Not sure if you check this, or if you hear this often, but I watched this 3 years ago, and I rewatch it every time I want to make a massive AE2 storage system. Thanks for the continued brilliance.
Not nitpicking or anything, but you could nearly quadruple your potential storage by adding a controller per every network, use dense cabling (for 32 channels instead of 8), and add more drives perpendicular to the "spine" of the system.
Nice video for sub-network storage. to those questioning the me drive access, no it is not necessary. simply dont add storage buses to the back of each drive, and make it 2 networks running side by side. with clever use if cable facades you can make it resemble a real supercomputer drive bay access room by running it horizontally and putting all the wires in the floor/ceiling
Thanks to you for this amazing tutorial. My friends explained me so much time how it works but I didn't understand them. After watching this video I totally understand how it works. Thank you!
7 years ago, it'd still technically work but has some redundancy. You can use the red cable to provide power all the way down, but you wouldn't need all the storage bus on the back of each drive. So it could be simplified down to 2 separate cables. One for power and one for the daisy chain of bus to interfaces
LOL i must have watched this video 10times over to really understand. But i finally got it. Now im working on my own Storage Tree. Thank you Dmack. Much help meny thanks.
Awesome tutorial. I have watched many other AE tutorials , but they are confusing and don't show every step for the beginner. Then I found yours , and soooo much easier to understand the basics. Wish more people would take your approach to making tutorials. Keep it simple and show each step and item clearly. Thanks a lot. . :-)
great tut, very clear and easy to understand, though a little different than soaryn's original design. his had a more centralized power source for both systems, utilizing dense cables and (optionally) controller blocks. same concept though, a lot can be done in terms of aesthetics following the same guidelines.
If I'm not mistaken, you can rename your storage cells (the things you insert in the drives) using a certain block. I don't remember which one, but I guess it would make it easier for you to sort your stuff. For example, you could call one "junk 1", another "junk 2", a third as "AE Stuff 1"...
I got it! It's an Inscriber Name Press and an Inscriber. To craft, right click the Certus Quartz Cutting Knife or Nether Quartz Cutting Knife and insert an Iron Ingot, you will then have to type the name you wish to write onto the plate then simply extract the finished plate. You can use the Inscriber Name Press in the Inscriber to rename any of your items, you can use one or two plates at a time, if you use two plates, it will print the name using the combination of both names, top slot, then bottom slot.
rlly like the vid Dmac! :D I built the thing (and may have used worldedit to copy and paste so I only had to make 1 :D) and now I've quadrupled the amount of storage I used to have. Also it helped me figure out entirely what sub-networks are, since I never really understood how to actually make them.
The basic review was really helpful! It clarified some AE things I wasn't entirely sure about :) It would be useful to have a few more AE tutorials, in fact, if you think it's worth it? For example, how do processing patterns work? And what's the difference between a processing pattern and a crafting pattern? And then what's the difference between a processing pattern and using the Molecular Assemblers for crafting? Basically: how does auto-crafting work? From my limited understanding, you can encode any pattern you want, even ones that aren't real recipes, right? So if I wanted, I could connect an interface to, say, a Big Reactor's fuel input and make a fake pattern to pump yellorium into it whenever I request a certain item to be crafted? (Not that this would be useful, but is it possible?) Anyway, thanks for the tutorial!
KingDaddyDMAC Very helpful tutorial tho im never gonna use it as pc is too bad :( But if i could i would. Also i liked the way you did the separate parts of it in the creative world.
Thanks for your video. It gave me an idea for even more storage capability. Using ME drive fixtures. I can put 432 drives in the same space you have 120.
what I have gotten from many explanations about this daisy chain trick is this look at a cable with a storage bus and a interface as just a chest with adjustable space so for any chest you need a interface to access the space and storage busies to add space any number of busies 1 - 7 so I can create a chest that accesses another chest witch accesses another chest repete till infinite space thou that being said your layout of the chest is my favorite
Correct me if I am wrong but you can save a few resources if you just not use the bottom quartz fiber on the "arms" since none actually touch the red wire and you can just put "cable anchors" for the spine thingy after you put a quartz fiber from one of the Arm actual resources saved for one "module"/1 x "spine" & 6 x arms 11 x quartz fibers 6 x different colored cables -2 x ingots (for cable anchors) (edit) you can scrap the top quartz fibers too (but not both top and bottom)
This tutorial was great and intuitive, but a little slow and repetitive. Very, very helpful though. Thanks for the help! (I'm sure you've improved as this was 1 [almost 2] years ago) =)
I really enjoyed the tutorial. Wish you would have stated more clearly as to why you had the purple line and not just blue. I think it would have saved a lot of confusion as to what you were doing / trying to accomplish. As it is I'm not sure why you want to manually 'manage drives'. Overall, great presentation, much appreciated.
Buildcraft might work for moving things. I'd test it first, because it may have been changed since it's NBT data saving feature could be exploited for duplication.
This is exactly what I needed, I spent hours trying to work something like this out. Is there a way to get it to automatically insert the storage Cells into the drives or does it have to be manual?
So from this I'm assuming the storage buses connecting the purple to the drives are for the purple terminal to access the drives? I'm replicating this with DSUs and if what I asked before is true then I can save on a lot of resources.
I just thought if something. Each of those sub-networks with the storage could hold 8 more sub-networks. If you did it with all dense cable, you could hold up to 1024 me drives per layer (so 10240 64k drives per layer). That's 655360k bytes for one layer in storage.
Unlocked Official actually he might be able to do with 1 dense cable per layer after the storage bus, and have the 2 smart cables coming out on each side.
+Kenneth Stiennon all the drives are attached to storage buses. This means that the inventories of the connected drives are viewed as storage space in the me network, and the only item that can be put into a drive bay is an ME drive.
great vid helped me alot :D if i understand right on the arms could you have the dence cable and have a ton more storage that way? and one last question if i put deep storage blocks on them could i have infinite storage for all items theoretical?
KingdaddyDmac are you having problems your uploads seem to be late now days I used to enjoy watching your videos every dinner time at work at but for some reasons they are just not there for me By the way loving the bass is coming on nice
Not sure if you check this, or if you hear this often, but I watched this 3 years ago, and I rewatch it every time I want to make a massive AE2 storage system. Thanks for the continued brilliance.
4 years later and still super helpful for me, thanks!
7 years later too :D
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Oddly enough, another 4 years went by and I'm here again. I don't remember leaving this comment. Great video example!
Take a shot everytime DMAC says 'pretty neat'.
David Tran Even better take a shot when he says wham
Or just do both XP
you would die....
6 minutes in and I'd be dead from alcohol poisoning already...lol
@@GamingRepublick If that's espresso you might just drink too much caffeine
so far this is the best tutorial on subnets I've seen! You're the first one who made it make sense to me
this video is pretty neat
Thank you, now I only hear that.
Great job! I like that added perk to access the storage cells instead of running around to add them.
Not nitpicking or anything, but you could nearly quadruple your potential storage by adding a controller per every network, use dense cabling (for 32 channels instead of 8), and add more drives perpendicular to the "spine" of the system.
useful for gregtech
@@ovencore2549 is gregtech still a thing? I haven't used that mod in years because I thought it was discontinued.
@@TSPxEclipse i mean you can finish it in like 1 or 2 years do it doesn't really matter if its discontinued
you say pretty neat 573 times in this video.
572 pls
did you seriously count that
5 years later, still super helpful. some things never change i guess
Best tutorial and most informative and detailed of AE2
Nice video for sub-network storage.
to those questioning the me drive access, no it is not necessary. simply dont add storage buses to the back of each drive, and make it 2 networks running side by side. with clever use if cable facades you can make it resemble a real supercomputer drive bay access room by running it horizontally and putting all the wires in the floor/ceiling
7 years later and this is still an epic video!
I love how dmac explains things
Thanks to you for this amazing tutorial. My friends explained me so much time how it works but I didn't understand them. After watching this video I totally understand how it works. Thank you!
thanks Dmac! i got now 8 working on the keralis Infinity server! (public one)
This is teaching me more about networking than the ccent books ive had to study... subscribed.
quite simple when you see it taken apart, thank you for the walkthrough!
P.S. if your storage ever fills up, my mind will be blown.
Right! I doubt I could come close to filling it :p
7 years ago, it'd still technically work but has some redundancy. You can use the red cable to provide power all the way down, but you wouldn't need all the storage bus on the back of each drive. So it could be simplified down to 2 separate cables. One for power and one for the daisy chain of bus to interfaces
Dmac iwas bad at AE2 but now after this awesome video i can do every thing in AE2
THANK YOU DMAC WITHOUT YOU I WASNT ABLE TO LEARN AE2
thanks,really help me to understand how sub network/storage bus work
A much needed tutorial man.
I wish this was around during modsauce :P
first applied energistics tutorial that makes sense
Fantastic design KingDaddyDMAC
Good job Dmac, if you came up with this on your own man your a genius. Great video I'll be saving this for later
LOL i must have watched this video 10times over to really understand. But i finally got it. Now im working on my own Storage Tree. Thank you Dmack. Much help meny thanks.
Love ur videos dmac, im kinda lost by all the magic stuff but ive watched a lot of ur tech stuff and it really helps :D
thnx finally a great explanation how it works I see it all the time but did not know how it works
Great tutorial, was having trouble getting my sub-network working, thanks!
I guess this is TRUE Applied Epic Energistics. Amazeballs.
Thanks man very good tutorial
Awesome tutorial. I have watched many other AE tutorials , but they are confusing and don't show every step for the beginner. Then I found yours , and soooo much easier to understand the basics. Wish more people would take your approach to making tutorials. Keep it simple and show each step and item clearly. Thanks a lot. . :-)
Great tutorial. Best one around for explaining subnetworks and its power of such.
OMG thank you so much for this video. Been struggling to understand AE and. Let I finally understand! Keep up the great videos man.
That's quite a cool trick. Really frees up the main network for autocrafting channels. :)
great tut, very clear and easy to understand, though a little different than soaryn's original design. his had a more centralized power source for both systems, utilizing dense cables and (optionally) controller blocks. same concept though, a lot can be done in terms of aesthetics following the same guidelines.
If I'm not mistaken, you can rename your storage cells (the things you insert in the drives) using a certain block. I don't remember which one, but I guess it would make it easier for you to sort your stuff. For example, you could call one "junk 1", another "junk 2", a third as "AE Stuff 1"...
an anvil?
I got it! It's an Inscriber Name Press and an Inscriber. To craft, right click the Certus Quartz Cutting Knife or Nether Quartz Cutting Knife and insert an Iron Ingot, you will then have to type the name you wish to write onto the plate then simply extract the finished plate. You can use the Inscriber Name Press in the Inscriber to rename any of your items, you can use one or two plates at a time, if you use two plates, it will print the name using the combination of both names, top slot, then bottom slot.
One of the best tutorials Ive seen on the subject. Thank you so much. Learned a bunch!!! You rock!
sub and thumbs done >
Oh, the ice king is making Minecraft videos now. How cool is that ?
Thanks Dmac.. Finally understood how to do a proper sub network set up.. 👍👍
So happy it helped :)
rlly like the vid Dmac! :D I built the thing (and may have used worldedit to copy and paste so I only had to make 1 :D) and now I've quadrupled the amount of storage I used to have. Also it helped me figure out entirely what sub-networks are, since I never really understood how to actually make them.
I missed this series
Gotta love the Super Soaryn Drive
Wow dmac so cool I'm so happy u finally released this vid!
Me too! Thanx :)
glad they added controllers and p2p pipes to the mod by now, just build big controller do p2p networking, 4 networks, one colour, so smooth
Hooray. A tutorial.
The basic review was really helpful! It clarified some AE things I wasn't entirely sure about :) It would be useful to have a few more AE tutorials, in fact, if you think it's worth it? For example, how do processing patterns work? And what's the difference between a processing pattern and a crafting pattern? And then what's the difference between a processing pattern and using the Molecular Assemblers for crafting? Basically: how does auto-crafting work?
From my limited understanding, you can encode any pattern you want, even ones that aren't real recipes, right? So if I wanted, I could connect an interface to, say, a Big Reactor's fuel input and make a fake pattern to pump yellorium into it whenever I request a certain item to be crafted? (Not that this would be useful, but is it possible?)
Anyway, thanks for the tutorial!
IceMetalPunk Yeah I guess you could do that. I'm not sure if AE and Big Reactors work together though
Yea, I'll plan on doing more AE2 tuts. Yes, what you are asking should be possible no problem ;)
KingDaddyDMAC
Awesome, so they do work the way I thought. Thanks! And I look forward to future learnin's from you! :D
My pleasure! Thanx for watching :)
KingDaddyDMAC Very helpful tutorial tho im never gonna use it as pc is too bad :( But if i could i would.
Also i liked the way you did the separate parts of it in the creative world.
Thanks for your video. It gave me an idea for even more storage capability.
Using ME drive fixtures. I can put 432 drives in the same space you have 120.
i'd like to see how you automate the production of charged certus quarts
YES! first time before 301 Im so happy! btw i love your vids Dmac :D
what I have gotten from many explanations about this daisy chain trick is this look at a cable with a storage bus and a interface as just a chest with adjustable space so for any chest you need a interface to access the space and storage busies to add space any number of busies 1 - 7 so I can create a chest that accesses another chest witch accesses another chest repete till infinite space thou that being said your layout of the chest is my favorite
Helps a lot for ftb
Correct me if I am wrong but you can save a few resources if you just not use the bottom quartz fiber on the "arms" since none actually touch the red wire and you can just put "cable anchors" for the spine thingy after you put a quartz fiber from one of the Arm
actual resources saved for one "module"/1 x "spine" & 6 x arms
11 x quartz fibers
6 x different colored cables
-2 x ingots (for cable anchors)
(edit) you can scrap the top quartz fibers too (but not both top and bottom)
not sure it is cause i am use to listening to you or what but i think you always do an awesome job with tutorials
Thanx :)
Excitement o’ meter:
25% neat
50% pretty neat
75% very neat
100% very very very neat
This video was so helpful
This tutorial was great and intuitive, but a little slow and repetitive. Very, very helpful though. Thanks for the help! (I'm sure you've improved as this was 1 [almost 2] years ago) =)
Minecraft Space Unfortunately, DMAC has stopped playing Minecraft, as far as I know
i feel like there should be a book anyone else thought of this about AE2
Great work man
simple and amazing, very nice!
9 years and on
i been recommended this vid
Hope it’s still helpful 😉
Thank you so much KingDaddyDMAC Awsome!
A review on a power set up would be good with power banks and so on please
you are a legend bro!!!
I really enjoyed the tutorial. Wish you would have stated more clearly as to why you had the purple line and not just blue. I think it would have saved a lot of confusion as to what you were doing / trying to accomplish. As it is I'm not sure why you want to manually 'manage drives'.
Overall, great presentation, much appreciated.
Can you make a vid show how you made the firE drive tree amd how you did connect that all. To a power source and how you connect the terminals
really like ur videos. give me so much information
You are awesome at tutorials
Thank u! I'm new at the tutorial bits. Was very worried I'd suck :p
Awesome tutorial, Dmac! I also heard your phone go off at the end. xD
Lol, yup :p
Hey... this is pretty neat!
the good old days
Under 301 club!
P.S: Dmac awesome video!
Awesome tutorial! Helped me OH SO much! Maybe you could make an tutorisl of your auto crafting machinery? would be awesome :D
Thanx. I will 4 sure ;)
+KingDaddyDMAC you are pretty neat
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nice video - can you make a video where you do a data center and the drives are vertical?
Do a tutorial for the potion brewer!
Yes!^
thumbs up for this very neat tutorial
Thank you :)
Your understanding of AE2 is mind boggling, (opinion expressed from a AE2 Noob)
Also, does the term Extreme Overkill mean anything to you =)
Dmac can you do some tutorial with machine? Like you need iron for some item but you have have only ores
Great tutorial!
Useful vid! Thx!
pretty neat!!
Buildcraft might work for moving things. I'd test it first, because it may have been changed since it's NBT data saving feature could be exploited for duplication.
Cool, I'll have to try.
Very neat
Use a Thermal Expansion/Dynamics void pipe set on round robin to instantly insert ME drives.
Warp pipe* If it was a void pipe it would delete them all! XD.
Excellent !
thank you for the info
Just a question why use interfaces to hook up the drives? They can hook up to the cables without them I
This is exactly what I needed, I spent hours trying to work something like this out. Is there a way to get it to automatically insert the storage Cells into the drives or does it have to be manual?
So from this I'm assuming the storage buses connecting the purple to the drives are for the purple terminal to access the drives? I'm replicating this with DSUs and if what I asked before is true then I can save on a lot of resources.
I just thought if something. Each of those sub-networks with the storage could hold 8 more sub-networks. If you did it with all dense cable, you could hold up to 1024 me drives per layer (so 10240 64k drives per layer). That's 655360k bytes for one layer in storage.
Crazy!
Unlocked Official
actually he might be able to do with 1 dense cable per layer after the storage bus, and have the 2 smart cables coming out on each side.
Unlocked Official He actually cannot use dense cables because if you have more than 8 channels, you need a controller
A little over half a gigabyte of storage.
First off thank you, secondly how do you use an me terminal to add and remove drives? Ive been trying to figure that out for awhile.
+Kenneth Stiennon
all the drives are attached to storage buses. This means that the inventories of the connected drives are viewed as storage space in the me network, and the only item that can be put into a drive bay is an ME drive.
Why are you using storage busses for the storage drive? Cant you just connect it to each wire on the sub-network?
how do you connect this system to the Autocrafting tho ? thanks for this vid it was Pretty Neat! :D
great vid helped me alot :D if i understand right on the arms could you have the dence cable and have a ton more storage that way? and one last question if i put deep storage blocks on them could i have infinite storage for all items theoretical?
Great Vid
Does anyone know how to add deep storage units into this? I tried to add them in place of the ME drives, but their items don’t show up in my terminal.
is there a way to subnetwork this into the main system? AND still have the seperate terminals for drives and items?
That's just neat
KingdaddyDmac are you having problems your uploads seem to be late now days
I used to enjoy watching your videos every dinner time at work at but for some reasons they are just not there for me
By the way loving the bass is coming on nice
how to shift + right click while flying without descending ? i tried changing the sneak button in the setting but it doesn't work
***** shift+space bar makes u hover in midair so u can shift rightclick
Hold space bar as well found that out just yesterday
If you did the whole setup with dense cables, would be able to double the amount of drives?
Would attaching normal smart cables to fend ones increase the length of the drives, such as having 6 more drives on more branches of that "spine"