Runes of Chaos

A magic mod that focuses on the power of runestones, and a unique crafting system to turn them into useful and highly varied items.

Features include:

Seven different craftable runestones.

A unique in-world crafting mechanic using runestones and a runesmith's hammer for some... explosive results.

Currently a total of thirty-one different useful items, each made by combining two or more different runestones.

In-game tooltips to explain how to use the various items.

An advancement tree to help provide a walkthrough of the mod's core features, as well as some hints towards a few of the more useful items you can craft with the runesmithing system.

The Aggressive Magic Combat gamerule to determine whether or not magic weapons will target players, pets, and team members.

To use the runestone crafting system:

First, craft the runestones you want to use, as well as a runesmith's hammer.

Second, drop the runestones on the ground in the wilderness, or on the floor of a fortified location.

Third, stand back and use the hammer while looking at the runestones.

Fourth, pick up your new item (if you used a valid recipe) and maybe eat some food to heal...

Note, currently every different combination of two runes is a valid recipe, in addition, there are a few recipes that use more than two runes, but although they are more powerful, they may require a bit more trial and error to discover.

Quick Start Guide:

First, start playing your world as usual.

Second, gather up some lapis lazuli and smelt some cobblestone, craft the stone into slabs, and use the stone slabs and lapis lazuli to make some blank runestones, you will want quite a few of these.

Third, craft one blank runestone into a Runesmith's Hammer, this is needed in order to work with any of the different runestones.

Fourth, craft the rest of your blank runestones into different types of runes using different resources. Here is a summary of the different runes, to help you decide what runestone types to work towards: Arcana is a pretty good starter runestone, although a little expensive early-game. Flame is good for combat, but needs nether-based resources to craft. Mechanical is used for quite a few automation-based items, but it needs a redstone comparator, which requires nether quartz. Nature is really helpful and gives access to some healing items, but it needs torchflowers, which means getting into archaeology for sniffers. Sea has a handful of useful items that it can make, but it needs prismarine crystals. Soul has a lot of powerful items, but it needs sculk-based and nether-based items, and most items made with soul runestones are fueled by experience. Lightning has a lot of big and flashy items linked to it, but it needs a lot of gold, and a little bit of glowstone dust, which means either going to the nether, or hunting witches.

Fifth, once you have two different runestones, drop them on the ground outside your base and click them with the runesmith's hammer, it will cause an explosion and convert the runes into a new item.

Sixth, keep experimenting to see what items you can create, every possible combination of two different runes will give you a different item, and some combinations of three runes will as well. However, if a combination doesn't create an item, it will still consume the runes and cause an explosion.

One final note, the more different runes you try to put into one runesmithing recipe, the larger the explosion will be, so be careful when making complex recipes.

Special Thanks:

MindTheMoods for the circle procedure here: https://mcreator.net/forum/114737/tutorial-circles-cylinders-spheres-etc

Also on Curseforge:

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/runes-of-chaos

Spoilers Ahead:

List of craftable items and what runes are needed to make them:

Spellflame Sword, Arcana + Flame Runes. A sword with similar statistics to iron that inflicts a new debuff when a creature is hit with it, this debuff, spellflame burn, reduces the target's armor for a few seconds, making it useful for PvP.

Strength Stealer, Arcana + Flame + Nature Runes. A sword with similar statistics to iron that has the ability to steal melee attack power from anything you hit with it, weakening it and strengthening yourself temporarily.

Brilliant Blade, Arcana + Flame + Lightning Runes. A sword with similar statistics to diamond and the ability to highlight and weaken anything that you hit with it.

Radiant Pearl, Arcana + Lightning Runes. A throwable pearl that will spread invisible lights around where it is thrown, the lights will start off spreading outwards, then they will gradually fade away after a while has passed, making them useful for exploring caves, but not so much for lighting up your base.

Rune Forger, Arcana + Mechanical Runes. A block that allows you to automate the runesmithing process, it will attempt to craft a runesmithing recipe in-world with items above it whenever it receives a redstone pulse. Be warned, it still causes explosions, although the Rune Forger itself is not damaged by them.

Overgrowth Boots, Arcana + Nature Runes. Special boots that will occasionally consume some of their durability to apply a bonemeal effect to blocks that you stand or walk on, they act faster when you are sneaking.

Totem of Growth, Arcana + Nature + Sea Runes. A totem that can be placed in the world, it applies a bonemeal effect to one nearby plant every second.

Diver's Shovel, Arcana + Sea Runes. A shovel with similar statistics to iron, but with a water breathing effect similar to the turtle shell, and increased underwater mining speed.

Draining Wand, Arcana + Sea + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to expend experience to fire multiple projectiles that heal you when they hit something, it has a variable cooldown that is normally short, but occasionally several seconds long.

Essence Stealer, Arcana + Soul Runes. A sword with similar statistics to iron that grants additional experience from monster kills.

Thunder Crystal, Flame + Lightning Runes. A gemstone that you can smash onto a block to summon a big circle of lightning around it.

Discharge Wand, Flame + Lightning + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to use experience to launch a blast of electricity, on impact, it will split into smaller blasts, each aimed at a different nearby mob.

Eruption Wand, Flame + Mechanical Runes. A wand that allows you to launch ghast fireballs with a variable cooldown, it has low accuracy, so be careful when and where you use it.

Flameroot Sword, Flame + Mechanical + Nature Runes. A sword with similar statistics to iron that slows and ignites anything hit with it.

Frostblast Wand, Flame + Mechanical + Sea Runes. A wand that allows you to use an area-of-effect cold damage ability.

Flame Pods, Flame + Nature Runes. A magical fruit that restores a large amount of hunger and gives you speed, strength, and haste when eaten.

Frost Crystal, Flame + Sea Runes. An arcane crystal that contains a powerful blizzard inside it, you can release the blizzard by smashing the crystal on a block.

Flameward Crown, Flame + Sea + Soul Runes. A helmet that will use your experience to protect you from fire, lava, and magma blocks.

Blazing Wand, Flame + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to expend experience to launch blaze fireballs, it has a variable cooldown that is normally short, but occasionally several seconds long.

Energized Temporal Gear, Lightning + Mechanical Runes. A powerful gear that has a connection to the flow of time, it can be used to temporarily accelerate the world's flow of time.

Stormroot Path, Lightning + Nature Runes. A plant-based block that speeds you up when you walk on it.

Storm Dial, Lightning + Sea Runes. A consumable item that can change the weather.

Shocking Wand, Lightning + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to use experience to fire a beam of electricity that will damage mobs in its path.

Crumbleweed Seeds, Mechanical + Nature Runes. The seeds for a strange plant that will gradually expand downwards, breaking blocks in its path, and usually sending the blocks back up to the surface, it can be planted on dirt or stone.

Sticky Temporal Gear, Mechanical + Sea Runes. A powerful gear that has a connection to the flow of time, it can be used to temporarily slow the world's tick rate.

Sculk Absorber, Mechanical + Nature + Soul Runes. A block that will automatically collect the experience from nearby sculk blocks, turning them into moss and storing the experience until a player right-clicks it.

Avalanche Wand, Mechanical + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to expend experience to conjure a line of falling stone projectiles where you are looking.

Vital Pearl, Nature + Sea Runes. A crystalline pearl that holds powerful healing magic, you can use it to regain all missing health.

Totem of Vitality, Nature + Sea + Soul Runes. A placeable totem that gives all nearby players regeneration at the cost of their experience.

Restoration Wand, Nature + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to expend experience to create a healing aura around yourself.

Breathtaking Wand, Sea + Soul Runes. A wand that allows you to expend experience to create an oxygen-stealing aura around yourself.