Tools & Gadgets

The following lists many of the useful tools and gadgets in GTNH. They are organized by mod or function with the most useful ones BOLDED. Also visit the Equippable Gear page for information on armors!

• Ore Finder Wand - Discover ore veins with an existing ore inside the tool.
• Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector - Visualize/build multiblocks instantaneously.
• Portable Scanner - Displays information about a machine or block.
• Prospector's Scanner - Discover ore and fluid veins by right-clicking the ground and bedrock, respectively.
• Tool Box - Holds tools for easy and quick maintenance repairs.
• GregTech Sensor Kit - Generates a sensor card from a GregTech machine for use in information panels.
• Redstone Sniffer - Lists any active wireless and advanced wireless redstone frequencies.
• MagLev Harness - Grants creative flight while in range of a MagLev pylon.
• Wireless Headphones - Connect to an electric jukebox to listen to music anywhere.
• Charge Pack - Charges worn armor and tools in the hotbar at the cost of EU.
• Power Goggles - Displays Lapotronic Supercapacitor data on the player's HUD.
• Vajra - Instantly breaks any blocks including machines, pipes, and wires. Also has a secondary silk-touch mode for higher precision.
• Matter Manipulator - Copy/paste or move entire multiblocks and other structures.
• Parametrizer Memory Card - Copy/paste multiblock settings. Very useful for Quantum Computers and the Space Elevator modules.
• Cover Copy/Paste Tool - Copy/paste cover settings. Sneak right-click to copy and right-click to paste.
• Infinite Spray Can - Paints cables and machines. Left-click to change color, right-click to apply, and middle-click to select the color from a list.

• Meteorite Compass - Points toward the nearest meteor, even those underground.
• Quartz Wrench - Remove individual components (ie. interface or quartz fiber cable) from a cable without breaking the whole thing.
• Quartz Cutting Knife - Rename components with right-click.
• Network Tool - View the energy consumption of a network. The "Advanced" version also provides information on storage cells.
• Network Visualization Tool - Highlights all cables and components in a network, and counts the number of channels.
• Color Applicator - Paint cables, wireless connectors, and other components with paint balls.
• Priority Card - Set the priority of components. Optionally increment/decrement with each use.
• Memory Card - Link P2P tunnels and copy/paste component settings. The "Advanced" version has more options and its own GUI.
• Wireless Setup Kit - Link wireless connectors. The "Advanced" version can queue many at the same time.
• Wireless Terminal - Access a network within range of an ME wireless access point. Infinite range with the infinity booster card.

• Conduit Probe - Copy/paste conduit settings. Sneak and scroll to change mode. Sneak right-click to copy and right-click to paste.
• Soul Vial - Captures a mob. Use it to reroll the mob's type or for changing a spawner's type. Does not work on bosses.

• Wands - Basic tool for arcane crafting, equipping foci, and storing vis.
• Thaumometer - Scan items or blocks to learn their essentia composition. Adds to the available essentia in the research table. Adds nodes to Journeymap Map.
• Arcane Abacus - Quantify the current stability of an infusion altar.
• Essentia Resonator - Identifies the stored essentia and suction of essentia tubes. Useful for debugging.
• Golemancer's Bell - Basic tool for controlling and directing golems.
• Magic Hand Mirror - Send items to a linked magical mirror. Cannot receive items.
• Hungry Hand Mirror - Automatically send items to a linked magical mirror. Cannot receive items.
• Foci - Casts various effects from a wand. Can be stored in a focus pouch.
• Sanity Checker - Displays the player's current warp levels in the top left corner of their HUD.
• Arcane Litmus Paper - Prints the player's current warp levels.
• Sanitizing Soap - Removes temporary warp and possibly even some normal warp. Boosted by bathing salts.
• Impure Tear - Removes 5 permanent warp if above 50+ warp.
• Pure Tear - Removes all warp after a rapid series of warp events. All that energy has to go somewhere.

• Wand of the Forest - Basic tool for linking and configuring flowers, mana spreaders, and more.
• Mana Tablet - Portable mana for rings, staffs, and other tools. Also useful for moving mana between mana pools.
• Band of Mana - Portable mana for rings, staffs, and other tools. Equippable version of the mana tablet. Upgrades into the "Greater" version.
• Rod of the Shifting Crust - Sneak right-click to select a target block. Left-click to replace one block with the target block. Right-click to replace a 7x7 area with the target block. Costs mana.
• Ring of Far Reach - Extends reaching distance by 3.5 blocks.
• Ring of Thor - Drastically increases the strength of AOE mining with the Terra Shatterer.
• Ring of Odin - Provides a health regeneration buff, ten extra hearts, and resistance to elemental damage such as fire.
• Ring of Loki - Places or destroys N blocks in a predetermined offset at the cost of mana. Extremely useful for building.
• Key of King's Law - Hold right-click to charge up explosive projectiles that release in the direction the player is looking. Does not destroy blocks.
• Eye of the Flugel - Bind to a block to return to that location at any time. Also extends Flügel Tiara flight indefinitely at triple the mana cost.
• The Fruit of Grisaia - Satisfies hunger at the cost of mana.
• Creative Mana Tablet - Provides infinite mana for rings, staffs, and other tools.

• Sacrificial Knife - Adds life essence to a blood altar at the cost of health. Upgrades into the Glass Sacrificial Dagger.
• Dagger of Sacrifice - Adds life essence to a blood altar from killing mobs. Upgrades into the Glass Dagger of Sacrifice.
• Blood Orb - Stores life essence in its owner's Soul Network for use in crafting, chemistry, and more.
• Ritual Diviner - Automatically place and inscribe ritual stones for rituals.
• Weak Activation Crystal - Required to start rituals. Upgrade to the "Awakened" version for more powerful rituals.
• Ritual Dismantler - Automatically break and pick-up ritual stones from rituals.
• Bound Blade - Consumes LP instead of durability and applies weakness III on hit, causing mobs to drop Weak Blood Shards (50 LP per hit and every 10 seconds while activated).
• Bound Pickaxe - Left click to mine single blocks (5 LP per block and every 10 seconds while activated). Right-click to mine an 11x11x12 area at once (10,000 LP).
• Divination Sigil - View how much LP is in the bound player's Soul Network. Also used to see information about various blocks, such as the Blood Altar.
• Sigil of Sight - See even more information when used on the Blood Altar.
• Water Sigil - Places water in the world or directly in a tank (200 LP per use).
• Lava Sigil - Places lava in the world or directly in a tank (2,000 LP per use).
• Sigil of the Green Grove - Grows nearby crops when active and works like Bone Meal with right-click (200 LP per use and every 10 seconds while activated).
• Sigil of the Phantom Bridge - Creates a platform beneath your feet. Sneak to go down. Useful for building or mobility (150 LP every 10 seconds while activated).
• Air Sigil - Launches players forward as a primitive form of flight (75 LP per use). Useful with Elytra or a Hang Glider.
• Sigil of the Whirlwind - Deflects nearby projectiles. Applies to Botania Mana Bursts from Mana Spreaders, so be careful around them.
• Sigil of Elemental Affinity - Protection from fire, falls, and drowning (300 LP every 10 seconds while activated).
• Sigil of Suppression - Temporarily removes liquids around the player while active (500 LP every 10 seconds while activated). Useful while hunting for Firestone Ore below lava lakes in the Nether.
• Sigil of Haste - Applies Boost II, which increases movement speed and step height (300 LP every 10 seconds while activated).
• Sigil of (Augmented) Holding - Store many sigils in one inventory slot. Scroll through stored sigils with sneak+mouse scroll.
• Potion Flask - Holds 8 charges of a potion effect, which are applied in the Alchemic Chemistry set with a relevant ingredient and a Weak / Standard Binding Agent. Effects are improved with Power / Lengthening Catalysts and the relevant ingredient for the effect. Refilled with Filling Agents.
• Alchemic Router - Links Crystal Belljars to an Alchemic Calcinator or Master Ritual Stone.
• Alchemic Cleanser - Clears any existing links from Crystal Belljars or Alchemic Calcinators.
• Alchemic Segmenter - Limits the number of tanks specific reagents can fill. Useful when using multiple reagents for a ritual.

• Plant Lens - Identifies basic information about a crop including its species, growth stage, and tier.
• Spade - Removes weeds and provides a higher chance to receive seed bags from crops.
• Cropnalyzer - Analyzes crop seed bags at the cost of EU.
• Beealyzer - Analyzes forestry bees at the cost of honey or honeydew.
• Flutterlyzer - Analyzes forestry butterflies at the cost of honey or honeydew.
• Treealyzer - Analyzes forestry saplings at the cost of honey or honeydew.

• TiC Crossbow - Very powerful ranged weapon. Can be upgraded with faster draw times and stronger bolts.
• TiC Cleaver - Increases wither skeleton skull drop rate. Can be upgraded with additional beheading modifiers.
• The Ender - Increases wither skeleton skull and ender pearl drop rates. Can be upgraded to teleport around as well.
• Skullfire Sword - Guarantees a wither skeleton skull from wither skeletons AND regular skeletons.
• Heart Canisters - Adds an additional heart. Equip up to 10 of each tier.
• Poppets - Protects against certain elements, or even death.
• Charms - Various stat upgrades from HEE. Works from the inside of a charm pouch.
• Charm of Keeping - Preserves a small portion or all of the player's inventory upon death.
• Sword of the Cosmos - Instantly kills any mob entity including bosses (chaos guardian, gaia guardian, etc).

• 'Hang Glider' - Fly through the air instead of falling. Very useful for early game exploration.
• Sojourner Sash - Increases movement speed, jump height, and provides step assist. Upgrades into the Globetrotter's Sash.
• Enchanted Broom - Fly through the air instead of falling. Not as good as other options.
• Staff of Traveling - Teleport in the facing direction, or directly to a travel anchor. Upgrades into the Staff of Teleportation.
• Relocator - Teleport between marked locations (homes) including across dimensions.
• Charm of Dislocation - Teleport between marked locations (homes) including across dimensions. Upgrades into the "Enhanced" version.
• Mantle/Kama of the Raven - Baubles for faster flight/glide, toggleable gliding, and immunity to fall damage.

• Lunch Bag - Carries up to three stacks of food. Upgrades into the Lunch Box which can carry six stacks of food.
• Healing Axe - Automatically restores hunger and saturation while held. Also works in the off-hand slot.
• Supreme Pizza Gloves - Carry hot ingots or fluid cells without getting burned.
• Decorator's Trowel - Places a random block from your hotbar. Useful for randomizing builds.
• Traveller's Belt - Grants the ability to swap hotbars. Extremely useful for carrying around tools.
• Holo Glasses - Displays the contents of inventories while looking at them.
• AR Glasses - Displays text or shapes with augmented reality, such as Lapotronic Supercapacitor data. See OC Power Display.
• Analyzer - Sneak right-click an OpenComputers component to copy its address to your clipboard.
• Nature's Compass - Points toward the nearest biome of choice. Right-click to open the selection menu.
• Biome Compass - Points toward the nearest HEE biome island.
• Magic Map - Locates nearby Twilight Forest structures and bosses.
• Maze Map - Helps the player navigate the Twilight Forest labyrinth.
• Wireless Map - Locates wireless transmitters and receivers and prints them on a vanilla style map.
• Personal Cloaking Device - Grants invisibility at the cost of EU.
• Personal Healing NanoBooster - Restores HP, hunger, and saturation at the cost of EU.
• Golden Lasso - capture non-hostile mobs. Perfect for relocating Villagers.