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+package appeng.core.sync.packets;
+
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
+import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
+import net.minecraftforge.common.util.ForgeDirection;
+import appeng.api.AEApi;
+import appeng.api.config.Actionable;
+import appeng.api.networking.IGrid;
+import appeng.api.networking.IGridHost;
+import appeng.api.networking.IGridNode;
+import appeng.api.storage.data.IAEItemStack;
+import appeng.container.implementations.ContainerCraftAmount;
+import appeng.core.AELog;
+import appeng.core.sync.AppEngPacket;
+import appeng.core.sync.network.INetworkInfo;
+import appeng.crafting.CraftingJob;
+import appeng.me.cache.CraftingCache;
+import appeng.util.item.AEItemStack;
+
+public class PacketCraftRequest extends AppEngPacket
+{
+
+	final public IAEItemStack slotItem;
+
+	// automatic.
+	public PacketCraftRequest(ByteBuf stream) throws IOException {
+		slotItem = AEItemStack.loadItemStackFromPacket( stream );
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void serverPacketData(INetworkInfo manager, AppEngPacket packet, EntityPlayer player)
+	{
+		if ( player.openContainer instanceof ContainerCraftAmount )
+		{
+			ContainerCraftAmount cca = (ContainerCraftAmount) player.openContainer;
+			Object targ = cca.getTarget();
+			if ( targ instanceof IGridHost )
+			{
+				IGridHost gh = (IGridHost) targ;
+				IGridNode gn = gh.getGridNode( ForgeDirection.UNKNOWN );
+				if ( gn == null )
+					return;
+
+				IGrid g = gn.getGrid();
+				if ( g == null )
+					return;
+
+				CraftingCache cc = g.getCache( CraftingCache.class );
+
+				try
+				{
+					CraftingJob cj = new CraftingJob( cca, slotItem, Actionable.SIMULATE );
+
+				}
+				catch (Throwable e)
+				{
+					AELog.error( e );
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	public PacketCraftRequest(ItemStack stack, int parseInt) throws IOException {
+		this.slotItem = AEApi.instance().storage().createItemStack( stack );
+		this.slotItem.setStackSize( parseInt );
+
+		ByteBuf data = Unpooled.buffer();
+
+		data.writeInt( getPacketID() );
+		slotItem.writeToPacket( data );
+
+		configureWrite( data );
+	}
+
+}