History VideoGame / Thaumcraft

Thaumcraft is a GameMod for VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} revolving around the concept of converting materials into a raw energy called Vis. With this energy, Minecraftian wizards can infuse items, dig up the earth, and even duplicate precious gems.

We are now on Thaumcraft 4.

** Or if you are using Thaumcraft in a modpack( like Feed the Beasts many modpacks) you could equip a high end armor from another mod and stand in your crucible for a few minutes, a painless form of tallow making, which may not even damage you or your armor(depending on what you had equipped).

** Taint is back in Thaumcraft 4, in the shape of small biomes automatically created on world gen. Their spreading can however be turned off in the mod's config file.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: most of Forbidden Knowledge is this. Ranges from "mostly harmless" to "taboo".
** Alternatively, it's the Primal Focus. Flavor text expresses confusion at why would you even create such a thing.

* FireIceLightning: the Wand Focii (in earlier versions, Wands) of Fire, Frost, and Lightning respectively.

* TooDumbToLive: People who actually summon the Super Charged Thaumic Slimes without backing up their world.

Thaumcraft is a GameMod for {{Minecraft}} revolving around the concept of converting materials into a raw energy called Vis. With this energy, Minecraftian wizards can infuse items, dig up the earth, and even duplicate precious gems.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Crystal Core, Made from four mixed crystal clusters and a nether star. when the proper arcane structure is made this object pulls the nearest Aura Node to it, however the range at which it can draw aura nodes is not very far and if you wish to move a node over a large distance you need multiple cores seeing as how this requires a nether star you're going to be spending quite a bit of time in the nether for wither skulls.

* FireIceLightning: the Wands of Fire, Frost, and Lightning respectively.

* KillItWithFire: The Wand Of Fire, made from a wand of the apprentice and three fire shards.
* KillItWithIce: The Wand of Frost, Made from a wand of the apprenticeand three water shards.

* PortableHole: There is an item called the portable hole, which opens up a temporary 2x2 square tunnel, which the player can pass through.

* ShockAndAwe: The Wand of Lightning, Made from a Wand of the Apprentice and three Air Shards, fortunately using it on a creeper does not supercharge it.

* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow : {{Lampshaded}} hilariously with the description of Eldritch Knowledge.

* PowerAtAPrice: players who have been delving into [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow Forbidden Research]], using [[ArtefactOfDoom void items]] or doing other questionable things accumulate Warp. It can be temporary, stable but removable, or permanent. Effects can range from hallutinations to a hit squad of [[EldritchAbomination]]s spawning next to you.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Wand of the Thaumaturge in Thaumcraft 3, it is bar none the game's best wand for use in Thaumaturgy holding 1000 Vis. you do however need to research a number of things before the ability to research this wand comes up, once you do unlock it, you find out you need a Nether Star to make the wand, yes that's right, you need to kill [[BonusBoss The]] [[OmnicidalManiac Wither]] to make the wand. [[SarcasmMode have fun.]]

* TheCorruption: If an area's atmosphere becomes saturated with Taint, surface-level blocks will gradually change into Taint Blocks. In addition to making them impossible to extract usable resources from, most mobs that spawn on them will be AlwaysChaoticEvil LightningBruiser versions of themselves.
** This is done away with in Thaumcraft 3, Taint being replaced with Flux. It still has consequences for overdoing things with thaumaturgy but no longer to the extent of the world destroying levels of taint that were possible in Thaumcraft 2.
** Taint is back in Thaumcraft 4, in the shape of small biomes automatically created on world gen. Their spreading can however be turned off in the mod's config file.
* TooDumbToLive: People who actually summon the Super Charged Thaumic Slimes without backing up their world.
* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow : {{Lampshaded}} hilariously with the description of Eldritch Knowledge.

* ShockAndAwe: the Wand of Lightning, Made from a Wand of the Apprentice and three Air Shards, fortunately using it on a creeper does not supercharge it.

** this is done away with in Thaumcraft 3 taint being replaced with Flux. it still has consequences for overdoing things with thaumaturgy but no longer to the extent of the world destroying levels of taint that were possible in thuamcraft 2.

We are now on Thaumcraft 3.

** However, breaking the "used" Crystal Core yields the original number of shards (a few changed to dull) and the nether star back, so it's only necessary to replace the clusters and infuse them again.

* DemonicSpiders: Wisps, a mob spawned from flux, and the most common thing spawned from flux. they fly and shoot bolts of energy at you, unarmored these bolts shave off 3 whole hearts of health and even with iron armor they still do a full heart of damage. they are also incredibly hard to hit unless you have amazing accuracy with the bow. they also like to attack any golem servants and due to their high damage output make short work of them.
** however if you can find the node that they spawn from and encase it in any building material they become much more manageable, when they cannot fly out of the reach of your weapons they are very easy targets.

* ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow : [[Lampshaded]] hilariously with the description of Eldritch Knowledge.

<s>The author is actually done working on it and only releases minor patches as the community waits for the newly-announced sequel, Thaumcraft2 to be finished.</s> We are now on Thaumcraft 3.

The author is actually done working on it and only releases minor patches as the community waits for the newly-announced sequel, Thaumcraft2 to be finished.

* TheCorruption: If an area's atmosphere becomes with Taint, surface-level blocks will gradually change into Taint Blocks. In addition to making them impossible to extract usable resources from, most mobs that spawn on them will be AlwaysChaoticEvil LightningBruiser versions of themselves.

* TooDumbToLive : People who actually summon the Super Charged Thaumic Slimes without backing up their world.

* TooDumbToLive : People who actually summon the Super Charged Thaumic Slimes without backing up their world.

* EldritchAbomination:

* ShoutOut: The Travelling Trunk is a shout-out to {{Discworld}}'s Luggage.

* ShoutOut: To {{Discworld}}.