Damage Sensor

Rune Info

School

Divination

Size

5 × 5, 4 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Redstone Torch

Uses

1 charge at any Tier

Spent on use

The Tier blocks and the block marked C; keeps the Redstone Dust, the Redstone Torch, and the signature

Materials

• 2× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× Redstone Dust
• 1× Redstone Torch
• 1× Any block, or none (optional)
• 4× Signature blocks (or leave empty)

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.damagesensor

Forges a pad-designator: strike a designated block, and the automation sharing its signature fires.

Pattern

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

5 × 5, 4 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

↑AAA←ABA→AAA↓

Layer 2

T

Layer 3

T

Layer 4 (top)

C

• T
  Tier block × 2

  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 × 84

  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
  Redstone Dust × 8

  stays after use
• B
  Redstone Torch × 1

  stays after use
• C
  Any block, or none × 1

  optional: an empty cell works too · spent when the rune wakes

  Takes any of 1193 blocks

  /runic build places Acacia Log.

How it works

The Damage Sensor forges a pad designator. Hold any item and right-click the pattern, then right-click any block with the item to make it a pad. Damage Sensor pad set. Left-click to fire.

Strike a pad with a left-click to fire its signature. It wakes every block marked under that signature by an Automation Designator, in the order they were marked.

Good to know

• It reaches marked blocks within 32 blocks per Tier, measured as a flat square.
• A pad waits two seconds between fires.
• The runes it wakes act for the player who struck the pad.
• A pad resists breaking. Break it with a Runic sword, a sword that carries bound magic, to remove the pad; it fires one last time as it goes.
• Only the player who set a pad can set it again or remove it. Others hear This Damage Sensor pad answers only to the one who set it. See Ownership.

Tips

Make a target block a pad, and an arrow or a sword swing can open a door across the room.

See Automation for the whole system.

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/damagesensor.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
fire-cooldown-ticks	40	Minimum game ticks between successful pad hits (0 = no cooldown).

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.	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Messages

8 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	Hold any item to forge the Damage Sensor 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	Damage Sensor pad set. Left-click to fire. ({remaining} left)
limit	The server's damage sensor pad safety limit has been reached.
not-owner	This Damage Sensor pad answers only to the one who set it.