Mineshaft

Rune Info

School

Transmutation

Size

5 × 5, 5 layers

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Cobblestone

Uses

Reusable; the pattern stays

Spent on use

Nothing; the pattern stays

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× Iron Bars
• 16× Cobblestone

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.mineshaft

Bores the way down: a spiral stair around a clean shaft, fifteen blocks deep per Tier. Carves through builds, liquids, and breakable tiles; only bedrock and other unbreakables stop it. Containers drop as if broken.

Pattern

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

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

NWES

Layer 1 (bottom)

AAAATAAAA

Layer 2

BBBBB

Layer 3

BBBBBBBBB

Layer 4

B

Layer 5 (top)

B

• 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 × 100

  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
  Iron Bars × 8

  may repeat the Tier block · stays after use
• B
  Cobblestone × 16

  may repeat the Tier block · stays after use

How it works

The Mineshaft bores the way down. Right-click the top of the cobblestone pillar. The rune dissolves, and a spinning drill carves a spiral stairway around a clean central shaft. The earth dissolves — a stairway and shaft drop 45 blocks (1288 cleared).

The single Tier block at ground level, under the pillar, sets the depth: 15 blocks per Tier, from 15 at Tier 1 to 105 at Tier 7.

Good to know

• The stair winds around a three-by-three shaft inside a five-by-five footprint, dropping one block per step, so one full turn descends 16 blocks.
• It cuts through stone, builds, liquids, and anything else that can be broken. Only bedrock and other unbreakable blocks stop it.
• Chests and other containers in the way drop their contents, as if broken.
• It stays cold inside a Danger Ward.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
pillar-height	4
animate	true	Carve as a spinning drill (false = instant shaft).
animation-ticks	40	Approximate drill animation length in game ticks (~20 per second).

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
depths-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	15	30	45	60	75	90	105

Messages

2 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
refuse	The ground refuses the stairway — bedrock or other unbreakables block the first steps.
success	The earth dissolves — a stairway and shaft drop {depth} blocks ({cleared} cleared).