Thank you 😀 I've been building complex autocrafting contraptions with AE2 for years now, but I never dared to venture into P2P channels, because it seemed too complex to me. This resulted in me having massive cable arrays in my base every now and then. However, thanks to your excellent explanation video, I can now save space!
Finally I understand the p2p tunnel, and I never knew you could do that with the controllers to add additional faces. I always took it as literally you can only have one controller on a network.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I went years without understanding p2p tunnels. I never really had a need for them, and honestly, still mostly don't, but the name alone makes it sound way more complicated and confusing than it actually is.
I think I left something important out of the video regarding P2P tunnels on accident. When connecting a tunnel to a network, it has to be on a non-dense cable. If you attach it to a dense cable, it'll act like it can work, but it'll never allow you to link it to another one. You need to bridge off of a dense one with at least one normal cable first. edit: I'm bad at explaining things, but you can also use a dense cable, but it HAS to have a dense cable connecting between the p2p tunnel and the controller for it to work. The above applies if you're trying to branch off a smaller connection.
Now I got it how to convert other energy to AE energy. But how do I do the opposite? What I want is to convert AE energy to FE energy. When I played Minecraft before 1.20, I used the Mekanism mod instead, so it was relatively easier to handle. However, since there is no Mekanism mod in version 1.20 yet, I have no choice but to use AE2. I know this video is from 4 months ago, but I still want to solve this mysterious problem. I've used a lot of tech mods so far, but I haven't figured out how to use AE2 yet. Is it impossible that AE2 do it? If so, can you recommend another mod?
Okay, so what's going on is that two different concepts are getting confused together, and it's honestly not well explained in most documentation. 1) AE2 energy is only for AE2 machines. It's brought into the network via an energy acceptor to pass power to ME controllers, inscribers, crafting cpus, etc. It can not be converted back to FE and there's no way to get this energy back out. 2) To pass FE/RF/etc to non-AE2 machines connected to an ME network though, you can pass a nearly unlimited amount through an energy P2P tunnel. AE2 however can not store this power, it can only transport it. Set up a P2P tunnel, and right click it with any item containing the type of energy you want it to pass. Hook up normal energy cables to the P2P tunnel. Set up another P2P interface where you want it to come out and repeat. I think I explained that in this video. Link to the official documentation: guide.appliedenergistics.org/#/1.20.1/ae2:items-blocks-machines/p2p_tunnels.md That said, you're still going to need another mod to pass the power around going into and out of the P2P tunnels, so if you don't have one that does energy transport, you're in for a bad time. Pipez is up to 1.20 and is basically a more performant version of mekanism pipes if it's available. www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/pipez
I am playing ATM9 to the sky, and I’m setting up a ME system with storage and terminal etc, my ME controllers are in the sky about 14 blocks high or so. And my ME drives are on ground level, I have connect them to dense cable and Smart cables, but on the 7 ME drives I have only 6 say device connected. I have 2 channels spare to use in the cable. I don’t understand why it won’t power it
The only two things I can think of off hand are either you don't have enough power in your ME network to power it, or your dense cable that it's connected to is past it's 32 channel max. I'd need to see pictures to even be able to guess, but maybe swap out the dense cable at the ME controller and where the smart cable attaches with a dense smart cable and see what the channels are at that point. You should also be able to right click an ME controller to see the full list of AE2 machines that it sees on the network, as well as the current power usage.
@@Ardcrafthi thanks for getting back to me. I don’t have a way to show you how it’s setup personally. But I am copying. ChosenArchitect’s walkthrough of ATM9, same base layout and everything. Sort of watching him play while I play though the mod pack myself. If you have time it is his ATM9 to the sky series. It’s episode 10, AE2 storage Upgrade. In his episode he only has 2 ME drives powered ATM. So when i connect cable to them. Only 1 doesn’t get powered. Hopefully this helps
Okay, yeah, I took a quick look at the video, and unfortunately I didn't see any point where he showed the back of the drives, so I have no idea how that's cabled up. Honestly, just make two pieces of dense smart cable and check where the normal smart cable intersects with the dense to see how many channels it says it has, as well as where the dense cable goes into the ME controller. That'll tell you how many channels the overall cable is using and things closer to the ME controller will use up channels first. You might want to also consider loading up either a copy of your world or just testing in an empty one in creative to see how it all works. I can't tell for sure why it's acting like it's out of channels though from what I can see.
@@NemesisMcKnight Well, the other work around is turn the ME drive cable into a p2p tunnel to reduce the number of channels being used anyhow, which would allow you to expand that whole area long term. I didn't see him even mention those though.
Hey man, great content! I found your channel on a search for other small modded creators. Ive been thinking about planning out a small creator modded server series and i was wondering if you might be interested!
I've got a business contact email on my about page. Feel free to hit me up there with details and contact information. Pretty high odds I can't participate just due to a lack of free time, but lets at least talk.
Thank you 😀 I've been building complex autocrafting contraptions with AE2 for years now, but I never dared to venture into P2P channels, because it seemed too complex to me. This resulted in me having massive cable arrays in my base every now and then. However, thanks to your excellent explanation video, I can now save space!
That was me for a long time too, honestly. It's just a poorly named and explained system. Glad it helped.
Finally I understand the p2p tunnel, and I never knew you could do that with the controllers to add additional faces. I always took it as literally you can only have one controller on a network.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I went years without understanding p2p tunnels. I never really had a need for them, and honestly, still mostly don't, but the name alone makes it sound way more complicated and confusing than it actually is.
I think I left something important out of the video regarding P2P tunnels on accident. When connecting a tunnel to a network, it has to be on a non-dense cable. If you attach it to a dense cable, it'll act like it can work, but it'll never allow you to link it to another one. You need to bridge off of a dense one with at least one normal cable first.
edit: I'm bad at explaining things, but you can also use a dense cable, but it HAS to have a dense cable connecting between the p2p tunnel and the controller for it to work. The above applies if you're trying to branch off a smaller connection.
Now I got it how to convert other energy to AE energy. But how do I do the opposite? What I want is to convert AE energy to FE energy.
When I played Minecraft before 1.20, I used the Mekanism mod instead, so it was relatively easier to handle. However, since there is no Mekanism mod in version 1.20 yet, I have no choice but to use AE2. I know this video is from 4 months ago, but I still want to solve this mysterious problem. I've used a lot of tech mods so far, but I haven't figured out how to use AE2 yet.
Is it impossible that AE2 do it? If so, can you recommend another mod?
Okay, so what's going on is that two different concepts are getting confused together, and it's honestly not well explained in most documentation.
1) AE2 energy is only for AE2 machines. It's brought into the network via an energy acceptor to pass power to ME controllers, inscribers, crafting cpus, etc. It can not be converted back to FE and there's no way to get this energy back out.
2) To pass FE/RF/etc to non-AE2 machines connected to an ME network though, you can pass a nearly unlimited amount through an energy P2P tunnel. AE2 however can not store this power, it can only transport it. Set up a P2P tunnel, and right click it with any item containing the type of energy you want it to pass. Hook up normal energy cables to the P2P tunnel. Set up another P2P interface where you want it to come out and repeat. I think I explained that in this video.
Link to the official documentation: guide.appliedenergistics.org/#/1.20.1/ae2:items-blocks-machines/p2p_tunnels.md
That said, you're still going to need another mod to pass the power around going into and out of the P2P tunnels, so if you don't have one that does energy transport, you're in for a bad time. Pipez is up to 1.20 and is basically a more performant version of mekanism pipes if it's available.
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/pipez
I am playing ATM9 to the sky, and I’m setting up a ME system with storage and terminal etc, my ME controllers are in the sky about 14 blocks high or so. And my ME drives are on ground level, I have connect them to dense cable and Smart cables, but on the 7 ME drives I have only 6 say device connected. I have 2 channels spare to use in the cable. I don’t understand why it won’t power it
The only two things I can think of off hand are either you don't have enough power in your ME network to power it, or your dense cable that it's connected to is past it's 32 channel max. I'd need to see pictures to even be able to guess, but maybe swap out the dense cable at the ME controller and where the smart cable attaches with a dense smart cable and see what the channels are at that point. You should also be able to right click an ME controller to see the full list of AE2 machines that it sees on the network, as well as the current power usage.
@@Ardcrafthi thanks for getting back to me. I don’t have a way to show you how it’s setup personally. But I am copying. ChosenArchitect’s walkthrough of ATM9, same base layout and everything. Sort of watching him play while I play though the mod pack myself. If you have time it is his ATM9 to the sky series. It’s episode 10, AE2 storage Upgrade. In his episode he only has 2 ME drives powered ATM. So when i connect cable to them. Only 1 doesn’t get powered. Hopefully this helps
Okay, yeah, I took a quick look at the video, and unfortunately I didn't see any point where he showed the back of the drives, so I have no idea how that's cabled up. Honestly, just make two pieces of dense smart cable and check where the normal smart cable intersects with the dense to see how many channels it says it has, as well as where the dense cable goes into the ME controller. That'll tell you how many channels the overall cable is using and things closer to the ME controller will use up channels first.
You might want to also consider loading up either a copy of your world or just testing in an empty one in creative to see how it all works. I can't tell for sure why it's acting like it's out of channels though from what I can see.
@@Ardcraft okay thanks for your help. Im sure I will figure it out. Might have to re-area some stuff 👍🏽
@@NemesisMcKnight Well, the other work around is turn the ME drive cable into a p2p tunnel to reduce the number of channels being used anyhow, which would allow you to expand that whole area long term. I didn't see him even mention those though.
Hey man, great content! I found your channel on a search for other small modded creators. Ive been thinking about planning out a small creator modded server series and i was wondering if you might be interested!
I've got a business contact email on my about page. Feel free to hit me up there with details and contact information. Pretty high odds I can't participate just due to a lack of free time, but lets at least talk.