ME Superposition Crafter

Type	ME autocrafting provider
Tier	High
Requires	Applied Energistics 2
Energy buffer	100,000,000 FE
Max input	10,000,000 FE/t
Batch	1× to 64× recipe runs per pattern
Throughput	Up to 1,024 recipe runs a tick
ME channel	1

The high-tier sibling of the Quantum Crafter, for Applied Energistics 2 networks. Put a machine in its catalyst slot and connect it to an ME network: every recipe that machine can run is offered to the network as a pattern. Nobody encodes anything. Ask a terminal for iron ingots and the network plans the job, hands the Superposition Crafter the raw iron, and gets the ingots back a tick later.

It has no grid and no preview, so off a network it does nothing. It exists only when AE2 is installed.

tested Its cell shows its link. Like the Quantum Crafter, the open frame holds a room of void with the catalyst turning in a folding tesseract cell. Offline, the frame's traces are dark and the cell is a bare red wireframe. On a powered ME network with a free channel the traces light and the cell turns azure; while it crafts, the cell burns brighter and folds faster.

tested Port plates. A side that meets an ME cable or device, a power source or an item pipe grows a small socket plate, so the connection has something to meet instead of the open frame.

Badges

Badges like tested show whether an in-game test backs the rule next to them. See Mechanics coverage.

Superposed patterns

tested The catalyst decides everything. A furnace offers every smelting recipe; a Modern Industrialization macerator every macerator recipe; a Mekanism enrichment chamber every enriching recipe. The patterns are made in code: each lists the recipe's ingredients, with every item a tag allows as an alternative ("any raw iron"), and its guaranteed outputs.

Left out, as the Quantum Crafter leaves them out:

• recipes with fluid inputs;
• chance outputs (only the guaranteed ones are offered);
• recipes with an ingredient that is never used up, like an Inscriber's press.

Which machines. The catalyst must be in the #quantimium:superposition_crafter_catalysts tag: the furnace, blast furnace, smoker and campfires, plus every catalyst in the Quantum Crafter's advanced, industrial and singularity tiers. Crafting tables and stonecutters are left to AE2's own Molecular Assembler. Packs can add or remove machines through the tag.

tested Bigger machines need a hotter field, as in the Quantum Crafter: an advanced catalyst needs Medium flux where the crafter stands, an industrial one High, and so on. Below its band it offers the network nothing, so its crafts drop out of the terminals, and its status says Needs flux. It pays the Quantum Crafter's instant-craft tax for the band, so it crafts cheaper in a hot field too.

When the network asks

tested For each run the network hands over the ingredients, and the Superposition Crafter:

1. pays for it from its own FE: exactly what the Quantum Crafter would charge (see Energy cost), times the instant-craft multiplier, plus the chunk's anomaly surcharge. A smelt is 4,000 FE;
2. puts the result into the network, where AE2 passes it to the job that asked;
3. tested emits flux like any craft: 3 flux per 1,000 FE, each second, into the 3×3 of chunks round it, a fifth to its own. A 64× smelt run (256,000 FE) adds about 154 flux to its own chunk, easing in over the next few seconds.

The energy bar's tooltip shows the anomaly surcharge in force and any passive drain.

Results go into the network on the crafter's next tick, once AE2 is waiting for them. If the network has no room, the crafter keeps them, shows Output blocked and takes no more work until it can hand them over.

Batch

tested AE2 hands a crafting provider one pattern run at a time, as fast as the crafting CPU's co-processors allow. The batch tab on the left (1× to 64×) sets how many recipe runs one pattern run is, so a bigger batch crafts proportionally faster with the same CPU. At 8× the smelting pattern takes 8 raw iron, gives 8 ingots and costs 8 smelts: 32,000 FE.

A request that isn't a whole number of batches still makes whole batches, and the extra goes to storage: asking for 4 ingots at 8× makes 8. Changing the batch changes the patterns, so AE2 replans. The crafter takes at most 1,024 recipe runs a tick.

tested It works with everything AE2 does with patterns: terminals show the outputs as craftable, multi-step jobs use it for the steps it can do, and other providers can offer the same recipes alongside it.

Mind the flux. Autocrafting at scale is the fastest way to heat a chunk. Anomaly raises every craft's cost by up to +100% and, left alone, brings rifts and the Veiled. Big AE2 bases will want containment.

Filters

The Filter tab on the right swaps the readout for the filters; click it again, or the back arrow by the title, to go back. There are two lists of 27 entries; on the filter, the list tab on the left switches between them.

Setting entries. Click a slot with an item to list it, or drag one in from JEI, as you would onto a storage bus. Click with an empty hand to clear it. The slots only hold copies.

tested Tags. Shift-click an entry to make it stand for one of its item's tags instead: each shift-click steps to the next tag, convention (c:) tags first and the broadest first, and then back to the plain item. Iron ore's first tag is #c:ores, which is every ore. A tag entry has a small # in its corner, and its tooltip names the tag.

Output filter

tested Decides which recipes are offered, by their output. The allow / deny tab on the left chooses what the list means:

Mode	Offers
Whitelist (white)	Only recipes whose output is listed
Blacklist (black)	Every recipe except those whose output is listed

An empty output filter offers everything, whatever the mode.

Input filter

Which items the crafter may use up. It has its own allow / deny setting, and starts as deny. An empty input filter changes nothing.

• tested Blacklist: each listed item is taken out of every recipe's accepted ingredients; a recipe goes only when an ingredient has nothing left it could take. Blacklisting oak logs stops charcoal being made from oak, but charcoal is still offered from every other log.
• tested Whitelist: only listed items may be used. With raw iron alone on the list, a furnace crafter offers just raw iron → iron ingot.

When two routes make the same thing. AE2 decides between patterns that make the same item, so a furnace crafter might smelt ore straight to ingots when you'd rather it went through a macerator first (ore → raw iron → ingots, which yields more). Blacklist the ore on the furnace crafter, and smelting ore is no longer a route AE2 can take. With #c:ores as a tag entry, one entry covers every ore.

tested Both lists keep every entry in its own slot through saves.

Status

Status	Meaning
No catalyst	Nothing in the catalyst slot
Offline	Not on a powered ME network with a free channel
Ready	Offering its patterns, nothing asked for right now
Working	Crafting for the network
No power	The last run asked for couldn't be paid for
Output blocked	The network has no room for a result

Recipe

A Quantum Crafter with two AE2 Pattern Providers, two Tesseracts and four Anomalite Shards round it.