Current Circles

A current circle works a field on its own: it waters, tills, feeds, reaps and replants, draws dropped things in, carries things along — which of these, the currents in its three sockets decide.

1. Lay nine flowstone bottom slabs as a 3 × 3 square — level, not in water.

2. Run a ruling pen over the middle slab: the circle spreads over all nine, its arrow pointing the way you face. It costs 24 divisions of ink.

3. Put shards of primal currents or distillate vials into the sockets — right-click any slab of the circle.

Twenty-five slabs, 5 × 5, make a great circle: 48 divisions of ink, and it works two blocks wider; a great Through-Circle leads between worlds too. A small circle grows into a great one if you lay sixteen more slabs around it and run the ruling pen over it: the items in its sockets stay. The land's flux decides how far any circle works: on drained land two blocks, in a flood five.

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Tide waters farmland, if Tide flows in the land. Three Strata till the ground. Bloom and Root feed the crops. Edge and Root reap the ripe; with a third socket of Lattice they reap and replant. Three Hollows draw dropped things to the circle.

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The sockets add up along the Wheel: two currents that make a third are read as it too. Gale with Tide is Drift: such a circle carries things and small creatures the way its arrow points. Every deed takes the flux of its chunk, but never below the bed's bottom. The Loupe reads a circle and says what it does; sneak with an empty hand to take a socket back, sneak with a ruling pen to erase the circle. Break any slab and the circle falls apart, the socket items dropping at its middle. An old one-slab circle has faded: lay slabs around it and run the ruling pen over it — it grows and keeps its items.

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