Magic Update Guides

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/crucible_nerf.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Overfilled Crucible Nerf
+  parent: magic.md
+  icon: Thaumcraft:blockMetalDevice
+categories:
+    - Magic Changes
+date: 2026-06-10
+---
+
+Thaumcraft's <ItemLink id="Thaumcraft:blockMetalDevice"/> <ItemImage id="Thaumcraft:blockMetalDevice"/> will now <Color id="RED">remove essentia</Color> more quickly the <Color id="RED">more overfilled</Color> it is. Starting at <Color id="BLUE">200</Color> total essentia, it will now decay a <Color id="RED">percent of the total essentia</Color>, with a bias toward breaking down compound aspects. This percent slowly increases to <Color id="RED">4.2%</Color> per second at <Color id="BLUE">1000</Color> total essentia, 10x the original softcap of <Color id="BLUE">100</Color>.
+
+<FunctionGraph xMax="1200" width="380" title="Essentia Decomposed / s" xLabel="Essentia in Crucible" yLabel="Essentia Decomposed / s">
+  <Function expr="0.2" color="#4488FF" label="Non-overflow decay (0.2 / s)" domain="0..100"/>
+  <Function expr="5.2" color="#44FF44" label="Original overflow decay (5.2 / s)" domain="100..200"/>
+  <Function expr="5.2 + 0.000042x^2" color="#FFFF22" label="Scaling overflow decay (5.2 + 0.000042x^2 / s)" domain="200..1000"/>
+  <Function expr="5.2 + 0.042x" color="#FF2222" label="Max overflow decay (5.2 + 0.042x / s)" domain="1000..1200"/>
+</FunctionGraph>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic.md

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   parent: /index.md
   icon: Thaumcraft:WandCasting
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-# Magic Changes
-There are a couple of changes to magic within the pack! Nothing game-breaking, or changing progression, but some lovely quality of life improvements!
+
+There have been a few changes to magic within the pack! Nothing game-breaking, or changing progression, but some lovely quality of life and balance improvements!
 
 <Category name="Magic Changes" rows="3"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/aspect_recipe_index.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Aspect Recipe Index
+  parent: magic_nei.md
+  icon: Thaumcraft:blockTable:15
+categories:
+    - Magic Changes
+    - Magic NEI
+    - Quality Of Life
+author: Skorched, koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+The Thaumcraft NEI Additions add-on mod has been rewritten to be a standalone mod and is now called <Color id="BLUE">Aspect Recipe Index</Color>! It contains every feature from <Color id="RED">Thaumcraft NEI Plugin</Color> and <Color id="RED">Thaumcraft NEI Additions</Color> with many new features and improvements.
+
+A (non-exhaustive) list of these features are as follows:
+
+## New Features:
+- Better alignment of items, aspects, and backgrounds across all handlers.
+- Improved performance and various bug fixes.
+- You can now see recipes for <Color id="RED">every aspect</Color> at once in the <Color id="GREEN">Aspect Combination</Color> and <Color id="GREEN">Items Containing Aspect</Color> handlers by clicking __See All__.
+- A new handler has been added for <Color id="GREEN">Wand Crafting</Color> recipes, keeping them separate from generic <Color id="GREEN">Shaped Arcane Crafting</Color>!
+- Searching for uses of items that contain <Color id="RED">essentia</Color> now shows its uses in <Color id="GREEN">Alchemy</Color> and <Color id="GREEN">Infusion</Color> recipes. Try it with <ItemImage id="Thaumcraft:ItemEssence:1:{Aspects:[0:{amount:8,key:aer}]}"/> and <ItemImage id="Thaumcraft:BlockJarFilledItem:0:{Aspects:[0:{amount:64,key:ignis}]}"/>!
+- Recipes to upgrade <Color id="YELLOW">Runic Shielding</Color> are now visible in the <Color id="GREEN">Infusion</Color> handler. Searching for the uses of an item that can be upgraded will show the costs for the next recipe. Try it with <ItemImage id="Thaumcraft:ItemRingRunic:2"/>!
+- New configs (disabled by default) to show the names and combination recipes of <Color id="RED">undiscovered aspects</Color>.
+
+## Issue Reporting:
+If you encounter any issues while using Aspect Recipe Index, please make an issue [here](https://github.com/GTNewHorizons/AspectRecipeIndex/issues).

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/botania_nei.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Botania NEI Handler Cleanup
+  parent: magic_nei.md
+  icon: Botania:lexicon
+categories:
+    - Magic NEI
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-10
+---
+
+Various NEI handlers for Botania got some attention this update:
+- Lexicon entries are now also shown when finding recipes for items, not just uses.
+- The Floating Flower handler can now use NEI's Overlay Button to move items into the inventory/crafting table grid.
+- You can now actually see all recipes for the Mana Infusion, Petal Apothecary, and Runic Altar handlers. They used to have items in the way of the area to click, so you used to only see that item's recipe. Now they are rendered before the clickable area is made.
+- Crafting stations like the Mana Pool (and its Catalysts) and the Petal Apothecary are no longer added to the ingredients of bookmarked / patterned recipes.
+- Botanical Brewery handler includes all items that can have brews applied as catalysts on the left.
+- Petal Apothecary and Runic Altar recipes now include "Any seed" and livingrock in their ingredients respectively.
+
+<Recipe id="minecraft:redstone" handlerId="botania.manaPool"/>
+<Recipe id="Botania:rune:1" handlerId="botania.runicAltar"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/ethereal_familiar.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Ethereal Familiar Recipe Consolidation
+  parent: magic_nei.md
+  icon: Thaumcraft:ItemWispEssence
+categories:
+    - Magic NEI
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+The recipes for Gadomancy's <ItemLink id="gadomancy:ItemEtherealFamiliar:0:{aspect:terra}"/> <ItemImage id="gadomancy:ItemEtherealFamiliar:0:{aspect:terra}"/> have been consolidated in NEI. Each unique recipe is shown <Color id="BLUE">once</Color> rather than being shown for every aspect, removing <Color id="BLUE">1292</Color> recipes from the infusion handler. Yes, that is more recipes than <Color id="RED">__everything else__</Color> that uses infusion.
+
+Recipes for terra-aspected familiars are shown by default.

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/magic_nei.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Magic NEI
+  parent: /magic/magic.md
+  icon: Thaumcraft:ItemThaumonomicon:42
+categories:
+  - Magic NEI
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+This update includes various improvements to existing and new NEI handlers for many magic mods.
+
+<Category name="Magic NEI" rows="3"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/thaumic_replicator_nei.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Thaumic Replicator NEI Handler
+  parent: magic_nei.md
+  icon: minecraft:clay
+categories:
+    - Magic NEI
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+Every item that can be replicated by the <ItemLink id="ThaumicExploration:replicator"/> <ItemImage id="ThaumicExploration:replicator"/> can now be seen in NEI!
+
+<Recipe id="minecraft:stone" handlerId="ThaumicExploration.replicator"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/magic_nei/wand_component_substitution_handlers.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Wand Component Substitution Handlers
+  parent: magic_nei.md
+  icon: Thaumcraft:WandRod
+categories:
+    - Magic NEI
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+The <Color id="BLUE">Wand Component Substitution</Color> recipes added by <Color id="BLUE">Salis Arcana</Color> in 2.8 now have NEI integration! Searching for uses of a <Color id="GREEN">wand, scepter, or staff</Color> will show all possible recipes to change its <Color id="GREEN">core and caps</Color>. Searching for uses of a wand core or cap will show substitution recipes with example wands:
+
+<RecipesUsage id="Thaumcraft:WandRod" handlerId="salisarcana.substitution.core"/>
+<RecipesUsage id="Thaumcraft:WandRod:50" handlerId="salisarcana.substitution.core"/>
+<RecipesUsage id="Thaumcraft:WandCap:1" handlerId="salisarcana.substitution.caps"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/oblivion_potion.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Potion of Blissful Oblivion
+  parent: magic.md
+  icon: WarpTheory:item.warptheory.oblivionpotion
+categories:
+    - Magic Changes
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+
+Have you acquired too much warp and wish you could start everything over? The <ItemLink id="WarpTheory:item.warptheory.oblivionpotion"/> <ItemImage id="WarpTheory:item.warptheory.oblivionpotion"/> is a new item that has been added which will <Color id="RED">__entirely wipe__</Color> your Thaumcraft progress. All warp, research, discovered aspects, scanned objects, and knowledge points in the research table will be <Color id="RED">__reset__</Color> back to how it was when you first started.
+
+See its <QuestLink id="EL2z-VAzS9eVmQFpNnwimg==" text="quest"/> for more information.
+
+<Recipe id="WarpTheory:item.warptheory.oblivionpotion" handlerId="thaumcraft.arcane.shaped"/>

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/thaumic_replicator_improvements.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Thaumic Replicator Improvements
+  parent: magic.md
+  icon: ThaumicExploration:replicator
+categories:
+    - Magic Changes
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+The <ItemLink id="ThaumicExploration:replicator"/> <ItemImage id="ThaumicExploration:replicator"/> has received a large number of improvements:
+- It now <Color id="GREEN">remembers</Color> the jars it is pulling essentia from. It will now only search for new jars when the current one it is pulling that aspect from is <Color id="RED">empty</Color>, resulting in a lot less lag.
+- The glyphs on its sides are now <Color id="GREEN">pixel-accurate</Color> and <Color id="GREEN">glow in the dark</Color>.
+- Some side glyphs will no longer be empty for blocks with fewer than 4 essentia types by rendering the same aspect on multiple sides.
+- It now shows the essentia bubble effect when working, like infusion.
+- An empty hand is now required to clear the template to prevent accidentally voiding crafts.
+- It can now replicate a few <Color id="GREEN">new types of blocks</Color> like stained glass, stained hardened clay, and netherrack.
+- The block above the replicator can now be any block that is <Color id="GREEN">fully transparent</Color> (like glass) if you want to make a fancy display case.
+- It has been given a [new NEI handler](magic_nei/thaumic_replicator_nei.md).
+- Many bugs and crashes have been fixed.

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/vis_maintenance.md

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 date: 2026-05-23
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-# Vis-Regulated Maintenance Hatch
 Ever wished there was a way to automate your maintenance foci to keep your machines going? Well let me introduce to you the <ItemLink id="gregtech:gt.blockmachines:15753"/> <ItemImage id="gregtech:gt.blockmachines:15753"/>! This is an automated magical solution that keeps your machines running by using <Color id="RED">Centi-Vis</Color>
 
 To repair maintenance issues, it draws 25 Primal Vis (2,500 Centi-Vis) of each aspect from your network.

assets/changelog/guidenh/_en_us/magic/wand_buffs.md

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+---
+navigation:
+  title: Forbidden Magic Wand Component Buffs
+  parent: magic.md
+  icon: ForbiddenMagic:WandCores:13
+categories:
+    - Magic Changes
+author: koolkrafter5
+date: 2026-06-09
+---
+
+The following <Color id="BLUE">Forbidden Magic wand components</Color> have been <Color id="GREEN">improved</Color>:
+- <ItemImage id="ForbiddenMagic:WandCaps:3"/>: <Color color="#FFAA00AA">Vis Discount</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">10%</Color> -> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">15%</Color>, <Color color="#FFAA00AA">crafting cost</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">decreased</Color>, <Color color="#FFAA00AA">downtiered to</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">MV</Color>
+- <ItemImage id="ForbiddenMagic:WandCaps:5"/>: <Color color="#FFAA00AA">Vis Discount</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">20%</Color> -> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">30%</Color>
+- <ItemImage id="ForbiddenMagic:WandCores:7"/>: <Color color="#FFAA00AA">Crafting cost</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">decreased</Color>
+- <ItemImage id="ForbiddenMagic:WandCores:11"/>: <Color color="#FFAA00AA">Vis Capacity</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">100</Color> -> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">200</Color>
+- <ItemImage id="ForbiddenMagic:WandCores:13"/>: <Color color="#FFAA00AA">Vis Capacity</Color> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">250</Color> -> <Color color="#FFFF55FF">500</Color>
+
+The vis cost to craft them into wands has been <Color id="RED">increased</Color> to compensate for their improved power. They should now be more competitive on the tiers they are available and serve as a nice reward for investing in <Color id="BLUE">Botania</Color>.
+
+Their <Color id="BLUE">mana</Color> to <Color color="#FFAA00AA">vis</Color> conversion rate and speed remain unchanged.