If your Refined Storage controller uses more than 16,000 FE/t, the controller shuts down. Your network shuts down either fully or partially, and it also leads to frame rate dips, freezes, and crashes when opening the grid. This occurs regardless of how much energy you pump into the controller and isn’t even solved by pumping as much power as you can into every face of the controller block (except one, of course). This is solved by increasing the controller’s energy buffer in the config.

It’s very easy to use more than 16,000 FE/t in Refined Storage due to the various add-ons in the pack (including Cable Tiers, ExtraStorage, RS Addons, and RS: Requestify. Even without any add-ons, it’s still very much possible with a large system, but it’s especially likely with these add-ons that add items such as infinite and cross-dimensional range cards, elite and ultra exporters and importers, diamond and Netherite crafters, diamond requesters, and so on, which all use a lot of power.

I’ve been frustrated over this issue myself for a while until I realized that increasing the controller’s buffer solves the issue. I’ve talked to others who have the same issue on the ATM7 Discord too. As All the Mods 7 has many Refined Storage add-ons that can cause lots of power usage in one’s network, the controller buffer should be increased to prevent this bug from affecting anybody again.

See refinedmods/refinedstorage/issues/3350 and starforcraft/Cable-Tiers/issues/41.

The buffer can be increased in the server config file refinedstorage-server.toml in this line under [controller]:
capacity = 32000

sounds like this is an exercise in energy management to me, need to decide if you reeeeeallly need all those things on your network

I feel like that’s a silly thing to say about a modded Minecraft kitchen sink pack.

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Why do you mark such an important issue as stale?