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Lighting rods should also corrode/oxidize like copper blocks

Lighting rods themselves are made up of copper so it would make sense that they corrode just like the other copper related blocks. This will be purely cosmetic and won't change the properties of the lightning rod and it can be waxed to lock it and prevent further corrosion.

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• November 12, 2020 09:00
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  • November 12, 2020 12:09
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  it would make actually quite a lot of sense, as when copper is used to transmit voltages, if exposed to air, actually makes the corosion faster! therefor i would say, every time a lightning strikes the rod, it corodes by one stage

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  • November 14, 2020 12:39
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  What do you wax it with

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  • November 16, 2020 00:14
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  You wax it with honeycomb just like how you do with normal copper blocks.

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  • January 27, 2021 00:23
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  But If they were to break or stop functioning once fully corroded, you would have incentive to go and find more copper.