Wind 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 Wool; keeps the block marked E

Materials

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

Minecraft

1.21+

Permission

runic.runes.windturret

Raises a crystal turret that watches and gusts. 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
  Any Wool × 4

  spent when the rune wakes

  Takes any of 16 blocks

  • Any Wool: Black Wool, Blue Wool, Brown Wool, Cyan Wool, Gray Wool, Green Wool, Light Blue Wool, Light Gray Wool, Lime Wool, Magenta Wool, Orange Wool, Pink Wool, Purple Wool, Red Wool, White Wool, Yellow Wool

  /runic build places Black Wool.
• 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 Wind Turret is the Fire Turret's airy twin, built with wool in place of magma. It fires wind charges that burst at three times the usual size, shoving everything nearby and lifting it with a moment of levitation.

Hold an end crystal and right-click the key to raise it. The key names the quarry:

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

Shielding players with a head, exempting mobs with an Ovicaptor egg, and dismantling with a pickaxe all work as they do on the Fire Turret.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
wind-base-radius	1.2	Vanilla-scale wind-charge burst radius before the multiplier (blocks).
wind-radius-multiplier	3	Multiplier applied to wind-base-radius on impact (default 3×).
wind-knockback	1.15	Horizontal shove strength for living things caught in the burst.
wind-lift	0.45	Upward lift applied with the burst knockback.
levitation-amplifier	0	Slight levitation applied to living things in the burst.
levitation-ticks	30

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