Void Ward

Rune Info

School

Abjuration

Ward

Size

3 × 3, 3 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Emerald Block

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 2× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× Nether Brick Stairs
• 1× Emerald Block

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.voidward

A standing ward against the dark: hexes and curses 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

• T
  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

• A
  Nether Brick Stairs × 8

  stays after use
• B
  Emerald Block × 1

  stays after use

How it works

The Void Ward smothers hexes and curses. Inside its sphere, trap runes and curses stay cold, and hexes and curses already laid cannot strike their victims. Countercurses are smothered too.

Raise one around a meeting hall or a market to keep its visitors safe from traps. Its nether brick stairs set it apart from the other wards.

Related

• Wards lists every rune it stops.
• Hexes and curses explains how traps are laid and cleared.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
max-chain	256

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

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.