MEGA Cells
MEGA Cells (v2.4.6) — tagline “ME Greater Accumulation Cells, for when kilobytes just won’t do” — is the answer to Applied Energistics 2’s storage cells running out of room. It adds MEGA Crafting Storage cells in five tiers (1M, 4M, 16M, 64M, and 256M — literal millions of items per cell, dwarfing AE2’s stock 256k ceiling), plus matching MEGA Pattern Provider, MEGA Interface, and MEGA Crafting Unit/Monitor blocks to run crafting operations at that scale. The MEGA Crafting Co-Processing Unit (in-game name “MEGA Crafting Accelerator”) adds four co-processing threads per block for parallelizing complex auto-crafts, and a Superdense Energy Cell and new “Sky Steel” material tier back the whole system with correspondingly huge power buffers.
Server config trims two things back from the mod’s most extreme settings: CompressionChainLimit is capped at 3 (limiting how many compression tiers MEGA Cells will auto-generate/search for a given item) and AllowSpentWaste is disabled, meaning MEGA Cells’ nuclear-waste storage compatibility hook is switched off on this server.
Anticipated questions
Q: What does MEGA Cells do? A: It answers Applied Energistics 2’s storage cells running out of room, adding MEGA Crafting Storage in five tiers (1M–256M items per cell, dwarfing AE2’s 256k ceiling) plus matching MEGA Pattern Provider, Interface, and Crafting Unit/Monitor blocks. See Storage & Applied Energistics — Getting Started.
Q: Can it speed up big auto-crafts? A: Yes — the MEGA Crafting Co-Processing Unit (“MEGA Crafting Accelerator”) adds four co-processing threads per block for parallelizing complex auto-crafts.
Q: Where does it sit in progression? A: Late — it’s for “when kilobytes just won’t do,” backed by a Superdense Energy Cell and a new “Sky Steel” material tier for huge power buffers, well past basic AE2 storage.
Q: Anything trimmed on this server?
A: Yes — CompressionChainLimit is capped at 3, and AllowSpentWaste (its nuclear-waste storage hook) is disabled.