Well it seems that the deconstruction table requires quite a bit of gold to make. I think it's going to be a long time before I find enough.
I'm still having massive problems with finding resources underground. I'm very concerned that there seems to be none of the buildcraft ores at all, which means I can't make most of the buildcraft items. All resources, even iron, seem to be very rare, and this is the second world I've generated with this problem. The first one had only Life in the Woods installed. This one has most of the LITW mods, plus buildcraft, plus thaumcraft, plus NEI. What the hell is wrong here? Google is coming back with no answers. : ( I found such an amazing place to build my base, and now that I realize my ores are missing, I guess I'll have to regen the whole world. Maybe I'll try making a world without underground biomes... That's my best guess as to what's causing the problems.
FAKE EDIT: I just removed the underground biomes and genned a new world, and all my ores seem to be finally genning properly. So for some reason, that mod was messing up all the ore spawning underground. I really, really don't want to give up my beautiful base spot, but it's hardly worth playing knowing that I'll never find half the stuff I need.
Damn it, and I put so much time into carving a magical workshop in the top of a gigantic oak tree, on a cliff with a waterfall overlooking a field of lavender. It was PERFECT. Damn it damn it damn it. And all the research will have to be done all over again... I may have to cheat a bit on that. Thaumcraft research has got to be the most tedious thing I've ever seen added in a mod. Took hours to unlock all the aspect types...