Crucible - The Crucible is one of the first and also most important items you will use in Thaumcraft. You can create it by using a casting wand on a regular cauldron from vanilla Minecraft.



To be able to use it, you need to either light a fire or place lava directly beneath it, and fill it with a bucket of water. After a few seconds, bubbles will start to rise and you will be able to use it. You can then throw items in it to extract the aspects contained within - refer to this list to see what items contain which aspect.



You can use a tallow golem to keep the crucible refilled at all time. Connecting one or several arcane bellows to its sides will reduce the time it takes for the water to boil, and if you attach one or several arcane alembics, you can siphon off any excess aspects that would otherwise end up in the local aura, causing flux to appear.



If you keep scribing tools and some paper in your inventory while throwing things into the crucible, there is a small chance that you might make a random discovery.

Arcane Worktable - The Arcane Worktable is created by using a Casting Wand on a Table. It functions like a regular crafting table, but in addition to that, it allows you to craft some entry-level Thaumcraft items that require the use of vis. You need to place a crafting wand in its GUI for these crafting recipes to work.

Research Table - The Research Table is used to research new items and technologies. You can create it by using scribing tools on two tables that are placed adjacent to each other.



You can find a detailed explanation on how to use the research table on this page.

Infusion Altar

The Infusion Altar is created by placing four Arcane Stone Blocks in a square and performing a right-click on them with a Wand. This will use up 25 Vis and cause the stones to turn into an Infusion Altar. You can use the altar for all regular crafting recipes, all recipes requiring an Arcane Worktable and the more advanced recipes that require the use of aspects.



If one of the four stones comprising the altar is mined, the other three blocks will turn back into regular Arcane Stone Blocks. Note that you cannot obtain the Infusion Altar through NEI or other means unless you have researched Magical Building Blocks.



In order to be able to use the more advanced recipes that require aspects, you have to place a Crucible or any other source of aspects (like Warded Jars) within reach of the Infusion Altar. The altar will be able to use any sources placed around it within a 24 x 24 square with the altar in the center, and up to 5 blocks higher or lower than the altar.



The bar below the crafting grid in the GUI shows the aspects required to complete the current crafting recipe. If the required aspects are not supplied, they will be greyed out and the crafting recipe cannot be completed. If you want to create items that require the use of Vis, you have to place a wand in the slot in the bottom right corner. The number below this slot indicates the amount of Vis left in the within the wand, and the number below the crafting output slot indicates the amount of Vis necessary to complete the crafting recipe.

Brain in a Jar 66 Vis 8 8 8 The Brain in a Jar is a disembodied zombie brain that can store experience orbs of monsters and animals that were killed close to it. It can store a maximum of 1000 XP, which is enough to bring a player all the way from level 0 to level 30. If you want to access the XP stored in the brain, just perform one or several right-clicks on its jar, and it will give up the XP orbs.



The brain in a jar is a necessary crafting ingredient for the more advanced golems.



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Arcane Bellows 50 Vis 16 24 Arcane Bellows can used to improve the performance of the crucible, the Infernal Furnace and the regular furnaces from vanilla Minecraft.



If attached to the three designated sides of the Infernal Furnace, the Arcane Bellows will increase the likelikehood of receiving bonus items from smelting, lessen the emission of flux and speed up the smelting process. When the bellows are attached to a crucible, they will reduce the time the water takes to boil.



When attached to a regular furnace, they will not only speed up the smelting process, but they will also allow you to smelt more items per unit of coal - one bellows attached will allow you to smelt 21 items, two bellows will give you 26 smelting processs, three will give you 31, and a full set of four bellows will allow you to smelt 36 items per unit of coal, more than double the usual amount.



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Infernal Furnace The Infernal Furnace is a fuel-free magical furnace that allows you to smelt items efficiently and fast. It is created by placing a structure made out of 12 obsidian, 12 nether bricks, 1 iron bar, and a bucket of lava as shown in the animation to the left, and then using a casting wand with a vis charge of at least 100 on it. A pair of red eyes reminiscent of the fire demon Calcifer in Hayao Miyazakis "Howl's Moving Castle" will appear behind the iron bars, and the furnace will be operational.



In order to use the furnace, you need to throw the items you want to smelt into the opening on the top. Items that cannot be smelted will be destroyed while the smelted items, and experience orbs, will be ejected out of the front - a good spot to place a hungry chest. There is a chance that some extra meat or ore nuggets might get generated while smelting.



Attaching arcane bellows to the three designated spots increases the smelting speed, the likehood of getting bonus items, and it also decreases the output of flux.



If you destroy any block that is part of the furnace's structure, the lava block in the center of the structure will disappear and a blaze will spawn on top of the furnace. If you wish to use the furnace again, you need to renew the lava black, place the removed block back, and again use a casting wand with at least 100 vis charge on the structure.

Magic Mirror 2 100 Vis 16 Magic Mirrors always come in pairs. If you link them up, you can transfer items between both mirrors, even if they are placed in separate dimensions. Transferring items costs 1 vis per 16 items, which will be drawn out the local aura.



To link a pair of mirrors, place the first one a desired location, then equip the second mirror in your quick access bar and perform a right click on the first mirror - both mirrors are now linked. The second mirror can then be placed wherever you want. You cannot link more than two mirrors together. Magic mirrors can be placed not only on walls, but on floors and ceilings as well.



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Arcane Bore 125 Vis 32 64 16 32 24 The Arcane Bore is a fully automatic mining machine. It can only be placed below or on top of an arcane bore base (see below), and it uses both a pickaxe and a Wand of Excavation to mine all materials in the direction it is pointed to. While active, the bore will rapidly drain vis from the local aura, which might cause a large amount of Flux buildup, so you should not use it too close to your homebase.



Once a redstone signal has been applied to the bore, it will start excavating in a circular pattern with a base width of about five blocks and a total range of up to 64 blocks. All enchantments on the pickaxe and the wand of excavation will be applied on the blocks mined by the bore.



The direction of the bore can be changed with a click of your casting wand. Note that you can use two arcane bores on the same arcane bore base; you will have to supply two separate redstone signals though.



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Arcane Ear 30 Vis 8 16 8 The Arcane Ear is a magical device capable of detecting the sound emitted by note blocks from vanilla Minecraft within 64 blocks range. If it detects the sound it is configured to detect, it will emit a redstone signal. You can use this to wirelessly transmit redstone signals over a distance of up to 64 blocks.



Tuning the arcane ear is pretty much the same as tuning a note block (refer to the Minecraft wiki article linked above for details). The tune depends on the material the arcane ear is placed on, and you can change the pitch by right-clicking on it with a casting wand.



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