Thaumcraft Warp

Warp is one of Thaumcraft's consequence mechanics. Warp is acquired when completing forbidden research in the Thaumonomicon (those marked with a tooltip and purple fog) and when doing certain actions in world, like eating zombie brains. There are three types of warp: Temporary fades over time, Normal is removed with some effort, and permanent is removed with exceptional research and effort. The player's current warp can be checked with Arcane Litmus Paper, or /checkwarp (if allowed on your server). Do not stack Warp without the means for dealing with it. Warp cannot be permanently removed before IV tech progression, so choose research options accordingly.

Removing Warp

Warp can be mitigated or eliminated, with effort. Pure Tear, Impure Tear, Soul Brazier, Warp Tumor, Sanitizing Soap, Bath Salts. Pure Tear can be rarely obtained from lootbags but beware: using one will discharge all your Warp at once, causing death and destruction. Use well away from anything important and expect to perish.

Warp Events

Warp randomly causes in-world events depending on the combined total of all types. Low levels of Warp are manageable and can be annoying, but are rather harmless. Large amounts of warp can and WILL end a run if obtained too early on (ie. Spawning a wither in your base). Some eldritch secrets cannot be understood without at least 50 warp. The Eldritch tab first unlocks at 30 warp, which gives access to Void Metal. Void Metal can also be acquired via Bees.

The list below describes custom GTNH warp events. Warp event may also come from the list of standard Thaumcraft warp events.

Warp	Effect Name	Description
5	Message	Displays a random message in chat
10	Fake Explosion	Random explosion noises
15	Coin	Player gets a Thaumcraft coin
15	Pumpkin	If player has no helmet, place pumpkin into helmet slot.
20	Spawn Phantoms	Spawns ghost mobs (disappear when looked at, harmless)
20	Lay Eggs	Player lays eggs at random intervals
25	Fake Creeper	Random creeper charging noises
25	Fake Rain	Fake rain particles spawn near player
30	GregTech Fake Sounds	• 30: Wrench sound • 60+: Machine out of power • 90+: Howler alarm
30	Spawn Bats	• 30: Bats • 60+: Bats are on fire • 90+: Bats are on fire and have fire resistance
35	Blood	• 35: Blood particles spawn around player • 70+: Blood is black
35	Fake Enderman	Plays distorted enderman scream
40	Spawn Friendly Creeper	• 40: Spawns a "friendly" creeper with ~110 health and a randomized name. • 80+: Creeper will explode (but do no damage) • 120+: Creeper is invisible until right before it explodes Although it won't explode, it can be infernal, which means it can force choke you if you're afking when it spawns. Or hurt you with vengeance when you try to kill it.
45	Nausea	Applies nausea effect (screen tearing)
45	Jump Boost	Increases jump height very significantly. If you're wearing jump increasing boots, this might propel you 40 blocks into the air in the overworld. If you're on a low gravity planet, I don't recommend jumping to avoid dying of fall damage.
50	Vis Drain	Drains some vis from player's wand
50	Insomnia	Player cannot sleep for a few minutes
55	Thunderstorm	Changes weather to thunderstorm. Disabled on most servers.
60	Spawn Fire Bats	• 60: Spawns some Thaumcraft fire bats • 120+: Fire bats can be randomly explosive or devil fire bats
65	Blindness	Applies blindness effect
65	Poison	Applies poison effect. Use milk or terrawart to clear.
70	Livestock Rain	• 70: Rains animals on a nearby sky-visible block. Will queue until you get within 5 or so blocks of a valid block. Good source of leather :) • 140+: Rains squid • 210+: Rains tainted livestock. Note that it's possible for some of the livestock to survive if there's a ledge or something nearby, and tainted sheep can spread taint. However, this warp effect spawns special "safe" tainted sheep that won't spread taint.
75	Spawn Doppelgänger	Spawns a mob that: • Follows players around and is leashable • Looks like the player that spawned it, with same max and current health • Heals over time, similar to a well-fed player • When it takes damage, deals same damage to player that spawned it, ignoring armor • On death, drops rotten flesh, with a rare drop of a player head
80	Wither Potion	Gives player 30s of Wither 3, Hunger 3, Slowness 3
80	Spawn Angry Enderman	• 80: Spawns aggro'd endermen. Only occurs at night • 160+: Endermen have Invisibility and Strength 2
85	Wind	Pushes you around
90	Ender Pearl	Makes the player fire an ender pearl wherever they happen to be looking
95	Blaze Fireball	After a 2-second delay, player fires 3 blaze fireballs. There's a delay so you can look away from anything flammable.
100	Junk	Fills all empty inventory and hotbar slots with random junk items.
100	Litmus Paper	Gives player some litmus paper. Meant as a warning for upcoming dangerous warp effects. Can only trigger once per 8 hours.
110	Obsidian	Spawns a block of obsidian where the player's head is, suffocating them.
120	Lightning	Queues up more and more lightning strikes over time for when you go outside. This makes going outside difficult without bonus hearts or good armor. Get a Thaumic Restorer for all the damage your armor will be taking. Or use electric armors.
125	Inventory Swap	Does one of the following at random: • If a player is holding an item and has an empty slot in inventory, places the item in hand into the empty slot. • Randomly swaps the items in two slots in inventory (not hotbar)
130	Random Teleport	Randomly teleports you a few blocks, including up or down. Can be very disorienting with blind and nausea.
140	Acceleration	Speeds up the ingame time, players can check either the faster moving skybox or the Time in the top left of their HUD to see it skipping by integrals of ~3
150	Inventory Scramble	Completely scrambles player's inventory and hotbar (currently held item will not be moved)
150	Fake Wither	Plays a wither spawn sound effect. Like the litmus paper, meant as a warning for even worse warp effects coming.
160	Countdown Bomb	Player gets a countdown from 10 seconds. Once the countdown hits 0, triggers a real creeper explosion centered on the player. Also spews particles everywhere so other players know to run away.
170	Mushrooms	Randomly places mushrooms, converts grass and dirt to mycelium, and converts cows to mooshrooms.
175	Snow	Randomly places snow, converts water to ice, and spawns snow golems with fire resistance.
180	Decay	Randomly begins turning nearby Stone/Wood logs into cobble/dirt, then into gravel, and finally into sand
190	Swamp	Randomly replaces dirt blocks around player with Podzol/Water blocks with lily pads; Mass plants grass/Saplings/Vines
200	Spawn Wither	Spawns a wither.

Wuss Mode

Wuss mode is a toggleable option under Thaumcraft mod settings that completely disables warp events without removing or resetting the player's current warp levels. Although it may alleviate some of the annoyances with warp, it also locks out a small number of researches that are tied to random warp events, like Eldritch Revelation. The only way to unlock those researches with wuss mode enabled is by using the following admin command.

/thaumcraft research <PlayerName> <ResearchKey>

Research key is a unique name given to each research and can be found in the Thaumcraft Research Cheatsheet. Using "all" for the research key instantly unlocks all research and using "reset" for the research key instantly forgets all research.