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.

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. Check below 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

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.

🩸 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.

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

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

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

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