meautocraft

A configurable, plug-and-play autocrafting / stockpiling system.

Requirements

• CC:Tweaked
• Applied Energistics 2
• Advanced Peripherals

Installation

Hardware

• Place an Advanced CC:Tweaked computer (a basic one won't work with the current implementation; PRs welcome I guess!)
• Place an Advanced Peripherals ME Bridge on one side of the computer, connected to your AE2 grid.
• Place a monitor on another side of your computer. You'll probably want to make it fairly big.

Software

Grab gitget

pastebin get W5ZkVYSi gitget

Grab meautocraft. Watch out, this will overwrite your startup file!

gitget abesto meautocraft main

If you want to control installation, you can pass an extra argument to gitget. For example, to fetch the code into downloads/meautocraft:

gitget abesto meautocraft main downloads/meautocraft

That's it, you're good to go! Run startup (or reboot the computer) to get things rolling. meautocraft will now ensure the items you requested are stockpiled to the amount you requested every few seconds. See below for how to set the number of items you want.

How It Works

Autocrafting runs on second tab. You can click through there to check on logs / errors. The attached screen will also switch to showing red error text if something goes wrong.

The attached monitor is updated with the stockpile status, with items being crafted always sorted to the top - so that you always see them, even if you have more items to stockpile than available lines on the monitor.

Usage

The startup script will change the directory of your shell to meautocraft, so your prompt should be meautocraft>. It also sets up completions for stockpile and get. From here, you can:

• stockpile Iron Ingot 128 to ensure you always have 128 iron ingots. Note that the item name is case sensitive!
• get Iron Ingot to see how many iron ingots you've currently requested (if any)

Note that meautocraft will get very confused (i.e. it print big red errors) if you have multiple craftable items in your ME network with the same human-friendly name; for example if you have recipes copper ingots from multiple mods. In these situations, it'll arbitrarily pick one variant. This situation is probably generally a bad idea anyway, and you should enable substitutions on your recipes. This trade-off was picked to both use human-friendly names (so that you can type Iron Ingot instead of minecraft:iron_ingot), and keep code complexity as low as possible.

Configuration

Some aspects of meautocraft behavior can be tweaked using CC:Tweaked settings (see help settings on a CC:Tweaked shell). The available settings:

Setting	Default	Description
meautocraft.requested_amounts_path	/meautocraft.data/requested_amounts	File path used to store the amount of items you requested to be stockpiled. The file contents are read/written using textutils.[un]serialize, so it's effectively a Lua source file with a single table in it. Feel free to check it out, or even edit it if needed.
meautocraft.requested_amounts_path	/meautocraft.data/craftables	File path used to store information about all craftable items in the ME network. Updated each time meautocraft does a round of autocrafting. Mainly useful because querying ME takes many seconds; caching the results allows completions on the stockpile script to be instantenous.
meautocraft.threshold	0.95	Percentage of requested amount under which autocrafting will start. For example, if you requested 100 Sticks, and the threshold is set to 0.95, we won't start crafting at 96 available sticks.
meautocraft.interval	3	Number of seconds between runs of autocrafting
meautocraft.monitor	right	Used to determine which monitor to use if the computer has multiple monitors attached. Ignored if there's only a single monitor.