Butterfingers Curse

Rune Info

School

Void

Curse

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the centre Tier block

Uses

Once; the pattern is spent

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Redstone Torch, the Redstone Dust, the Oak Fence, and the Packed Ice

Materials

• 1× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 4× Redstone Torch
• 12× Redstone Dust
• 4× Oak Fence
• 4× Packed Ice

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.butterfingerscurse

A curse of slippery hands: its victim's held things slither from their grasp for a time set by Tier.

Pattern

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

5 × 5, one layer. Drawn flat on the ground, facing any compass direction.

NWES

ABCBABBDBBCDTDCBBDBBABCBA

• T
  Tier block × 1

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

  must be lit · spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Dust × 12

  spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Oak Fence × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• D
  Packed Ice × 4

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Butterfingers Curse makes hands slippery. Wake it while holding a diamond that already carries a hex, then sink the diamond into a block.

When a player springs the trap, held things start slipping from their grasp. Your grip turns treacherous — Butterfingers takes hold. Each click they make has a chance to drop what they hold. When it ends: Butterfingers loosens — your grip steadies.

Tier	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Lasts	5s	25s	40s	5 min	27 min	63 min	9¾ hours
Chance per click	10%	20%	30%	40%	50%	60%	70%

Good to know

• It takes hold only of players. A creature that springs the trap spends no charge.
• The Butterfingers Countercurse lifts it early.

See Hexes and curses.

Configuration

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

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 …).	100	500	800	6000	32000	76000	700000
click-chance-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	10	20	30	40	50	60	70

Messages

7 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	Only a hexed diamond may bind this curse.
need-hex	Bind a hex to this diamond before a curse will take.
already-curse	This diamond already carries a curse; it rejects another.
conflict	Other magic on this diamond repels the curse.
bound	{curse} binds to your hexed diamond.
cursed	Your grip turns treacherous — Butterfingers takes hold.
expired	Butterfingers loosens — your grip steadies.