Shield

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Item enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Redstone Torch

Uses

Binds to a shield; 16 charges

Spent on use

The Redstone Dust, the Glass, and the Redstone Torch

Materials

• 12× Redstone Dust
• 4× Glass
• 1× Redstone Torch

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.shield

A shield blessing: a blocked blow hurls the attacker back.

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

AAAABBAACAABBAAAA

• 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.
• Spent

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

Keys

• A
  Redstone Dust × 12

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Glass × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Redstone Torch × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Bless a shield with this rune and every blow you block throws your attackers back. Each blocked hit spends one charge and pushes every living creature within three blocks of you outward and slightly upward.

The blessing works from either hand. It answers any hit from a creature or a projectile that lands while your shield is raised.

Tips

• Surrounded by mobs, a single block clears space around you.
• Server owners can tune the reach, push, and lift with knockback-radius, knockback-strength, and knockback-y.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Shield. Hold a shield while you wake the rune.

Conflicts with 7 other enchantments

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

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite charges, false = infinite charges
charges	16	Charges bound onto the shield. The pattern has no Tier blocks.
knockback-radius	3	How far the shield shove reaches, in blocks.
knockback-strength	1.5	Horizontal shove strength applied to nearby creatures.
knockback-y	0.4	Upward shove applied to nearby creatures.

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}).