Transport Rings

Rune Info

School

Conjuration

Size

9 × 9

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Gold Block

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 4× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 24× Chiseled Stone Bricks
• 16× Pearlescent Froglight
• 12× Lodestone
• 1× Gold Block
• 4× Signature blocks (or leave empty)

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.transportrings

Paired pads that ferry travelers between matching signatures amid rising rings. Raised on the gold heart; ridden from the ring.

Pattern

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

9 × 9, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

AAAAABBBAAABCTCBAABCC↑CCBAABT←D→TBAABCC↓CCBAABCTCBAAABBBAAAAA

• T
  Tier block × 4

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• ↑
  Signature block × 4

  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 × 20

  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
  Chiseled Stone Bricks × 24

  stays after use
• B
  Pearlescent Froglight × 16

  all 16 hold the same block, set the same way · needs a particular block state · stays after use

  On older servers: Sea Lantern.
• C
  Lodestone × 12

  stays after use

  On older servers: Iron Block.
• D
  Gold Block × 1

  stays after use

How it works

Transport Rings are a pair of nine-by-nine pads that share a signature. Everyone and everything standing on one pad, up to six blocks high, travels to the other.

1. Build both pads with the same signature, and clear the six layers of space above each.
2. Right-click each gold heart to attune it. Transport Rings drink the signature and wait (Tier 3). Two pads at most share one signature.
3. Step onto a pad and right-click the ring to ride. The Transport Rings begin to turn.

Riders stay mounted on their horses, boats, and minecarts.

Tier and direction

• Pads of equal Tier trade places, so whoever waits on the far pad comes back the other way.
• A higher-Tier pad sends its load one way to a lower one.
• A lower-Tier pad cannot reach a higher one. This pad (Tier 2) cannot reach the far pad (Tier 4).

After a trip the rings rest for twenty seconds, and three seconds after a failed one.

See Travel for more.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
success-cooldown-ticks	400
fail-cooldown-ticks	60
cycle-start-sound	BLOCK_BEACON_ACTIVATE	Cycle / animation sounds (Bukkit Sound name; 'none' silences). Missing names on older servers fall back to piston / trident / phantom whooshes.
cycle-start-sound-volume	1
cycle-start-sound-pitch	1.15
ring-raise-sound	BLOCK_VAULT_OPEN_SHUTTER
ring-raise-sound-volume	0.55
ring-raise-sound-pitch	1
ring-lower-sound	BLOCK_VAULT_CLOSE_SHUTTER
ring-lower-sound-volume	0.55
ring-lower-sound-pitch	0.95
light-raise-sound	ENTITY_BREEZE_SHOOT
light-raise-sound-volume	0.75
light-raise-sound-pitch	1.25
light-lower-sound	ENTITY_BREEZE_LAND
light-lower-sound-volume	0.65
light-lower-sound-pitch	0.85
travel-sound	ENTITY_ENDERMAN_TELEPORT
travel-sound-volume	1
travel-sound-pitch	1
cycle-end-sound	BLOCK_BEACON_DEACTIVATE
cycle-end-sound-volume	0.7
cycle-end-sound-pitch	0.9

Messages

13 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
tier-too-low	This pad (Tier {originTier}) cannot reach the far pad (Tier {destTier}).
attuned	Transport Rings drink the signature and wait (Tier {tier}).
already-bound	These Transport Rings are already awake.
signature-full	Two Transport Rings already share this signature.
obstructed	Clear the six layers above the rings before attuning.
interfere	There is already magic here that interferes.
no-partner	No paired Transport Rings answer this signature.
cooldown	The rings rest for {seconds}s.
cycle-fail	The rings find their path blocked — try again shortly.
cycle-start	The Transport Rings begin to turn.
destroyed	The Transport Rings fall silent.
limit	The server's Transport Rings safety limit has been reached.
world-unloaded	The destination world is not loaded.