Water Pick

Rune Info

School

Enchantment

Item enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the block under the water

Uses

Binds to a Runic pickaxe or shovel; 64 charges at Tier 1, up to 17,058 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Dust, the Redstone Torch, and the Water

Materials

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

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.waterpick

A pick blessing for lava country: breaking beside lava turns sources to obsidian and flows to cobblestone, one charge per block.

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

ABAAATAABTCTBAATAAABA

• T
  Tier block × 4

  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 × 12

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Torch × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Water × 1

  source blocks only · spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Water Pick blesses a Runic pickaxe or shovel for lava country. When you break a block beside lava, the lava sets solid: source blocks turn to obsidian and flowing lava turns to cobblestone. Each block changed spends one charge.

Works with

Water Pick stacks with Power Tool and Ice Pick. It cannot share a tool with Containment, which turns liquids to glass.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Water Pick. Hold a Runic pickaxe or shovel while you wake the rune.

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

Conflicts with 8 other enchantments

Containment, Lock Zone, Lockpick, Personal Automation Designator, Scribe, Silkier Touch, Surveyor, Wraithstep

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/waterpick.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}).