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:

Five different craftable runestones.

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

Currently a total of ten different useful items, each made by combining two different runestones.

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

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, but although you can try to use more than two runes at a time, the crafting will fail and you won't get everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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