Is there any method of getting Mana Beans? To craft the Weather Deflector I need 24 Tempestas, but currently I only have 1 reliable source through the Weather Machine block. Of course that means making 3 of those (3 diamonds basically) and burning them up into essentia along with crafting the final one needed for the infusion.
The other option is wispy essences via that botanical flower that generates them, which I'm working towards, but that flower also requires a ton of diamonds to make and you must destroy a node or hunt wisps in the Nether (destroy a node, doing anything in the Nether is just annoying if not outright dangerous) for the initial Aurum essentia to craft it as well.
So I was thinking I would go for the 3rd option, Mana Bean farm, but can't figure out how to get beans...
Wait, I suppose I could try and find a Pech somehow and trade off those guys (or kill 'em)...