Bar Beacon

Rune Info

School

Illusion

Size

5 × 5, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Iron Block

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 4× Any Copper Block
• 12× White Wool
• 4× Any Lightning Rod
• 4× Prismarine
• 1× Iron Block
• 9× Redstone Dust
• 4× Redstone Torch

Minecraft

1.21.6+

Permission

runic.runes.barbeacon

A copper and wool pad around an iron heart. Wake it, then step onto the pad to stay on the locator bar — step again to still. Dispel strips the beacon.

Pattern

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

5 × 5, 2 layers high. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

ABBBABCDCBBDEDBBCDCBABBBA

Layer 2 (top)

FGFFGFFFGFFGF

• 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.

Keys

• A
  Any Copper Block × 4

  stays after use

  Takes any of 8 blocks

  • Any Copper Block: Copper Block, Exposed Copper, Oxidized Copper, Waxed Copper Block, Waxed Exposed Copper, Waxed Oxidized Copper, Waxed Weathered Copper, Weathered Copper

  /runic build places Copper Block.
• B
  White Wool × 12

  stays after use
• C
  Any Lightning Rod × 4

  stays after use

  Takes any of 8 blocks

  • Any Lightning Rod: Exposed Lightning Rod, Lightning Rod, Oxidized Lightning Rod, Waxed Exposed Lightning Rod, Waxed Lightning Rod, Waxed Oxidized Lightning Rod, Waxed Weathered Lightning Rod, Weathered Lightning Rod

  /runic build places Lightning Rod.
• D
  Prismarine × 4

  stays after use
• E
  Iron Block × 1

  stays after use
• F
  Redstone Dust × 9

  stays after use
• G
  Redstone Torch × 4

  stays after use

How it works

The Bar Beacon keeps you on the locator bar. Wake the pad once, and it stands. The Bar Beacon stands — step onto the pad to take the locator bar.

Then step onto the pad, and you always show on other players' locator bars, even if a Locator Veil had hidden you. The Bar Beacon takes you — the locator bar will not forget. Step onto it again to let it go. The Bar Beacon stills.

Good to know

• The beacon follows you after you leave the pad, until you step on again, Dispel strips it, or a Locator Veil takes you.
• The beacon and the veil cannot both hold you. Each lifts the other.

Configuration

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

Bar Beacon has no settings of its own beyond the shared ones.

Messages

9 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
raised	The Bar Beacon stands — step onto the pad to take the locator bar.
already-active	This Bar Beacon already stands — step onto the pad.
taken	The Bar Beacon takes you — the locator bar will not forget.
unveiled	The Bar Beacon stills.
overlap	Another Bar Beacon already claims part of this pattern.
limit	The server's Bar Beacon safety limit has been reached.
bind-failed	The Bar Beacon could not take root here.
broken	The Bar Beacon breaks — the pad stills.
failed	The Bar Beacon could not take hold.