Tranquility Obelisk

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Size

3 × 3, 3 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Netherrack

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 1× Diamond Block
• 8× Any Wall
• 1× Netherrack
• 1× Fire

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.tranquilityobelisk

An obelisk of calm: no monster wakes nearby. The first Tier block on the ring starts it; the last fuel burned sets its reach. Lost flame pauses it — relight, then click the netherrack. Aether Chests feed it while lit.

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)

????A????

Layer 2

BBCBB

Layer 3 (top)

BBDBB

• ?
  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
  Diamond Block × 1

  stays after use
• B
  Any Wall × 8

  all 8 hold the same block, set the same way · stays after use

  Takes any of 32 blocks

  • Blocks: Andesite Wall, Blackstone Wall, Brick Wall, Cinnabar Brick Wall, Cinnabar Wall, Cobbled Deepslate Wall, Cobblestone Wall, Deepslate Brick Wall, Deepslate Tile Wall, Diorite Wall, End Stone Brick Wall, Granite Wall, Mossy Cobblestone Wall, Mossy Stone Brick Wall, Mud Brick Wall, Nether Brick Wall, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall, Polished Blackstone Wall, Polished Cinnabar Wall, Polished Deepslate Wall, Polished Sulfur Wall, Polished Tuff Wall, Prismarine Wall, Red Nether Brick Wall, Red Sandstone Wall, Resin Brick Wall, Sandstone Wall, Stone Brick Wall, Sulfur Brick Wall, Sulfur Wall, Tuff Brick Wall, Tuff Wall

  /runic build places Cobblestone Wall.
• C
  Netherrack × 1

  stays after use
• D
  Fire × 1

  stays after use

How it works

While the obelisk is raised, no monster spawns within its reach, and any monster that wanders in vanishes in a puff of cloud. Builders use it to keep a base or a farm clear of hostile mobs.

Raising it

1. Build the obelisk around its diamond heart, with fire burning on the netherrack.
2. Set a Tier block on the ring. The first Tier block on the ring is the fuel that starts the obelisk, and an Aether Chest cannot start it.
3. Right-click the netherrack. A great calm settles for 16 blocks (150s) — monsters will not spawn.

Fuel and reach

Each fuel block buys 150 seconds per Tier, and the last fuel's Tier sets the reach: 16 blocks at Tier 1, 32 at Tier 2, 48 at Tier 3, and 64 from Tier 4. When time runs low, the obelisk drinks a Qixsilver Reservoir in your Domain, then an Aether Chest on the ring, then the next Tier block on the ring, clockwise.

Pausing

Right-click the netherrack while the calm is up to pause it. The calm lifts — the obelisk rests; time and fuel pause. The flame goes out, and the obelisk's time and fuel wait. To bring the calm back, light the fire on the netherrack again, then right-click the netherrack. The calm returns (radius 16, 120s remaining).

If the flame goes out while the calm is up, the obelisk pauses the same way. Relight it and click the netherrack to carry on.

Breaking the diamond, the netherrack, or a wall tears the obelisk down. Breaking a fuel block on the ring leaves it standing.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
ticks-per-tier	3000	Game ticks of calm per consumed Tier (duration = this × Tier).

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	32	48	64	64	64	64

Messages

9 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
lowered	The calm lifts; the wilds stir again.
raised	A great calm settles for {radius} blocks ({seconds}s) — monsters will not spawn.
paused	The calm lifts — the obelisk rests; time and fuel pause.
resumed	The calm returns (radius {radius}, {seconds}s remaining).
need-ink	Place a Tier block on the ring to raise the calm. An Aether Chest will not start it.
recharged	The calm drinks the offering (+{added}s, radius {radius}).
chest-recharged	The Aether Chest feeds the calm (+{added}s, radius {radius}).
broken	The Tranquility Obelisk crumbles — the calm lifts.
transaction-failed	The tranquility field could not be updated durably.