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Ovicaptor

A patient lily-pad trap: the first creature to cross its plane is sealed into a spawn egg, and the rune is spent.

Pattern​

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

3 × 3, 2 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

Layer 1 (bottom)
ABABCBABA
Layer 2 (top)
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  • 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

  • Redstone Torch × 4
    stays after use
  • End Stone × 4
    stays after use
  • Water × 1
    source blocks only · stays after use
  • Lily Pad × 1
    stays after use

How it works​

The Ovicaptor is a patient lily-pad trap. Right-click the lily pad at its centre to bind it. The Ovicaptor waits — the first creature onto the lily plane will be sealed into an egg.

The first creature, other than a player, to step onto the lily plane is sealed into a spawn egg, and the rune is spent. Breaking or blowing up any of its blocks first collapses the trap.

  • A Spawner attunes a monster spawner to the creature in an Ovicaptor egg.
  • True Mob seals a creature whole, name and nature, into a head.

Configuration​

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

Ovicaptor has no settings of its own beyond the shared ones.

Messages​

4 messages this rune can show
KeyDefault text
boundThe Ovicaptor waits — the first creature onto the lily plane will be sealed into an egg.
already-boundThis Ovicaptor is already watching — wait for a creature to step onto the pads.
bind-failedThe Ovicaptor could not take root here.
brokenThe Ovicaptor collapses — its seal is broken.