Sniff Trace

Rune Info

School

Divination

Item enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the centre Tier block itself

Uses

Binds to a sniffer egg or torchflower; 8 charges at Tier 1, up to 2,172 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Dust, the Moss Block, and the Rooted Dirt

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 10× Redstone Dust
• 7× Moss Block
• 3× Rooted Dirt

Minecraft

1.20+

Permission

runic.runes.snifftrace

Blesses a sniffer egg or torchflower: a right-click follows the scent to the nearest buried hoard still waiting in the chunk. Higher Tier, more charges.

Pattern

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

5 × 5, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

AAAABBBABBTBBACCCAAAA

• 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 × 4

  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 × 10

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Moss Block × 7

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Rooted Dirt × 3

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Sniff Trace blesses a sniffer egg or a torchflower with a sniffer's nose. Right-click with it, and it follows the scent to the nearest buried hoard still waiting in your chunk, telling you how far it lies and in which direction.

It finds buried treasure chests, suspicious sand and gravel from desert pyramids, desert wells, ocean ruins, and trail ruins, and the spots where sniffers dig. Each find spends one charge. A chunk with nothing left to find spends no charge. The scent finds nothing buried in this chunk.

The bound egg or torchflower is never placed.

Related

• Brushwright outlines suspicious blocks ahead of you.
• Server owners choose which loot tables count with loot-tables.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Sniff Trace. Hold a sniffer egg or torchflower while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Torchflower and Sniffer Egg.

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/snifftrace.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
loot-tables	minecraft:chests/buried_treasure, minecraft:archaeology/desert_pyramid, minecraft:archaeology/desert_well, minecraft:archaeology/ocean_ruin_cold, minecraft:archaeology/ocean_ruin_warm, minecraft:archaeology/trail_ruins_common, minecraft:archaeology/trail_ruins_rare, minecraft:gameplay/sniffer_digging	Namespaced loot tables Sniff Trace marks in the player's chunk. Exact keys or path suffixes (buried_treasure) both match. An empty list falls back to these jar defaults.

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.	8	18	41	103	268	724	2172

Messages

6 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}).
no-charges	The Sniff Trace has no charges left.
nothing	The scent finds nothing buried in this chunk.
found	The scent pulls {distance} blocks {direction}.