Runes of Power

Unleash the mystical forces of ancient magic with Runes of Power, a mod that introduces a wide array of powerful runes into Minecraft! Each rune offers unique abilities, allowing you to master the elements, enhance your survival, and bend the world to your will.

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The Runes

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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. Check below for current loot integration.

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⛏️ 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.

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🌊 Rune of Tides (Water)

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

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🌑 Shadow Rune (Black Out)

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

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🕊️ 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.

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🔥 Inferno Rune (Fire Resistance)

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

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🥷 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.

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🌌 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

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⚡ Storm Rune (Chain Lightning) 1.21.1

Unleash the fury of the skies. 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.

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🩸 Blood Rune (Life Drain) 1.21.1

Feed on the vitality of your enemies. 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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Loot Tables & Rune Drops

_currently only 1.21.1, crafting is still available for the mean time_

Easy Loot

Tables:

• minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon
• minecraft:chests/abandoned_mineshaft
• minecraft:chests/village/village_temple

Current Drops:

• Empty Rune
• Water Rune
• Burrow Rune
• Fire Resistance Rune

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Medium Loot

Tables:

• minecraft:chests/jungle_temple
• minecraft:chests/desert_pyramid
• minecraft:chests/pillager_outpost
• minecraft:chests/abandoned_mineshaft
• minecraft:chests/simple_dungeon

Current Drops:

• Empty Rune
• Water Rune
• Black Out Rune
• Blood Rune
• Storm Rune
• Fire Resistance Rune

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Hard Loot

Tables:

• minecraft:chests/stronghold_corridor
• minecraft:chests/nether_bridge
• minecraft:chests/bastion_treasure

Current Drops:

• Stealth Rune
• Burrow Rune
• Teleport Rune
• Blood Rune
• Storm Rune

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Endgame Loot

Tables:

• minecraft:chests/end_city_treasure
• minecraft:chests/ancient_city
• minecraft:chests/bastion_treasure

Current Drops:

• Cure Insomnia Rune
• Stealth Rune
• Burrow Rune
• Creative Flight Rune
• Teleport Rune
• Blood Rune
• Storm Rune