Runes of Power

Runes of Power adds a set of runes to Minecraft, each granting its own abilities.

The Runes

Features

🔮 New Rune System

• Added upgradable runes with 4 tiers (I–IV).
• Blood Rune and Storm Rune can be socketed into a weapon! ( 1.21.1 feature only )
• Runes can now be upgraded by sneak + right-clicking while holding another copy in your offhand.
• Each tier improves power, duration, or cooldown depending on the rune.
• New tier info + stats are displayed directly on rune tooltips.
• New Loot system with Config. See Rune drops for current loot integration.

⛏️ Rune of Burrowing

• Added Burrowing Rune for fast terrain clearing.
• Breaks nearby soft blocks (dirt, sand, gravel, soul sand, etc.).
• Higher tiers increase radius and reduce cooldown.

🌊 Rune of Tides (Water)

• Grants water breathing.
• Upgrades now increase duration and reduce cooldown.

🌑 Shadow Rune (Black Out)

• Teleports you back to your spawn point.
• Now includes tiered cooldown improvements.
• Applies confusion + blindness on use for balance.

🕊️ Rune of Ascension (Flight)

• Grants creative-style flight.
• Higher tiers greatly increase flight duration and reduce reuse cooldown. -Includes safe landing effects after teleport or landing.

🔥 Inferno Rune (Fire Resistance)

• Grants Fire Resistance and Lava Vision.
• Higher tiers increase duration for both effects.
• Cooldown decreases as rune is upgraded.

🥷 Veil Rune (Stealth)

Makes you completely undetectable to sculk systems.

Prevents:

• Warden summoning
• Sculk shriek trigger
• Sculk vibration detection -Higher tiers extend stealth duration and lower cooldown.

🌌 Rune of Passage (Teleport)

Teleports you to your configured dimension safely. Now finds a safe landing spot on terrain instead of spawning you in the void.

Higher tiers:

• Reduce cooldown
• Add Slow Falling + Resistance after teleport

⚡ Storm Rune (Chain Lightning) 1.21.1

The Storm Rune calls down arcing bolts of chain lightning, striking multiple nearby enemies in rapid succession.

Effects:

• Fires chain lightning that jumps between nearby targets
• Deals magic-based damage
• Applies a brief burst of speed to the caster
• Scales with rune tier

Higher tiers:

• Increase number of chain targets
• Increase lightning damage
• Increase range
• Reduce cooldown

Socketing this rune into a weapon lets you cast Chain Lightning directly from your blade.

🩸 Blood Rune (Life Drain) 1.21.1

The Blood Rune drains life from nearby foes, dealing necrotic damage in an area and converting a portion of it into healing.

Effects:

• Damages multiple nearby enemies
• Heals the caster based on damage dealt
• Applies brief regeneration
• Scales with rune tier

Higher tiers:

• Increase number of drained targets
• Increase damage per target
• Increase healing percentage
• Reduce cooldown

Can also be socketed into weapons, allowing you to trigger a life-drain effect on demand.

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