Mana Pool

The Mana Pool is a vital block featured in Botania, it is a higher tier than the Diluted Mana Pool. It can store an extremely large amount of Mana in it, about 100x more than the Diluted Mana Pool. Mana stored in the pool can be used to power other blocks in Botania that require Mana to function such as flowers that are functional.

Mana can be inserted into the Mana Pool via a Mana Spreader, and any adjacent Mana Spreaders will pull Mana from it to fill their internal buffer. The amount of Mana in a pool can be displayed as a bar by right-clicking the Mana Pool with a Wand of the Forest.

Many resources can be thrown into the Mana Pool, causing them to be infused and turn into more powerful forms. For example, an Iron Ingot can be thrown into the pool, and the pool will return a Manasteel Ingot. This is called infusing and cannot be done with a Diluted Mana Pool.

Items will appear animated when in a Mana Pool. This feature can be disabled in the configuration file as of version R1.1-82.

The NEI recipe displays for Mana Infusion or Runic Altar recipes contain a Mana bar displaying how much Mana the recipes consume. These Mana bars show Mana consumption relative to the capacity of a Mana Pool.

Recipe
To create the normal Mana Pool, the player must throw a Diluted Mana Pool into either a Diluted Mana Pool or a Mana Pool, as shown below.