Transmutation Rod

Minor Rune: Transmutation Rod

Major Rune: Rubric

The Transmutation Rod is an item that uses Runic Energy to change blocks into other blocks. It can be used at a distance like VoxelSniper. The block that it places is the block on the user's hotbar immediately to the right of the Transmutation Rod. Sneaking toggles whether you are replacing blocks or placing them on the surface.

Transmutation Rod will replace Embedder and several other runes. The rod itself can use runic energy to transform base blocks into other blocks, or convert a tier block to another tier block IF you have the energy to make the conversion. turning gold into stone is easy, its as high tier block to a low tier block, the reverse a lot more power to do so. *need to work out the basic on how this works*.

The rod can be crafted as an item and activated through a rune. There's the potential to have there be several tiers of rod with increasing range and decreasing inefficiency, while the rod itself will draw power from the player's personal stored runic energy.

Design Notes
Why not allow people to enchant a vanilla tool as we have in the past? Energy for destroying valuable blocks by replacing them with less valuable blocks will not be refunded to the player because this is not intended as a form of long range mining. That, and cobblestone trees are ugly.
 * 1) It's a discreet tool that doesn't relate to any other tool
 * 2) It is most consistent with Vanilla Minecraft to make this it's own tool, similar to hoe
 * 3) It's the most user friendly

Inspired by Runecraft Embedder, VoxelSniper , and EE2 Mercurial Eye.