Since Enchanting in 1.8.9 is significantly cheaper, the best route is enchanting books. You can hover over the enchant list and see if Repair shows. If it doesn't I will choose the cheapest enchantment to cycle the list and try again. Note that although the top level enchants won't show up until level 30, it doesn't take 30 levels to get it.
I also prefer to go for lower levels of a specific enchant (Fortune 1 for instance) and 2 books with that level in the anvil to get the next level.
You'll end up with a TON of lvl 1 books that you can then combine to level 2, etc, to get all the enchants you really want over time as well. Make sure you setup an XP farm (spawners OP) before going into this endeavor though.
One note - the universe of enchants you can get on a book is larger than the universe of enchants you get on any given item. So your odds of getting repair increase dramatically if you are checking multiple thaumcraft items each cycle instead of just grinding books. i was able to get repair on my TC hoe and pick with maybe 10-15 dummy items. not sure how many books you'd need to grind
i finished leveling up my lightning focus. might be common knowledge but:
potency V does not reduce the number of hits required to kill any of the vanilla mobs (compared to potency IV). going to start a new one but i'm pretty sure that if you're just using your wand for standard personal protection you can take one of the chaining/AOE perks and the weapon is no less efficient
if you couldn't tell my SO is away on business. made a lot of progress the last two days and am loving TC5. i've never gotten this far in TC before and it's tons of fun!
some observations from early work on automated silverwood node farm:
a newborn pure node (21 vis) adds 3 vis to the bully it is consumed by
greatwood golems can survive for about 5 seconds when stuck in a silverwood tree
a quick follow-up, ran a trial on 10 silverwood trees:
I spawned 6 nodes on 10 trees. On average the parent node gained 3.8 vis per spawn and 1.9 vis per tree. I got two earth, three water, and one spiritus node, all pure. The average vis in the newborn node was 20.2
given these rates it would not be hard to automate node production if only to offset flux. I think you would want to stabilize the nodes after a while and switch locations. i'm still working out the, er.. occupational hazards for the golems but I think this could work very well once the investment is made.
Well unfournately luck was not on my side. I'm playing with biomes o' plenty which makes silverwood trees very sparse. Out of 3 Silverwood trees, none of them generated a pure node. I can try hunting later but due to the lack of finding magical biomes this is not an easy thing to come by. So gotta make do with other solutions. Was hoping changing the biome weight to 10 would make them easier to come by, no such luck so I've instead upped it to 50. Hopefully that setting works >.>
azanor increased the drop rate of saplings so you don't need to *find* a pure node. if you find a tree and cut it down you should get a sustainable amount of saplings to start a farm wherever you want.
how much of a strain does the arcane bore put on the aura? is it as crazy as the infernal furnace, or can i keep the thing running for a while?
the bore is relatively cheap to run on perditio essentia - i used somewhere between 1/2 - 1 tank to clear out it's full range. i haven't tried running it on aura, which limits the flux production i think. i have a bunch of pure nodes around my base so i guess i can't say for sure that it's absolutely safe but like i said i ran it through a full tunnel job without incident.
edit: also wanted to respond to kingofrunes - i always preach the gospel of silverwood spam. they are very cheap and in my experience you have a ~15% chance of getting a pure node which will eat a decent amount of flux. i have not had to replace any of my pure nodes although i am much more tender on the aura use/flux production than i was in TC4
You know Azanor, I don't know what you use or how you animate it, But GOD your models and textures are awesome, That graphical pleasantness i've experienced in Thaumcraft is found in very few mods, Immersive Engineering being one of them.
And i'm looking very much forward to seeing more nice stuff such as the golem assembler. : )
i think the principal author/artist of immersive engineering (hazard aka d95) contributes models for thaumcraft
In TC4 this was a much more frequent question because nodes would only spawn in vanilla biomes. Back then people on this forum often suggested editing the configs to increase the weight of Thaumcraft biomes in BOP. Not sure if that is still an option but they may just be incredibly rare, not missing.
Edit: I was browsing some old reddit posts on this topic and i wanted to add that some BOP biomes are capable of spawning some thaumcraft items if they are a "magical" biome. I don't know exactly what that means, but essentially you can at least get silverwoods without needing a magical forest.
Yeah, it's on the grid instead of the lines. But they're in a 2x2 area with bars over the piston. Everything should be shifted a half-grid down and to the right.
Empty space designators or even just a description 'put iron bars over the piston' would clear it up a bit but it doesn't actually LOOK for empty space, last I checked, it's only looking for the exact items.
Also the golem press is just absurdly cool compared to the old way of doing it. Kinda wish the press had an inventory of some sort so we could stack materials in it. Make a bunch of gears and the like and just store them in the press.
"Absurdly cool" about sums it up. The press is amazing.
Oh man I was actually up this morning, could be half way to golem town right now. Luckily it's an established fact in our household that when golems come out I will... not be available for a little bit.
Yep, he is on forgecraft, a server that is pretty much hosted for mod testing and mod showcasing for mod developers, pack developers, texture artists and so on... and also for them to have fun/stream/record LP on bleeding edge mods and platforms. The hook, if it's there, it's legit. it's been like that since... i have no idea but a long time. Since i've been in modding, and probably a long time before that.
(Info regarding Forgecraft servers might not be 100% accurate :D)
edit: It's on-invite only
so if im hearing you right we might see the new golems on here (assuming they are in this experimental build)
I watched the Direwolf20 video |stone| mentioned, the grappling hook looks amazing. If anyones interested its near the end around 27 minutes. I wonder if that's in 5.0.4?
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Azanor appears in person on the latest forgecraft if anyone's interested. Haven't watched in full myself.
I put a chicken farm too close to my infusion matrix - baby chickens are not durable enough for that.
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golems are back and *wayyy* cooler than TC4 imo (version 5.1 and later)
edit: not that TC4 golems weren't great - i just love the new process and customization
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One note - the universe of enchants you can get on a book is larger than the universe of enchants you get on any given item. So your odds of getting repair increase dramatically if you are checking multiple thaumcraft items each cycle instead of just grinding books. i was able to get repair on my TC hoe and pick with maybe 10-15 dummy items. not sure how many books you'd need to grind
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i finished leveling up my lightning focus. might be common knowledge but:
potency V does not reduce the number of hits required to kill any of the vanilla mobs (compared to potency IV). going to start a new one but i'm pretty sure that if you're just using your wand for standard personal protection you can take one of the chaining/AOE perks and the weapon is no less efficient
if you couldn't tell my SO is away on business. made a lot of progress the last two days and am loving TC5. i've never gotten this far in TC before and it's tons of fun!
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some observations from early work on automated silverwood node farm:
a newborn pure node (21 vis) adds 3 vis to the bully it is consumed by
greatwood golems can survive for about 5 seconds when stuck in a silverwood tree
a quick follow-up, ran a trial on 10 silverwood trees:
I spawned 6 nodes on 10 trees. On average the parent node gained 3.8 vis per spawn and 1.9 vis per tree. I got two earth, three water, and one spiritus node, all pure. The average vis in the newborn node was 20.2
given these rates it would not be hard to automate node production if only to offset flux. I think you would want to stabilize the nodes after a while and switch locations. i'm still working out the, er.. occupational hazards for the golems but I think this could work very well once the investment is made.
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Got some time before work to make the new ones:
http://imgur.com/a/lQvb7
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azanor increased the drop rate of saplings so you don't need to *find* a pure node. if you find a tree and cut it down you should get a sustainable amount of saplings to start a farm wherever you want.
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the bore is relatively cheap to run on perditio essentia - i used somewhere between 1/2 - 1 tank to clear out it's full range. i haven't tried running it on aura, which limits the flux production i think. i have a bunch of pure nodes around my base so i guess i can't say for sure that it's absolutely safe but like i said i ran it through a full tunnel job without incident.
edit: also wanted to respond to kingofrunes - i always preach the gospel of silverwood spam. they are very cheap and in my experience you have a ~15% chance of getting a pure node which will eat a decent amount of flux. i have not had to replace any of my pure nodes although i am much more tender on the aura use/flux production than i was in TC4
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i think the principal author/artist of immersive engineering (hazard aka d95) contributes models for thaumcraft
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In TC4 this was a much more frequent question because nodes would only spawn in vanilla biomes. Back then people on this forum often suggested editing the configs to increase the weight of Thaumcraft biomes in BOP. Not sure if that is still an option but they may just be incredibly rare, not missing.
Edit: I was browsing some old reddit posts on this topic and i wanted to add that some BOP biomes are capable of spawning some thaumcraft items if they are a "magical" biome. I don't know exactly what that means, but essentially you can at least get silverwoods without needing a magical forest.
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"Absurdly cool" about sums it up. The press is amazing.
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Oh man I was actually up this morning, could be half way to golem town right now. Luckily it's an established fact in our household that when golems come out I will... not be available for a little bit.
Thanks so much!
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so if im hearing you right we might see the new golems on here (assuming they are in this experimental build)
[pistons of hype train begin to turn, slowly]
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I watched the Direwolf20 video |stone| mentioned, the grappling hook looks amazing. If anyones interested its near the end around 27 minutes. I wonder if that's in 5.0.4?
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I think you need a bigger facility. Just think of it as a very large multiblock structure.