Applied Energistics Introduction

Do you remember your Fluix Crystal seeds? Hopefully they're done growing by now. They take a long time to grow. You can grind Crystals into 2 Dusts, craft them into seeds, and grow those seeds into Pure Crystals. Doing this will produce twice as many Crystals. The Pure Crystals can be used in crafting recipes in-place of standard Crystals.

  1. We are going to need a lot of Quartz GlassQuartz Glass. Make 40 Quartz Glass by getting 40 Glass and 50 Nether Quartz Dust by putting Nether Quartz into the Quartz Grindstone.
  2. Collect your Fluix Crystals from the Water. You should have 8 Pure Fluix CrystalPure Fluix Crystals.
  3. Make an Energy AccepterEnergy Acceptor. An Energy Acceptor accepts energy sources from other mods and converts it into ME Energy. Connect your Galacticraft Aluminum Wire to this block. Or, if you're unable to do so, craft a Vibration ChamberVibration Chamber. This takes in solid fuels such as Coal or Charcoal and produces ME Energy.
  4. Follow the steps in the ME Cables page to make 4 ME Glass CableME Glass Cables.
  5. Make a ChargerCharger and you get an achievement while doing so. Use the ME Cable to connect the Charger to the Energy Acceptor. The Charger has the ability to charge items that use energy. And the Charger can also turn Certus Quartz Crystals into Charged Certus Quartz CrystalCharged Certus Quartz Crystals so we don't need to go out and find some Quartz Ore that is already charged.
  6. Place a Certus Quartz Crystal into the Charger and wait for it to turn into a Charged Certus Quartz Crystal. Do this 3 more times. The time it takes to charge is different each time.
  7. Throw 4 Charged Certus Quartz Crystals along with 4 Nether Quartz and 4 Redstone into a Water Source Block to get back 8 Fluix Crystals.
  8. Craft 8 more ME Cable and get an achievement.
  9. Craft 4 Fluix Crystals into a Fluix BlockFluix Block, then use that Fluix Block to craft a Crystal Growth AcceleratorCrystal Growth Accelerater, which gives you yet another achievement. Place the Crystal Growth Accelerator adjacent to the Water Source Block that you plan on growing Crystals in. Just having 1 Crystal Growth Accelerator will drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to grow crystals.
  10. The Crystal Growth Accelerator will also be drawing energy from your network so long as it is connected. We don't want it running when we don't need it to, so craft an ME Toggle BusME Toggle Bus. Remove a piece of your ME Glass Cable. Place the ME Toggle Bus on the inside of the ME Cable, then put back the piece of Cable that you removed.
  11. The ME Toggle Bus toggles the connection at this point depending on whether it is receiving a Redstone signal. Place a LeverLever adjacent to the ME Toggle Bus so that it detects the Redstone signal from the Lever when you flip the Lever.

It will be expected of you to grow your own crystals from now on.

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