Flame Ward

A standing ward against fire: flame-working runes are smothered 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

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

The Flame Ward guards against fire. Inside its sphere:

Raising the ward puts out fire already burning inside it, on blocks and on creatures. Lava already there stays.
Fire cannot light, spread, or burn blocks.
Lava cannot be poured in or flow in.
Everyone inside is shielded from fire and lava damage.

It smothers no runes. Raise one over a wooden town or a library. Its red nether brick stairs set it apart from the other wards.

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

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

Setting	Default	What it does
`max-chain`	`256`

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

5 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.