ThaumCraft Tutorials: Basic Alchemy

Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the eternal planes my name is blaze and welcome back to thundercraft tutorials so last time we went over wands on foci and hopefully by now you have learned how to use your arcane work table or workbench or whatever you want to call

It it’s an arcane work table but if you notice there’s a whole bunch of other crafting you need to do like let’s say you want to use thumium well you need stuff to do that in this case we need well thumia mingotts or not thumb you mean gets but iron and we need

The magic thing but what’s this well that’s a crucible my friends how do you make a crucible well i have one right here but i think it’s best if i show you how to make one now simple as can be you need to make a cauldron pretty simple so far right and

Doesn’t matter which one we use so i’ll use my iron cap for this one put it down iron cap or any other one for that matter and right click boom it is now a cauldron thankfully i need to spare one of these so works out fine for me

I’ll go ahead and push down my chest so what do you do once you have your cauldron well you’re gonna need a heat source if you notice here i’ve got a i’m trying to remember what they’re called right up my head i’ve got a night

Or right under it and the knight or will do just fine generally the knight or doesn’t work like fire but in this case it works just as well as anything else um the other options are you can use lava you can actually use netherrack with firelit under it but you need some

Kind of heat source even just a minor one like night or to really get this thing cooking now how does it work well if we look at our recipes if we want to make night or we need all these elements but we also need a catalyst obviously we need you know boiling water

As well which you know bucket water pretty simple now why do i have a bucket of water on my wall let’s say we screw up and we accidentally make some flux this is gonna allow us to fix that simple flux is easy enough to break down with water

But you need to know what you’re doing which is a key thing and hopefully we don’t have an accent but in case there is one i have it on hand off to the side without an issue and water right behind me to make sure that this doesn’t become an issue

So what do we all make well we might want to actually make thumbium so for thomium we need four magic and some iron now the trick here is finding stuff that has what you’re looking for in this case we’ve got all these shards and we happen to have a ton of them

So we might be able to actually use this so let’s see let’s throw one down and i need my thermometer look at that it’s got magic sadly it’s got a bunch of other stuff and that’s gonna be where our problem entails now what do i mean by problem well

Whenever you put stuff in your cauldron it’s going to boil down eventually but you want to catch it before it boils down so in this case we need four magic and a bit of iron let’s make sure we have these on hand there’s our iron and we need four magic one two three

Four and then one ingot and we now have a thomium ingot but if you notice there’s some weird bubbles going on in there now let me explain what’s happening right now in the cauldron all those elements and stuff that we just do in are still in there they’re

Not gone we just used up the magic so if we actually look at our earth shards that means there’s about eight earth and about four crystals still in there and that’s a problem as that continues to boil down and boil down it’s going to break down into its

Most base elements thankfully earth is already pretty base so it’s not really going to do too much up but there’s our problem i knew it was going to happen so let’s grab our bucket and a quick tap of the bucket drop and pick up right and the flux is gone

But if you notice there’s still a couple of colored uh bubbles there so yeah we have a chance of more flux happening which is kind of an issue and there’s two kinds of flux that comes from this the gas which you just saw rise and a more liquid form which is kind of

Nasty now since we’re playing blightfall you guys already know what taint looks like so imagine this but on a bigger scale and that’s what causes blightfall bad alchemy now we’re just gonna kind of i’m trying to think of like can we just let this be or no no we want to get rid

Of what’s in there so oh looks like the bubbles are gone so i guess we don’t have to but say you want to get rid of all the crap that’s in your cauldron all at the same time anyways shift right click and you will empty your cauldron pretty nice right

However keep in mind that doing that will instantly cause any flux so be prepared to immediately take care of it let’s go ahead and refill this so you guys are probably going there has to be a safer way there has to be well in fact there is essentially it essentially you need essentia

That’s going to be a bit pure something that doesn’t have other crap in there and since every item in the game has essentia it’s like well maybe there’s an item out there that carries just one or two yeah yeah there’s a couple like this one has only three

But if you look at my soapstone bricks they only have one so doing your research you could potentially find stuff that’s pretty boiled down already but it might be better if you make your own how let’s get on to that over here you’ll notice there are warted jars

Water jars are gonna become essential for what we do here in just a moment so you might want to grab a wooden slab and some glass panes also keep in mind that these are gonna be essential later on as well so making a handful wouldn’t exactly hurt you

I’m gonna go ahead and make a good handful here myself so let’s see i’ll make oh that’ll be fine and if we do this 16 32 and that should be enough for now so now we put this in our arcane workbench slab and we have some jars awesome okay well what else well

The jars are for holding it but we need something to break it down well for that we’re going to need to do the research so that we can get our alchemical furnace now chemical furnace requires a crucible a furnace an arcane stone i’ve already shown you how to make your

Crucible which is great you know we we’ve already nailed that that part you shouldn’t know how to make a furnace by now i’m hoping if you don’t we got a problem but on the next note we do need to make the stone now how do you make the stone well for that

You’re going to need shards and you need to surround it with stone in this case i’m missing a little bit of earth fizz but i have that on this one so we’re gonna go ahead and make that and then i’m gonna switch my wands back out

There we go oh it’s good to have a spare wand on hand right okay so according to our recipe we’re going to need the arcane stone a furnace and a crucible so taking out our shards we need arcane stone furnace and crucible boom okay mcfurnace

Now obviously if this was it it’d be way too easy right well this is the base piece it’s gonna get a little bit more complex so you’re gonna have to bear with me you’ll notice there’s other pages here and for good reason we need to actually build at least the arcane emblet m

Alambic there we go now i’m gonna need a spare bucket sadly which is gonna kind of suck because i’ve only got one spare on me i’m gonna go ahead and drop off some of my stuff here hope you guys don’t mind if you do i apologize okay

So now that we’ve got our alambic there we need to build or not allenby i okay make furnace we need to build a couple other things now we’re gonna need some best filters which is gold and some silver wood planks so we got some silver planks we need the gold

Come over here and once more we’re going to i said we build two two seems adequate oh well apparently it builds in groups of two which is fantastic okay once we have that we’re gonna need our bucket gold and iron for just one so sadly only one bucket that can spare

Because if we have another accident i’d like to be able to take care of it oh i seem to have put away my iron silly me there we go now using my iron boom there we go and this goes right on top just like that now keep in mind that you might want

This more in the open instead of flush against the wall i just happen to like mine flush against the wall to start with later on i’m gonna have an entire room that’s dedicated to just this thing which is gonna make more sense later now we’re gonna need some tubing

We’re gonna need some quick silver drops and the way you get quicksilver drops is pretty simple let me actually type that in and quicksilver drops are gotten from well quicksilver quicksilver on the other hand is received from shimmer leaf or by smelting cinnabar now there’s the kicker you’re either going

To have to sacrifice your shimmer leaf or you’re going to have to go and get cinnabar cinnabar ends in a variety of different mod packs easy enough to get a hold of but you’ve got to keep in mind that shimmer relief is going to be your most readily available source and here blightfall

That right there is already like but i need shimmery for everything else like to help cure the plague according to my thermonomicon this is true this is true i will not disagree with that but one or two is not going to kill you now we’re gonna need that glass iron and gold nuggets

Well let’s see we got our glass we got our iron we just need gold nuggets so gold into gold nuggets there we go iron and glass now you’re not going to need too many of these at least not to start but i am going to show you a small problem that does occur

And you’re gonna have to find creative ways to kind of figure it out so once again we’re gonna go over here we’re gonna put down a bottle here a bottle here and just to kind of prove a point later we’re gonna put a ball there okay so let’s go ahead and get started

First off we are going to take our piping and put over here going to our alambic or in our own back or furnace i am really being silly today and we need fuel and we need something to burn down once again we’re going to use earth’s charge because it’s

Something that’s rarely available to us and this time we’re just going to take we’re going to use eight now eight is going to be something that’s very important that’s a very important number you need to remember it got so eight in here and what’s going to happen

Is this is going to cook down all the essence and as it cooks down it’s going to store the essence and then some of the essence is going to go up into here into the alambic okay if you have the goggles of revealing which are creation done in

I believe artifacing yep there they are if you have these goggles right here you’ll actually be able to see what essentias are going through here and what’s in what now if you notice this has stored a lot of stuff but it can’t get rid of it that’s because the alan bick is full

And if you notice we did get some magic but there’s gotta be other elements in there right well the way you solve this is you connect it to another bottle but watch what happens if the ball is connected to the same pipe see that smoke that smoke means that

A particular type of essentia is more or less taking over it’s saying no this is mine so in that case it’s a magic essentia let’s break that and it’s gonna go back to normal now on the contrary if we go and we do this there we go and it is draining out crystal

Okay now we could just solve this problem right here by breaking this bottle which drops it with the essentia inside and putting down the new bottle which is now our earth elemental pretty nifty right now keep in mind that essentia will contest and there are ways around this including other tubes

Which can be found right in here however i’m to let you guys kind of discover your own way of doing it and figure that out if you want maybe in a later tutorial we’ll get into more advanced forms of breaking down the sanchia and reforming it but for now that’s the

Basics and what you’re more or less going to need now remember how i said eight now this is gonna be a kicker because i’m gonna need you to follow me on this for various reasons now if you notice i’m kind of waddling my way through our little home here

As you will actually see in our bite fall series and i had to go get some clay now why clay what am i doing what’s happening here essentially if you have a little bit of clay some glass in the shape of a bucket you’ll get files now files in this case

Are used to hold essentia now if you notice we’ve got some crystal here and the crystal is now holding eight not too bad right oh looks like some other essentials draining in there let’s put that in there and now we’ve got crystal over here and we

Got magic over here but if you notice i can’t drain the magic that means something has gone awry well to fix that we’re gonna need to be a bit more smart about things first off we could put two bottles down but if you notice they’re not draining into one another

This is gonna be a bit of an issue if you’re not careful so what you’re gonna need is you’re going to need a jar label now jar labels can be made by you know taking essentia and toss them on the label itself but in this case we need ink a slime

Ball and paper now i happen to have some paper here and i believe i have some inks somewhere but the slime ball is going to be a bit more problematic so we gotta be a little bit more careful of that let’s see ink i believe i have right here and slime ball

I’m actually not sure if i have anything that can work as a slime ball let me think here for a moment this could actually be a legitimate problem blind ball slimeball slimeball what can i use for slimeball well here we go we got another recipe and we go through the different

Essentials up there we go we can use a ball of glue or we can use pink slime balls now pink slime balls obviously might not be our answer but glue well in this case we can actually use oh we can also use tar which we get from bitumen

So if you guys don’t mind i’m gonna smelt that down real quick thankfully we have a good supply of that i’m actually very grateful that we actually found this stuff i had to actually think for a moment because in this world slime is a bit more difficult to get

So let’s melt this down for tar there we go and thankfully we do not need the others so let’s see take our paper our ink and our slime or paper one ink one slime or very thereof and boom we now have labels now why is a label important why are we doing the

Label with our jars well that’s gonna be a little bit more obvious here in just a second watch this our jar is now labeled and if you notice it’s starting to suck out the other essentia well actually yeah that’s exactly what it’s doing essentially it is pulling all the

Essentia out and saying this is mine similar to how when one jar isn’t from another it’s saying this is mine to the tubes so now we have that there’s possibility that there’s eight in here which there was and now we’re gonna go back over here now thankfully all our stuff boiled off

We’re all good but we want to make more of our metal so before we had extra we got to be careful not to have too much extra this is where you’re going to want to do some math so it’s for magic or one piece of thumbium so since we have eight essentia here

Which if you guys want you can also study with your good old thermometer there we go since this is eight that means we can make two so what you’re going to want to do is have your iron on hand throw this in one two two now that’s kind of the basics

This is how you break down essentia this is how you pretty much use it to make what you need to make and you are going to have to do some math now later on there’ll be ways that we don’t have to actually do so much math but

For now for the basics this is going to cover a lot and you’re going to want to know this so that you can proceed forward in thumb craft this is going to become a big part of your life for a long time so be prepared

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When dealing with magic later everybody okay got me some magic bottles pop that off okay um where am i gonna store these interesting problems you