Chrono Trigger

Rune Info

School

Evocation

Size

3 × 3, 3 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Diamond Block

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 2× Iron Block
• 4× Gold Block
• 1× Diamond Block
• 4× Obsidian

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.chronotrigger

A dial that commands the sky: day, night, or the hour its dial selects. It asks open sky, a pinch of redstone, and patience between uses.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 3 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

A

Layer 2

A

Layer 3 (top)

BBBBCDDDD

• Air or a Tier 0 block × 16

  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.

Keys

• A
  Iron Block × 2

  stays after use
• B
  Gold Block × 4

  stays after use
• C
  Diamond Block × 1

  stays after use
• D
  Obsidian × 4

  stays after use

How it works

The Chrono Trigger is a clock face that turns the sky. Hold redstone dust and right-click the diamond. One dust burns away and the world swings from day to night, or from night to day. The dust burns away and the wheel of time turns. The day shifts.

Naming the hour

Stand one redstone torch on top of a block of the dial's outer ring to choose an exact hour. The gold half of the dial holds the day and the obsidian half holds the night, so the face turns with the rune. Going around the ring, the hours run in order:

Torch on	Hour
The gold block beside the diamond	Sunrise
The next gold block, a corner	Morning
The middle of the all-gold row	Noon
The far gold corner	Afternoon
The obsidian block beside the diamond	Sunset
The next obsidian block, a corner	Evening
The middle of the all-obsidian row	Midnight
The last obsidian corner	The small hours

The dust burns away and the wheel of time turns to noon. Leave only one torch on the ring.

Good to know

• The dial must stand at height 100 or above, under open sky.
• After each use, the dial needs 20 minutes of real time to rewind. The dial is still rewinding — about 1140s remain.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
min-altitude	100
cooldown-ticks	24000	Cooldown in game ticks (20 ticks = 1 second).

Messages

6 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
too-low	The dial is deaf this low — raise it to y {minY} or above.
no-dust	Hold redstone dust — each turn of the dial burns one.
cooldown	The dial is still rewinding — about {seconds}s remain.
no-valid-hour	The dial spins, confused — leave only one torch on its ring.
set-hour	The dust burns away and the wheel of time turns to {hour}.
set-relative	The dust burns away and the wheel of time turns. The day shifts.