Keystone

Rune Info

School

Faith

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Lodestone itself

Uses

Once; part of the pattern stays

Spent on use

The Diamond Block, the Emerald Block, and the Gold Block; keeps the Lodestone

Materials

• 4× Diamond Block
• 4× Emerald Block
• 4× Gold Block
• 1× Lodestone

Minecraft

1.16+

Permission

runic.runes.keystone

Binds a lodestone within a faith; the scaffold burns away while the stone wards that ship's sphere — and any Shell on it — from strangers. A head at the stone shares the ward; break the stone to still it.

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

ABCBACDCABCBA

• 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
  Diamond Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Emerald Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Gold Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• D
  Lodestone × 1

  stays after use

How it works

The Keystone wards an island from strangers. Build the cross around a lodestone, wholly inside an island you own, and wake it. The scaffold burns away and the lodestone stays.

While it stands, strangers cannot build on the island or wake runes there. A Keystone wards this faith — you may not build here. A Shell on the island is warded too.

Guests

Right-click the lodestone holding a player's head to let that player in. The Keystone remembers Alex — they may build and use runes on this faith. Do it again to turn them back into a stranger. The Keystone forgets Alex — the ward holds them as a stranger again.

Good to know

• Only the island's owner may set a Keystone, and each island takes one.
• Break the lodestone to end the ward. The Keystone unravels with the lodestone.
• Needs Minecraft 1.16 or newer for the lodestone.
• A Keystoned island you own can hold a Wellspring.

See Faith islands.

Configuration

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

Keystone has no settings of its own beyond the shared ones.

Messages

18 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
pattern-outside	The whole Keystone must stand within a faith island's reach.
already-bound	This faith already carries a Keystone.
already-active	This Keystone already wards its faith — break the lodestone to still it.
not-owner	Only this faith's owner may set a Keystone.
limit	The server's Keystone safety limit has been reached.
in-transit	The rune stays cold — a faith transfer is underway.
bound	The Keystone wakes — this faith's sphere is warded from other hands. The lodestone remains.
protected	A Keystone wards this faith — you may not build here.
no-create	A Keystone wards this faith — new runes will not take root.
still-warding	The Keystone still wards this faith. Break the lodestone to still it.
granted	The Keystone remembers {player} — they may build and use runes on this faith.
revoked	The Keystone forgets {player} — the ward holds them as a stranger again.
unknown-head	The Keystone cannot read whose head that is.
already-owner	That head belongs to this faith's owner — they already hold the ward.
bypass-no-touch	Bypass lets you build here, but not touch the Keystone itself.
broken	The Keystone unravels with the lodestone.
consume-failed	The Keystone pattern could not be consumed safely.
registration-uncertain	The Keystone's state could not be verified; an administrator should inspect it.