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Update: The lightning rod has now released as part of Caves & Cliffs Part I.

If you want to know more about everything included in this first Caves & Cliffs release then check out the full changelog for Java and Bedrock!

Caves and Cliffs Part I brings a little shock and...ore *ahem* into our lives in the form of the lightning rod - a fun but extremely useful new block that can be crafted from copper ingots and allows you to protect yourself from the elements during thunderstorms.

Lightning Rod 

  • Added lightning rods!  
  • Lightning rods can be crafted using copper ingots in a crafting table  
  • The lightning rod now interacts with lightning strikes:  
  • All lightning strikes that happen within a radius of 64 blocks from a lightning rod will strike the lightning rod 
  • Throwing a channeling trident at a lightning rod during a thunderstorm will spawn a lightning strike in the rod 
  • A lightning rod struck by lightning will emit a full redstone signal for 8 game ticks

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    Lightning rods are way too overpowered because of channeling tridents making a lightning bolt. Although 0 tick pistons are a bug, you can still use them to force a channeling trident into a falling state for a frame with them, which gives you a lightning bolt every frame. I have no idea how this could be fixed, but it should be.

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    make them oxedise

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    lightning rods could weather when it gets hit, and if it fully weathers it stops working. you could use an axe or  honeycomb too though

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    There is a lot of bugginess added per lightning rod, with 20 lightning rods almost destroying a world. It's an easy way to kill a server for a griefer or just accidentally crash the game. Please fix it.

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    Shouldnt there be Iron lightning rods as well?

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    becuase lightning rod is made out of copper it should oxidize like a regullar copper!

    just make a variants of oxidized lightining rods🙏

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    I would recommend providing more functionality to lightning rods in the game.  They can be used to store light in a bottle if lightning strikes the rod next to a brewing station.  The lightning in a bottle could be released as a will o wisp entity or it could be used as a decoration item for lanterns that have changing light textures.  The will o wisp concept could be used in the swamp biome as it traditionally relates to ghost folklore.

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    Lightning rods are great! But there are one of the few uses of copper. Mojang, can you add more uses to copper?

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    Lightning rods should not create fire when struck. The way they work now it is not possible to protect large flammable builds. 

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    Gracias al pararrayos mi casa ya no se quema XD

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    Muiti bom

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    It would get struck too often so it wouldn’t oxidize

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    Pls my friend

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    Lightning rods should also preserve energy from the lightning for some time, and let players use them with channeling tridents

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    This is a cool new item... However, given that the rod can obviously emit a full redstone signal why not allow the transmission of signal to travel from redstone dust/blcok into and through the lightning rod for increased precision building mechanics?

    I submitted a suggestion in the [Redstone] section of suggestions featuring the details and practical applicability of this/these feature(s)/item(s). Please upvote.

     

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    Громоотводы довольно интересная вещь, но не сказать, что она крайне необходима