Applied Energistics 2

Applied Energistics 2

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A way to provider inventory list and item counts to other mods.

xtended2l opened this issue ยท 1 comments

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Describe the feature

Please add the way to provide full inventory list with counts of all items stored in ME system to other mods.
Current ME interface only provides a way to output specific items from ME system to other mods, and acts as an intermediary "chest", but gives no information about whole inventory, that can be actually "red" using other logistic mods.

Reasons why it should be considered

I am playing with different mods, as all of them have convenient usages. For an instance Super Factory Manager has "retain" operator, which allows you to get specific amount of items from other inventories and leave specific amount of items in stock. It works well with Sophisticated Storage Controller and Functional Storage controller, as they provide information about all connected storage as unified inventory and gives a way to take how much is needed and leave some in stock for other usage.
Another usage is to read information by using integrated dynamics inventory reader to do accurate automation, while AE2 excels at storage and autocrafting, integrated dynamics provides a lot of fine tuning capabilities using operators. But you cannot befriend them, as AE2 gives no information about its inventory.
There are a lot of other mods like CC: tweaked, xnet, pipez, etc, which could accompany AE2 in their own way, but they need to know what's stored inside.

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commented

We have an API that other mods are free to use. We cannot expose an ME Network as a regular "inventory" for performance reasons.