Foreword
This tutorial applies after making the inventory input at the LuV stage and being able to use the auto-pull function. However, when making the multi-block ore processor at the IV stage, you can first build the AE system and temporarily mark the ME input manually.
The AE architecture mostly uses tag storage bus for filtering, and also allows manual tagging of minerals and mineral powders that require special processing in the storage bus, without needing to write a long list of tag blacklists.
Note: There is a bug in the automatic pulling of inventory input for version 054. When the machine is executing parallel or batch processing, using inventory input will cause AE to swallow [total item count % (modulo) parallelism count] items. If the total item count is less than the number of recipes executed by a single parallel + batch, this bug will not be triggered. The swallowed minerals are actually negligible compared to the total mineral amount, but if you feel sorry for this bit of ore, you can only mark them manually ()
Machine installation
1 crusher, 4 ore washing plants, 8 thermal separators, 2 grinders; 1 screening machine, 1 centrifuge for centrifuging ore powder, 2 electrolyzers for electrolyzing ore powder, 1 furnace and several distillation towers for producing distilled water. The specific number of machines to install can be doubled on the basis of the above.
AE network installation
As shown, there are 12 AE networks in total. The raw ore network is used to store mined raw ore, and a wireless connector can be installed on this network to allow alien miners to connect directly. The product network is used to store final products, and it can be accessed directly via the main network.
Washing ore net connects to washing plant, smelting net connects to industrial smelter, screening net connects to screening machine, thermal separation net connects to thermal separation, grinding net connects to grinder, pending ore powder net connects to electrolyzer and centrifuge, need to manually mark the ore powder to be electrolyzed and the ore powder to be centrifuged. Clean powder centrifuge net also connects to centrifuge.
The small AE network above the raw ore screen is the crushing screen, connecting the crusher.
Finally, all output buses connect to the intermediate logistics network, and the output bins of the electrolyzer and centrifuge can be directly connected to the product network.
AE Network Logistics
The crushing network filters minerals accessing the original ore network through manually marked storage buses. Set the storage bus to read-only, add an inverter card, and manually mark the minerals that need to be directly smelted.
The core of the network architecture is the intermediate logistics network. This network has no storage space and uniformly distributes the outputs of all ME output buses to different networks. If you have previously hoarded a large amount of minerals, including those halfway processed, after setting up the network logistics, you can directly throw them into the IO port for processing. The connection of the intermediate logistics network is shown in the following figure.
Connect the pending ore powder network's tag storage bus setting to write-only. The tag settings are as shown in the figure below, used to separate ore powder and various gemstones.
Note: Starting from version 0.5.5, the tag gt: has been changed to c:
Similarly, connect the tag storage bus of the washing net to set write-only, set the tag whitelist to c:crushed_ores, leave the blacklist empty, used to divert crushed ore.
Connect the tag storage bus setting to write-only on the hot network, set the tag whitelist to c:purified_ores, leave the blacklist empty, used to divert purified ores.
Connect to the grinding network's tag storage bus set to write-only, tag set whitelist c:refined_ores, blacklist left blank, used for diverting refined ores.
Connect to the tag storage bus of the clean mineral powder network, set to write-only, set tag whitelist c:pure_dusts, leave blacklist empty, used for diverting clean mineral powder.
The storage bus setting of the connected product network is write-only, as shown in the figure below, used to divert some special products without labels, such as coal.
Then some additional logistics settings. First, the diversion between washing and direct smelting: connect a storage bus from the washing network to the interface of the furnace network. Set the storage bus to write-only,increase the priority,then manually mark the crushed ores that need to be directly smelted. In this way, the crushed ores that need to be smelted will directly enter the furnace network. At the same time, this network needs to read distilled water from the main network. Also, the furnace network reads the minerals that need to be directly smelted from the raw ore network. Some ores (such as sulfur ore) only have a yield-increasing effect after ore processing, but the quantity is large and cannot be crushed and then smelted, so they can be directly smelted.
Then filter and retain the pure ore that requires special processing. Connect 2 storage buses from the hot isolation network, both set to write-only,Increase priority.One of them is attached to the product network interface, marking the pure ore that needs to be retained, such as Sheldon ore. The other is attached to the filter network interface, marking the pure ore that needs to be filtered.
Finally, the pending ore powder network, connect a storage bus, attach the product network interface. Set to write only,Increase priority, and install an inverter card. Mark the ore powder that needs to undergo electrolysis, centrifugation, etc. inside.
Of course, you can choose to merge the product network and the pending ore powder network, directly connect the product network to the electrolyzer, and manually mark the ore powders that need electrolysis. I am doing this just to avoid seeing these powders flashing around in the main network.
Precautions
Be sure that each network has enough storage space, otherwise logistics may have problems. For the stone powder from the product network, it is recommended to use super chests or drawers for storage, and enable the overflow destruction function, otherwise half of your disk will be stone powder (). Alternatively, you can just destroy it directly.