Mouse Trap

Rune Info

School

Void

Curse

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Redstone Dust

Uses

Once; the pattern is spent

Spent on use

The Tier blocks, the Obsidian, the Redstone Torch, and the Redstone Dust

Materials

• 2× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 6× Obsidian
• 2× Redstone Torch
• 5× Redstone Dust

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.mousetrap

A trap that sets the hex's victim alight 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

TAAABCCCCCBAAAT

• T
  Tier block × 2

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 10

  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
  Obsidian × 6

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Torch × 2

  must be lit · spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Redstone Dust × 5

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Mouse Trap sets its victim alight. Wake it while holding a hexed diamond, then sink the diamond into a block. Any player or creature that springs the trap catches fire.

Tier	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Burns for	3s	4s	5s	6s	8s	10s	12s

Related

The Lightning Trap adds a bolt from the sky. See Hexes and curses.

Configuration

These are the defaults in plugins/Runic/runes/mousetrap.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
trap-fire-ticks-by-tier Per-tier table (1 = lowest …).	60	80	100	120	160	200	240

Messages

5 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.