It ' s an old side scrolling beat ' emup classic . It hasn ' t aged that well imo but it ' s worth a playthrough since it ' s not long by modern standards . <| sep |> You can ' t transfer essentia into your research table . Essentia and research points are different resources . There are a few ways of gaining research pointsPutting crystal clusters near the table , Putting bookshelves around the tableThis helps a lot ! Scanning thingsThe crystal clusters will accumulate research points of their respective aspects over time , bookshelves accumulate random aspects over time . 1015 bookshelves and one of each crystal cluster accumulate a large amount of aspects in an hour or so . Just craftminedo stuff in the meanwhile . I suggest you scan all your thaumcraft constructs , your tools , armor , any other blocks from other mods , if you are using any . Edit Formatting is impossible . can ' t figure it out