Current Glyphs

A glyph is a current cast in stone. Three glyphs in a current circle make the circle work: keep monsters out, heal, keep dropped things, smelt, call a comparator or take you to another circle — and thirteen more rites in their own entries, from the weather and ores to bringing your things back.

1. Cut glyph blanks from flowstone on a stonecutter — four from a block.

2. Gather 4 parts of the current you need in a Crucible.

3. Drop the blank into the Crucible last — the glyph of that current floats up.

What circles of three glyphs do:

Ward, Lattice, Gleam — a ward circle: monsters do not come into the circle.

Bloom, Soul, Tide — a healing circle: heals people, animals and villagers in the circle.

Three Echoes — a watch circle: a comparator by the slab reads how many living things are in the circle.

Three Stills — a still circle: things dropped in the circle do not vanish.

Alloy and two Embers — a smelting circle: smelts things thrown into it without coal, but leaves murk.

Shift, Drift, Bind — a Through-Circle: takes you to its paired circle (its own entry).

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A circle of glyphs alone works a block farther. Rites wake only to glyphs: shards and vials are good only for the field. Every deed takes the flux of its chunk, and a redstone signal on the slab puts any circle to sleep — that is how a lever turns a rite off.

A still circle keeps up to sixty-four things; it does not touch what is kept forever already. A smelting circle smelts by furnace recipes, one thing at a time in its furnace time, with experience; each thing costs two flux of the land and a little murk — heat without a forge is rougher than a Flux Forge — and what came out is not smelted a second time.

The Reckoners' type foundries cast letters for their tally boards; a fluxionist casts them from distillate: the blank sinks in the Crucible and rises as the sign of a current, and its ink no longer washes off.