Thaumcraft Tips

What is it?

A magic mod which ties together the rest of the magic mods in GTNH. It is based around studying alchemy, wandcraft, nodes, and eldritch secrets.

There are a few core things to understand before starting Thaumcraft:

1. Aspects
   • These are elemental signs which describe all objects. Ignis represents fire, Aqua represents water, and so on. Primal aspects can be combined to make compound aspects like "Instrumentum" which represents human tools.
   • The aspects that make up objects can be discovered using a Thaumometer. Not all objects are scannable, and sometimes scanning will be blocked until you have discovered aspects. In the beginning you only know the primals.
2. Vis
   • These are physical manifestation of aspects used to power wands and certain magical machines. Vis may be found by killing mobs (the other orbs that drop besides experience), drawing it from nodes found in the world, or by breaking primal shrooms.
   • You need vis to do magical crafts and cast spells using wand foci.
3. Nodes
   • These are nexuses of vis power which can be found in the world. The aspects are random. After scanning them with a Thaumometer, their location will be marked down in your Node Tracker (bound to "I" by default).
   • Late into your thaumaturgical study, you will learn ways to manipulate nodes - adding aspects, merging them, and finding the true secrets behind them.
4. Essentia
   • Essentia are a liquid form of aspects. You can acquire them by burning down items in an Alchemical Furnace.
   • Liquid essentia may be stored in essentia jars, and later can interface with your AE2 system. Essentia are vital for alchemy and infusion.
5. Warp
   • Knowledge does not come without consequences. Glimpsing the truth behind the world and its dark creatures can lead to insanity.
   • Thaumcraft uses a "warp" mechanic. Warp is acquired when learning "taboo" researches in the Thaumonomicon and when doing certain actions in world, like eating zombie brains.
   • You can tell how much you have by using Arcane Litmus Paper, or /checkwarp (if allowed on your server).
   • You DO NOT want to stack warp until you have the means for dealing with it. It cannot be permanently removed until you reach IV tech progression, so be careful about what secrets you try and uncover...

What can I do with it?

Wands

With frugal 5 dislocation focus on a wand, you can move crops around without having to hope for a chance at a seed drop.

TODO: Add useful Thaumcraft stuff

Some stuff to add:

• Metal duping
• Good magic armors
• Dirt replication
• Wand foci
• Hoe of growth
• Infinite lava

Progression Tips

Entering Thaumcraft will require aluminum for screws, which is MV unless you find it as loot.

You can do most alchemy recipes and some crafting recipes with a wooden wand, but infusion is locked until you can get stainless screws for the greatwood wand.

Using wands crafted from either impregnated sticks or iron caps will harm nodes if you pull too much vis.

After greatwood wands, 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. For example, you must scan iron ingots to unlock Thaumium Ingots. 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.

The recipes in the Thaumonomicon are not guaranteed to be the actual gregified recipes. After researching something, look it up in NEI to see the real recipe cost.

If you don't want to solve the research minigame for the 100th time, you can use the Thaumcraft Research Helper (don't forget to enable the addons!) or use the Research Completer multiblock.

Finding Nodes

Nodes give off a small amount of light, so switching your Journeymap to night mode may allow you to identify them in areas you've explored. You can also use a Copter Pack to spot them from the air at night. Hives also give off a small amount of light, so it can be hard to tell from Journeymap alone.

Nodes in different biomes tend to have aspects corresponding to their environment. For example, deserts have lots of Ignis-containing nodes.

Nodes often spawn alongside rivers.

You can see nodes much easier through a Thaumometer or Goggles of Revealing (locked behind greatwood wand progression).

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

You can use the i key 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

Aspects are the types you get back from scanning things (eg "Ordo", "Aer", etc). These can be used to do research in the Research Table.

All aspects, except custom GTNH aspects

There are some custom aspects that are not needed for progression, but can be found on Galacticraft planets or combined in the Research Table.

List of Custom Aspects (spoilers).

Aspect	Combine
Aequalitas	Cognito + Ordo
Astrum	Lux + Primordium
Gloria	Humanus + Iter
Primordium	Vacous + Motus
Vesania	Cognito + Vitius

Essentia

Essentia are liquid aspects obtained from breaking down items in an alchemical furnace. You can use them for alchemy recipes or running certain machines, like the Lamp of Growth, Arcane Bore, or Thaumic Replicator.

Here is a Google Sheets listing good sources of essentia (among another things).

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:

• First, complete the Shard Recrystallisation and the Magical Metallurgy research in the Alchemy tab.
• 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 Vitreus in the crucible.
• Next throw in 5 iron ingots to get 5 Thaumium ingots. This should leave 20 Vitreus.
• 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!

If there's a few lingering aspects left in your crucible and you're not sure how to get rid of them, try throwing some stuff in:

• Fames (x2): throw in sugar to get Nutrient Mix. Requires the Nutrient Mix research in Thaumic Horizons.
• Gelum (x1): throw in a snowball to get 2 snowballs. Then throw them at a golem. Requires Simple Duplication research in Thaumic Bases.
• Ordo (x1): throw in an iron nugget to get a steel nugget. Requires Steel Transmutation research in Alchemy.
• Metallum (x2): throw in an iron nugget to get 3 iron nugget. Requires Metal Transmutation research in Alchemy.
• Pannus (x4): throw in vanilla wheat seeds to get Plax seeds. Requires Plax research in Thaumic Bases.
• Perditio (x1): throw in a bone to get 4 bonemeal (Requires research in ), or one sandstone to get 3 sand, or a blaze rod to get 3 blaze powder (Requires Simple Duplication research in Thaumic Bases).
• Praecantatio (x4): throw in an iron ingot to get a thaumium ingot.
• Telum (x1): throw in an arrow to get 2 arrows. Requires Simple Duplication research in Thaumic Bases.
• Victus (x3): throw in raw beef, raw pork chop, or raw chicken to duplicate it. Requires Meat Growth research in Thaumic Horizons.
• Vitreus (x4): throw in crushed shard powder (Aer, Aqua, etc). to get a corresponding shard, or amber dust to get amber. Requires Shard Recrystallisation research in Alchemy.
• Vinculum (x1): throw in a spruce sapling to get amber. Requires Making Amber research in Thaumic Bases.

Warp

Warp will randomly provide in-world effects depending on the amount you have. Low levels of warp are manageable and can be annoying, but aren't very harmful.

Large amounts of warp can and WILL end your run if you do it too early on. (Unless you can survive withers spawning in your base.)

Some eldritch secrets cannot be understood without at least 50 warp. (The eldritch tab first unlocks at 30 warp, which gives access to void metal.)

If you would like to know most of the warp effects, you can be spoiled here:

2.1.1.0 WarpTheory Effects (spoilers).

Warp	Effect Name	Description
10	FakeBoom	Random explosion noises
10	FakeBoomer	Random creeper charging noises
15	Bats	Spawns bats around you (good source of volatus!)
16	Poison	Adds poison effect randomly. First harmful effect, can be cleared with milk or terrawart
18	Jump	Increases jump height very significantly. If you're wearing jump increasing boots, this might propel you 40 blocks into the air in the overworld. If you're on a low gravity planet, I don't recommend jumping to avoid dying of fall damage.
25	Blood	Rains blood particles from nearby blocks
25	Nausea	Applies nausea effect (screen tearing)
25	Rain	Turns weather to rain. Off on most multiplayer servers.
26	Friend	Spawns a "friendly" creeper with ~110 health and a randomized name. Although it won't explode, it can be infernal, which means it can force choke you if you're afking when it spawns. Or hurt you with vengeance when you try to kill it.
30	Lightning	Queues up more and more lightning strikes over time for when you go outside. This is the first warp effect that really sucks as it makes going outside difficult without bonus hearts or good armor. Get a Thaumic Restorer for all the damage your armor will be taking. Or use electric armors.
32	LiveStockRain	Rains animals on a nearby sky-visible block. Will queue until you get within 5 or so blocks of a valid block. Good source of leather :)
38	Wind	Pushes you around
43	Blind	Applies blind effect
45	Blink	Randomly teleports you a few blocks, including up or down. Can be very disorienting with blind and nausea.
50	Acceleration	Randomly increases ticks nearby?
50	Decay	Inflict slowness? Destroy nearby crops?
50	Swamp	Spawns random trees/swamp water around. Will grief your base.
80	Chest	Scrambles all nearby chest inventories.
80	WitherSpawn	Spawns a wither.

Since 2.1.2.0, warp has been reworked to be less oppressive and puts base griefing much later in the warp progression. The table below may not reflect the final warp effects, this is just copy-pasted from the PR which added the changes.

2.1.2.0 WarpTheory Effects (spoilers).

Warp	Effect Name	Description
5	Message	Displays a random message in chat
10	Fake Explosion	Random explosion noises
15	Coin	Player gets a Thaumcraft coin
15	Pumpkin	If player has no helmet, place pumpkin into helmet slot.
20	Spawn Phantoms	Spawns ghost mobs (disappear when looked at, harmless)
20	Lay Eggs	Player lays eggs at random intervals
25	Fake Creeper	Random creeper charging noises
25	Fake Rain	Fake rain particles spawn near player
30	GregTech Fake Sounds	> 30: Wrench sound > 60: Machine out of power > 90: Howler alarm
30	Spawn Bats	> 30: Bats > 60: Bats are on fire > 90: Bats are on fire and have fire resistance
35	Blood	> 30: Blood particles spawn around player > 70: Blood is black
35	Fake Enderman	Plays distorted enderman scream
40	Spawn Friendly Creeper	> 40: Spawns a "friendly" creeper with ~110 health and a randomized name. Although it won't explode, it can be infernal, which means it can force choke you if you're afking when it spawns. Or hurt you with vengeance when you try to kill it. > 80: Creeper will explode (but do no damage) > 120: Creeper is invisible until right before it explodes
45	Nausea	Applies nausea effect (screen tearing)
45	Jump Boost	Increases jump height very significantly. If you're wearing jump increasing boots, this might propel you 40 blocks into the air in the overworld. If you're on a low gravity planet, I don't recommend jumping to avoid dying of fall damage.
50	Vis Drain	Drains some vis from player's wand
50	Insomnia	Player cannot sleep for a few minutes
55	Thunderstorm	Changes weather to thunderstorm. Disabled on most servers.
60	Spawn Fire Bats	> 60: Spawns some Thaumcraft fire bats > 120: Fire bats can be randomly explosive or devil fire bats
65	Blindness	Applies blindness effect
65	Poison	Applies poison effect. Use milk or terrawart to clear.
70	Livestock Rain	> 70: Rains animals on a nearby sky-visible block. Will queue until you get within 5 or so blocks of a valid block. Good source of leather :) > 140: Rains squid > 210: Rains tainted livestock. Note that it's possible for some of the livestock to survive if there's a ledge or something nearby, and tainted sheep can spread taint, so this one is a bit dangerous.
75	Spawn Doppelgänger	Spawns a mob that: + Follows players around and is leashable + Looks like the player that spawned it, with same max and current health + Heals over time, similar to a well-fed player + When it takes damage, deals same damage to player that spawned it, ignoring armor + On death, drops rotten flesh, with a rare drop of a player head
80	Wither Potion	Gives player 30s of Wither 3, Hunger 3, Slowness 3
80	Spawn Angry Enderman	> 80: Spawns aggro'd endermen. Only occurs at night > 160: Endermen have Invisibility and Strength 2
85	Wind	Pushes you around
90	Ender Pearl	Makes the player fire an ender pearl wherever they happen to be looking
95	Blaze Fireball	After a 2-second delay, player fires 3 blaze fireballs. There's a delay so you can look away from anything flammable.
100	Junk	Fills all empty inventory and hotbar slots with random junk items.
100	Litmus Paper	Gives player some litmus paper. Meant as a warning for upcoming dangerous warp effects. Can only trigger once per 8 hours.
110	Obsidian	Spawns a block of obsidian where the player's head is, suffocating them.
120	Lightning	Queues up more and more lightning strikes over time for when you go outside. This makes going outside difficult without bonus hearts or good armor. Get a Thaumic Restorer for all the damage your armor will be taking. Or use electric armors.
125	Inventory Swap	Does one of the following at random: + If a player is holding an item and has an empty slot in inventory, places the item in hand into the empty slot. + Randomly swaps the items in two slots in inventory (not hotbar)
130	Random Teleport	Randomly teleports you a few blocks, including up or down. Can be very disorienting with blind and nausea.
140	Acceleration	Randomly increases ticks nearby?
150	Inventory Scramble	Completely scrambles player's inventory and hotbar (currently held item will not be moved)
150	Fake Wither	Plays a wither spawn sound effect. Like the litmus paper, meant as a warning for even worse warp effects coming.
160	Countdown Bomb	Player gets a countdown from 10 seconds. Once the countdown hits 0, triggers a real creeper explosion centered on the player. Also spews particles everywhere so other players know to run away.
170	Mushrooms	Randomly places mushrooms, converts grass and dirt to mycelium, and converts cows to mooshrooms.
175	Snow	Randomly places snow, converts water to ice, and spawns snow golems with fire resistance.
180	Decay	Inflict slowness? Destroy nearby crops?
190	Random Trees	Spawns random trees around. Will grief your base.
200	Spawn Wither	Spawns a wither.

You can edit a file to make warp always displayed on your InGameInfo.

In Game Info XML to see Warp (cheats).

config/InGameInfo.xml

Add the following after line 139 (for 2.1.1.0) or just after the </line> closing lightfeet <line> <icon> <str>Thaumcraft:blockTaint</str> </icon> <str> $fWarp: $e{tcwarptotal}$f</str> <str> ($e{tcwarpperm}$f / $e{tcwarptemp}$f / $e{tcwarpsticky}$f)</str> </line>

Options for Warp Mitigation/Removal

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).

(TODO: Add soul brazier, warp tumor, soaps, baths, impure tear, etc.)

Where is X research?

Thaumcraft Research Cheatsheet

TODO: Add some commonly asked research locations