Michelson-Morley Chest

Rune Info

School

Conjuration

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked block itself

Uses

Once; part of the pattern stays

Spent on use

The Copper Block and the Tinted Glass; keeps the block marked C

Materials

• 4× Any Copper Block
• 4× Tinted Glass
• 1× Any of 28 blocks

Minecraft

1.17+

Permission

runic.runes.michelsonmorleychest

A copper and tinted-glass interferometer about a storage chest, built to measure what the aether does and does not carry. Its keepers insist it is science, not magic.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

ABABCBABA

• Activation block

  The glowing cell is the one to click.
• Spent

  Cells with a corner mark are used up when the rune wakes.

Keys

• A
  Any Copper Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes

  Takes Copper Block, Waxed Copper Block.

  /runic build places Copper Block.
• B
  Tinted Glass × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Any of 28 blocks × 1

  stays after use

  Takes any of 28 blocks in 3 families

  • Any Copper Chest: Copper Chest, Exposed Copper Chest, Oxidized Copper Chest, Waxed Copper Chest, Waxed Exposed Copper Chest, Waxed Oxidized Copper Chest, Waxed Weathered Copper Chest, Weathered Copper Chest
  • Any Shulker Box: Black Shulker Box, Blue Shulker Box, Brown Shulker Box, Cyan Shulker Box, Gray Shulker Box, Green Shulker Box, Light Blue Shulker Box, Light Gray Shulker Box, Lime Shulker Box, Magenta Shulker Box, Orange Shulker Box, Pink Shulker Box, Purple Shulker Box, Red Shulker Box, White Shulker Box, Yellow Shulker Box
  • Also: Barrel, Chest, Shulker Box, Trapped Chest

  /runic build places Chest.

How it works

The Michelson-Morley Chest is an interferometer that recharges Runic tools. Right-click the storage chest at its heart to bind it, and the frame collapses into the chest. The interferometer collapses into the chest — ether drifts on.

Stock the chest with Tier blocks. Then right-click it while holding a Runic item that has a limited number of charges. The chest spends one Tier block, the first it finds, and returns some charges to the item's first limited effect. The interferometer returns a negative result. Only 12 charges restored. Maybe Einstein's General Relativity can do better.

Each Tier block restores two thirds of what that block is worth when the rune is first bound, so higher-Tier blocks restore far more. An item already at its charge cap takes nothing.

Good to know

• A plain hand, or an item with no Runic magic, opens the chest normally.
• It shares a chest happily with a Zeerix Chest or a Vortex. An Aether Chest or a Compressor cannot share it.
• An Aether Ward silences it.

See Charges for other ways to top up a tool.

Configuration

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

Michelson-Morley Chest has no settings of its own beyond the shared ones.

Messages

8 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
bound	The interferometer collapses into the chest — ether drifts on.
conflict-aether	Aether already claims this chest — the interferometer will not bind.
conflict-compressor	A compressor already claims this chest — the interferometer will not bind.
limit	The server's Michelson-Morley Chest safety limit has been reached.
bind-failed	The pattern changed before the chest could bind safely.
no-fuel	The interferometer finds no tiered block to consume.
recharged	The interferometer returns a negative result. Only {x} charges restored. Maybe Einstein's General Relativity can do better.
broken	The interferometer loses coherence — its memory fades.