Ankheg Armor

Rune Info

School

Enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Diamond Block

Uses

Once; the pattern is spent

Spent on use

The Lava, the Iron Bars, and the Diamond Block

Materials

• 12× Lava
• 12× Iron Bars
• 1× Diamond Block

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.ankhegarmor

Leveled plating on Runic elytra, gold, or chainmail — each level one armor more, and the last level asks netherite.

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

AABAAABBBABBCBBABBBAAABAA

• 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
  Lava × 12

  source blocks only · spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Iron Bars × 12

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Diamond Block × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Ankheg Armor adds leveled plating to Runic armor. Hold a forged elytra, golden armor piece, or chainmail armor piece and wake the rune. The piece rises one Ankheg level, and each level adds one point of armor while you wear it. The rune is spent with each application.

Level	Cost
I to V	One diamond from your inventory each time.
VI	A netherite ingot and a netherite upgrade smithing template.

Level VI is the highest. This piece already bears Ankheg 6 — the plating can grow no thicker.

Good to know

Ankheg levels survive Permanence, which leaves them as they are.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
max-level	6

Messages

5 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	The ankheg's plating takes only to elytra, gold, or chainmail armor.
max-level	This piece already bears Ankheg {level} — the plating can grow no thicker.
need-diamond	Hold a diamond — the ankheg demands one for its plating.
need-netherite	The final ascension demands a netherite ingot and a netherite upgrade smithing template.
bound	Chitinous plating grows over your {item} — Ankheg {level}{suffix}