Getting Started

Getting Started

Modified First Steps

Old Research changes the beginning of Thaumcraft progression. In FIRSTSTEPS, the Thaumometer uses Thaumic Forever's replacement Arcane Workbench recipe. Unlike the original Thaumcraft recipe, it does not require primal crystals.

Once the Thaumometer is crafted, use it to scan blocks, items and creatures. Scanning discovers aspects and provides the research points required by the Old Research system.

Old Research and Research Notes

After FIRSTSTEPS, additional Old Research studies become available. Most later research is no longer completed only by collecting Thaumcraft Observation and Theory knowledge. You must create and solve a Research Note:

1. Carry paper and Scribing Tools.
2. Select an available research in the Thaumonomicon to create its Research Note.
3. Place the note in an Old Research Table.
4. Connect the starting aspects through compatible compound aspects on the hex grid.
5. Complete the puzzle to turn the note into a discovery and finish the research requirement.

Placing aspects consumes aspect points, and working with the note consumes ink from the Scribing Tools. Scanning and combining aspects at the research table are therefore part of normal progression.

This behavior can be changed in config/thaumicforever.cfg:

• Enable Old Research = false disables the Old Research note requirements and restores the original research stages.
• Enable Old Research Only = true keeps Research Notes but removes the standard Thaumcraft Observation and Theory requirements, making notes the primary research gate.

Entering Thaumic Forever

The THAUMICFOREVER category opens after completing FIRSTSTEPS. It is the main entry point to the addon's content and eventually unlocks modular wands, new machines, alchemy, infusion, foci and golemancy.

The category has six main directions:

• NEWALKIMIA: additional crucible transformations and materials.
• NEWINFUSION: baubles, equipment and infusion enchantments.
• NEWAUROMANCY: new focus effects and focus components.
• BASETHAUMATURGY: modular wands, caps, rods, staves and scepters.
• NEWARTIFICE: machines and advanced devices.
• NEWGOLEMANCY: cores and seals.

BASETHAUMATURGY is not available immediately. Its progression goes through VISAURA and then AURANODE, including the required aura-node discovery, before the wand branch opens.

Recommended early route

1. Unlock THAUMICFOREVER.
2. Research TFSCRIBINGTOOLS for improved research supplies.
3. Take NEWALKIMIA for material conversion.
4. Unlock VISAURA, then discover and research AURANODE.
5. Continue into BASETHAUMATURGY if you want modular rechargeable wands.
6. Choose Artifice, Infusion, Golemancy or Auromancy according to your goal.

Entering Primal magic

The separate PRIMAL category opens after discovering RESEARCHPRIMAL in the THAUMICFOREVER tab. Its individual progression and content are covered separately in Research Tree Overview.