This tutorial is set by the author's setting without permission.

The purpose of writing this article is to see that the tutorials below the application energy 2 (hereinafter referred to as AE2) are very complete, but the article lacks an article that introduces its design concept.

Considering that AE2 is almost all non -pure integrated packages must be installed, and its concept is completely different from other technology mods. Many players are difficult to get above. Often, I do n’t know how to play a few tutorials.ME, a bunch of interfaces, a bunch of bus and network, I don't know why.

Therefore, the purpose of this article is to introduce the design ideas and gameplay concepts of AE2 completely different from other technology MODs, and will not introduce the blocks in the module one by one.(AE1 core concept is the same as AE2)

First of all, AE2 is a storage, logistics, and automation MOD. Before AE, these three are independent concepts:

Storage: a large amount of storage items and static status, such as iron box MOD, Jebba wooden barrels, etc.

Logistics: Transmit items from point A to point B, such as the original funnel, railway module RC, building module BC, and the logistics pipeline in the last shadow interface

Automation: Automatically complete some operations that require manpower, such as the original redstone system, logical pipeline MOD, etc.

Knowing these concepts, let's take a look at an example: For example, the mineral treatment of Industry 2 that everyone is familiar with.These ores need to enter the powder pour machine first, and then enter the electric furnace to burn into ore ingredients. Some ingots must be treated as metal boards, metal threads, etc. This process isThere are similar operations.

If storage, logistics, and automation are not adopted, then we need to open the machine one by one, wait for the copper mines to operate the iron ore, the iron ore operates the tin ore, and then operate the electric furnace and metal molding machine one by one.Click in the afternoon, and it is very cumbersome.

At this time, the above three concepts will work one by one:

With the help of storage, we can place several groups of minerals and finished products on a large scale instead of throwing it into the character backpack.

With the help of the transmission, the powder -processed mineral powder can be passed directly to the electric furnace. The finished product made by the electric furnace can be transmitted into the finished box or transmitted into the metal molding machine.

With the help of automation, we can set the operating conditions of the machine, such as stopping the powder of iron ore after the production of iron ingots exceeds two groups.

At this point, we can use the original funnel, boxes, redstone components, and some logistics MODs to achieve industrial automation production lines:

This is a simple and easy -to -use automation process. Similar to the rubber production line in Industry 2, you only need to automatically throw the resin, rubber wood, and rubber seedlings into the extractor.

However, such automation still has its limitations. The reason why mineral automation and rubber automation above are used because metal minerals and resin, rubber wood, and rubber seedlings have almost no other effects.

What does it mean, for a negative example, Faru Ix crystal in AE2, high -purity Setz quartz crystal, various electronic boards, etc., the synthesis is very cumbersome. Some even need to throw the raw materials in the water.At this time, automation is very needed. I believe that this is also the puzzle that AE2 author throws to players: How can I automate these ghosts?

There are a lot of differences in the mineral production line and rubber production line above:

Multi -purpose raw materials: Different from the dug copper mines, all of them are thrown directly to the powder. The AE2 raw material Setz quartz is quite precious, and most of the items in the module need to participate in synthesis.Quantity limit or causal judgment.

Machine processing interspersed synthesis: For example, to create high -pure Setus quartz, you need to grind the powder first, then synthesize, then throw the water in the water, etc. Many automation needs to be synthesized.

The synthetic pathway is interspersed with each other: For example, the manufacturing of a certain item, such as quartz powder, will participate in the automated assembly line of many items, so there are machines that make quartz powder on many assembly lines.Of course, you can also intersperse each other in multiple processes, but it will be very chaotic in the middle and late stages (if you have played the Dyson ball plan, you will understand. Yes, the concept of AE2 is the later automation in the Dyson ball plan)

In this way, we can see the biggest feature of the traditional automation assembly line: linear.

I do n’t know if readers have learned programming. There are two major categories of programming languages: processes and objects.Falling into the automation concept of Minecraft can also be divided into two types: building a process and implementation function.

Priority: The concept of application energy is to realize functions rather than building processes.

For an AE2 system, players do not need to entangle the complete process of a product, but to implement each function, and the function and function can share the machine.

For example, the previous mineral production line, what we have to do is to achieve refining function, grinding function, and metal molding function. You see, I deliberately mess with the order because in the AE2 system, you don't need to care about the order.

Abandon the order and give the order to AE2 to implement it. The player must realize the functional module.

In fact, it can be seen from the naming of the core component of the interface. The AE author has received the inspiration of programming ideas. No matter how complicated a functional module, through interface interaction, it becomes a function of the ME network.(This is also the sub -network mentioned in many tutorials.) The more small functions, the more automation can be achieved.So how is a mature ME network automated?Let's take a look:

Players ask for 1 ME controller with ME network through the operation interface (ME synthetic terminal/ME terminal)

The ME network found that there is no ME controller in the network, looking for its synthetic table (model), and found that 4 meteorite stones, 4 high -pure Fulux crystals, and 1 engineering processor.

The ME network detects that the meteorite is enough, but there is no high -purity Fulux crystal and engineering processor, so these two items (parallel processors) are made in parallel.

The ME network is looking for the synthesis table of Gao Chunfulux Crystal, and found that 4 Furux Crystal Seeds are required. No, continue to find.

The ME network found that the manufacture of 4 Furux crystal seeds requires 2 Furux powder and 2 sand, and continue to check how to make 2 Furux powder.

The ME network found that the manufacture of two Fuluyx pinks need to be obtained with two Farulux crystal grinding.

The ME network found that there were two Faru Ix crystals in the network, so two Faru Ix crystals were called at the ME interface connected by the grinding machine.

After grinding two Faru Ix powder, the grinding machine is transferred back to the ME network. The ME network found that it can already start synthesizing the Fumruox Crystal Seed, so the two sands and two Faru Ixes can be started.Powder is transmitted into the ME interface of the accessories of the molecular assembly room, and the synthetic Faru -Ex crystal seeds are transmitted back to the ME network.

The ME network found that the raw material for making high -pure Furux Crystal has been possessed, and the 4 Furux crystal seeds are transmitted to the ME interface by the energy irrigation machine system.ME network.

At the same time as the 4-9 steps, the ME network needs to make a engineering processor, which requires gold engineering boards and silicon boards. There are also several.The printer or silicon, gold production line, etc.), won't go into details.

The ME network detected that there are 4 meteorite, 4 high -pure Fulux crystals, and 1 engineering processor. It transmits the raw material to the ME interface next to the molecular assembly room and starts to synthesize the ME controller.

The player saw a synthetic ME controller in the operating interface.

The process is very cumbersome, because I deliberately haha, I deliberately bold the ME controller and the player's subject. Players only participate in the beginning and end. All the steps in the middle are scheduled by the ME controller.

For a metal molding machine, by connecting the ME interface, 8 functional modules can be expanded. Without considering parallel capabilities, a metal molding machine can participate in dozens of linear synthetic processes.

The development process of the entire application energy 2 technology is to increase the computing ability and parallel ability of the ME controller, and add a small function module to the ME network.

When designing the automation of the ME network, players must also abandon the previous linear process, but to provide capabilities for the ME network. After this concept, they can better understand the role of the meter block.