Lament

Rune Info

School

Necromancy

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Ender Chest itself

Uses

4 charges

Spent on use

The Soul Sand, the Respawn Anchor, and the Ender Chest

Materials

• 4× Soul Sand
• 4× Respawn Anchor
• 1× Ender Chest

Minecraft

1.16+

Permission

runic.runes.lament

Bind a bell at this soul-sand grave. Four charges keep your gear in a personal grave only you can open — keep the bell in hand or hotbar. The drawing is spent.

Pattern

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

3 × 3, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

ABABCBABA

• 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
  Soul Sand × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Respawn Anchor × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Ender Chest × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Lament binds a bell to keep your gear when you die. Hold a bell and right-click the ender chest. The drawing burns away, and the bell carries four charges.

Keep the bell in your hotbar or off hand. When you die, a charge is spent, and your gear slips into a personal grave that keeps it for you. Your gear slips into a Lament grave (15 min). The bell itself returns to you when you respawn.

Right-click with the bell, anywhere, to open your grave and take your things back.

Good to know

• The grave lasts 15 minutes. After that, whatever remains returns to the world. Your Lament grave fades — what remained returns to the world.
• Die again while a grave waits, and the new death joins it.
• A bell deeper in your pack does nothing.
• Only you can open your grave.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite tier charges, false = infinite charges
charges	4	Deaths the bound bell will keep. The pattern has no Tier blocks.
grave-minutes	15	How many minutes a personal grave lasts before leftover gear returns to the world.

Messages

11 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
need-bell	Hold a bell — Lament will not bind to an empty hand.
already-bound	This bell already sings a lament.
conflict	The {other} already bound to this item repels Lament.
bound	Lament binds to your bell ({charges}) — keep it in hand or hotbar, and death will not scatter your gear.
invalid-charges	This rune's charge configuration is invalid; ask an administrator to inspect it.
bind-failed	The rune could not safely bind that bell.
consume-failed	The Lament pattern could not be consumed safely.
death-saved	Your gear slips into a Lament grave ({minutes} min).
merged	A new death joins the waiting grave ({minutes} min).
no-grave	No lament waits for you.
expired	Your Lament grave fades — what remained returns to the world.