Ah. I'm assuming the starter node is the far left sid e? If so, you are using 1 too many symbols on your two left-most nodes. Try this:
1. Move your left-most symbol right exactly 1 space
2. Take one of the unlit symbols from the 2nd-to-bottom row and place that *exactly* in between your newly-moved symbol and the symbol on its right. This will intentionally block them from connecting.
EDIT : Don't need to do that since there are (still) 2 whitespaces between.
3. Move your now-free 2nd-from-the left symbol to the upper right.
If the starter node is *not* the far left one, The RNG gods did not smile on you. Throw it away, pray to the RNG gods, and try again.
thanx guys I'll try this after work tomorrow thought I was stuck and discovered a breaking bug
Its entirely possible to find research sheets that are impossible to complete due to node placement and not enough runes to connect them. It's gotten slightly better since the initial release, but as MigukNamja said, Thaumic Tinkerer is notorious for having impossible research sheets. So it's good to learn to eyeball a sheet to see if the node placement is too outlandish to complete or not.thanx guys I'll try this after work tomorrow thought I was stuck and discovered a breaking bug
I think you can seperate the last two in the chain out one more space (move them to be two spaces apart)View attachment 8714
any chance I did this one wrong? can't reach that last ball. and I have lined every available rune towards it. what can I do?
I think you can seperate the last two in the chain out one more space (move them to be two spaces apart)
It sort of looks like you can, but the lit symbols will only connect if they both fit in a 3x3 grid, i.e. have 0 or 1 space between them. In absolute distance terms, the distance must strictly be less than 2 (a 45 degree angle with a space of 1 has an absolute distance of sqrt(2), or 1.4-ish).