный ключ из истинного кварца.

Produce a few of each type of processor in preparation for the next step, making a very basic ME system. Automating processor production is "left as an exercise for the reader".

Matter Energy Tech: ME Networks and Storage

What is ME Storage?

It's pronounced Emm-Eee, and stands for Matter Energy.

Matter Energy is the main component of Applied Energistics 2; it's like a mad scientist version of a Multi-Block chest, and it can revolutionize your storage situation. ME is extremely different from other storage systems in Minecraft, and it might take a little out-of-the-box thinking to get used to. But once you get started, vast amounts of storage in tiny space and multiple access terminals are just the tip of the iceberg of what will become possible.

What do I need to know to get started?

First, ME stores items inside other items, called Storage cells. There are 5 tiers with ever-increasing amounts of storage. In order to use a storage cell, it must be placed inside either an МЭ сундук or an МЭ накопитель.

The МЭ сундук shows you the contents of the Cell as soon as it's placed inside, and you can add and remove items from it as if it were a Сундук, with the exception that the items are actually stored in the storage cells, and not the МЭ сундук itself.

The МЭ сундук is quite situational and limited in utility. To really take advantage of AE2, you need to set up an ME Network.

Your Very First ME System

Now that you have all the basic materials and machines for Applied Energistics 2, you can make your first ME (Matter Energy) system. This will be a very basic one: no autocrafting, no logistics, just nice, simple, searchable storage.

• Your ingredients list:
  • 1x МЭ накопитель
  • 1x МЭ терминал or МЭ терминал изготовления
  • 1x Приёмщик энергии
  • A few cables, either glass, covered, or smart, but not dense
  • A few storage cells, recommended of the 4k variety for a good mix of capacity and types (it would be more efficient to partition a mix of 4k and 1k, but that's a complexity we won't go into now)

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1. Place the drive down.
2. The energy acceptor (and several other AE2 devices) comes in 2 modes, cube and flat. They can be switched between in a crafting grid. If your energy acceptor is a cube, place it down next to the drive. If it's a flat square, place a cable on the drive and place the acceptor on that.
3. Run energy into the energy acceptor with a cable/pipe/conduit from your favorite energy-generation mod.
4. Place a cable on top of the drive (or otherwise at eye level) and place your terminal or crafting terminal on it.
5. Put your storage cells into the drive
6. Profit
7. Fiddle with the terminal's settings
8. Bask in your ultimate power and ability
9. Realize that this network is, in the grand scheme, rather small

Expanding your Network

So you have some basic storage, and access to that storage. It's a good start, but you'll likely be looking to maybe automate some processing.

A great example of this is to place an МЭ шина экспорта on the top of a furnace to dump in ores, and an Мэ шина импорта on the bottom of the furnace to extract smelted ores.

The МЭ шина экспорта lets you export items from the network, into the attached inventory, while the Мэ шина импорта imports items from the attached inventory into the network.

Overcoming Limits

At this point you are probably getting close to 8 or so devices. Once you hit 9 devices, you'll have to start managing channels. Many devices—but not all—require a channel to function.

By default, a network can support 8 channels, once you break this limit, you'll have to add an МЭ контроллер to your network. this allows you to expand your network greatly. Smart cables will allow you to see how channels are routed through your network. Use them extensively when starting out to learn how channels act, or if you have a lot of redstone and glowstone.