FTB Ultimate world 6/29 - Thaum Everything
6/29
Server is back up & running. Nice to revisit this town of mine, with all the crazy technoloy all set up. Back to the basic question of what to do next? Go to Thaum Treehouse, research ... hit Wand of Fire right away, record its research and crafting recipes. Throw some nikolite on research table, get a hit on Machina right away, then had to try about 20 items before hitting imperito -- this is for Arcane Ear -- I have no idea what the third aspect could be. Huh, seems like I tried everything here. Stash it for now, throw some copper on the table, get a hit on Victus right away; many trials later I get Imperito (darn little gumby icon again, seems like it's only found in pipe waterproof??), this research is Golemancy, woo hoo! Just need to figure it out. Figure it'll be all kinds of expensive stuff, yes, Animus (ghast tears) 100%. Check my notes, come up with better research plan. Imperito can also be found in blue xy, bronze and slimeballs. Add that to Golemancy research, just one more to work out. I may need a fresh batch of air shards to get Motus, my best guess. Switch to Arcane Ear with a new stash of goods - get Visum.
Try new research with my new cache of goodies ... get vacuo for Lead Transformation right off, then metallum (both from empty cans), switch to bronze, get permutatio, boom, done. Start fresh with magma cream (5 aspects), Mutatio right away -- Goggles of Revealing! I've been waiting to test those out for ages now, to see the flux in the area. Cognito from brains. Okay, will probably need Visum, ran back to town for carrots, use 11, visum at 100%; oh no, looks like there are 5 aspects to this puzzle. Try ender pearls, hit tutamen and praecantatio in one click. Good guess! Oddly, ender stuff doesn't contain tutamen, but I have some leather here ... burned 9 of my 10 leather, discovery done. Back to Golemancy, burn 9 of 10 air shards to get Motus and complete the research. Back to Arcane Ear ... carrots complete visum, then aspects shift to pentagon; I think the wind aspect was a hit but it used my last air shard. Come back to that later.
Document my discoveries now. Looks like it takes two thaumometers to make the Goggles of Revealing, but I had problem making those, they wouldn't come off the arcane worktable. Now I'm out of water shards anyway. Okay, play with more research. Dark xy, new research with vitreus ... Warded Jars. Another good one. Let's guess, probably need vacuo, so grab those empty cans ... yes, done. I've used half a stack of empty cans since starting this new research strategy. Vinculum for binding, got it using string. Again tutamen appears, I guess that's just a free hint. Out of leather, though. Run to town for 34 leather (feed the cows while I'm there). Research done.
New research: brains -> malum + cognito. Brain in a Jar. Another fun one. Guess I should stop fiddling and actually build some of these items. Just finish this one. The text gives hints of "life" and "unlife". Get Mutatio from egges then bronze, and it gives me an Animus icon, but I'm out of ghast tears. I have not seen the little animus ghost icon on ANY other item. Hmm. Guess I'm done for now. I'll have to grind a fresh batch of ghasts.
Anyway, my new research items chest has a selection of items that are fairly easy to get but all have multiple aspects: lumar, empty cans, mushrooms, bronze, wool, slimeballs, carrots, magma cream, netherwart, snowballs, eggs, saplings, lapis, some xy, netherracl, brains, ender pearls. Those ingredients cover all but a few aspects. Ran to spawner/grinder, now hacking ghasts. Let it run for about 10 minutes while I grab a quick dinner (tuna sandwich & yogurt). Got 8 ghast tears. Was expecting more, but ok. Like usual, I have to run a batch of magma cubes to replenish the mob essence tanks. Then another batch of ghasts while tunnelling and exploring a bit. 7 more tears. I hope that's enough to complete those two researches. That's it for now.
Midnight run --
Grabbed some water shards, made 3 thaumometers - no problems this time. Used up 12 ghast tears to finish Brain in a Jar research. Ouch. Still don't know what the last two aspects for Arcane Ear could be. I've made a grid of all the aspects and a few key items that are sources of each aspect; tried Purum (diamonds) and tempus (clock), nothing.
Heck, start a new research. Magma cream is a top item to use for the first guess, since has 5 aspects widely used in Thaumcraft. Anyway, hit right away, mutatio and imperito -- Basic Flux Research -- redstone for machina (3 clicks), swaps to the 5-aspect pattern and the text suggests looking at silverwood, due to its natural resistance to flux. No new aspects in silverwood (but its Purus is a hit), but I did find one aspect (Flos) I had not seen before, only found in flowers and dyes. Permutatio icon appears, burn 6 eggs, 6 clicks, discovery done. Document these recipes & discoveries. Back to Arcane Ear, use grass for Aura, no clue about 5th aspect; it's not purus, could be the difficult Tempus -- do I have to keep making gold clocks to find out? Made 2 clocks, nope, Tempus icon blacked out.
Test new research plan again: magma cream = bam, praecantatio, amber-bearing ore hits with Vitreus (switch to cheap glass), researching Crystal Clusters. Hit Permutatio from eggs, switch to bronze, stuck at 83%. Grab more materials (silver and bronze), done.
Start with lumar, hits on Machina, switch to cheap Nikolite, 3 clicks and done. Theory still unknown. Switch to silver, hit with Metallum, 3 clicks done, still unknown though. Switch to Vis Shards, hit on Vitreus, switch to green xy, also hit on Victus (apple). Grab apples, finish Victus, get hit on Messis which (just my luck) also comes from apples. It's the Theory of Everything, switched to a hexagon pattern. Even with 5 of 6 aspects completed, the scroll is still unreadable? Try silverwood leaves to check Purus, get a hit on Herba instead, complete that with grass. Whoa, this one has a 7th aspect. I'll guess praecantatio for pure magic. Try string first -- the pattern rotates and gives a hit on Bestiola (insect). 7 aspects done, now room for an 8th, scroll still scrambled, only 36% complete! This is a doozie. Brains, hit on Corpus and Cognito and holy cow, the pattern compacts to where there's room for maybe a dozen more icons! Try leather, hit on Bestia and Tutamen. But not Tempus, even though the scroll is now readable and mentions "time." Good. 68%. Let's try to finish this thing. Netherwart -> Fungus -> done. Flowers -> Flos. Final icons pop up: Instrumentum, Venenum, Telum, Sonus (never saw THAT one before, that's what the Arcane Ear needed!). Arrows for Telum. Flint for Instrumentum. I bet Sonus comes from jukeboxes and music discs; I never use them so I wouldn't have thought of it earlier. Yes, Sonus is in jukeboxes, made 4, burned 3 to get to 100%, save one. Now I just need poison. Only thing I know of is my Uranium Ore, but I bet ... yes ... potions of poison will do. And while checking potion recipes I saw an icon I've never seen before, something about healing (Sano)?? Stop at brewing house, make 3 potions of healing, 6 potions of poison. Done!
And it's really late ...
Here's a screen grab of the Theory of Everything, completed:
I had no idea the Thaumcraft research could get that complex. What a fun system.
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Server is back up & running. Nice to revisit this town of mine, with all the crazy technoloy all set up. Back to the basic question of what to do next? Go to Thaum Treehouse, research ... hit Wand of Fire right away, record its research and crafting recipes. Throw some nikolite on research table, get a hit on Machina right away, then had to try about 20 items before hitting imperito -- this is for Arcane Ear -- I have no idea what the third aspect could be. Huh, seems like I tried everything here. Stash it for now, throw some copper on the table, get a hit on Victus right away; many trials later I get Imperito (darn little gumby icon again, seems like it's only found in pipe waterproof??), this research is Golemancy, woo hoo! Just need to figure it out. Figure it'll be all kinds of expensive stuff, yes, Animus (ghast tears) 100%. Check my notes, come up with better research plan. Imperito can also be found in blue xy, bronze and slimeballs. Add that to Golemancy research, just one more to work out. I may need a fresh batch of air shards to get Motus, my best guess. Switch to Arcane Ear with a new stash of goods - get Visum.
Try new research with my new cache of goodies ... get vacuo for Lead Transformation right off, then metallum (both from empty cans), switch to bronze, get permutatio, boom, done. Start fresh with magma cream (5 aspects), Mutatio right away -- Goggles of Revealing! I've been waiting to test those out for ages now, to see the flux in the area. Cognito from brains. Okay, will probably need Visum, ran back to town for carrots, use 11, visum at 100%; oh no, looks like there are 5 aspects to this puzzle. Try ender pearls, hit tutamen and praecantatio in one click. Good guess! Oddly, ender stuff doesn't contain tutamen, but I have some leather here ... burned 9 of my 10 leather, discovery done. Back to Golemancy, burn 9 of 10 air shards to get Motus and complete the research. Back to Arcane Ear ... carrots complete visum, then aspects shift to pentagon; I think the wind aspect was a hit but it used my last air shard. Come back to that later.
Document my discoveries now. Looks like it takes two thaumometers to make the Goggles of Revealing, but I had problem making those, they wouldn't come off the arcane worktable. Now I'm out of water shards anyway. Okay, play with more research. Dark xy, new research with vitreus ... Warded Jars. Another good one. Let's guess, probably need vacuo, so grab those empty cans ... yes, done. I've used half a stack of empty cans since starting this new research strategy. Vinculum for binding, got it using string. Again tutamen appears, I guess that's just a free hint. Out of leather, though. Run to town for 34 leather (feed the cows while I'm there). Research done.
New research: brains -> malum + cognito. Brain in a Jar. Another fun one. Guess I should stop fiddling and actually build some of these items. Just finish this one. The text gives hints of "life" and "unlife". Get Mutatio from egges then bronze, and it gives me an Animus icon, but I'm out of ghast tears. I have not seen the little animus ghost icon on ANY other item. Hmm. Guess I'm done for now. I'll have to grind a fresh batch of ghasts.
Anyway, my new research items chest has a selection of items that are fairly easy to get but all have multiple aspects: lumar, empty cans, mushrooms, bronze, wool, slimeballs, carrots, magma cream, netherwart, snowballs, eggs, saplings, lapis, some xy, netherracl, brains, ender pearls. Those ingredients cover all but a few aspects. Ran to spawner/grinder, now hacking ghasts. Let it run for about 10 minutes while I grab a quick dinner (tuna sandwich & yogurt). Got 8 ghast tears. Was expecting more, but ok. Like usual, I have to run a batch of magma cubes to replenish the mob essence tanks. Then another batch of ghasts while tunnelling and exploring a bit. 7 more tears. I hope that's enough to complete those two researches. That's it for now.
Midnight run --
Grabbed some water shards, made 3 thaumometers - no problems this time. Used up 12 ghast tears to finish Brain in a Jar research. Ouch. Still don't know what the last two aspects for Arcane Ear could be. I've made a grid of all the aspects and a few key items that are sources of each aspect; tried Purum (diamonds) and tempus (clock), nothing.
Heck, start a new research. Magma cream is a top item to use for the first guess, since has 5 aspects widely used in Thaumcraft. Anyway, hit right away, mutatio and imperito -- Basic Flux Research -- redstone for machina (3 clicks), swaps to the 5-aspect pattern and the text suggests looking at silverwood, due to its natural resistance to flux. No new aspects in silverwood (but its Purus is a hit), but I did find one aspect (Flos) I had not seen before, only found in flowers and dyes. Permutatio icon appears, burn 6 eggs, 6 clicks, discovery done. Document these recipes & discoveries. Back to Arcane Ear, use grass for Aura, no clue about 5th aspect; it's not purus, could be the difficult Tempus -- do I have to keep making gold clocks to find out? Made 2 clocks, nope, Tempus icon blacked out.
Test new research plan again: magma cream = bam, praecantatio, amber-bearing ore hits with Vitreus (switch to cheap glass), researching Crystal Clusters. Hit Permutatio from eggs, switch to bronze, stuck at 83%. Grab more materials (silver and bronze), done.
Start with lumar, hits on Machina, switch to cheap Nikolite, 3 clicks and done. Theory still unknown. Switch to silver, hit with Metallum, 3 clicks done, still unknown though. Switch to Vis Shards, hit on Vitreus, switch to green xy, also hit on Victus (apple). Grab apples, finish Victus, get hit on Messis which (just my luck) also comes from apples. It's the Theory of Everything, switched to a hexagon pattern. Even with 5 of 6 aspects completed, the scroll is still unreadable? Try silverwood leaves to check Purus, get a hit on Herba instead, complete that with grass. Whoa, this one has a 7th aspect. I'll guess praecantatio for pure magic. Try string first -- the pattern rotates and gives a hit on Bestiola (insect). 7 aspects done, now room for an 8th, scroll still scrambled, only 36% complete! This is a doozie. Brains, hit on Corpus and Cognito and holy cow, the pattern compacts to where there's room for maybe a dozen more icons! Try leather, hit on Bestia and Tutamen. But not Tempus, even though the scroll is now readable and mentions "time." Good. 68%. Let's try to finish this thing. Netherwart -> Fungus -> done. Flowers -> Flos. Final icons pop up: Instrumentum, Venenum, Telum, Sonus (never saw THAT one before, that's what the Arcane Ear needed!). Arrows for Telum. Flint for Instrumentum. I bet Sonus comes from jukeboxes and music discs; I never use them so I wouldn't have thought of it earlier. Yes, Sonus is in jukeboxes, made 4, burned 3 to get to 100%, save one. Now I just need poison. Only thing I know of is my Uranium Ore, but I bet ... yes ... potions of poison will do. And while checking potion recipes I saw an icon I've never seen before, something about healing (Sano)?? Stop at brewing house, make 3 potions of healing, 6 potions of poison. Done!
And it's really late ...
Here's a screen grab of the Theory of Everything, completed:
I had no idea the Thaumcraft research could get that complex. What a fun system.
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