Thaumcraft Starter Guide

Intro
Thaumcraft is a useful mod to use in conjunction with mods like IC2 and build craft because one of the first things you can do with it is convert different materials into gold, copper lead, tin, and iron. It also allows for automation of things like farms once golemance has been researched.
Your First Wand
	To start you will need a shard of any kind (vis, air, fire, water, or earth) found while mining, a gold nugget, and a stick. You will use these to create your first wand.
 (insert recipe for ‘wand of the apprentice’)
	Most wands store energy called ‘vis’ and the amount stored is determined by grade of wand (apprentice, adapt, and master). As you progress in the research tree you will learn how to make the other wands.
	Thaumonomicon
	Once you have a wand you need to place down a bookshelf and right click on it with the wand. This will replace the bookshelf with a book called a ‘Thaumonomicon’. It functions as a reference guild to all items currently you have access to in Thaumcraft and how to make them.  Pick it up and right click it with it in your hand. It will take you to an achievement like screen. Hovering over any icon gives you the name of the item it represents and clicking on it will give you information on that item and how to craft it. The icons in the top left of there to give you information on thaumcraft terminology and enivoments and to the right of those is a set of basic items used in thaumcraft.  The web under the basic items is the research tree. You cannot create any item from the tree until you research its recipe using either a research table or experimenting with a crucible.
	Research
	Once you are done looking through the Thaumonomicon, you will need to start your research.  It is recommended that you start by crafiting a cauldron (used for a crucible), two scripbing tools (one for a research table, another to keep for experimenting.), and three tables (two for research table, one for arcane workbench).
(insert recipe for table)
(insert recipe for scribing tools)
	Place two tables next to each other and right click on one of them with scribing tools to create a research table. Right click with your wand on the cauldron to create a crucible and on the other table to create a arcane workbench. The crucible will need to be above a heat source such lave or fire as well as to be filled regularly with water buckets in order to work so be careful will flammable materials and keep an infinite water source nearby.
	Right click on the research table to open up its menu. On the left are slots to place items to be consumed while researching. To the right of those slots is a slot for paper and a output slot. A single piece of paper is used for each formula. Above the output slot is the button to perform research. Research is done in incremental steps and the button needs to be clicked each time. On the right is a circle. While you are researching a formula, different aspects (the magical components of items) show up in the center of the circle. These are the aspects the formula contains any you should continue to use items with these aspects in your research. To know which aspects an items has hold shift and hover the mouse over the item. As you research an aspect that is in the formula the aspect will move to the outer edge of the circle and hovering you move over it will show you the percent completion of that aspect. Once the research of a specific aspect is complete it will gain a multi color outline. When an aspect list on the left hand side of screen grays out, that means that that aspect is not in the formula and you should not waste times that contain only aspects that are grayed out. Once the research is finished the scroll will in the output slot will close and can be use by right clicking with it is selected in your hot bar. This will added to your Thaumonomicon where you can look up how to use/create that item. It is recommended that you finish and use any research you start before starting a new one to prevent duplicate research from forming.
	I would recommend starting by researching ‘gold transmutation’ (metallum, permutaio, and carus) first, as it is needed before you can learn to transmute other metals.
Tips
	When using iron for the metallum(metal) aspect in the crucible, break it into the nuggets first to gain an extra metallum aspect.
	While iron transmutation has a one to one aspect conversion, other transmutions tend to have some aspect loss.
	Eggs and wheat seeds are a good renewable source of the Permutatio(trade) aspect, saving you copper ore and valuable gems.
	Magic tallow takes four corpus(flesh) to create and has that plus 1 praecantatio(magic) apect, giving you a cheap  and renewable source of the praecantatio aspect for research and crafting.