AE2 Inventory Connector

Tom's Storage Inventory Connector + an AE2 Storage Bus is a popular way to put a wall of chests into an ME network, and one of the most common causes of server lag. Tom's connector re-scans its area every second, and the storage bus re-reads every slot of every connected chest whenever it runs.

AE2 Inventory Connector replaces both with one block that does the same job without ticking.

How it works

Place the ME Inventory Connector next to your chests (or connect them with Tom's trims), then attach an ME cable to it. It uses one channel, like a storage bus. Every chest, barrel and modded inventory it finds shows up in your ME network as storage.

• No ticking. The block reacts to events: an inventory changing, a block being placed or broken, a chunk loading. If nothing changes, it costs nothing.
• Only re-reads what changed. When a chest changes, only that chest is read again, and only when AE2 actually asks.
• Cheap for AE2. AE2 asks for the item list every tick while a terminal is open. The connector answers from a cached total, so the cost depends on how many item types you have, not how many slots.
• Works with Tom's Storage. Its trims connect inventories just like for Tom's own connector. Tom's Storage itself is optional.

Right-click the connector to see used slots, connected inventories and item types. Right-clicking also forces a rescan.

Configuration

• Range, scan limit, power use and "only trims connect" are in the server config.
• connectorBlacklist lists blocks the connector must never use: a block id (minecraft:furnace), a block tag (#c:barrels) or a whole mod (@sophisticatedstorage). On 1.20.1 edit config/ae2_inventory_connector.properties and run /reload. On 1.21.1 edit serverconfig/ae2_inventory_connector-server.toml; saving the file applies it.
• Pack makers can also use the ae2_inventory_connector:connector_skip and ae2_inventory_connector:trims block tags.

Recipe

Iron ingots, two AE2 Storage Buses, two chests and an Engineering Processor.

Versions

• Minecraft 1.20.1: Forge and Fabric (AE2 15.x)
• Minecraft 1.21.1: NeoForge (AE2 19.x)

Source and issues: https://github.com/ledokua/ae2_inventory_connector