Creaking Ward

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Ward

Size

3 × 3, 3 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Emerald Block

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 2× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× Pale Oak Stairs
• 1× Emerald Block

Minecraft

1.21.4+

Permission

runic.runes.creakingward

A pale-oak ward: creaking magic is stilled within its circle.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 3 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

AATAA

Layer 2

????B????

Layer 3 (top)

AATAA

• T
  Tier block × 2

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• ?
  Optional cell × 8

  Leave it empty or place a block here; the rune wakes either way.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 8

  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.

Keys

• A
  Pale Oak Stairs × 8

  stays after use
• B
  Emerald Block × 1

  stays after use

How it works

The Creaking Ward borrows the creaking's stillness. While any player watches its emerald or its glass from up to 64 blocks away, every hostile mob inside its sphere freezes in place. Look away and they move again.

The ward answers only to someone holding an eye blossom, both to raise it and to lower it. Hold an eye blossom — the Creaking Ward will not answer without its gaze. Its pale oak stairs set it apart from the other wards.

Related

See Wards for raising, radius, chains, and lowering.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
max-chain	256

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
radii-by-tier Effect radius in blocks per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7).	16	24	32	40	48	56	64

Messages

6 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
not-owner	This ward answers only to its maker.
lowered	{display} lowered{chain}.
obstructed	Clear the eight blocks around the emerald before raising the ward.
raised	{display} raised (radius {radius}). {hint}{chain}
broken	The ward falls — its pattern no longer stands.
need-eyeblossom	Hold an eye blossom — the Creaking Ward will not answer without its gaze.