A Recursive Crafting Setup

As stated in autocrafting, the autocrafting planning algorithm cannot handle recipes where the primary output is one of the inputs. For example, it cannot handle cloning Кузнечный шаблонs.

One solution is use of a МЭ излучатель уровня's ability to pretend to be a pattern.

This will then be used to turn on a little setup that constantly performs the craft. In this case, we will look at a setup to clone Кузнечный шаблонs.

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Configurations

• The МЭ-интерфейс (1) is set to stock the required additional ingredients: diamond and netherrack.

• The МЭ излучатель уровня (2) is configured with "netherite smithing template", and set to "Emit Redstone to craft item".

• The first Мэ шина импорта (3) is filtered to the items the Interface is stocking. It has a Redstone Card. The redstone mode is set to "Active with signal".

• The first МЭ шина хранения (4) is set to a higher priority than the second storage bus.

• The Молекулярный сборщик (5) has the pattern for duplicating the smithing template, and one smithing template already inserted manually.

  

• The second Мэ шина импорта (6) is in its default configuration.

• The second МЭ шина хранения (7) is filtered to "netherite smithing template". It has a lower priority than the first storage bus.

How It Works

1. The МЭ излучатель уровня pretends to be a pattern due to the inserted Карта изготовления and being set to "Emit Redstone to craft item". Thus, "netherite smithing template" shows up in terminals as a valid thing to autocraft.
2. When receiving a request to craft that item, either from a player or from the system itself, the level emitter turns on.
3. The first Мэ шина импорта is activated by the level emitter, and pulls out the ingredients stocked in the МЭ-интерфейс.
4. The only МЭ шина хранения on the network that is able to store those ingredients is the one on the assembler.
5. The Молекулярный сборщик receives the ingredients (already having 1 smithing pattern inside), and performs the craft, producing 2 smithing patterns.
6. The second Мэ шина импорта extracts 1 smithing pattern.
7. The first storage bus has a higher priority, so that smithing pattern goes back into the assembler.
8. The second Мэ шина импорта extracts 1 smithing pattern.
9. The assembler cannot receive another smithing pattern, so the second smithing pattern goes to the lower priority storage bus, inserting it into the interface.
10. The МЭ-интерфейс, not being set to stock smithing patterns, inserts it into the network.