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44 44 * extracts can be crafted using crushed excess seeds and alcohol
45 45 * oils, greases, and other substances can be crafted by mixing together various ingredients, including extracts
46 46 * magical elixirs can be made by infusing oils and the like into bottles of water at an **Infuser**, and can be drunk to gain temporary powers
47 47 * liquids can be carried around in buckets, bottles, and glasses, depending on the liquid.
48 48 * kegs can store large volumes of liquid, making for easy retrieval when you, say, need a specific extract or potion to brew an elixir
49 49 * troughs can be used to gather liquid from nature. set out under the open sky, for instance, they will slowly collect rainwater (depending on the biome). they have twice the volume of buckets.
50 50 * taps can be attached to trees to extract saps, syrups, and resins from under the bark; these can be caught by placing a trough below. you can then fill bottles from the trough, or simply pick the whole trough up and bring it home to deposit the liquid in a keg for later use.
51 + * you can build a lathe for complex metal- and woodworking, to build things like pipes, screws, discs, and fenceposts.
51 52 * wands, made at an **Wandworking Station** out of a wood, gems, bands, and cores, can be enchanted by soaking them in philters, special potions used for imbuing wood with ley-force (though i'm trying to come up with a better mechanism). these fire off powerful spells with a flick of the wrist, but will break when they run out of power (unless you recharge them…)
52 - * if you want to get into advanced arcanism, you can build an **Enchanter**. equipped with the proper wands, this powerful artifact can be used to imbue tools with useful supernatural properties, though what enchantments are available and how much ley-charge a tool can hold depend on what metal the tool is made of. but Enchanters can be used for more subtle purposes as well. with the right ingredients and a **Divination Wand**, you can conjure up recipes for delicacies or schematics for powerful magitech devices you never imagined were possible. **Melding Wands** can merge the mystic essences of items on an Enchanter to create something new, including some things that can't be made any other way, though the stars may need to be right (an **Astrolabe** can help you check) for certain recipes to work, and some may come down to plain old luck. **Division Wands** are very similar, but work the other way around.
53 + * if you want to get into advanced arcanism, you can build an **Enchanter**. if you have the proper wands with the proper wands, this powerful artifact can be used to imbue tools with useful supernatural properties, though what enchantments are available and how much ley-charge a tool can hold depend on what metal the tool is made of. but Enchanters can be used for more subtle purposes as well. with the right ingredients and a **Divination Wand**, you can conjure up recipes for delicacies or schematics for powerful magitech devices you never imagined were possible. **Melding Wands** can merge the mystic essences of items on an Enchanter to create something new, including some things that can't be made any other way, though the stars may need to be right (an **Astrolabe** can help you check) for certain recipes to work, and some may come down to plain old luck. **Division Wands** are very similar, but work the other way around.
54 + * if you do a wide variety of things with your enchanter, you may want to build a **Wand Rack** in your lab, otherwise a **Wand Stand** or two will probably be good enough.
53 55 * you can also build a **Disassembly Kit**, which you can use with pen, ink, and paper to create schematics for any object you come across that you want to be able to craft yourself.
54 56 * you can collect your assorted recipes into cookbooks, and you can build yourself a **Writing Stand** to insert, delete, re-order, or (if you have some Scissors handy) cut out parts of the book.
55 57 * you can make a **Mill** for grinding up solid materials into powder or pulp. it makes flour from grain more efficiently than a mortar and pestle, can produce various metal powders of great utility, and can reduce books, paper, and punchcards down to a pulp, suitable for cleaning with **Erasure Fluid** and cooking back into clean paper. but you'll need some way to power it. a **Generator** will produce plenty of energy in a pinch, but it may be more rewarding to build yourself a real power grid, carrying current from place to place using cables (**Vidrium Cables** are sufficient for homes and studios, but industrial facilities may need **Iridium Cables** or the even more conductive **Conduit**). **Mese Blocks** always emit a small but constant amount of ley-current, but if you're near a strong leyline, building **Condenser**s to harvest its power will be much more efficient. (**Leyspark Wand**s are crucial tools for testing the source and affinity of the ambient leyscape.)
56 58 * some new alloys can be made by sintering metal powders; others need to be melted down in a **Smelter**. these alloys have the most remarkable properties of any metal, and are especially valued by toolsmiths and enchanters, though they may be less broadly useful than the lesser metals.
57 59 * if you need to travel quickly between two distant places, and you're wealthy enough to afford it, you can build yourself one of the most powerful and complex of magitech devices — the **Teleporter**. it's no mean feat: even the smallest teleporter requires a teleport pad with a reflector above it and a portal node connected to one or the other. the teleporter will then need to be connected to its destination with cables or conduits, and if where you're travelling is very far away, you'll have to build two separate ley nets and bridge them by using an **Attunement Wand** on a pair of **Raycasters** — or perhaps even **Farcasters**. the power required to operate all of these devices is not trivial, and while a Farcaster's signal can pierce through any substance and cross any distance to reach its destination, the farther away each is from the other, the more power each side will consume. and casters can't send current, they can only send signals, so you may need a sizable power plant on both sides of the portal.
58 60 * if all you need to do is send small items, of course, a **Displacer** is much cheaper, and more flexible. if you're feeling particularly ambitious, you could use a Displacer net to connect your whole kingdom with instantaneous package service.
59 61 * stop your foes in their tracks by flipping a switch to turn on your **Force Field Emitters**, generating an impenetrable barrier wherever they aim.