Just a moment of your time. (Thaumcraft Research Puzzle)

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It's for this reason that I build a Deconstruction Table ASAP and always keep a stack of mossy cobblestone burning away in it. You can get all primals from mossy cobblestone and it's material free, and not much energy per tick when you combine the following TE3 machines:

1. Aqueous Accumulator (AA) feeding into IE and LT
2. Igneous Extruder (IE) set to cobblestone and output into LT
3. Liquid Transposer (LT) accepting water from AA and cobblestone from IE and outputting into Deconstruction Table

Put that Decon table in a central location in your base and always click on it when a symbol pops up. I don't condone staring at it for hours on end, but just click it when you see a symbol. It's free research points.

Also, make sure to scan *everything* you build, including the intermediate crafting components. And, don't hesitate to build cheap stuff just to scan.

That's a really complicated setup for getting your aspects. I use something even easier: Pumpkin Pie. It has some very complicated compound aspects, and five aspects attached to it. Almost every piece of pie gets me a aspect in the deconstruction table. Does your mossy cobblestone system do that for you? It's energy free if I make them myself, and costs a pittance if I automate it in some way, and using MFR to grow the pumpkins and sugarcanes gets me sludge, and the chickens lay eggs no matter what I do, so get enough of 'em in one farm and stockpile(and void overflow).