ClipBoardAE2Integration

# ClipBoardAE2Integration

**Turn a written Create clipboard into a ready-to-use AE2 Processing Pattern — plan your materials on the clipboard, then order the whole list from your AE2 network with one click.**

## ✨ Features

- **Clipboard → Pattern conversion** — Hold a written Create clipboard in one hand and a blank AE2 pattern in the other, then right-click. The clipboard's material list is written into the pattern as its inputs.
- **No GUI, no extra block** — It is a single right-click interaction. Nothing new to learn, nothing to place down.
- **Both hands supported** — Works whether the clipboard is in your main hand or off hand.
- **Uses the list exactly as written** — Every material on the clipboard becomes an input of the resulting Processing Pattern.

## 🎮 What this changes for the player

AE2 is excellent at automating production, but preparing a "shopping list" of materials by hand is slow: you have to open a pattern terminal and add each ingredient one by one, and it is easy to miss or mistype an item.

Create's clipboard is already the natural place to plan a build — you write down every ingredient you need. This mod closes the gap: the list you already wrote becomes an AE2 pattern immediately, so your AE2 system can collect all of those materials for you.

**Before:** plan the materials → open the pattern terminal → manually add every item → save the pattern.
**After:** plan the materials on a Create clipboard → right-click with a blank AE2 pattern → drop the pattern into your AE2 network and request it.

## 📖 How to use

1. Write your material list on a **Create clipboard** (using a quill).
2. Get a **Blank Pattern** from Applied Energistics 2.
3. Hold the written clipboard in one hand and the blank pattern in the other.
4. **Right-click.** The blank pattern becomes an AE2 Processing Pattern whose inputs are the items on the clipboard.
5. Put the pattern into a Pattern Provider (or use it through your pattern terminal) and request it — your AE2 network will gather/craft exactly the materials you listed.

## 🧪 Example

You are about to build a large Create contraption and wrote down 300 iron ingots, 64 shafts and 32 cogwheels on your clipboard. Right-click it together with a blank AE2 pattern, put the resulting pattern into your AE2 network, and request it — AE2 queues exactly the items on your list instead of you encoding the pattern by hand.

## 📝 Notes

- The clipboard must be **written** (it must contain a material list); a blank clipboard does nothing.
- Requires both Create and Applied Energistics 2.
- The mod is intentionally minimal: one interaction, no configuration.