Minecraft Mod Guides: Thaumcraft

The Part of a wand that determines it's vis discount. Caps for vanilla Thaumcraft include: Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver, Thaumium, and Void Metal. Made with nuggets in a helmet pattern.

A special piece attached to a wand or staff to give it an ability.

The Part of a wand that determines it's properties and vis capacity. Making a wand: Core in center, caps in bottom left and top right.

The Part of a staff that determines it's properties and vis capacity. Also gives the staff 6 damage. Staffs are best used for combat purposes. Staff cores are made with 2 Wand Cores and a Primal Charm.

A modified version of a wand that is many used for utility work. Cannot be included with Foci. Made with a Wand Core, 3 Caps, and a Primal Charm. Staff Cores can also be used for a 'hybrid' staff scepter...

The Crafting Table of Thaumcraft, Thaumcraft recipes can only be made here with a cost of vis from your wand. Made by right clicking a table with your wand.

The semi-complete guide to Thaumcraft and it's add-ons, the Thaumonomicon requires that you do in-game research with the Research Table, Scribing Tools and Paper, in order to unlock it's entries. Made by right-clicking a bookshelf block with your wand.

An item that lets you scan objects to unlock aspects.

Created by infusing magic to a cauldron, when boiling water is added to a crucible and items are thrown in with the right essentia, you can create unique items. Be careful, because if it overflows...

an item needed to do research.

A station where research is conducted. Made by right-clicking 2 table blocks next to each other with scribing tools.

A block used for making the Arcane Worktable and Research Table. Made with Wooden Planks and wooden slabs.

the set worn by thaumaturges that gives a vis discount, and the Goggles of Revealing let you see aura nodes and vis processes.

The mental manifestation of a chaotic force that corrupts a person's mind and makes them have mysterious status effects.

The physical manifestation of a chaotic force that gives whatever it touches the flux flu and makes it harder for them to channel vis. Can come out of a crucible or some other experiment going wrong as gas or goo. Can become Taint.

An item that allows you to check how much warp is in your psyche.

A multiblock structure to infuse items and essentia to create new items. Can be stabilized by heads, crystal clusters and tallow candles. Items are placed on Pedestals.

A Fuel-free multi-block furnace that auto-smelts items. Can be sped up with Ignis centivis. Also the only way to get nuggets from non-Minefactory Reloaded Meat.

A multi-block structure made with a bit of the primordial pearl's power and with Ignis, Aqua and Perditio centivis, can smelt down items into essentia.

A block used with an arcane alembic to create essentia. If fueled by Alumentum to speed up the process.

A block used with an alchemical furnace to create essentia.

A book from the Crimson Cult allowing them to write down their history, but the text is in strange, spidery text, and it talks about Apertis Oculus.

The Ritual of Opening the Eye. Requires Opening the Eye research and the Crimson Rites. Insert 4 Eldritch Eyes into the Altar and infuse 100 vis with a wand, staff, or scepter into the sinister aura node and the portal to the Outer Lands appears.

A mysterious maze-like dimension that contains the Eldritch and the Primordial Pearls.

The 'Key' to something bigger, the Ancient Locking Mechanism of the Ancient Doorway in the Outer Lands.

A pearl of creation, the primordial pearl is obtained from the boss of the Outer Lands, and is used for complex recipes.

A Dark and corrupted land created from flux, and ever so grows to spread it's deadly reach around the minecraft world.

An eye used to insert into an Eldritch Altar at an Eldritch Obelisk.

A point in spacetime that contains vis used for many important processes.

An item that helps track Sinister Aura Nodes in an area.

A focus that lets your wand shoot a spraying fire. Can be upgraded to either shoot a beam of fire or a fireball.

A Strange creature that you can trade with and get interesting items back.

A Focus obtained by a Pech Thaumaturge that lets your wand shoot an orb that inflicts random debuffs. Can be upgraded with Nightshade, which lets it inflict all it's debuffs at once.

A mysterious metal infused with the void and has a regenerative property.

A magical metal made by putting iron and some aspects in a crucible.

An entropy-infused bow that can auto-fire arrows.

The ores for these shards are Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Order, and Entropy, and they are found underground. Fuse a shard with the other 5 Primal Aspects in a crucible to make a Balanced Shard.

An ingredient used to hold mundane materials together with magic. Made by smelting a Balanced Shard.

A fat used to make candles.

There are clusters for each type of primal shard and a mixed cluster. Used to stabilize an infusion altar.

a candle that provides light and stabilizes an infusion altar.

A combat-suited armor made of thaumium.

An upgrade to the original Thaumaturge's set with more protection and warping.

a machine attached to an Aura node to prevent node bullying, but will reduce the node's ability to regenerate vis.

a machine that, with a stabilizer, can energize an aura node to give off centivis instead of having a vis storage.

a block to create centivis paths to devices that use them.

a block attached to an Arcane worktable to charge the wand in it with centivis.

A multiblock structure made to automate crucible work. Can be improved with Mnemonic Matrixes. Needs essentia from tube systems to power, and have a heat source under the crucible.

A self-running bellows that improves several stations, including the infernal furnace.

a pedestal placed next to an aura node to recharge wands.

an upgrade attached to a wand recharge pedestal to break down compound vis into primal vis to be used in wands.

an artifact made in several recipes and recharges wands.

an Essentia storage jar used for several machines. Can hold 64 of any one essentia.

an aura node in a jar, used for having convenient aura nodes in your base, or for thaumaturges on the go. If you want to move it, you need to put it in a big jar of glass and wood slabs, then use your wand to make a Node-in-a-Jar. To release the node, use your wand again.

An upgraded jar that deletes excess essentia when it is full.

an complex essentia storage device that can hold 256 essentia of any combination. Must be filled or emptied by essentia tubes.

A cluster of crystals used to stabilize an infusion altar.

a tube that functions much like Fluiducts from Thermal Dynamics for essentia used to transport essentia around.

a device that acts as a temporary essentia storage for tube systems.

a device attached to essentia tube systems to break down compound essentia into it's components.

a device attached to tube systems to crystallize essentia for convenient essentia storage in chests or an Applied Energistics ME System.

the best staff core in vanilla Thaumcraft, this staff can hold 250 vis of all 6 primal aspects, and can regenerate it's reserves. Made by infusing a Silverwood Rod with a Reed rod, a Blazing Rod, an Obsidian Rod, a Quartz Rod, an Icy Rod, a Bone Rod, and 2 Primal Charms.

It's a Secret! ;) Needs Non-Minefactory Reloaded Meat Nuggets, made by throwing raw meat in an infernal furnace, and Sugar.

A personal helper made from scratch that can be used to do a number of different things.

A station where you can upgrade foci to have different abilities. Requires experience and centivis to operate.

A focus that shoots spraying ice at enemies. Can be upgraded with Scattershot, or Ice Boulders.

A focus that shoots lightning bolts at enemies.

A focus that can trade out blocks for equal valued blocks.

A Focus that can break blocks for mining. Can be upgraded with the same things as a standard pickaxe. Needed to operate an Arcane Bore.

A Focus that creates a hole through which you can pass through. The hole will expire after some time, and if it does, if you are still in it, you are subject to suffocation death.

A Focus that shoots hellcats at enemies. Can be upgraded with stronger Devilbats, Batbombs, or Vampire Bats.

A Focus that shoots a projectile that explodes enemies and does a number of random things afterwards.

A machine that digs holes with magic! Needs a pickaxe and an Excavation Focus. What is on the Focus and the Pickaxe will effect the bore too. Can be powered with Perditio essentia or centivis to speed up digging. Needs a redstone signal to operate.

A mirror for transporting items over long distances. To operate: Place one mirror and right-click with another mirror in hand to link it to that mirror. Then place the other mirror in another spot and the mirrors will activate. The mirrors can grow instability and this slows down item transport, but this can be stopped by relaying Ordo centivis.

A mirror that functions much like a magic mirror, but for essentia, and automatically sends essentia from a storage device to whatever can absorb it without pipes or golems, like an infusion altar.

An item that, when linked to a magic mirror, lets you send items through the mirror, but you can't receive items from the hand mirror.

A core that 'programs' the golem to guard an area from mobs that want to attack your base.

When a golem that has this core is re-placed by right clicking an essentia storage device or alchemical furnace with alembics, this golem will transfer essentia from it's starting point to any essentia storage device marked with your bell.

An item that lets you pick up golems as items and lets you better control golems and give them objectives.