Thaumcraft 6

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Thaumcraft 6
Name	Thaumcraft 6
Creator	Azanor
Type	Magic
Latest Version	6.1.BETA26
Minecraft Version	1.10.2, 1.12.2
Website	CurseForge
Add-on Mods	Thaumcraft Inventory Scanning Thaumic Additions: Reconstructed Thaumic Energistics 2 Thaumic JEI Thaumic Periphery Thaumic Tinkerer 5
Root Mod	Minecraft Forge, Baubles
Modpacks	Direwolf20 1.12 Pack Feed The Beast Builders Paradise Feed The Beast Interactions Feed The Beast Revelation Feed The Beast Sky Adventures Feed The Beast Sky Odyssey Feed The Beast Stoneblock 2

Thaumcraft 6 is the sixth major iteration of the Thaumcraft series of magic mods, designed and maintained by Azanor for Minecraft 1.10.2 and 1.12.2. The mod casts the player as a thaumaturge studying the magical underpinnings of the world: scanning blocks, mobs and items to learn their essentia composition, then using that knowledge to enchant, transmute, infuse and automate.

Getting started

A new player begins by sprinkling Salis Mundus on a vanilla Crafting Table to create an Arcane Workbench, then crafts a Thaumometer to scan the world. Each scan grants observation points and reveals the essentia aspects bound to the target. From there, the player gradually unlocks the seven research categories through the in-game theorycraft minigame conducted at a Research Table.

Research categories

The Thaumonomicon is divided into seven major research categories, each unlocked through its own discovery research:

• Fundamentals: the introductory category, covering the Arcane Workbench, scanning, basic vis crystals and the Thaumonomicon itself.
• Auromancy: channelling raw vis directly from the chunk's aura through the Caster's Gauntlet and foci, replacing the wands of earlier versions.
• Alchemy: distilling items into liquid essentia in the Crucible and Arcane Alembics, producing reagents like Nitor, salts and potions.
• Artifice: magical equipment, Goggles of Revealing, baubles and the various enchanted devices that improve thaumaturgical work.
• Arcane Infusion: high-tier crafting on the Infusion Altar, using a Runic Matrix, Arcane Pedestals and pooled essentia to imbue powerful items.
• Golemancy: building golems with a Clockwork Mind or Biothaumic Mind core and assigning them tasks via seals and the Golemancer's Bell.
• Eldritch: the most dangerous research line, dealing with flux, taint, cultists and the otherworldly. Unlocking it requires reaching deeper aura tears and accumulating warp.

Major changes from earlier versions

• Wands have been replaced by the Caster's Gauntlet, a worn item that draws vis directly from the chunk's aura instead of storing it internally.
• Vis is no longer pumped from nodes into wands. The aura is the live, depletable resource that all spells and arcane crafting consume.
• Research has been reworked into a per-category theorycraft minigame at the Research Table, fed by inspiration earned from scanning, Curiosities and other study items.
• The infusion structure has been simplified and now uses a Runic Matrix and Stabilizer/Redstone Inlay system for managing instability discharges.
• Essentia transport is built around tubes, buffers and the Filling Essentia Transfuser / Emptying Essentia Transfuser pair.
• The Eldritch tab is gated behind exploration and warp accumulation, no longer trivially unlocked.

Compatibility

Thaumcraft 6 ships as a Forge mod for Minecraft 1.10.2 and 1.12.2 and depends on the Baubles library for its accessory slots. Many other mods extend it via the public Thaumcraft API for adding aspects, recipes and devices.