the furture of thaumostatic hareness(question)

[kuroyure]

i wanted to know if any forms of fligth using vis or even elytra improvements will come into the mod, or if that idea was dumped in favor of elytra, otherwise using aer vis is interesting though i feel that the idea of a more wing-like structure would make more sense if aproaching vanilla in that matter or something attchable to armor, perhaps balanced like botania in high drain of energy passed some time or limited time of fligth at low costs but allowing gliding, the use of baubles to aid in fligth is also a concept to take in consideration

[lOmicronl]

This seems more of a suggestion, and thus better suited to https://github.com/Azanor/thaumcraft-suggestions/issues ...

But while I'm here:

I absolutely adore the elytra. Best form of personal flight, period. There is, however, one thing it cannot do: hovering.

Just brainstorming, I could see the thaumostatic harness returning to fulfill that niche. It would be much slower than the elytra, but it would let you hover around in the air while building your base and the like, in "pseudo-creative" flight. It would be an infusion recipe towards the more difficult side of things, and could use the body bauble slot. Volatus essentia as fuel seems fair - though admittedly, whether or not you have Quark installed can make a major difference in how readily available that is.

Another possibility would be some kind of mechanism that would allow the user to expend Volatus essentia instead of elytra durability. It could be an infusion enchant, though a hidden one that only unlocks after scanning an elytra. When flying with an elytra enchanted this way, it would look to drain essentia from jars found in he player's inventory. Only if it finds none to drain, it would start consuming its own durability as normal. Perhaps it could even allow the wearer to activate a speed boost akin to a fireworks rocket (the smallest variant), by rightclicking with an empty hand in flight; this would only work if essentia was available, and would consume a bunch at once. (Considering how super easy fireworks rockets are to get, it might not be necessary. It would, however, probably fulfill the "rule of cool" =P )