What cool little thing have you discovered today?

[rhn]

I just discovered that certain blocks placed around the Thaumcraft 4 Research Table will cause it to regenerate research points on its own. I always thought it was dependant on the biome(didn't it used to be like that way back?)

Apparently Crystal Clusters, Bookshelfs and Brain in a Jars are the go to, but perhaps also Infused stones, grass, fire, water source blocks, lava, placed redstone dust and repeaters work.

All of these placed within a 8 block radius(Y-level too) will over time(it has a chance to add every time it scans for items apparently) start adding bonus regenerations to research aspects. Some obvious(like crystals), other random it seems(book shelfs and brains).

Pretty neat and lazy way of supplementing your research points with not only primal, but also compound aspects!

 

[Xavion]

Never looked into it before but just dove in and grabbed the numbers, it seems there are two types of bonus aspects, one that will max at one bonus aspect and a few rare bonuses that seem like they can stack multiple bonus points at once. Every aspect has a random chance too, a 1 in n chance so the higher number I put with something the worse, a 20 will give you 2x less points than a 10 and so forth. Uses materials and not specific items for non-ore/crystal capped, see here for more details.

• Normal bonuses, limited to a max of one point stored at a time
  • Any Infused Stone: 20, counts towards respective primal
  • Any Crystal Cluster: 10, counts towards respective primal
  • Fire: 20, Ignis
  • Lava: 20, Ignis
  • Dirt: 20, Terra
  • Water: 15, Aqua
  • Piston: 20, Ordo
  • Redstone: 20, Ordo, Includes a lot of random junk including heads and torches apparently, the wiki calls it Non-Solid
• Uncapped bonuses, allow increasing past one point stored at a time
  • Bookshelf: 300, I think any aspect at random
  • Brain in a jar: 200, same options as bookshelves
  • Being unable to see the sky at night with light level <4: 20, Perditio
  • Being higher than Y 128: 20, Aer
  • Being higher than Y 168: 20, Aer
  • Being higher than Y 192: 20, Aer

Yes you can get multiple points at once, in theory with enough bookshelves or brains you could get to the point where you don't need to scan for research points except for primal ones for easy researches.

 

[RealKC]

So does the Mixed Cristal Cluster count for every primal?

 

[Xavion]

So does the Mixed Cristal Cluster count for every primal?

From the looks of things it actually works for none of them, only primals count.

 

[RealKC]

So it does nothing? Well that sucks.

 

[rhn]

Uncapped bonuses, allow increasing past one point stored at a time

• Bookshelf: 300, I think any aspect at random
• Brain in a jar: 200, same options as bookshelves

Just to make sure people get the strength of these, then if I understand this and the other sources I have found correctly, these objects will have a 1 in n'th chance every 30 sec(every scan for new items) of adding ANOTHER aspect regen. This means that they will over time accumulate loads of regens. (It is for this reason also important to plan out where your table is to be placed in advance I suppose, as I think you will be starting over if you move it)

Added 5 bookshelfs and 4 Brain in a Jars earlier today(had some crystal clusters before for my infusion stabilisation that were in range, adding some primals) and already up to 26 aspects that are regenerating.

 

[Lordlundar]

Still finding stuff that is affected by torcherino. Found a big one.

ProjectE energy collectors, anti-matter relays, and condensers.

I now have a power flower that is creating an octuple compressed cobblestone (at over 43 million EMC each) every few seconds with two super compressed torcheinos managing it.

 

[thephoenixlodge]

Just to make sure people get the strength of these, then if I understand this and the other sources I have found correctly, these objects will have a 1 in n'th chance every 30 sec(every scan for new items) of adding ANOTHER aspect regen. This means that they will over time accumulate loads of regens. (It is for this reason also important to plan out where your table is to be placed in advance I suppose, as I think you will be starting over if you move it)

Added 5 bookshelfs and 4 Brain in a Jars earlier today(had some crystal clusters before for my infusion stabilisation that were in range, adding some primals) and already up to 26 aspects that are regenerating.

Note that the bonus points are stored per research table, so having multiple research tables in the area means you can have that many sets of bonus points stored.

 

[RavynousHunter]

Still finding stuff that is affected by torcherino. Found a big one.

ProjectE energy collectors, anti-matter relays, and condensers.

I now have a power flower that is creating an octuple compressed cobblestone (at over 43 million EMC each) every few seconds with two super compressed torcheinos managing it.

Think that's crazy? Try it with maxed out (256x) ChromatiCraft tile accelerators. You can absolutely wreck through the EMC generation, then.

 

[RealKC]

Think that's crazy? Try it with maxed out (256x) ChromatiCraft tile accelerators. You can absolutely wreck through the EMC generation, then.

Use EMC to make all the things!

 

[RavynousHunter]

Rediscovered the late Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil. Tacked on Circle of Eight because the base game just doesn't have enough in it. I've forgotten just how effing brutal the random encounters can be. Sending a duo of sea hags backed up by 3-4 koapacinths and the same number of water snakes against a level 7 party is just absurd. I will overcome, but that doesn't stop me from getting majorly pissed off, since it seems to enjoy doing this with every other random encounter. My party's good, but they aren't that good.

 

[Mordenkainen]

I discovered that the tinkers construct smeltery can share structure blocks with other smelteries allowing for more compact multi smeltery setups. In fact, they can share seared tanks too, so you can have a single seared tank fueling two smelteries.

Perhaps this is well known... But it was new to me!

 

[Xavion]

I discovered that the tinker construct smeltery can share structure blocks with other smelteries allowing for more compact multi smeltery setups. In fact, they can share seared tanks too, so you can have a single seared tank fueling two smelteries.

Perhaps this is well known... But it was new to me!

Be careful doing that, it's been known to get buggy sometimes, seen drains thinking they're a part of the wrong smeltery for example.

 

[Pyure]

I discovered that the tinkers construct smeltery can share structure blocks with other smelteries allowing for more compact multi smeltery setups. In fact, they can share seared tanks too, so you can have a single seared tank fueling two smelteries.

Perhaps this is well known... But it was new to me!

Did I see the other day that you can make smelteries in shapes other than 3x3 now? I swear I saw it on a let's play the other day but I couldn't get a good look at it.

 

[Xavion]

Did I see the other day that you can make smelteries in shapes other than 3x3 now? I swear I saw it on a let's play the other day but I couldn't get a good look at it.

Yes, they still have to be rectangular but they can be from 1x1 to 7x7 internally.

 

[Celestialphoenix]

I specifically like how it doesn't go to 9x9 internal.

 

[Pyure]

Yes, they still have to be rectangular but they can be from 1x1 to 7x7 internally.

Neat. Any rectangle or just square?

 

[Mordenkainen]

Did I see the other day that you can make smelteries in shapes other than 3x3 now? I swear I saw it on a let's play the other day but I couldn't get a good look at it.

Yes, I believe just about any rectangular shape is supported. For automated systems I tend to use 2x2's a lot.

 

[sgbros1]

I specifically like how it doesn't go to 9x9 internal.

But it is 9x9 externally.

So that means an entire house can be a smeltery.

 

[RealKC]

#DW20_FTW!