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Lightning Damage Spreads on Copper Blocks

If you make a Copper Block platform and lightning strikes it, the lightning will spread across the blocks in a radius dealing damage.

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    This just makes sense. Why wouldn't this make sense?

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    It depends, if it's grounded to should work like Faraday cage (Google it).

    If it was real life, there's high chance that lightning would hit you before going through, because lightning travels through shortest, and easiest road to the ground (it's easier for lightning to travel through human body, than air).

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    The same should happen with water.

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    I generally agree, with one caveat: Only damage dealt to entities (This includes the conversion effects of creepers and mooshrooms!) should spread, not fires. Otherwise, building with copper and wood together would become nearly impossible.

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    Make a minigame to jump up when lightning hits coper blocks? could be fun?

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    This should be a thing. If mobs or player is sitting on the copper the damage travels to them.

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    Rip copper roof builders during a thunderstorm

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    Alternative. Have it spread through lightning rods specifically. Some builds use a variety of copper blocks, and if lightning spread through them, they would all lose their oxidization. And for builders, that's just heartbreaking.

    Having it only spread through rods makes it more controllable for redstone too. Imagine a villager based witch farm with a line of rods connecting layers.