Fire Turret

Rune Info

School

Evocation

Size

7 × 7

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked block itself

Uses

Once; part of the pattern stays

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Torch, the Redstone Dust, the TNT, and the Magma Block; keeps the block marked E

Materials

• 12× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Redstone Torch
• 16× Redstone Dust
• 4× TNT
• 4× Magma Block
• 1× Any of 4 blocks

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.fireturret

Raises a crystal turret that watches and burns. Its key names the quarry: iron for monsters, gold for the wild, diamond for players, emerald for friends.

Pattern

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

7 × 7, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

ABBTBBABCTCBBDTDBTTTETTTBDTDBBCTCBABBTBBA

• T
  Tier block × 12

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 8

  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 Torch × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Dust × 16

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  TNT × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• D
  Magma Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• E
  Any of 4 blocks × 1

  Tier 1 or higher; a Tier 0 block reads as empty · stays after use

  Takes Diamond Block, Emerald Block, Gold Block, Iron Block.

  /runic build places Diamond Block.

How it works

The Fire Turret is a sentry crystal that hurls blaze fireballs at intruders. Hold an end crystal and right-click the key at the centre. The scaffold burns away, and the crystal settles on the key and begins its watch.

The key's material names the quarry:

Key	Targets
Iron block	Hostile mobs
Gold block	Neutral mobs
Diamond block	Players
Emerald block	Friendly mobs

The turret needs a clear line of sight to its target. Higher Tier blocks reach farther and lock on faster, from 20 blocks at Tier 1 to 50 at Tier 7.

Shielding and exemptions

Only the owner can change a turret:

• Diamond key. Right-click the turret with a player head to shield that player from it. Click again with the same head to lift the shield.
• Iron, gold, or emerald key. Right-click it with an Ovicaptor egg of a mob type the key targets to exempt that type. Click again to target it again.

The turret never targets its owner, or players in Creative or Spectator mode.

Dismantling

Break the key with a pickaxe to dismantle your turret quietly. The Fire Turret falls silent — its crystal is gone. Destroying the crystal also ends the turret, and the crystal explodes as end crystals do.

Related

The Ice Turret and Wind Turret work the same way.

Configuration

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

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
ranges-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	20	25	30	35	40	45	50
lock-delays-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	40	36	32	28	24	20	16
standdown-delays-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	36	32	28	24	20	16	12

Messages

18 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
need-crystal	Hold an end crystal to awaken the Fire Turret.
already-bound	This Fire Turret is already awake.
need-space	Clear the block above the key so the crystal can settle.
limit	The server's Fire Turret safety limit has been reached.
failed	The Fire Turret fails to awaken.
bound	The Fire Turret awakens (Tier {tier}) — hunting {mode}.
need-head	That head carries no player identity.
whitelisted	{name} is shielded from this Fire Turret.
unwhitelisted	{name} is no longer shielded from this Fire Turret.
need-ovicaptor	Use an Ovicaptor egg to exempt a mob type from this Fire Turret.
wrong-egg	That Ovicaptor egg is not a {mode} type for this key.
exempt	{mob} is exempt from this Fire Turret.
unexempt	{mob} may be targeted again.
need-pickaxe	Only a pickaxe can dismantle your Fire Turret.
dismantled	The Fire Turret falls silent — its crystal is gone.
configure-failed	The Fire Turret's settings were not changed; your item was preserved.
configure-uncertain	The Fire Turret's setting could not be verified; no unsafe item refund was made.
recovery-pending	This Fire Turret has a pending recovery record; an administrator should inspect it.