Universal Alchemy Setup

Thaumcraft provides several blocks and tubes to manage essentia. These blocks typically have very simple behavior, requiring many of them in order to perform more complex things. This article describes a setup which is capable of distilling any item into essentia, storing it, and using it to perform any alchemical recipe, without requiring any reconfiguration of the system.

A word of caution

 * Digital Essentia is much simpler than the setup described here, but it is only available at EV. This setup can be constructed at MV.


 * Some of the blocks and items will require Eyes of Ender. Their chemical reactor recipe is HV, but you can obtain them earlier by looting, enderblooms, or trading with villagers.


 * This setup is fairly expensive in terms of vis. If you want to build it in one go, it is recommended to have some mechanism to quickly replenish vis, like primal shrooms and a hoe of growth, or a mob farm.


 * A large part of the fun is figuring things out for yourself, so we advise playing around on a creative world before reading this article, even if your solution is not as general or stable as the one presented here.