Torch Bearer

Rune Info

School

Enchantment

Item enchantment

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the centre Tier block

Uses

Binds to an elytra, a turtle shell, or gold, iron, chainmail, or copper armor; 64 charges at Tier 1, up to 17,058 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Dust, and the Torch

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Redstone Dust
• 2× Torch

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.torchbearer

An armor blessing: a light that follows you wherever you walk.

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

ABATABA

• 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 × 2

  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 × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Torch × 2

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Torch Bearer blesses any piece of armor with a light that follows you. Wherever you walk, an invisible light fills the space around your head, so caves and night roads stay lit. Each time the light moves to a new spot, it spends one charge.

On servers too old for invisible light blocks, it grants night vision instead.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Torch Bearer. Hold an elytra, a turtle shell, or gold, iron, chainmail, or copper armor while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Elytra, Turtle Helmet, Copper Helmet, Copper Chestplate, Copper Leggings, Copper Boots, Chainmail Helmet, Chainmail Chestplate, Chainmail Leggings, Chainmail Boots, Iron Helmet, Iron Chestplate, Iron Leggings, Iron Boots, Golden Helmet, Golden Chestplate, Golden Leggings, and Golden Boots.

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/torchbearer.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}).