Tithe

Rune Info

School

Faith

Size

3 × 3, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked block itself

Uses

Once; part of the pattern stays

Spent on use

The Gold Block, the Redstone Dust, and the Stonecutter; keeps the block marked C

Materials

• 4× Gold Block
• 4× Redstone Dust
• 1× Any of 28 blocks
• 1× Stonecutter

Minecraft

1.14+

Permission

runic.runes.tithe

A faithful offering chest: any may give, only the owner may take — and thieving hands are burned for trying.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, 2 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

ABABCBABA

Layer 2 (top)

D

• 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
  Gold Block × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Dust × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Any of 28 blocks × 1

  stays after use

  Takes any of 28 blocks in 3 families

  • Any Copper Chest: Copper Chest, Exposed Copper Chest, Oxidized Copper Chest, Waxed Copper Chest, Waxed Exposed Copper Chest, Waxed Oxidized Copper Chest, Waxed Weathered Copper Chest, Weathered Copper Chest
  • Any Shulker Box: Black Shulker Box, Blue Shulker Box, Brown Shulker Box, Cyan Shulker Box, Gray Shulker Box, Green Shulker Box, Light Blue Shulker Box, Light Gray Shulker Box, Lime Shulker Box, Magenta Shulker Box, Orange Shulker Box, Pink Shulker Box, Purple Shulker Box, Red Shulker Box, White Shulker Box, Yellow Shulker Box
  • Also: Barrel, Chest, Shulker Box, Trapped Chest

  /runic build places Chest.
• D
  Stonecutter × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Tithe is an offering chest. Build it wholly inside an island around a chest, trapped chest, barrel, or shulker box, with a stonecutter above, and wake it. The scaffold is spent and the container stays.

Anyone may put items in. Only the island's owner may take them out. Anyone else who tries is hurt for a heart, and the item stays put. The Tithe rejects your grasp — only the faith's owner may withdraw. A thief who has not been initiated hears The Tithe scorches the unsigned thief!

Good to know

• Hoppers cannot pull from a Tithe.
• A container that is already an Aether Chest or Compressor cannot become a Tithe.
• Break the container to end it. The Tithe unravels with the chest.
• The stonecutter arrived in Minecraft 1.14, so the pattern needs 1.14 or newer.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
theft-damage	2

Messages

10 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
pattern-outside	The whole Tithe must stand within a faith island's reach.
already-bound	This chest already holds a Tithe.
conflict-aether	An Aether Chest already claims this container — the Tithe will not bind.
conflict-compressor	A compressor already claims this container — the Tithe will not bind.
limit	The server's Tithe safety limit has been reached.
in-transit	The rune stays cold — a faith transfer is underway.
bound	The Tithe accepts offerings. Visitors may deposit; only the faith's owner may withdraw.
broken	The Tithe unravels with the chest.
theft-denied	The Tithe rejects your grasp — only the faith's owner may withdraw.
theft-punished	The Tithe scorches the unsigned thief!