Soulwell

Rune Info

School

Necromancy

Size

3 × 3

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the marked block itself

Uses

Once; part of the pattern stays

Spent on use

The Soul Torch and the Soul Sand; keeps the block marked C

Materials

• 4× Soul Torch
• 4× Soul Sand
• 1× Any of 4 blocks

Minecraft

1.16+

Permission

runic.runes.soulwell

A soul-sand cauldron that drinks the dying nearby. When you scoop, the block beneath chooses Healing (red nether bricks) or Harming (nether bricks) — swap it anytime. The ring burns away; the cauldron remains.

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 Torch × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Soul Sand × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Any of 4 blocks × 1

  stays after use

  Takes Cauldron, Lava Cauldron, Powder Snow Cauldron, Water Cauldron.

  /runic build places Cauldron.

How it works

The Soulwell is a cauldron that drinks the dying. Wake it, and the ring of soul sand and torches burns away, leaving the cauldron bound. When a creature dies within 8 blocks, the well drinks its soul and its experience.

Every eight souls fill one vial, and the well holds up to three. Scoop with a glass bottle to draw a splash potion. You bottle a splash of Healing from the Soulwell.

Healing or Harming

The block beneath the cauldron chooses the potion when you scoop:

Block beneath	Potion
Red nether bricks	Splash Potion of Healing
Nether bricks	Splash Potion of Harming

Swap the block whenever you like. The well fills without one, and only scooping needs it.

Good to know

• Breaking the cauldron spills everything it holds. The Soulwell stills — its charge spills into nothing.
• A cauldron holds one well. When a Soulwell and a Marrow Well both stand near a death, the closer one drinks it.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
radius	8
souls-per-scoop	8
max-scoops	3

Messages

12 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
bound	The Soulwell wakes — it will bottle souls from the dying nearby.
already-active	This Soulwell already drinks the dying — break the cauldron to still it.
occupied	A Marrow Well already drinks from this cauldron.
need-base	Place nether bricks (harm) or red nether bricks (heal) beneath the cauldron to bottle a splash.
empty	The Soulwell is dry.
scooped	You bottle a splash of {kind} from the Soulwell.
status	The Soulwell holds {charges} vial(s) of {kind} — {toward} souls toward the next.
broken	The Soulwell stills — its charge spills into nothing.
limit	The server's Soulwell safety limit has been reached.
bind-failed	The Soulwell could not take root here.
consume-failed	The Soulwell pattern could not be consumed safely.
registration-uncertain	The Soulwell's state could not be verified; an administrator should inspect it.