Thaumcraft Tips

Progression Tips
You will need MV and HV parts for many of the later Thaumcraft items, but you can research at anytime once you have the basic requirements.

You will need to build wands AND scepters to get the better wands.

Change your GUI scale from Large to see more of the Thaumonomicon at once.

Some researches won't appear until you scan certain items in the world. Scan EVERYTHING, including non-block items like Portals.

The Quest Pages for Thaumcraft do not walk you through everything, but provide a good guide on what you may want to do next.

Finding Nodes
Look in desert environments.

Also, snowy deserts have easier to see nodes. Do you have a thaumometer?

One way is to fly around at night with a copter jetpack, some nodes give off enough light you can see them. (harvest all hives to make them easier to see)

Along rivers is another good place to look for nodes.

Obsidian totems always have nodes, but they may have tough guardians nearby.

You can use i to list the nodes you have discovered. Once you get Goggles of Revealing you get an arrow pointing to a selected node.

Build a Nature's Compass and look for a Thaumcraft magical forest. The mushrooms there can be turned into vishrooms using alchemy that grant a little vis for every one you break.

Aspects
There are some custom aspects that are not needed for progression, but can be combined in the Research Table. There is an additional that is not needed but can be found by scanning and is not listed here.

Essentia
There is a Google Doc listing good sources of Essentia.

Clean Crucible
If you don't want to worry about cleaning up flux goo, you can find paths to use up all of the aspects in the crucible. Here's one that gives both Thaumium ingots and Balanced Shards:


 * Throw in 4 Air Shards, 4 Water Shards, 4 Fire Shards, 4 Order Shards, 4 Entropy Shards, and 4 Earth Shards. This should give you 4 balanced shards back and leave 20 Praecantatio and 20 Victus in the crucible.
 * Next throw in 5 iron ingots to get 5 thaumium ingots. This should leave 20 Victus.
 * Now throw in 5 crushed shard powder (aer crystal powder, aqua crystal powder, etc). This will give you 5 shards and leave zero aspects in the crucible.  Nice and tidy!

Warp
The effects at low levels of warp are annoying but mostly harmless. Some researches will require you to have at least 50 warp.

You can edit a file to make warp always displayed on your InGameInfo. You can eliminate all warp with a Pure Tear, which can sometimes be obtained from a lootbag. BEWARE: it will discharge all warp at once, so be far from your base and be prepared to commit die (may not stop it on some servers, in which case you have to wait it out).