Tool Ward

A standing ward against meddling: tool and block-shaping magic is 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 Tool Ward smothers item magic. Inside its sphere, every enchanted tool, weapon, and piece of armor loses its Runic effects, and the designators of the toggle family stop working. It also stops Beekeeper's Lattice, Copper Patina, Stature, and Stature Field.

The magic itself survives and works again outside the sphere. Its stone 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/toolward.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.