Ae2 Extras Wiki & Guide

Craft the lowest-tier cells first, since the mod's storage components and cells follow the same progression as base AE2 but extend past the vanilla tiers. You need a working ME network and a Charger or Inscriber setup before any of the higher-tier components become craftable.

A Mono cell holds only one type of item or fluid, while a standard ME storage cell can hold many different types up to its type limit. Mono cells trade flexibility for raw capacity, so they're best for bulk single-resource storage like cobblestone or a specific fluid.

ME storage cells are limited by both bytes and types, and once you hit the type limit the cell refuses new item types even if bytes remain. Split bulk items into Mono cells and keep mixed items in standard cells to avoid wasting capacity.

Yes, the storage cells are designed to slot into normal ME Drives and ME Chests just like base AE2 cells. Portable cells work in your inventory or in a Cell Workbench for configuration.

Put the cell in a Cell Workbench and add the item or fluid you want it to hold, then the cell will only accept that type. Mono cells are already restricted by design, but partitioning confirms exactly which resource goes in.

Portable cells act as a personal ME inventory you can open from your hotbar, letting you deposit and retrieve items or fluids without a wireless terminal. They don't connect to your network automatically, so you carry the storage with you.

Crafting Storage blocks are placed in a Crafting CPU multiblock to increase how large a single crafting job can be. Higher tiers like 16m or 64m let you queue much bigger recipes than vanilla crafting storage allows.

Yes, the fluid storage cells and portable fluid cells let you store fluids directly on the ME network when paired with an ME Fluid Drive or similar fluid-capable block. Mono fluid cells are ideal for holding large amounts of a single fluid.

Storage cells themselves are lightweight, but very large numbers of item types across many cells can slow network operations. Consolidating bulk resources into Mono cells and keeping type counts low helps keep performance stable.

It's built to extend base AE2, so it generally coexists with other addons that add cells or crafting storage. Conflicts are rare, but if two mods register the same tier names or recipes you may see duplicate or missing entries in JEI.