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Lightning Charge and Storm in a Bottle

A Lightning Charge would be dropped from a Charged Creeper when it is killed. Right click the ground with a Lightning Charge to cause lightning to strike wherever you clicked (if you don't have access to the sky the Lightning Charge will still be used, but nothing would happen). Lightning Charges can also be fired from a Dispenser to create lightning strikes at a distance (would also not do anything if you don't have access to the sky). You can combine a Water Bottle and 8 Lightning Charges in a crafting table to make a Storm in a Bottle. A Storm in a Bottle would be able to be thrown and when it hits a block (or a mob) several lightning bolts would shoot into the sky (damaging the mob if you threw it at a mob) and the weather would change to a thunderstorm. If you use a Storm in a Bottle without access to the sky electricity would shoot off in every direction causing a sort of lightning explosion that would be twice the size of a Charged Creeper explosion, but it would not destroy blocks.

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    Lightning Charges are a fantastic idea.
    Instead of lightning strikes though, I think dealing lightning damage (and affecting mobs as if being struck by lightning) would be the simplest way to go about it.
    Rather than crafting a Storm in a bottle, brewing one would make more sense. It shouldn't alter the weather as that is too much power for a player to have. It should simply be like an instant harm potion, except any type of mob takes damage and is affected by lightning.

    Using lightning charges to craft lightning arrows would also be cool (and could be unique to the fletching table)

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    This almost exactly an idea I had, only I was thinking more of a lightning in a  bottle where you use a bottle on a charged creeper to get it, and it has all the same applications and like the brewing idea in the other comment instead of using it to make just one type of potion it makes a new type like dragons breath makes lingering or gunpowder makes splash potions, only it spreads the effect of the potion from one mob to another, starting strongest at the epicenter and getting weaker as it spreads farther away. If you drink it in its purest form like a potion it will "charge" you giving you slight  speed, regen, high jumping, strength, and a knock back boost but only for a short amount of time. It wouldn't restore any hunger.