Applied Energistics 2
A digital storage and auto-crafting system. Converts items into data for virtually unlimited storage.
📦 Modpacks With This Mod
All the Mods 10
The latest in the ATM series. A massive kitchen-sink modpack with over 400 mods to freely explore. Built on 1.21 NeoForge for the newest content available.
🎯 Best for A good fit if you want automation, magic, and exploration all in one pack.
All the Mons
A dream crossover of the All the Mods series and Cobblemon. Raise Pokémon through tech and magic automation, build a powerful team, and enjoy all the mods together.
🎯 Best for A fit if you enjoy Pokémon catching/training but also want ATM-style automation on the side.
All the Mods 10: To the Sky (ATM10SKY)
ATM10's massive mod lineup reimagined as a skyblock progression challenge. Start from a single tree and build infinite possibilities through tech and magic.
🎯 Best for Best for players who enjoy fitting factory lines into tight, vertical space — automation as design puzzle.
FTB StoneBlock 4
Underground survival evolved. A 1.21.1 release featuring Vaults, Echoes, and the World Engine. A unique mining and building modpack starting in a world made entirely of stone.
🎯 Best for Suits players who want stone-out automation puzzles with clear FTB Quests guidance.
📖 Introduction
Applied Energistics 2 (AE2) is a tech mod that revolutionizes item management and automation in Minecraft. It provides an ME system that converts items into digital data for storage and allows access from anywhere through a network.
Once you build an auto-crafting system, even complex recipes can be automatically crafted with the push of a button. It serves as core infrastructure in the mid-to-late game of modpacks and is essential in nearly every tech-focused modpack.
🕒 When to Use This Mod
It becomes essentially required once your storage starts spilling past a hundred slots. The sweet spot is the moment your ore processing and basic automation are running — before that, hunting meteorites just eats time. Once you do commit, every chest in your base eventually collapses into a single ME terminal.
📦 Where It Matters Most
In ATM10 it's basically mandatory for late-game ATM Star crafting — the recipe complexity demands an autocrafting brain. In tight-space packs like FTB StoneBlock 4, a single ME Controller becomes the spine of your entire resource flow, and skyblock variants like ATM10 Sky push you into AE2 even earlier because every chest you skip is a chunk of platform you don't have to build.
🎮 How It Changes Your Playthrough
The shift is hard to overstate. The five-minute sorting ritual after every mining trip just vanishes, and once autocrafting clicks you stop thinking about recipes at all — you ask the terminal for a stack of something twelve steps deep and walk away. Going back to a chest-and-hopper pack afterward feels genuinely sluggish.
💡 Gameplay Tips
- Finding a Meteorite is the first step. Craft and use a Meteorite Compass.
- You need to understand the Channel system. Each cable supports up to 8 channels.
- Using P2P Tunnels makes channel management much easier.
- Auto-crafting works by encoding Patterns and inserting them into a Molecular Assembler.
- The thing I always regret when building AE2 is delaying the Crystal Growth automation — every late-game upgrade routes through certus quartz crystals, and harvesting them by hand chews up entire sessions. Make crystal growth your second automated line right after the ME system stabilizes; you'll save yourself a real amount of pain.
⚠️ Common Confusing Points
- • The Channel system is the most confusing part at first. Start small and expand gradually.
- • If the power supply is cut off, the entire system shuts down. Secure a stable power source.