Building Gadgets 2 AE2 Addon

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An Applied Energistics 2 addon for Building Gadgets 2 that requests missing building materials from AE2's native autocrafting flow. This mod adds AE2 autocrafting support to Building Gadgets 2, sending crafting requests to the AE2 network when materials are missing and automatically resuming placement once crafting is complete.

Features

• Integrates AE2 autocrafting with the Building Gadgets 2 BUILD and EXCHANGE queues.
• Covers the normal and replacement paste stages of Copy-Paste Gadget queues when BGT uses those queues.
• Scans the complete remaining BGT queue before requesting materials.
• Aggregates missing items by AE2 item key, so repeated blocks are requested as one batch.
• Preserves BGT's source order when checking available materials: AE2 storage, the bound inventory, Curios, then the player's inventory.
• Uses AE2's native quantity and crafting-plan menus. No custom crafting GUI is added.
• Keeps the BGT queue paused until the native crafting batch has been submitted and the materials are available to BGT.

The addon does not submit crafting jobs silently in the background. The player confirms the amount in AE2's native amount screen, reviews each native crafting plan, and presses Start before a job is submitted.

Supported Scope

Supported:

• Building Gadget (BUILD)
• Exchanging Gadget (EXCHANGE)
• Copy-Paste Gadget normal paste and replacement paste stages that use BGT's BUILD/EXCHANGE queues

Not handled by this addon:

• Cut-Paste Gadget (CUT)
• Destruction (DESTROY)
• Undo-destruction (UNDO_DESTROY)
• Queues with needItems=false
• Fluid materials
• Creative-mode players

Unsupported queues are left to Building Gadgets 2's original behavior.

Requirements

| Applied Energistics 2 | Building Gadgets 2

How It Works

1. Bind a Building Gadgets 2 gadget to an active AE2 Wireless Access Point.
2. Make sure the AE2 network has a pattern that can craft the required block item.
3. Start a supported BGT building or exchange operation.
4. When the remaining queue lacks materials, the addon scans all remaining positions and aggregates the missing quantities.
5. Confirm the quantities in AE2's native amount screen.
6. Review and start the native AE2 crafting plans.
7. Once the complete batch is submitted and its materials are available, BGT resumes its normal extraction and placement process.

AE2 can plan one requested item key per crafting plan. For several different missing items, AE2's native queue presents and submits those plans sequentially. The addon keeps the complete BGT batch paused throughout that sequence.

The development runtime also needs the dependencies declared in build.gradle, including GuideME for AE2's runtime dependency chain.

Issues

For bugs, optimization ideas, or feature suggestions, feel free to open an issue or pull request.(in GitHub) or leave commments.

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

Features

• Integrates AE2 autocrafting with the Building Gadgets 2 BUILD and EXCHANGE queues.
• Covers the normal and replacement paste stages of Copy-Paste Gadget queues when BGT uses those queues.
• Scans the complete remaining BGT queue before requesting materials.
• Aggregates missing items by AE2 item key, so repeated blocks are requested as one batch.
• Preserves BGT's source order when checking available materials: AE2 storage, the bound inventory, Curios, then the player's inventory.
• Uses AE2's native quantity and crafting-plan menus. No custom crafting GUI is added.
• Keeps the BGT queue paused until the native crafting batch has been submitted and the materials are available to BGT.

The addon does not submit crafting jobs silently in the background. The player confirms the amount in AE2's native amount screen, reviews each native crafting plan, and presses Start before a job is submitted.

Supported Scope

Supported:

• Building Gadget (BUILD)
• Exchanging Gadget (EXCHANGE)
• Copy-Paste Gadget normal paste and replacement paste stages that use BGT's BUILD/EXCHANGE queues

Not handled by this addon:

• Cut-Paste Gadget (CUT)
• Destruction (DESTROY)
• Undo-destruction (UNDO_DESTROY)
• Queues with needItems=false
• Fluid materials
• Creative-mode players

Unsupported queues are left to Building Gadgets 2's original behavior.

In a word,this mod adds AE2 autocrafting support to Building Gadgets 2, sending crafting requests to the AE2 network when materials are missing and automatically resuming placement once crafting is complete.