Containment

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Item enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Glass

Uses

Binds to a pickaxe or shovel; 64 charges at Tier 1, up to 17,058 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Dust, the Redstone Torch, and the Glass

Materials

• 4× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 12× Redstone Dust
• 4× Redstone Torch
• 1× Glass

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.containment

A miner's mercy: water, lava, and unstable falling earth beside your digging harden into glass before they can bury you.

Pattern

Hover a tile to name it. Reading pattern diagrams explains the symbols.

5 × 5, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

ABAAATAABTCTBAATAAABA

• T
  Tier block × 4

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 4

  Leave these as air, or fill them with Tier 0 blocks such as dirt or stone.
• Activation block

  The glowing cell is the one to click.
• Spent

  Cells with a corner mark are used up when the rune wakes.

Keys

• A
  Redstone Dust × 12

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Torch × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Glass × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Containment blesses a pickaxe or shovel for safe digging. While you mine with it, water and lava beside the block you break harden into glass, and so do columns of sand, red sand, and gravel hanging overhead. A tunnel through a flooded cave or under a desert stays dry and open.

Using it

1. Build the pattern in Tier blocks. Higher Tiers grant many more charges.
2. Hold the pickaxe or shovel and right-click the heart.

See Charges for how a blessed tool spends and shows its charges.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Containment. Hold a pickaxe or shovel while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Wooden Shovel, Wooden Pickaxe, Copper Shovel, Copper Pickaxe, Stone Shovel, Stone Pickaxe, Golden Shovel, Golden Pickaxe, Iron Shovel, Iron Pickaxe, Diamond Shovel, Diamond Pickaxe, Netherite Shovel, and Netherite Pickaxe.

Conflicts with 9 other enchantments

Ice Pick, Lock Zone, Lockpick, Personal Automation Designator, Scribe, Silkier Touch, Surveyor, Water Pick, Wraithstep

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/containment.yml. Every rune file also carries the shared settings described in Rune files.

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite tier charges, false = infinite charges

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
charges-by-tier Charges granted per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7). Edit this table to override the baked default pool.	64	141	324	810	2106	5686	17058

Messages

3 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	The rune stirs, but rejects your hand. Hold {hint}.
conflict	The {other} already bound to this item repels {effect}.
bound	{effect} binds to your {item} ({charges}).