Portal Hex

Rune Info

School

Void

Hex

Size

5 × 5

Drawn on

Ground

Activation

Right-click the Obsidian

Uses

4 charges at Tier 1, up to 1,119 at Tier 7

Spent on use

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

Materials

• 4× Tier blocks, all one kind
• 8× Redstone Dust
• 4× Redstone Torch
• 4× Netherrack
• 1× Obsidian

Minecraft

1.13+

Permission

runic.runes.portalhex

A hex for waypoints: deposited on a destination's heart with a curse, it greets each arrival with that curse.

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

ABAATCTABCDCBATCTAABA

• T
  Tier block × 4

  Every T is the same block, and that block’s Tier sets the rune’s strength.
• Air or a Tier 0 block × 4

  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
  Redstone Dust × 8

  spent when the rune wakes
• B
  Redstone Torch × 4

  must be lit · spent when the rune wakes
• C
  Netherrack × 4

  spent when the rune wakes
• D
  Obsidian × 1

  spent when the rune wakes

How it works

The Portal Hex greets travelers with a curse. Hold a plain diamond and right-click the obsidian heart. The whole rune is spent, and the diamond carries the hex.

Bind a curse to the same diamond, then sink both into the centre block of a Waypoint. Every traveler who arrives at that Waypoint takes the curse. Each victim spends one charge.

Tips

Pair it with a Babel Curse at a public Waypoint for a prank, or with a Lightning Trap to guard a private one.

See Hexes and curses.

Configuration

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

Setting	Default	What it does
use-charges	true	true = finite tier charges, false = infinite charges

Settings by Tier

Setting	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6	Tier 7
charges-by-tier Charges granted per pattern Tier (1 = Tier 1 … 7 = Tier 7). Edit this table to override the baked default pool.	4	9	21	53	138	373	1119

Messages

9 messages this rune can show

Key	Default text
reject-item	Hold a diamond to bind this hex.
already-hex	This diamond already carries a hex; it rejects another.
conflict	Other magic on this diamond repels the hex.
bound	{hex} binds to your diamond ({charges} charges).
need-both	A diamond needs both a hex and a curse before it will mark a block.
already-bound	This block already carries hex and curse magic.
registry-full	The server's hex/curse safety limit has been reached.
deposited	{hex} and {curse} sink into the block ({charges} charges).
cleared	The sword cuts the hex and curse free of the block.