Macuahuitl Blade

Rune Info

School

Enchantment

Item enchantment

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked Planks

Uses

Binds to a sword; 64 charges at Tier 1, up to 17,058 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Obsidian, and the Planks

Materials

• 4× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Obsidian
• 1× Any Planks

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.macuahuitlblade

A sword blessing of obsidian teeth: the blade bites deeper.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

TATABATAT

• T
  Tier block × 4

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

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Any Planks × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

  Takes any of 12 blocks

  • Any Planks: Acacia Planks, Bamboo Planks, Birch Planks, Cherry Planks, Crimson Planks, Dark Oak Planks, Jungle Planks, Mangrove Planks, Oak Planks, Pale Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Warped Planks

  /runic build places Acacia Planks.

How it works

The Macuahuitl Blade blesses a sword with obsidian teeth. Each hit spends a charge and deals half again as much damage.

Tips

Save it for hard fights: every swing that lands spends a charge, so it suits a sword kept for bosses and raids.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Macuahuitl Blade. Hold a sword while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Wooden Sword, Copper Sword, Stone Sword, Golden Sword, Iron Sword, Diamond Sword, and Netherite Sword.

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/macuahuitlblade.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

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.	64	141	324	810	2106	5686	17058

Messages

3 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}).