ME Molecular Assembler Chamber

Description

The ME Molecular Assembler Chamber is not a specific block but is a combination of blocks that together combine to form a single unit useable as part of an ME Network from the Applied Energistics mod. For those familiar with Railcraft the construction of the most basic MAC is similar to that of the Coke Oven.

To "craft" an ME MAC you need to first build a frame (all edges and corners of a rectangle or square) using ME Assembler Containment Wall. Then fill in the walls, ceiling and floor of the structure with ME Heat Vent. Before closing up the structure entirely you need to completely fill it (inside) with any combination of ME Pattern Provider or ME Crafting CPU which allow your ME network to store patterns for auto-craft recipes placed inside the Pattern Provider.

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Cutaway of a Molecular Assembler chamber

Once the structure has been properly assembled (frame of Containment Walls, insides filled with pattern providers and/or crafting cpus, and outside faces filled in with Heat Vents) the structure will "complete" and the graphics will change to indicate the MAC has been properly assembled.

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Completed 4x4x4 ME Molecular Assembler Chamber

As you get more resources to build the different MAC components you can break pieces off and rebuild it with no loss of the stored patterns.

Note

The smallest MAC you can build, by definition, is a 3x3x3 cube containing either one ME Pattern Provider or one ME Crafting CPU.

The largest is not yet known (unless indicated in code somewhere) but MAC containing over 225 CPUs and over 20 Pattern Providers have all worked with no issues. Also, a MAC has been made consisting of 15,561 CPUs and 64 Pattern Providers. It causes a fair amount of lag but does work. The structure is 25x25x25.