Done Mana Pool

If you placed down the mana spreaders after you placed the endoflames, you are going to need to link the flowers to the mana spreaders. Take your wand, and look at an endoflame, if it shows an icon of a mana spreader with a red x, it means it is not linked. So in bind mode, shift right click the endo flame, then right click one of the mana spreaders to link them.

Once linked, just throw down some combustibles and wait.

 

No, combustibles are things that you would use in a furnace. So wood, coal, blaze rods and stuff like that. The diamonds, redstone dust and enderpearls you will throw into the mana pool when there is enough mana in it to change them to the mana versions.

 

One really nice thing about Botania, is it uses hover images to help. So if you hold an item that can be converted with mana, and look at a mana pool, it will show an icon with an x or checkmark to indicate if you have enough mana or not. Though if it requires a catalyst under the mana pool, those ones won't show until you put the catalyst under it.

Some key pointers, endoflames, while easy to do, produce small amounts of mana.

If you are clever with how to automate, the thermalily, or keki plants produce a tonne of mana, but are harder to automate. one takes lava, but if you give it too fast it stays on cooldown, and the other eats cakes, so you need to find a way to make a lot of cakes.