Runebound Arsenal

Quickstart

1. Punch a tree for wood and craft sticks, then head to a crafting table.
2. Craft a Wood Staff, Wood Dagger, or Wood Scythe using the recipes below.
3. Equip your weapon in your hand and hit Use/Attack to swing it like a normal weapon.
4. If you crafted a Staff, use it (right-click / trigger the use action) instead of attacking to unleash a Rune Burst — an area shockwave that damages every hostile creature near you.
5. Upgrade through stone, iron, gold, diamond, and netherite tiers by swapping the crafting materials for stronger, more durable versions of each weapon.

Overview

Runebound Arsenal adds three new weapon families — Staffs, Daggers, and Scythes — each available in six material tiers: Wood, Stone, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Netherite. Every tier has its own hand-drawn texture and gets stronger as you climb the tiers, following the same material progression as vanilla tools and weapons.

What It Adds

• Rune Staffs — melee weapons that also cast a magical area-damage burst.
• Daggers — fast, enchantable stabbing weapons.
• Scythes — heavy blades that double as efficient shear-type tools for wool, cobwebs, leaves, and similar blocks.
• Full wood-to-netherite tier sets for all three weapon types (18 items total), each with unique artwork.

How To Use

Staffs — swing them for melee damage like any weapon, or trigger their use action to cast a Rune Burst. This burst strikes every nearby hostile mob within a short radius around you for magic-style damage and plays a chime sound. After casting, the staff needs a couple of seconds to recharge before it can burst again — an action bar message tells you when it's still recharging ("Runes recharging...") or how many foes were struck.

Daggers — quick, enchantable stabbing weapons. Use the sword enchantment table or anvil to add sharpness, knockback, fire aspect, and other sword enchantments (higher-tier daggers accept more/better enchantments).

Scythes — swing them in melee like a sword, and use them like shears to quickly cut through wool, cobwebs, leaves, and other shear-destructible blocks. Netherite and diamond scythes cut fastest.

Crafting And Obtaining

All 18 weapons are crafted at a crafting table using vanilla materials — planks, cobblestone, iron/gold/diamond/netherite ingots, sticks, and amethyst shards for the staffs and scythes.

Staffs

Daggers

Scythes

Abilities And Mechanics

• Rune Burst (Staffs only): Deals magical area damage to all nearby hostile entities (players are never hit by your own burst) within roughly a 5-block radius, then goes on a short cooldown before it can fire again.
• Burst power scales with tier: stronger materials unleash harder-hitting bursts, from a mild Wood-tier burst up to a devastating Netherite-tier burst.
• Durability and damage scale with material, matching the usual wood → stone → iron → gold → diamond → netherite curve: gold weapons hit fairly hard but wear out fast, while netherite weapons are the toughest and hit hardest, and are also immune to fire and lava.
• Daggers are enchantable at sword-level enchant tables, letting you build a fast enchanted sidearm.
• Scythes double as efficient block-cutting tools for shear-destructible blocks (wool, leaves, cobwebs, etc.), with cutting speed improving at higher tiers.

Progression And Strategy

Start with a cheap Wood or Stone weapon set to get through early exploration and mob encounters. As you mine iron and gold, upgrade your Staff for stronger Rune Bursts to clear groups of enemies, and your Dagger for a fast enchanted backup weapon. Push toward Diamond and Netherite tiers for the best damage, durability, and burst power — Netherite gear is also fireproof, making it ideal for Nether and lava-adjacent exploration. Mixing weapon types lets you cover melee (Dagger), crowd control (Staff), and utility cutting (Scythe) all from the same tiered material investment.