If you haven't used them before, each research curiosity gives you observation in a specific and/or random category, as well as a chance to gain theories. Each curiosity equates with a specific category:

Arcane - Auromancy

Preserved - Alchemy

Ancient - Golemancy

Eldritch - Eldritch

Knowledge - Infusion

Twisted - Artifice

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Highly configurable mod that allows you to burn essentia from jars, phials or crystals to fuel a brazier that slowly creates research curiosities. The aim is to make the research minigame of Thaumcraft slightly easier and more varied.

It also adds recipes to convert each curiosity into the next along the line, allowing you to cycle through until you get whichever research type you need.

Hovering over the burn display will provide information about how long the current aspect source is burning for, while hovering over the arrow will display the current progress and seconds left. In addition, any sources of essentia (warded jars, phials and crystals) will include how many bonus seconds

Configuration

Meta
- This can be used to determine which curiosity is the default curiosity created by the furnace. By default, this value is 0, that of the arcane curiosity.
Total cook time
- The time in ticks (seconds * 20) it takes to create a curiosity on average. By default, this value is 6000, which is equivalent to five minutes.
Essentia per curiosity
- This value is used to configure how much essentia is required, on average, to create one curiosity. This value, dividing the total cook time, will result in the value in ticks (or seconds) that each point of essentia will provide.
Essentia bonus
- Each aspect is made up of other aspects. The more complicated an essentia's aspect is, the more bonus time it will add to the current burning progress. This value is, by default, 0.15 times the current tick, multiplied by the "tier" of complexity.
  This is rather confusing. Basically, the essentia will burn for the noted seconds. In addition, bonus "burn time" is instantly added, the amount scaling with the "complexity" of the essentia.

If you find any of this configuration confusing, please don't hesitate to ask in a comment, or hop onto my Discord and ask me there.

Integration

This mod provides default integration with JEI. Looking at the usage of the brazier, the source of the configured curiosity, or usage of crystals, phials or warded jars, will allow you to access it.

It will show each of the containers (crystal, phial or warded jar), and for each tier will cycle through the relevant essentia and show how much each point will burn for and how many bonus ticks they will provide.

Notes

The brazier itself is unlocked quite early, requiring only iron plates, a furnace and arcane stone. It is available as soon as "Knowledge Types" is unlocked, although it is not necessarily craftable at this point.
Instead of being voided, excess curiosities that cannot be stored in the brazier will be spat out into the world.
Likewise, instead of being voided, empty essentia phials will be spat out into the world. In future this may become a configuration if people don't care about phials.
Due to their nature, it is not currently possible to insert void jars into the furnace. This may change in the future.
Essentia phials are consumed in lots of 10 rather than single points, such as crystals and jars.

Patreon & Discord

You can support me on Patreon!

All support for this mod is available on my Discord. You can also keep up with what I'm doing and get notifications streams!

For all other support, please hit "Issues" at the top of this page.

Essentia Brazier