Ring of Loki

The Ring of Loki is an accessory added by Botania. Wearing the Ring of Loki enables the ability to place (and break) multiple blocks at once. Although it requires more setup to use and obtain compared to the Extra Utilities Builder's Wand, the Ring of Loki has better utility due to it being able to place multiple of a held vs. the Builder's Wand only being able to place the same block as the targeted block. The Ring of Loki can do this because it allows the player to select arbitrary relative positions that will also be affected when the player places or destroys a block.

The Ring of Loki is especially useful for the construction and setup of certain multiblocks such as the (Advanced) Assembly Line which are composed of same-length rows of specific blocks. The Ring of Loki is officially superseded in utility by the Matter Manipulator starting in 2.8.

The Ring of Loki is obtained as a random drop from the Dice of Fate, which itself is only obtainable by killing the Gaia Guardian II. Note that this requires extensive progression in both Thaumcraft and Botania and is gated behind LuV.

Once the Ring of Loki is equipped, the ring's ability needs to be enabled. This ability toggle does not have a key bind by default, so the controls need to be modified in order to use the Ring of Loki. In addition, there is a mana cost to breaking and placing blocks, so a mana source needs to be present in the inventory.

There are three stages to using the Ring of Loki: setup, usage, and teardown.

The setup for the Ring of Loki requires having an empty hand. Shift-right clicking (SRC) on a block with an empty hand out causes a selection box to wrap around the block. Once the first block is selected, SRCing on other blocks in the world will add them to the list of relative positions affected by the RIng of Loki. It is possible to SRC any of the relative blocks again to unselect them. Finally, in order to have the selection boxes move relative to the block you're pointing at, SRCing the original block with other blocks selected completes the setup, while it aborts the setup if no other blocks were selected. This last step is not necessary to begin placing blocks with the Ring of Loki but is useful for visualization purposes.

After the setup is complete, the selection boxes will begin moving relative to the selected box. When a block is placed while sneaking, the placing action is repeated on all of the selection boxes, enabling the player to place a large number of blocks at once.

The Ring of Loki can interact with other mods to have other effects. Here is a list of useful interactions when right-clicking with a specified item:

• Vajra: right-clicking breaks all selected blocks instantly
• Data Stick: right-clicking loads a stored configuration to all selected blocks
• GT tool: right-clicking interacts with all selected machine blocks

The use of the Data Stick with the Ring of Loki is probably the most significant time saver when constructing multiblocks. This is because the most time-consuming source of machine spam is the Circuit Assembly Line and the Advanced Assembly Line which both make heavy use of the ME Stocking Bus and ME Stocking Hatch, which requires a minimum of three interactions^ to configure a single one. A CAL can have up to 7 and an AAL can have up to 20 of these stocking buses/hatches. The Ring of Loki reduces the number of interactions to configure an ME stocking hatch/bus from at least 3 to 1/N where N is the number of hatches being interacted with at once.

^: Right-clicking to open the UI, drag-clicking a block into the stocking interface, exiting the UI.

There are two different ways to deselect all blocks in order to be able to setup the Ring of Loki again. The first method is to use the keybind for Deselect All. It can be found under the Botania tab in the controls, and needs to be set because it is not bound by default. The other method is much slower: with an empty hand, shift-right click the original block again. This causes the selection boxes to be locked in place again, enabling the deselection of the remaining blocks. De-selecting all blocks enables the Ring of Loki to be used again elsewhere.

• Certain blocks do not behave as intended with the Ring of Loki. This is mostly relevant for AE2 cables, which cannot be selected using the Ring of Loki, so placing a line of cables and then selecting them to place more does not work.