Talk:Transmutation Tablet/@comment-5080307-20120506083414

you use the tablet by first focusing on the left hand side - place an item into any slot. the tablet will have then "learned" that item (there's no confirmation from the game on this - it just has, trust me). then take that item out and do it with a bunch of other items, learn those too - especially hard to find  items like diamonds or redstone or even iron.

once the tablet has learned a bunch of things, you can use that left-hand side to start making more of those items. for example, you can convert 1 cobblestone to 1 sand by placing cobblestone in the left and taking the sand that appears from the right. BUT the sand will only appear there if the tablet has "learned" it. This is on a per-person basis - you have to have taught the tablet about sand, not someone else, otherwise it will only work for them.

you can place up to 8 items, add up their EMC value to work out what you can get.