Surface Tension

Rune Info

School

Conjuration

Item enchantment

Size

3 × 3, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the centre Tier block

Uses

Binds to a slimeball; 4 charges at Tier 1, up to 1,119 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Glass, the Snow Block, and the Water

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Glass
• 4× Snow Block
• 1× Water

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.surfacetension

Enchants a held slimeball: a touch conjures a still water source in the space beside the block you click.

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.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

T

Layer 2 (top)

ABABCBABA

• T
  Tier block × 1

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• 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.
• Spent

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

Keys

• A
  Glass × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Snow Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Water × 1

  source blocks only · spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Surface Tension enchants a slimeball. Right-click a block with it, and a still water source appears in the space beside the face you clicked. The source holds its place and never flows. Each source spends one charge.

Tips

• Set water for farms, elevators, or a quick fall breaker without carrying buckets.
• Magma Gel does the same with lava.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Surface Tension. Hold a slimeball while you wake the rune.

Conflicts with 7 other enchantments

Lock Zone, Lockpick, Personal Automation Designator, Scribe, Silkier Touch, Surveyor, Wraithstep

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite tier charges, false = infinite charges

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
charges-by-tier Charges granted per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7). Edit this table to override the baked default pool.	4	9	21	53	138	373	1119

Messages

3 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	The rune stirs, but rejects your hand. Hold {hint}.
conflict	The {other} already bound to this item repels {effect}.
bound	{effect} binds to your {item} ({charges}).