Staff rune costs: prepare supplies before casting

Battery attachment and charging · Rune production · Weapon repairs

Scope: 57 released staff registrations in Minecraft 1.21.1 / AoA 3.7.16.1. All rune IDs and counts are read from the released stat builders and joined through the released item factories. Fourteen rune types occur across these inputs. This is an undiscounted component reference, not a guarantee of final payment or spell damage.

Plan a trip or a charging session

1. Open your staff below. Its card keeps the source-model preview and the matching release’s recipe/drop links.
2. Expand Staff rune costs · plan your spell supplies.
3. Choose 1, 10, 64 or 100 planned casts. The illustrated list multiplies each required rune count by that number; rune names link to their own item and recipe references.
4. Use those totals as a materials estimate. Stored charges, Creative mode, buffs and altered stack components can change the actual casting payment.
5. If using an Arcanum Battery, follow the separate attachment guide first. Attaching initializes stored casts at zero; it does not provide free spells.
6. Charge one operation at a time and inspect the result and returned ingredients. Each assembled charging result increments stored casts once. The planner is not a bulk-crafting action or a promise about shift-click behavior.

For example, Amber Staff’s released requirement is four Energy Runes and one Kinetic Rune per undiscounted cast. Planning ten yields 40 Energy Runes and ten Kinetic Runes. Keep different rune types separate and do not add unrelated ingredients to the charging recipe.

How the base staff pays for a cast

The released base method checks Creative/infinite-material behavior first. A positive stored-cast count is decremented and returns success. Otherwise it delegates rune payment to the item utility, with the caller able to allow buffs. The staff’s preconditions are checked before the payment filter in its normal use path.

The charging recipe separately requires the stored-casts and staff-stat components, checks the allowed capacity, matches the required set of item types and requires sufficient counts. Extra unrelated types can reject the recipe even if enough of the correct runes are present. The displayed totals do not override those checks.

Why some damage inputs are zero

Twenty-two of these registrations explicitly set the damage field. The other 35 retain the released builder default of zero. This does not mean those staves have no effect: their individual cast implementations may create utility, movement, environmental or other special behavior. A component number is not a complete spell description or a final hit-damage prediction.

All 57 staff requirements

Staff	Undiscounted rune inputs per cast	Damage input	Durability
Amber Staff	4 × Energy Rune + 1 × Kinetic Rune	0	900
Aquatic Staff	1 × Kinetic Rune + 4 × Water Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	20	1220
Atlantic Staff	1 × Distortion Rune + 2 × Energy Rune + 2 × Storm Rune	0	1250
Baron Staff	3 × Power Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	24	1200
Candy Staff	3 × Kinetic Rune + 2 × Storm Rune	0	950
Celestial Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Energy Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune	22	1150
Concussion Staff	4 × Power Rune + 4 × Storm Rune	0	1150
Coral Staff	8 × Kinetic Rune + 2 × Water Rune	0	950
Crystal Staff	2 × Distortion Rune + 5 × Life Rune	0	1230
Crystik Staff	2 × Distortion Rune + 1 × Life Rune + 1 × Water Rune	0	1140
Cryston Staff	2 × Distortion Rune + 4 × Energy Rune	0	1240
Destruction Staff	2 × Energy Rune + 2 × Power Rune	0	1170
Ember Staff	1 × Fire Rune + 1 × Kinetic Rune + 1 × Wind Rune	0	1400
Everfight Staff	4 × Kinetic Rune + 4 × Power Rune	0	1050
Evermight Staff	2 × Distortion Rune + 4 × Power Rune	0	1050
Fire Staff	2 × Fire Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	10	850
Firefly Staff	1 × Fire Rune + 2 × Strike Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	22	1230
Firestorm Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Fire Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune	32	990
Fungal Staff	5 × Distortion Rune + 2 × Life Rune	0	1130
Ghoul Staff	1 × Distortion Rune + 2 × Life Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	29	400
Haunter's Staff	4 × Energy Rune + 4 × Wind Rune	26	1225
Hive Staff	10 × Energy Rune + 2 × Life Rune	0	1130
Joker Staff	4 × Kinetic Rune + 4 × Wind Rune	0	300
Lightning Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 4 × Storm Rune + 4 × Strike Rune	0	1070
Lightshine	2 × Distortion Rune + 3 × Life Rune + 3 × Power Rune	0	700
Lunar Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune	32	1250
Lyonic Staff	1 × Energy Rune + 1 × Strike Rune + 1 × Wind Rune + 2 × Wither Rune	0	1100
Mecha Staff	1 × Distortion Rune + 1 × Power Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	0	1110
Meteor Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Kinetic Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune	28	1190
Moonlight Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Kinetic Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune	0	1130
Nature Staff	2 × Energy Rune + 4 × Life Rune	0	1450
Nightmare Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 2 × Lunar Rune + 2 × Poison Rune	28	1200
Noxious Staff	2 × Poison Rune + 2 × Storm Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	7	1210
Phantom Staff	2 × Distortion Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	24	1060
Poison Staff	2 × Poison Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	10	850
Power Staff	2 × Power Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	16	1010
Primordial Staff	2 × Wind Rune + 2 × Wither Rune	30	1230
Reef Staff	2 × Energy Rune + 1 × Water Rune	0	1230
Rejuvenation Staff	2 × Energy Rune + 4 × Life Rune	0	870
Rosidian Staff	1 × Life Rune + 2 × Water Rune + 3 × Wind Rune	21	1180
Runic Staff	5 × Distortion Rune	0	1000
Shadowlord Staff	2 × Life Rune + 10 × Wither Rune	0	1200
Show Staff	3 × Compass Rune + 3 × Power Rune	0	900
Shyre Staff	3 × Distortion Rune + 3 × Energy Rune	0	1380
Sky Staff	1 × Energy Rune + 2 × Kinetic Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	0	1480
Striker Staff	2 × Strike Rune	0	850
Sun Staff	2 × Fire Rune + 3 × Lunar Rune + 1 × Storm Rune	0	960
Surge Staff	1 × Energy Rune + 4 × Power Rune	0	1270
Tangle Staff	2 × Poison Rune + 1 × Storm Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	18	1140
Ultimatum Staff	8 × Distortion Rune + 5 × Life Rune + 3 × Power Rune	0	750
Underworld Staff	1 × Compass Rune + 3 × Kinetic Rune	10	1140
Warlock Staff	2 × Kinetic Rune + 3 × Power Rune	0	1050
Water Staff	2 × Water Rune + 2 × Wind Rune	10	850
Web Staff	4 × Distortion Rune + 4 × Energy Rune	0	1420
Wind Staff	3 × Wind Rune	10	850
Wither Staff	2 × Wind Rune + 2 × Wither Rune	10	850
Wizard's Staff	3 × Distortion Rune + 3 × Life Rune + 3 × Power Rune	0	800

Checks before trusting a valuable loadout

• Test a successful cast and a failed precondition; check whether resources changed in each case.
• Compare an unmodified staff, a battery with positive charges, a battery at zero and a staff with a configured maximum.
• Check ordinary charging, repeated crafting and returned excess runes in the actual modpack. Documentation tests do not certify inventory behavior in-game.
• Check special staff subclasses, payment buffs, modified data components and client/server synchronization separately.
• A missing acquisition recipe is not filled with an invented crafting route. Follow the item browser’s exact-version evidence.

Released staff builder, registration and behavior evidence · Rune illustration provenance.

Exact archive: AoA3-1.21.1-3.7.16.1.jar. The evidence records class hashes and instruction bytes. No Java game classes were executed. Models, textures and mechanics are credited to Tslat and contributors; the reference layout and static renders are independent documentation work.