Ossuary

Rune Info

School

Necromancy

Size

5 × 5, 2 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked block itself

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 12× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Red Nether Bricks
• 4× Bone Block
• 4× Soul Soil
• 1× Any of 28 blocks
• 4× Soul Torch

Minecraft

1.16+

Permission

runic.runes.ossuary

A bone crypt around a chest, barrel, or shulker. Sneak-click spends bones to raise up to four short-lived skeleton guards, sixteen each. A plain click opens the vessel. Higher Tier, they last longer and wander farther.

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)

ATTTATBCBTTCDCTTBCBTATTTA

Layer 2 (top)

EEEE

• T
  Tier block × 12

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 21

  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
  Red Nether Bricks × 4

  stays after use
• B
  Bone Block × 4

  stays after use
• C
  Soul Soil × 4

  stays after use
• D
  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.
• E
  Soul Torch × 4

  stays after use

  On older servers: Torch.

How it works

The Ossuary is a bone crypt around a chest, barrel, or shulker box. Fill the vessel with bones, then sneak and right-click it. Every sixteen bones raise one skeleton guard, up to four at a time. The Ossuary spends 32 bone(s) and raises 2 guard(s).

A plain right-click opens the vessel as usual.

The guards hunt monsters near the crypt and never stray beyond their leash. They drop nothing when they fall.

Tier	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Guards last	6 min	8 min	10 min	12 min	14 min	16 min	18 min
Leash	8	10	12	16	20	24	32

Good to know

Guards vanish when the server restarts, when their area unloads, or when Dispel touches them.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
bones-per-skeleton	16
max-skeletons	4

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
duration-ticks-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	7200	9600	12000	14400	16800	19200	21600
radii-by-tier Effect radius in blocks per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7).	8	10	12	16	20	24	32

Messages

5 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
need-chest	The Ossuary answers only a chest, barrel, or shulker.
need-bones	The vessel holds too few bones — sixteen raise one guard. Open it to fill it.
full	Four Ossuary guards already stand watch here.
spawn-failed	The Ossuary could not raise its dead.
raised	The Ossuary spends {bones} bone(s) and raises {count} guard(s).