Increase the number of items kept in stock per ME Requester block

[Yarillo4]

Hi!

There are many ways to keep a set amount of "stock" of a certain item in Applied Energistics 2

Currently the best way to do it is to

1. Place an ME Interface in your network
2. Place a crafting card upgrade in it
3. Make it keep a stock of the items you need
4. Add the interface as an external storage with a ME Storage Bus

It looks something like this:

It's not amazing for server performance

1. They add extra inventories the ME system has to keep track of
2. They make constant export requests just to store the item in the network after (as an external inventory)
3. They craft items one-by-one
4. Keeping stock of several stacks of items makes all of the above happen for every stack of items

A mod that is already present in the pack solves this, it's called "ME Requester"

It has a certain number of advantages

1. They're not an external inventory
2. They read directly from the system to determine how many items need crafting
3. It supports crafting in batches
4. It supports amounts greater than the item's stack size
5. It adds an "ME Requester Terminal" to merge all the requesters UIs in one place

But the ME Requester block currently can only hold 5 recipes per block, a massive downgrade compared to the 32 the Extended ME Interface can hold

You need a massive number of them and each of them steal a channel, so many players opt to use the ME Exteded Interface instead

I want to direct players to the ME Requester as much as possible for performance

This pull request makes the Requester keep track of more items (40 instead of 5) than the ME Extended Interface (32)

[PiggyWhiskey]

I agree 5 is very limiting.

The ME Oversized Interface does what you want in-game though. Or the Quantum Crafter.

[Yarillo4]

??

Have you even read the pull request before saying that?