Put all the patterns in the interface. It can only perform one task at a time, the Co-Processing unit gives it the ability to process one additional unit per unit simultaneously. Press J to jump to the feed. • 2 yr. tterrag1098 • EnderIO/Chisel Dev • 9 yr. You can always use the storage bus -> interface technique to connect additional storage networks. 5 Some examples of sub-networks and their use . The 5 sides can carry 160 channels, and since 135 are for. The other way round may be harder. Just for funz, you could set the distance to 0 and see its result. The second most commonly used type would be the FE P2P Tunnel, which transfers Forge Energy (the most common energy system; same as RF, µI, CF, IF, and possibly others). TY. Start with this. The fact that the unique amount of items per storage cell stays at 63 no matter the level is kinda disappointing. manually mine. Hey Sky Factory 4 players, So you decided to play on our Sky Factory 4 server? That's Awesome! this post is to give you a quick start on the basic commands to get you started! A few things before you start: The server IP is: sf4. use that as a connector (like a Cable Anchor or another cable attachment) to send power to a sub-net without connecting it. So, it would go 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512 unique items per cell. Every block you are connecting to the ring in the distance is going to take up a channel of your main network. Stick It in the Soil. Watch us on Twitch: for a practical guide on AE2 P2P tunnels and networks? Look no further! ** Need a server? Get 20% off Fo. The "flat controller blocks" are in reality Dense Transformers from the mod Immersive Cables (btw the mod is great, it gives so kuch freedom and clears a lot of wire around). That's cool. There is support for both private and public channel networks. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. • 11 days ago. I. I recommend always-crafting AE2's basic components, e. e. P2P connections are not unique. You main building has all the ME storage and a crafting terminal and now you want to connect the factory, where. Take your memory card and SHIFT + RIGHTCLICK on the p2p and a message should pop up saying "new configuration created". Put an ME Interface against that Storage Bus and connect it with the rest of your storage network. Channels just make the mod not brain dead easy or overpowered, and once you think about it it’s not really something hard to overcome. Note that you can send P2P channels through quantum bridges (but not other P2P tunnels), so if you're careful about P2P'ing everything in the most efficient way possible, you in effect get 32*32 = 1024 channels through a single bridge. For more info check out the AE2 guide. You can get definitely get more than 32 channels as each face of the controller block makes 32 channels available (when using dense ME cable). If multiple cables or devices are put together, the system just reroutes the signal path. It exports items from an ME Network to the attached inventory. Channel Management. It is not possible to have 2 ME Controller in one ME Network. An expandable and versatile advanced data storage system with a multitude of applications. Side note: this is being done in the mining dimension since server restrictions keep me from doing all this in my main stoneblock base. You get dozens of channels for $25 per month, but spending just $15 more gets you nearly 50 channels. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment 6210classick • Additional comment actions. You can get more by utilizing every side you have and that would make it worth it you also don’t need dense cables coming off each thing you can place p2ps directly on the controllers unless you are doing it for aesthetics. Basically, a single face of a controller can connect to a P2P input bus using a single channel. So you can put 32 dense cables (all worth 32 channels) on a single face of this "transport network" and then use another face to transport all the channels elsewhere. /ae2 channelmode Options are "default" (8 normal, 32 Dense), "x2" (16, 64), "x3" (24, 96) , and "x4" (32, 128) to significantly. The ME Network is a multi-block structure added by the Applied Energistics 2 mod. ; Function []. ; MJ, set using a Cable. More Topics. A dense wire can carry all 32. Jun 26, 2016. I don't think there's a way in the current version, though I haven't personally tried. Watch on. You can run a single Dense Cable around your base and branch the P2P tunnels into/off of that. ; Item, set using an Hopper. so the further the next meteor is, the higher spawn chance you have. The enabling/disabling channel is completely random, i can be inside my ME, search some some items and "clic" no more answer, all gray, i check and : "missing channel device" however, and as you can see, only 6/8 channel, and anchor cable used for avoid any routing mistake. I already have dense cables running through my entire system, so that's not going to be a problem. But a 3x3x3 controller has like several hundreds of channels, so I think you don't need to be too worried. More Topics. A "Sub-Network" is a separate ME Network that augments another network. Turn off channels in config. Get a crafting terminal (this is a world changer here). The data channels connect to a network-related block. Even if you have enough overall power to cover everything, you might not have enough tick-to-tick surge. The most common usage is to run Dense Cable over long distances without needing to use a ton of Dense Cable. Don't get me wrong, i know a smart cable has 8 and a dense cable has 32 but what i mean is to have "infinit" channels like in the SSD (super soaryn drive) where u use subnetwork. My Very First Quartz. Thanks for the diagram. The ME Controller is the routing hub of a ME Network. Interface as an input, one Storage Bus to your main network, and one Storage Bus to your processing line. Devices connected to the same network can communicate and interact with each other, and the channel system limits the number of devices that can be connected to a single cable, adding a layer of planning and. More Topics Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing, and Literature Religion and Spirituality Science Tabletop. Just my two cents, but should the larger pattern providers with more rows be an option in future I suggest there be the catch that they only support processing patterns when going beyond 9 slots. Channels in AE2 - need help. maybe check the cable to the controller. Now your next recipe should be named item 1 + the next 8 components = named item 2. If I have 10 different non-AE2 machines I don't want to have 10 different p2p tunnels or have 1 energy cell with 10 different long TE ducts. CREDAAAAAAAOOOO. AE2 doesn't have any additional thought - it has artificial restrictions and limitations that actually get in the way of optimizing your network. Each face can provide up to 32 channels when connected with an ME Dense Covered Cable. Networking and Channels: AE2 adds a whole new level of strategy to your Minecraft builds with its networking and channel system. the one on the controller needs to be connected directly to the controller with a cable. But honestly, i wouldn't reccomend doing it. Make a canola farm, turn the canola into canola oil then use that for power (you can use industrial foregoing to automate the farming part) Make an extreme reactor and use yellorium for power. Not quite. Once the system detects named item 1 has finished it’ll put it and the next 8 components and named item 1 into the chest. It's basically like taking a storage cell and limiting it to only hold one or 2 or how ever many, really different items. The next lesson we need to learn about is efficiency. Another important thing to remember is power. As you see in the following images you just need to place a ME Interface. When the Player is holding this tool and they look onto network, all nodes get a colored overlay with channel count similar to that on the picture below. Mousing over a cable shows how many channels are in use. 99 for more than 50. malicious_bloke. By far the most common is ME (to transfer up to 32 channels per input Tunnel), but there's also RF/FE, EU, Items, Fluids, Light, and maybe others. Storage, 1-32 depending on how much you want to store. is cable) , , , . If you wanted to craft more, you'd need to add more Crafting Storages to your CPU. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. As I said, take a look into the config, should be self-explanatory how meteor gen works. A Controller can provide up to 32 channels per facing if dense cable is used. Storing 64 item types would take up half your storage, and reaching 128 would be "a. more than one can be placed in one block space (like terminals, and buses) RS has fluid storage by default. etc. 32 in dense ones. N. In between the input and output tunnels, you can use standard glass cables, as the tunnels themselves only use one channel. As I recently discovered when the kids and I fired up FTB Plexiglass Mountain (We've been playing FTB Rev for ~4 years), you can turn off all the channel guff in AE2! That would have saved me SO much complexity! Although it was pretty fun over the last few years having to plan out upgrades very carefully and get p2p tunnels to the right places. First and foremost is storage. I've got some extensive AE2 setup in my base, and I'm having a weird problem where some of my devices on the physical periphery of the network don't have channels. Also when i set it to disable that doesn't work either. 4 Subordination: Respect My AuthoriTAY . Exterior: 578 Tunnels giving 18496 channels. The first step to getting started in AE2 is to acquire Quartz. Jul 29, 2019. Use quartz fiber to connect power only to separate AE2 network. My controller outputs 32 channels from one side directly into a p2p bus. The next step is to get some auto-crafting up and running, but I'm having trouble connecting even a few machines. The new micro-parts allow for incredible compact builds. And also yeah you can gate autocrafting later I think this is a symptom of most crappy expert packs gating based on mods instead of based on features. Quartz Fiber transfers Power but not channels. Your one 1k Crafting Storage provides 1024 bytes, so you can ask your AE System with its puny 1k Crafting CPU to run this craft 170x, but it'll flat out refuse to do it 171x. place ME cable connected to the acceptor and then connect the charger, make sure the charges base or top are connected to the cable, else it won't work. Not sure where you got that info from. #2. The pack was made by Bacon_DonutAE2 for Newbies. Having to wait for one request to finish before you start another can get annoying real fast, especially if any of the steps are using furnaces or other machines. Dense, P2P and Quantum Ring all support 32 channels. I'm aware of that. Not to lag. 0 for Minecraft 1. Expected behavior. You can have a system without a controller so long as you don't exceed the 8 channels, that being said if you use different colored cables you can link. Rarely will you need more than 32 channels for a building or room and if you do you can just add another tunnel. 10+ due to competing RF APIs. You Shift-right click on a P2P tunnel with the memory card to save its setting to the card. place the energy accepter connected to an external power source. You would only have to put down a p2p tunnel at the other end to get back those 32 channels. Two biggest differences are the way items are stored, and the fact that AE2 has channels (Not too much of a limit, tbh). Keep in mind that a single controller can handle 192 channels, 32 per side, most players use large controllers for looks/laziness when planning their ae networks. AE2 autcrafting is a life saver!! I recently migrated my small controller to my twin 7x7 skeleton controllers (the second controller is for managing the p2p channels) and hooked up 80 more interfaces with 40 molecular assemblers to my pre existing 60 with 30, literal walls of crafters. They are usually very limited in scope and rarely directly accessed by the player (mostly for automation). This breaks the recipe scripts as it disable blocks as well. ago. ME cables are the backbone of any network, connecting all devices on your network. ago. iAmAutolockerr • 3 yr. MODPACK RELEASE: Autumnful. From there, you can have any number of exit points. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. Exactly. P2P Tunnel or "Point to Point Tunnels" are a versatile configurable system to move items / redstone / power / and fluids from one location to another though an existing ME Network without storage. fscan marked this as a duplicate of #3134 Oct 8, 2017. Watch us on Twitch: for a practical guide on AE2 P2P tunnels and networks? Look no further! ** Need a server? Get 20% off Fo. Crafting CPU. The key to large networks in AE2 is using P2P tunnels hooked up to dense cables on controllers. I highly suggest anyone concerned with AE2 play it and get an understanding of it before judging it off one part of a spotlight. There may be more. (6) some EnderIO energy conduits for the power supply (if you want to be compact - they can share the space with the item conduits)If you want to use storage cells over drawers or barrels, then the Cell Workbench is exactly what you want to be using. #3142. To Reproduce. Put a silicone press into this inscriber, the logic press into the other side's middle inscriber and the remaining presses into left and right. all sides of the controller are fully functional and plugged in to each other creating one massive controller with the ability to add more sections if i need more channels. But when I add another level of 4 interfaces it still says 8 of 32 channels used. Tunnels are 1 input to N outputs. In the setup with seven machines, using the main network would require 18 channels (7 interfaces, 7 import buses) if you were just to use AE2. But it does make life easier for organizational purposes. so you can go Energy Acceptor (1 channel) -> Main network cable->quartz cable->transport cable. Don't connect filing cabinets to an ME system as it will turn the items to "air" inside the filing cabinet. This means you can output to as many points as you want, but only input at a single point per tunnel. You can get power to the subnet by bringing a quartz fiber off the side of the storage bus and interface and connecting those with fluix cable. r/feedthebeast. Main network on that one p2p system: 56 channels / 32 max Subnetwork: 8/8 channels. e. Honestly, your best solution would be to put ore processing before your main system. More Topics. It's like the regular item storage turning matter into data, but these can turn a cubic region of the world into data. r/feedthebeast. AE2 disks can store many more items than the RS equivalent. Unlike the ME Chest, the items that are stored inside the storage cells cannot be directly accessed; instead the drive must be connected to a ME Network which allows. On any volume you wish to capture that is more than a few blocks large, you really are going to want efficiency to be 100%. (5) some EnderIO basic conduit filters. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. With an advanced AE2 setup, you almost certainly have an ME network going all over your base already, so rather than also running power cables all over your base you could use. But yeah, it might be just a matter of habit. Also, you can put p2p tunnels directly on a. 3 sides total of 24 channels instead of using 4 sides using 4-6 channels. Both Interfaces and Molecular Assemblers transfer both power and up to 8 channels, like with most other AE2 blocks. Your main network + P2P network both require power. I went into the config an it's set to true to enable channels, when i set to false the controller is removed from the game and i can't make it or get it back until i change it back to true. It’s literally one output for a channel. Agreed. But you could use some more elaboration on how networks are setup for practical applications or what defines a working network from a non-working one. • 2 yr. Most modpacks with AE2 also have Integrated Dynamics with the Tunnels addon. I have looked through the config files and the whole minecraft instance, but I cannot find out how to disable channels in ae2. Amount of extensions is only limited by how many P2P tunnels there are connected to the ME controller multiblock structure. So you've still got the full suite of channels from the primary network. The other 3 channels were then used to connect to all the machines. NotYourReddit18 • 1 yr. 1. I will say that AE2 has some cool and creative mechanics, like having to grow crystals that are "purified" with sand and water and. r/feedthebeast. 9. Stack that pattern up to 4 high, with only Assemblers touching interfaces, and not other assemblers. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. Controllers can have maximum of 2 adjacent blocks in at most 1 axis (the cannot have a plus sign rule). circuits, patterns, pure quartz, and fluix quartz, since those can be done without AE2 with other methods. It is used for ME System Debugging. I was going to do a poll, but this subreddit doesn't allow them. But in Minecraft you need to. The easiest would be using EnderIO using an advanced filter so that all items from mod (thermal foundation) go to your ore processing facility instead of going to your ME Network. the energy acceptor is now passing power to the main network, which is passing it to. Applied Energistics 2's ME Networks require Channels to support devices which use networked storage, or other network services. X = Assembler O = Interface. That's where local dense energy cells come in, especially in remote locations. [deleted] • 4 yr. P2P connections are not unique. I'd like to see the setup where you have 1024 channels in use in a situation where you couldn't run another cable. (tested this for some time)the cables already viewed by the first player seem to partially work (text is flikkering on the tracker) but once. I'm using the ME Dense Cable. There have been massive overhauls and changes to Applied Energistics when it updated for 1. Applied Energistics 2 tutorial. If you have a large network, you may need more energy acceptors down the line to keep everything balanced. This is mainly because, like many modded players, I use this mod. In total: 22816 channels through P2P tunnels, but there are a few more that I forgot when I recorded the video. Channel Management. 7. If a network is powered, it is powered on both sides of a tunnel. Coming from AE1 the changes feel pretty severe going from the big fire and forget network to this much more micro managed style. Today we are looking at Applied Energistics 2 an. depends on your channel usuage. For every 32 drives, you'll need one P2P tunnel on the controller. These are all working fine. Create additional crafting flowers as necessary for additional pattern storage. If it's more than 8 use Dense Cables if it's less just use Normal Cables (smart cables are only needed to identify channel usage) also if you have AE2 stuff you could just use the. You could easily have 9 things on a non-dense cable line, or have a long string of blocks eating channels out of an adjacent dense cable. In RS, iirc, a disk stores as many items as it shows in its name. namiasdf New Member. AE2 channel and p2p question. Bear in mind that you are still limited by the maximum number of channels from AE2(32 by default). Build a Crafting CPU somewhere in the network to manage the crafting. 1. This mod adds an insane. Build a Filter Sub-Net. So you can have as many inserters (conduits) and belts and whatever items that you need to automate your factory. If you have a factory floor with 30/32 channels allocated, you'll likely be very annoyed when some machine that should thematically placed on that factory floor puts you up to 33/32. 1 prudentium with 4 inferium and 1 master infusion crystal). ago. You can always use the storage bus -> interface technique to connect additional storage networks. Refined Storage is best defined as "AE simplified". So I am pretty sure the mod author has it set where there is a small delay between checking every connection so that it causes less strain. If i connected 1 cable to one controller would that support 32 channels or does a cable need to be connected to each individual controller each representing a different channel. I have a single Interface with patterns like (Gold, Silicon, Redstone)->(Proccessor) The gold/silicon goes off to their respective inscribers, while the redstone goes off to the final "assembly" inscriber. Applied Energistics 2's ME Networks require Channels to support devices which use networked storage, or other network services. The ME Export Bus is a transparent block added by Applied Energistics 2. Energy Cells are an 'extra' thing they just. Is there a way. This means you can output to as many points as you want, but only input at a single point per tunnel. Is there a way to get more? would it require an extra channel? Thanks for the help. While leaving channels off let's you focus on whatever you're automating, you miss out on having to. Interior: 135 Tunnels giving 4320 channels, 5 sides on the outside are required to extract these tunnels. Suppose you have 32 channels going into a P2P tunnel, you can pass those channels to another point on your network. ago. A quick and simple video showing you how to get limitless channels in AE2. While the new channels add a lot of nuance in AE2 that wasn't in it's predecessor you now have to really plan out your setup well for it to not. And they are all considered to be part of the same network. In one instance, I set up a production line, started adding the little bits of AE I needed and ran out of channels on that line and had move most of it over to a separate line. Furious1964. It just shunts the channel load off the main network. Making other mechanics more relevant again. I usually run that cable to a dense cable that goes into a P2P back to the controller, through a regular cable. Keep in mind that a single controller can handle 192 channels, 32 per side,. That gets you 512 channels (16 * 32). Transparent block. Connecting multiple line from the controller to IO Port does not allow it to use more than 8 channels. Additional channels can be added to network via placing additional controllers adjacent to current controller (with a few structure rules) Dense lines from each side must be completely independent of another, or else the network interferes. . The best way to get your head round it all (I found) is to have a length of dense cable from the ME Controller then 4 other cables as off shoots - each normal cable will take 8. Place an interface. The pack was made by Bacon_Donut Basically, any sort of auto-crafting job requires a certain amount of processing power. Nightcaste • 4 yr. Dense cable, P2P, 1024 channels in one cable. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcutsWhen adding a controller to a P2P network, I am able to run 16 different P2P lines. Devices from AE2 take up channels; so an interface takes a channel, a terminal takes a channel, a drive takes a channel (note that a drive can hold a number of storage cells, and always takes 1 channel). It is the new and overhauled version of the original Applied Energistics mod. Now its working to the maximum potential it has. More Topics. Interior: 135 Tunnels giving 4320 channels, 5 sides on the outside are required to extract these tunnels. No idea what you're attempting but from the explanation I don't think it's possible. 0 introduces new options to change the way AE2 channels work in your world. Your "main network" just needs 1 channel for an interface as an input/output for all other networks and another channel for a storage bus attached to a storage network like a SSD, but there are better designs in my opinion. I'm kinda surprised that most packs don't call that feature out. With the channel mechanics that are currently in place, you can place a controller surrounded by 6 different color dense cables and then place 32 p2p connections on each cable, for a theoretical max of 6144 channels per controller, so why in the world would you ever need to have more than one controller. The command is: /ae2 channelmode <mode>: to change it This guide was originally created by ShneekeyTheLost. The crafting CPU as a multi-block only requires a single channel for the entire. This item is a pack of lines containing one power cable and eight data channels. E2E will also support Refined Storage automagically, if you wanted to add that to the pack manually and just avoid AE2. Very basic setup, but it should give you the idea. Configure Storage cells to hold diffrent types of items and change how your system stores items. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing,. But you can't attach any devices onto Dense Cable, so you must have smaller cables branch out from the Dense Cable, while the. The 6th Terminal doesnt get powered (or it steals the power from a Terminal further away which then goes offline). ago. Images. 1. AE2 has the meteors. ago. Or use other mods to insert into any ME Interface. 3. That's where local dense energy cells come in, especially in remote locations. The only catch is that you have to run a separate p2p tunnel to access the auto crafting capabilities. MK234. The Network Visualisation Tool is a tool added by the AE2 Stuff mod. Cables. For a start, a simple 1k Crafting Storage should be enough. You can then right click this Memory Card on other P2P tunnels on the same network in order to link them together. From there, you can have any number of exit points. Compact Machine Tunnels (the connection from inside walls to the outside faces) will replicate any Forge Capabilities (a code thing used in many mods) between the blocks next to the tunnel and outside face. ago. So I was setting up automation for AE2 components when i came across a problem with the channels, on the import buses one always says "Device missing channel" and I have switched cables to dense cables behind and I cannot seem to fix it when i remove an interface behind one of the inscribers the. Because if it was on a server, having someone make an extremely large network and destroying and replacing a block would cause insane lag for the server. While I personally don't mind channels, not having to deal with them means faster ramp up from AE2 start to auto-processing all the things. The ME Controller is a block added by the Applied Energistics 2 mod. 7, just about everything you used to know about it is now different, and there's new mechanics that need addressing. Looks to me like you may be using more than eight channels. Disabling Channels will break the Crafttweaker Scripts (Custom Recipes), since there's one for the Controller, this will utterly break every recipe in the pack due to the way that AE2 handles disabled items, and the way that Crafttweaker works, if you want to turn off Channels, you WILL have to go into the files. e. It is easiest to break your in half so that they can't try to pass all 16 channels out one end. Not quite. Instead of subnets, you can also use p2p tunnels to condense channels 32:1 (one dense cable per channel). The point of P2P isn't to get more channels, simply to get more channels through a smaller cable. but autocrafting is unavailable for more than 8. Found something new, i used some dense cable's to see if the problem is with the standard glass cable. It is possible to transport energy, fluids, vis, redstone signals, light, and even space. For items I know for sure it exists, I saw it. • 15 days ago. More Topics. So 1 dense cable can serve 4 of those crafting towers. ME Drives are a device in Applied Energistics 2 which allow users to store up to 10 ME Storage Cells as opposed to a single cell that can be placed in a ME Chest . You don't need to waste a side of the controller on power, you can power the controller through a cable, you can use multiple controllers. On default configuration a normal cable holds 8 channels, a dense cable holds 32. What any P2P tunnel does is connect 1 input to any number of outputs for a specific resource. BUT I fear I might be out of channels one day, once I have so many ME Storage Buses. By the end of E2:E I had 5 full channels full. So within rule 2, there are 6 corner blocks (max 3 connections), 60. RefinedStorage users I guess you fall into the channels off category. It is the new and overhauled version of the original Applied Energistics mod. craftersland. There's a new configuration option in the general section (channels) which controls this option, and a new in-game comman for operators to change the mode and the config from inside the game. This is no longer a problem. Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading,. Just disable the channels. There's 32 channel cables the bigger ones if you are interested. Instead of subnets, you can also use p2p tunnels to condense channels 32:1 (one dense cable per channel). As the title says, I'm playing Enigmatica 2, but HWYLA doesn't show me the channels through AE2 conduits, nor the energy in EnderIO capacitor banks and energy conduits. If it is already possible with vanilla and AE2 itself, the suggestion will be considered invalid. Jan 20, 2016. Even without the perfect ME controller layout, it's pretty easy to get lots of channels. . Doesn't mean it's bad, it just seems. Device missing channel. Void junk/non stackable items or store. r/feedthebeast. Applied Energistics 2's ME Networks require Channels to support devices which use networked storage, or other network services. #1.