Automation Designator

Rune Info

School

Divination

Size

3 × 3, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Redstone Dust

Uses

1 charge

Spent on use

The Deepslate Gold Ore or Gold Ore, the Redstone Dust, and the signature

Materials

• 4× Deepslate Gold Ore or Gold Ore
• 5× Redstone Dust
• 4× Signature blocks (or leave empty)

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.automationdesignator

Forges a designator that marks blocks for automation — when a matching sensor fires, each marked block activates in order.

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)

A↑A←B→A↓A

Layer 2 (top)

BBBB

• ↑
  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 × 5

  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
  Deepslate Gold Ore or Gold Ore × 4

  spent when the rune wakes

  Takes Deepslate Gold Ore, Gold Ore.

  /runic build places Gold Ore.
• B
  Redstone Dust × 5

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Automation Designator marks blocks for sensors to wake. Build it with your signature in its four arms, hold any item, and right-click the heart. The pattern burns away, signature and all, and the item becomes a designator with one charge. Build it again and wake it with the same item to add a charge, up to five.

Right-click a block with the designator to mark it. Block designated. Matching sensors will activate magic here. Each mark spends one charge. When a sensor with the same signature fires, every marked block wakes in the order it was marked.

Only the player who marked a block can change its mark. Others hear This block holds another mage's designation; only its maker may change it.

What a mark can wake

• The rune whose heart it is, as if someone right-clicked it.
• A block of the toggle family or a Lock Zone, stepping to its next state.
• A True Name pad, Memento, Transport Rings, Candela, or Viatorem's Arch.

Marks are permanent. A Tier 3 or higher Dispel clears them.

See Automation for sensors and tips.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite charges, false = infinite charges
charges	1	Charges bound onto the designator. The pattern has no Tier blocks.

Messages

8 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	Hold any item to forge the Activation Designator.
conflict	That tool already carries a conflicting designator.
absorbed	Your {item} drinks the signature ({charges} designations).
no-charges	The designator is spent.
interfere	Existing magic here repels the designator.
designated	Block designated. Matching sensors will activate magic here.
limit	The server's automation designation safety limit has been reached.
not-owner	This block holds another mage's designation; only its maker may change it.