Applied Energistics 2 – Terminals

by TheAshenWolf / Sunday, 13 September 2020 / Published in Mod Guides

Set up your Applied Energistics 2 (AE2) terminals with ease by following this mod guide (simple and advanced).

Welcome to another guide about Applied Energistics 2 (AE2) folks, this time we zoom in on terminals. All the things you can connect to the AE2 network… They are simple but might have a feature or two you don’t know. Terminals are most likely the first, and most used, things you will come in contact with.

All terminals in Applied Energistics 2. From the left: ME Terminal, ME Crafting Terminal, ME Pattern Terminal, Me Interface Terminal, and ME Fluid Terminal

ME Terminal

ME Terminal GUI

The most basic one of all of them. This terminal gives you the ability to store and withdraw items from your network.

Looking at the GUI, there are several buttons on the left side. Going from the top we have

Sort by

You can sort your displayed items by name, quantity, mod name, etc.

View

You can switch the display between Stored and Craftable (default), Only Stored, and Only Craftable. If you have some of the craftable items stored, their counts will not be shown in the “Only Craftable” option. Only the option to craft them will be shown.

Sort Order

You can switch between ascending (0 – 9; a – z) and descending (9 – 0, z – a)

Search Mode

This option alters how the terminal behaves.

Standard search – The search bar is not being used unless you click into the search bar. Key E (default) can be used to close the inventory.
Automatic – The search bar is always focused, just start typing to search. As you can’t unfocus the bar, E (default) no longer closes the inventory. (You can close it by pressing the Escape key)
JEI Synchronized – Whatever you type in the search bar is also typed in the JEI search bar and vice versa.
Keep – The terminal will remember your last search.

The terminal offers combinations of these, so look out for the keywords.

Terminal Size

By clicking this button, you can change how many slots you will see. The base sizes are about “monitor high”. The second option is the size of a double chest.

If we move to the right, there are four major features. A search bar (you will be using it a lot), a slider, five slots, and a button.

Ongoing crafting jobs

This button is located in the top right corner, above the slider. When you click the button, you will be shown an interface with currently ongoing crafting jobs. The button in the top right changes to a terminal icon, which brings you back to the terminal. You can also switch between CPUs by clicking the CPU button at the bottom, or cancel the job by clicking the cancel button.

However, soon you will find yourself fed up with repeatedly interacting between the terminal and a crafting table. Luckily for us, the mod author has us covered.

View cell slots

The slots on the right are used for view partitioning. This is the best explained in an example. Let’s say you make a terminal next to your smeltery (or some other ore-processing method). You only want to see smeltable ores in the terminal. What you have to do is type “ore” into the search bar and start going through all of them, just to check whether it is smeltable or not. A smart solution is the view cell. You can partition and set up it in a cell workbench. After you have done so, only the partitioned items will be displayed. This only affects what you see, not the physical items inside the network.

Crafting Terminal

ME Crafting Terminal GUI

The GUI buttons are the same as the basic ME terminal, however, it offers not only unlimited withdrawal and insertion of items but also crafting. Not only the crafting grid takes items from itself, but it also uses the network. If you hold shift and click the question mark [?] button, all the required items are pulled from the network. If you don’t possess the items, the spot will remain blank. The [x] button on top of the crafting grid clears the grid and puts all the items inside the network.

Pattern Terminal

ME Pattern Terminal GUI

This terminal comes in handy when you get to auto crafting. It looks fairly similar to the crafting terminal, however, it’s crafting capabilities are limited. Its advantage is in pattern creation. On the right side of the GUI, under the slider, you can switch between normal crafting (like in a crafting table, the recipe result is generated) or machine processing (you have to specify both input and output). In the upper right of the crafting grid, you put the patterns. By clicking the arrow, a pattern is written and shows up in the bottom slot. Consumes one blank pattern in the process, converting it into an Encoded pattern. There is also an iron ingot button next to the [x] button. This one allows an “ore dictionary” to be used. With this allowed, the same items from multiple mods can be used. (For example copper ingots from Industrial Craft, Forestry, and Thermal Expansion).

Interface Terminal

ME Interface Terminal; As you can see, this network has only one interface which is connected to a furnace.

Accessing all your interfaces in your whole base can get tricky. This is where the interface terminal comes in handy. You can access all of your interfaces (connected to the same network as the terminal) and their relative pattern slots from this terminal. The GUI also offers a search bar to search for your interface.

Note: The interfaces are usually named by the machine they point into unless renamed in an inscriber.

ME Fluid Terminal

ME Fluid Terminal; This terminal has a bucket of purple slime and a bucket of lava stored inside.

As of the new versions of AE2, fluids were introduced into the mod. We already knew them from Extra Cells 2, but it was moved to the mod, so it has to be in this guide. This terminal shows you the basic interface of fluids that are stored in the network. By clicking a fluid with an empty bucket, the bucket gets filled. By clicking an empty spot in the terminal with a full bucket, it gets emptied into the network.

I hope this guide helps you with your mystical adventures! See you at the next one!

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