Stillwater

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Size

3 × 3, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Soul Torch itself

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Glass
• 4× Lapis Lazuli Block
• 1× Soul Torch

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.stillwater

A calm-field that forbids water and lava to flow while it stands raised. Nothing is converted — only stilled.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 2 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

ABABTBABA

Layer 2 (top)

C

• T
  Tier block × 1

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• 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
  Glass × 4

  stays after use
• B
  Lapis Lazuli Block × 4

  stays after use
• C
  Soul Torch × 1

  stays after use

  On older servers: Torch.

How it works

Stillwater is a calm-field for flood control. Right-click the soul torch to raise it, and water and lava within its sphere stop flowing and spreading. Every liquid keeps its blocks and its kind: the field stills them in place. Stillwater settles for 16 blocks — floods and lava halt.

Right-click the torch again to lower it, and liquids flow as before. Breaking the Tier block heart ends the field for good. A raised field stays raised through server restarts.

The Tier block heart sets the radius, from 16 blocks at Tier 1 to 64 at Tier 7.

Tips

• Raise Stillwater before draining or building under the sea, then lower it when the work is done.
• For freezing water into ice, see Freezer.

Configuration

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

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

4 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
raised	Stillwater settles for {radius} blocks — floods and lava halt.
lowered	The Stillwater eases — liquids may flow again.
broken	The Stillwater unravels with its heart.
limit	The server's active Stillwater safety limit has been reached.