True Name Altar

Rune Info

School

Admin

Admin totem

Size

3 × 3, 4 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Player Head itself

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 13× Bedrock
• 1× Lava
• 4× Beacon
• 1× Player Head
• 2× Signature blocks (or leave empty)

Minecraft

1.13+

Initiation

Usable before Initiation

Permission

runic.runes.truenamealtar

The harshest judgment: strips every Runic asset from the named head's owner and grants them to the one who asks.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 4 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

AAAABACAC

Layer 2

AAAAA←→

Layer 3

CACA

Layer 4 (top)

D

• ↑
  Signature block × 2

  Each arm holds a Tier 1+ block other than the Tier block, or stays empty (air or Tier 0). Read by compass direction, the arms spell the rune’s signature.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 15

  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
  Bedrock × 13

  stays after use
• B
  Lava × 1

  source blocks only · stays after use
• C
  Beacon × 4

  stays after use
• D
  Player Head × 1

  stays after use

How it works

The True Name Altar hands one player's Runic estate to another. Build the altar of bedrock, lava, and beacons, and crown it with the player head of the one whose estate passes on. Right-click the crowning head. The True Name of Alex passes to Sam — 14 bindings.

The estate goes to you. Hold another player's head while you click, and it goes to that player instead. The True Name Altar grants you Alex's Runic estate.

The crowning head is spent. The rest of the altar stays, ready for another head.

What passes on

Waypoints and travel signatures, Faith islands, Domains, Qixsilver Reservoirs and Wellsprings, Genesis pockets, wards, Reality Anchors and Masters, automation, turrets, Zeerix Chests, Ovicaptors, True Mobs, and the magic bound to the player. See True names.

Good to know

• The head is spent even when there is nothing to give. The altar finds nothing of Alex to give Sam.
• The altar refuses to give someone their own estate.
• Like every staff rune, it comes with runic.admin, which operators hold by default.

Configuration

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

True Name Altar has no settings of its own beyond the shared ones.

Messages

5 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
wrong-name	The head atop the altar names no one — it must be a player's head.
same-soul	The altar will not transfer {name} unto themselves.
empty	The altar finds nothing of {from} to give {to}.
transferred	The True Name of {from} passes to {to} — {records} bindings.
you-received	The True Name Altar grants you {from}'s Runic estate.