To start, I am running windows 10, 64 bit, with a Ryzen Processor.
I have no other mods installed other than Psi, JEI, and the required library.

I am having a strange issue. Every time I make a new world and attempt to start psi, I am started out with 5000 mana. I am also unable to use the programmer. I level up to level 1 when I make the psi dust. But I can't get any further. What is weirder is when I try an older version of psi I get the same problem. Granted I did only go back one version. But I have already spent multiple hours trying to figure out what's wrong.

Let me know if you need more info.

You're using the latest version of Psi?

Crap I meant to mention. I am using the twitch launcher.

Indeed

could you give a crash log? (hold f3 + c to manually crash your game)

Ok one sec

Upload it to a service like https://gist.github.com, https://hastebin.com, or https://pastebin.com, please.

File or raw text?

https://hastebin.com/pazunitelu.rb

Sure give me another sec

Well, that's certainly the latest release... Odd. Could you upload a zipped world file for me to check out?

New World.zip

That would be great, thanks

So are you experiencing the same thing? I made a quick video with OBS showing what's up if you want it.

ugh this thing doesn't take .mp4 I'll send it through mediafire.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/e7a6cw8z999mcq3/Psi_bs.mp4/file

I think at this point you have all the info that I have. I can't think of anything else that you might need. let me know though. I'll be on for like 30 more mins before I need to hit the sack.

The 5000 psi issue is real, but you need to use the Psi keybind (which you have unbound) to progress.

well, could you record the unable-to-progress issue?

No, I know. I unbound it when I tried to get the game to force a crash. I had never done it before and I didn't know how long I needed to hold it down so I unbound that key because I thought it was conflicting with the action.

Or am I an idiot?

I did. You never entered the Psi GUI, which requires the keybind.

Did you watch the video?

Ok, I'm just an idiot. See I started using the mod because I wanted to learn it. I didn't hit learn. Which is my bad.

My update branch now has a solution to this. It'll be merged when testing is done.

Yay!

You know. It kinda sucks when you try your best to not do something stupid and you end up making a really simple mistake.
Sorry for mislabling and being a numpty. Thanks for being prompt and helping me out.
:)

So, it turns out that this is intended behavior, as of a few updates ago. Oops.

Wait, does that mean it's supposed to be 5000? Like you are meant to start with 5000 mana?

Oh... Ok... Did they just not like the leveling system or something? I'm confused as to why it was removed.

You still have to unlock spell pieces, but your max Psi energy is always 5,000 now, @Goldenblaze . So the leveling system wasn't removed, as such, just changed.

As for why, I believe the consensus was that the Psi energy ramp-up wasn't all that helpful.