Thaumcraft
Thaumcraft is a mod created by Azanor.
Thaumcraft is the primary magic mod in GT:NH, which gates numerous others including Witchery, Botania, Blood Magic, vanilla Potions/Enchanting/Beacons, Ender Chests/Tanks, the Bedrock dimension and more. It is based around studying alchemy, wandcraft, nodes and eldritch secrets, balancing the quest for knowledge against the consequences of forbidden arts. It adds Champion Mobs, Treasure Bags, magical resources and a number of Hazards to world generation.
Starting Thaumcraft normally requires late LV for aluminium screws and access to the Twilight Forest for Shards and Naga Scales.
Benefits
Beyond unlocking other portions of the modpack, Thaumcraft offers useful tools and mechanics.
- Thaumic Restorer - Repairs durability for almost anything
- Rare Metal Duplication
- Boots of the Traveller - direct upgrade over Piston Boots
- Thaumostatic Harness - creative flight
- Wand Focus: Equal Trade - Swap blocks easily
- Wand Focus: Dislocation - move crops
- Hoe of Growth - 3x3 till, tick accelerate trees/crops not normally affected by bonemeal
- Warded Glass - virtually unbreakable
- Everfull Urn - Infinite Water, automatically fills Crucibles and Petal Apothecaries.
- Everburn Urn - Infinite Lava from Ignis Centivis
First Steps
- Wand
- Thaumonomicon
- Arcane Worktable
- Thaumometer
- Scribing Tools
- Research Table
There are two options for a first wand, which is needed to begin Thaumcraft. The standard path is making the Iron Capped Wooden Wand as the Quest Book suggests with "Your First Wand". The Quest Book doesn’t cover everything in Thaumcraft but provides a good guide towards what should be next. The second and more risky option is obtaining a Profane Wand from a Heretic Villager trade, as covered in the Stone Age Thaumcraft Guide, which gives Warp when it recharges. Naga Scales can also be obtained via a combination of Naga Bees and Magic Metal Berry Crops for Naga Scale Fragments and the Thaumium necessary to repair them in a MV Assembler.
The Thaumonomicon can be rarely looted from towers in villages, or crafted by right-clicking a Bookshelf with a wand. The Arcane Worktable is made similarly, with a Table instead of a Bookshelf.
Arcane Worktable
Thaumonomicon
Change your GUI scale from Large to see more of the Thaumonomicon at once. The Crafting Recipes in the Thaumonomicon are not to be trusted. Always check NEI for the correct recipes.
Thaumometer
The aspects that make up objects can be scanned by using a Thaumometer. Not all objects are scannable, and sometimes scanning will be blocked until you have discovered aspects. The quest “Just Tell Me What to Scan Already!” offers a list of items to scan, in order, to unlock aspects quickly. Some researches won't appear until you scan certain items in the world. For example, you must scan iron ingots to unlock Thaumium Ingots, and a torch to unlock the Alumentum and Nitor pages. Scan everything, including non-block items like Portals or entities. GT:NH includes an inventory scanning upgrade. Hold the Thaumometer over any item in an inventory to scan it without having to throw entities on the ground. New discoveries and research points will be shown in a scrolling list. The speed and number of messages can be adjusted in Thaumcraft's configs. Scanning aspects gives points that can be used to unlock new discoveries in the Research Table via a mini-game.
Research
Research requires Research Notes, Research Points, and the Research Table.
Research Points are obtained by scanning new things with the Thaumometer. The Research Table is two side-by-side Thaumcraft Tables, right-clicked with Scribing Tools. Research Notes are obtained from the Thaumonomicon, while having Scribing Tools and paper in the inventory. Scribing Tools require a Feather, Ink Sac, Glass Bottle and Rubber.
Heads Up!
While most aspects can be discovered by scanning, there are some that are not needed for progression, but can be found on Galacticraft planets or combined in the Research Table directly by dropping one aspect over the other in the side storage area. Direct combination can be used to discover new aspects instead of scanning an item for any compound aspect.
Place Research Notes and Scribing Tools in their respective slots in the Research Table to activate the minigame. Aspects must be placed in the hexagonal grid in such a way that all the initial symbols are linked together by aspects they share commonalities with. An aspect will connect to any other aspect it is made from, or can be combined to make. A completed Research Note becomes a Discovery, which can be right-clicked in hand to unlock a new section of the Thaumonomicon.
Research Completer multiblock (TODO)
- Research Helper - ‘’’set for version 4.2.2.0 and all add-ons enabled’’’
- Thaumcraft Research Cheatsheet Spoilers. Lists all research and prerequisites for unlocking.
- Research - FTBwiki.org
- Research Notes - FTBwiki.org