Hell Maw

Rune Info

School

Evocation

Item enchantment

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Gold Block

Uses

Binds to a bow or crossbow; 4 charges

Spent on use

The Obsidian, the Lava, and the Gold Block

Materials

• 8× Obsidian
• 4× Lava
• 1× Gold Block

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.hellmaw

A bow blessing: the arrow strikes with lightning and tears a ragged pit through bedrock to the void. Fire dots the rim and walls. The ground falls through, holds, then knits itself back.

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

AABAABCBAABAA

• Air or a Tier 0 block × 12

  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
  Obsidian × 8

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Lava × 4

  source blocks only · spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Gold Block × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Hell Maw blesses a bow or crossbow with a terrible arrow. Where it lands, lightning strikes, and the ground falls away into a ragged pit that tunnels down through bedrock to the void. Fire dots the rim and clings to the walls.

The pit holds open for ten seconds. Then the ground knits itself back together, layer by layer, until no trace remains.

The pattern has no Tier blocks, so every bow carries four shots.

Good to know

• Anything that falls to the bottom of the pit is lost to the void, whether it is a creature, a player, or a dropped item.
• Creatures still in the pit as it closes ride the ground back up.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Hell Maw. Hold a bow or crossbow while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Bow and Crossbow.

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/hellmaw.yml. Every rune file also carries the shared settings described in Rune files.

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite charges, false = infinite charges
charges	4	Charges bound onto the bow. The pattern has no Tier blocks.
hell-maw-duration-ticks	200	How long the open pit holds before it knits back, in game ticks.
hell-maw-dig-ticks	100	How long the collapse animation lasts, in game ticks.
hell-maw-recover-ticks	100	How long the restore animation lasts, in game ticks.
pit-radius	4	Typical horizontal pit radius (band walls jitter around this).
inner-radius	2	Inner disc that stays open at every depth.
max-column-radius	6	Farthest a horizontal wall-bite may reach from the impact column.

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}).