While ME Pattern Providers, ME Import Busses, ME Storage Busses, and other devices are how a ME Network interacts with the world, Terminals are how the network interacts with you.

There are several variants, each with unique functions.

Terminals inherit the color of the cable they are mounted on. They are cable subparts.

As terminals are often the first subpart someone places, it is common to accidentally place them backwards.

A correctly placed terminal will connect directly into the network, often alongside an energy acceptor, and fit neatly into a smaller space.

The basic terminal allows you to view and access network storage contents, as well as request items from your autocrafting setup.

Center section: Access stored items and fluids. Insert and extract freely.

* Left-click – grabs a full stack. * Right-click – grabs half a stack. * Pick block key (usually middle-click) – opens the autocrafting UI if the item can be crafted. Accepts formulas like `3*64/2` or `=32` to craft until storage reaches a set amount. * Shift – freezes the display, preventing reorganization when counts change. * Right-click with a fluid container – deposits the fluid. * Left-click a fluid with an empty container – withdraws the fluid.

Left section: Settings buttons for:

• Sorting (name, mod, quantity)
• Display: stored / craftable / both
• Display: items / fluids / both
• Sort order
• Detailed terminal settings
• UI height

Right section: Slots for View Cells.

Top-right (hammer button): Opens the autocrafting status UI, showing crafting CPU activity and progress.

Crafting (Shapeless)

The Crafting Terminal has all the features of a regular terminal, plus a crafting grid that auto-refills ingredients from network storage.

Be cautious when shift-clicking outputs, as large amounts may move unexpectedly.

Upgrade to a crafting terminal early.

Identical to the basic terminal, but with: * A central crafting grid. * Two extra buttons:

• Empty grid into network storage.
• Empty grid into your inventory.

Crafting (Shapeless)

The Pattern Encoding Terminal resembles a crafting terminal, but its grid is for pattern creation, not crafting.

This is essential for setting up autocrafting patterns.

Same settings as a basic terminal, plus the pattern encoding interface:

* Blank Pattern slot – insert patterns to encode. * Encode arrow – finalizes a pattern. * Encoded Pattern slot – insert an existing pattern to edit it, then re-encode. * Tabs (4) – choose pattern type:

• Crafting
• Processing
• Smithing
• Stonecutting

The central UI changes by type:

Crafting Mode: * Place ingredients via JEI/REI. * Right-click to remove. * Enable substitutions (any plank → stick). Use cautiously. * Fluid substitutions allow stored fluids in place of buckets. * Can encode directly from JEI/REI recipes.

Processing Mode: * Define inputs/outputs with items or fluids. * Left-click/right-click or use pick block key to set stack sizes precisely. * Outputs allow a primary result and optional secondary results. * Input (81 max) and output (26 max) slots scroll. * Can encode directly from JEI/REI recipes.

Smithing/Stonecutting Modes: Match their respective vanilla UIs.

Crafting (Shapeless)

The Pattern Access Terminal solves the problem of hard-to-reach Pattern Providers in dense Molecular Assembler towers. It gives network-wide access to all pattern providers without walking to them.

* Adjustable terminal height. * Options for which pattern providers to display. * Each row corresponds to one pattern provider. * Providers are sorted by block type or assigned name (via anvil or Inscriber Name Press).

Crafting (Shapeless)