Light Bow

Rune Info

School

Evocation

Item enchantment

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Torch

Uses

Binds to a bow or crossbow; 16 charges at Tier 1, up to 4,278 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Dust, and the Torch

Materials

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

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.lightbow

Also called

bowoflight

A bow blessing: arrows plant torches where they land.

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

TATABATAT

• T
  Tier block × 4

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• 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 × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Light Bow blesses a bow or crossbow so its arrows plant torches where they land. Each torch-planting shot spends one charge.

Related

The light bows come in four kinds, and each repels the other three on the same bow:

Rune	Plants
Light Bow	Torches
Red Light Bow	Redstone torches
Copper Light Bow	Copper torches
Soul Light Bow	Soul torches

Light Tool plants torches by hand.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Light Bow. Hold a bow or crossbow while you wake the rune.

Items that take it: Bow and Crossbow.

Conflicts with 10 other enchantments

Copper Light Bow, Lock Zone, Lockpick, Personal Automation Designator, Red Light Bow, Scribe, Silkier Touch, Soul Light Bow, Surveyor, Wraithstep

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/lightbow.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
plant-charge-cost	1	Charges spent when a torch-planting arrow is loosed.
plant-sound	none	Sound played when a planted arrow places a torch (Bukkit Sound name). Set plant-sound to 'none' or blank to silence. Bows are silent by default.
plant-sound-volume	1	Volume of the plant sound.
plant-sound-pitch	1.2	Pitch of the plant sound.

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.	16	35	81	203	528	1426	4278

Messages

4 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}).
plant-denied	The torch cannot take hold here.