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Applied Mekanistics: Bridging Mekanism Chemicals into AE2

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Applied Mekanistics bridges Mekanism chemicals into AE2 by adding a full line of chemical storage cells. These cells let you hold chemical substances inside your ME network the same way ordinary storage cells hold items, and the mod's crafting section contains eleven recipes in total. Ten of those recipes produce the storage cells themselves, while the eleventh produces the shared component every cell depends on.

The Core Component

Everything in this line starts with the ME Chemical Cell Housing. It is the one shaped recipe in the set: two Quartz Glass, three Redstone Dust, and three Osmium Ingot combine into a single ME Chemical Cell Housing. Because every cell recipe consumes one housing, you will need one housing per cell you intend to craft, so it pays to gather Quartz Glass, Redstone Dust, and Osmium Ingot in bulk before you begin.

Storage Cells

The standard storage cells are shapeless recipes that pair a ME Chemical Cell Housing with a storage component of a matching tier. Five tiers exist:

The tier of the finished cell always matches the tier of the ME Storage Component you put in. A 1k ME Storage Component yields a 1k ME Chemical Storage Cell, a 4k ME Storage Component yields a 4k ME Chemical Storage Cell, and so on up through 256k ME Chemical Storage Cell. Nothing else changes between the tiers — only the capacity implied by the component's name.

Portable Chemical Cells

Each tier also has a portable counterpart. These recipes are shapeless as well, but they take four inputs instead of two: a ME Chest, a ME Storage Component of the chosen tier, an Energy Cell, and a ME Chemical Cell Housing. The five portable results are:

Notice the pattern: a portable cell is essentially the corresponding fixed cell's ingredients with a ME Chest and an Energy Cell added, replacing nothing. The ME Chemical Cell Housing and the matching ME Storage Component appear in both the fixed and the portable recipe for a given tier, so choosing between them comes down to whether you want the ME Chest and Energy Cell form or the plain storage form.

Planning Your Crafting

Because the tiers mirror each other exactly, you can decide on a capacity first and then branch. Pick your ME Storage Component — 1k ME Storage Component, 4k ME Storage Component, 16k ME Storage Component, 64k ME Storage Component, or 256k ME Storage Component — and craft the ME Chemical Cell Housing you need alongside it. From there, add nothing for a fixed ME Chemical Storage Cell, or add a ME Chest and an Energy Cell for the portable version. The Quartz Glass, Redstone Dust, and Osmium Ingot that go into each housing are the only ingredients unique to this mod's chain; the storage components, ME Chest, and Energy Cell come from the broader storage system the cells plug into.

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