Shell

Rune Info

School

Faith

Size

3 × 3, 3 layers

Drawn on

Ground, wall, or ceiling

Activation

Right-click the Gold Block itself

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 4× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× End Rod
• 8× Glass
• 1× Gold Block

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.shell

Closes a hollow sphere around its island. Blocks beside the gold, including above and below, tint each face; seams become pearlescent froglight. A second word opens the shell and restores what it displaced.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 3 layers high. Drawn on the ground, on a wall, or on a ceiling, facing any direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

ABAB?BABA

Layer 2

T?T?C?T?T

Layer 3 (top)

ABAB?BABA

• T
  Tier block × 4

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• ?
  Optional cell × 6

  Leave it empty or place a block here; the rune wakes either way.
• Activation block

  The glowing cell is the one to click.

Keys

• A
  End Rod × 8

  stays after use
• B
  Glass × 8

  stays after use
• C
  Gold Block × 1

  stays after use

How it works

The Shell closes a hollow sphere around its island. Build the cube on the island and right-click its gold with an empty hand. The shell closes from the cardinals… A shell hardens around the island. (1206 blocks) Click the gold again to open it, and the air or water it pushed aside comes back.

The six blocks beside the gold, including the ones above and below it, tint the six faces of the sphere. Seams between faces are pearlescent froglight, or glowstone on servers older than 1.19.

Placement

• On an island, the shell wraps the island one block outside its radius, and the largest one where islands overlap. The rune's Tier must be at least the island's. This shell (Tier 2) is too weak for the faith (Tier 4).
• Elsewhere, it centres on the gold, with the radius a Faith island of its Tier would have.

Good to know

• The shell fills only air and liquid. Solid blocks in its path stay as they are.
• Its blocks drop nothing when mined. Breaking the gold dissolves the whole shell.
• When the island flies or transfers, the shell opens before it leaves and closes again where it lands.
• A Keystone on the island wards its shell from strangers.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
animated	true	When true, the shell closes from each face over animate-ticks and opens in reverse. When false, it appears and vanishes instantly.
animate-ticks	20	How long a closing or opening takes when animated is true, in game ticks. 0 is instant.

Messages

10 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
empty-hand	The shell answers only an empty hand.
tier-too-low	This shell (Tier {runeTier}) is too weak for the faith (Tier {faithTier}).
nothing-to-place	There is no open air or liquid for the shell to fill.
closing	The shell closes from the cardinals…
opening	The shell opens along the cardinals…
forming	The shell is still closing.
dissolving	The shell is still opening.
success-island	A shell hardens around the island. ({placed} blocks)
success	A shell hardens around the rune. ({placed} blocks)
dropped	The shell dissolves. ({removed} blocks)