Marrow

Rune Info

School

Necromancy

Item enchantment

Size

3 × 3, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Wither Skeleton Skull itself

Uses

Binds to a shield; 8 charges at Tier 1, up to 2,172 at Tier 7

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Wither Rose, the Polished Blackstone, and the Wither Skeleton Skull

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Wither Rose
• 4× Polished Blackstone
• 1× Wither Skeleton Skull

Minecraft

1.16+

Permission

runic.runes.marrow

Binds a shield: blocking a melee blow spends a charge to wither the attacker for a portion of that hit — never the whole wound. Higher Tier, more charges.

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)

ABABTBABA

Layer 2 (top)

C

• T
  Tier block × 1

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• 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
  Wither Rose × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Polished Blackstone × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Wither Skeleton Skull × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

Marrow binds a shield with a withering edge. When you block a melee blow with the shield raised, a charge is spent and the attacker withers, for two to ten seconds depending on how hard it struck.

The wither hurts the attacker for a part of the blow you blocked, never the whole of it.

Higher Tier blocks hold more charges.

Enchantment

The enchantment is called Marrow. Hold a shield while you wake the rune.

Conflicts with 7 other enchantments

Lock Zone, Lockpick, Personal Automation Designator, Scribe, Silkier Touch, Surveyor, Wraithstep

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/marrow.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
wither-ticks-per-damage	40
min-wither-ticks	40
max-wither-ticks	200
wither-amplifier	0
reflect-fraction	0.25

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
charges-by-tier Charges granted per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7). Edit this table to override the baked default pool.	8	18	41	103	268	724	2172

Messages

3 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	The rune stirs, but rejects your hand. Hold {hint}.
conflict	The {other} already bound to this item repels {effect}.
bound	{effect} binds to your {item} ({charges}).