How To Set Up A Lightning Rod In Minecraft

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A lightning rod is a block used to divert lightning strikes.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

A lightning rod must be mined with a stone pickaxe or ameliorate, or else it drops goose egg.

Block	Lightning Rod
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	xv
Wooden	seven.5
Stone	1.15
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.half-dozen
Netherite	0.v
Golden	1.25

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded past players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, meet Breaking § Speed.

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Ingot

Usage [ ]

Lightning rods can be oriented in unlike directions. Lightning rods redirect lightning strikes inside a spherical volume having a radius of 128 blocks in Coffee Edition and 64 blocks in Bedrock Edition. The block emits particles during thunderstorms as an indicator. Lightning rods exercise not divert the lightning created by a trident enchanted with Channeling thrown at an entity during a thunderstorm, or the lightning summoned past commands.

Unlike in real life, a lightning rod doesn't require a directly connection to ground in order to piece of work.

Diverted lightning strikes cannot summon skeleton trap horses.

A lightning rod emits a redstone signal for 8 game ticks when struck by lightning. A trident with Channeling tin be thrown at a lightning rod to create lightning, which also emits a redstone bespeak. It is recommended to enchant your trident with Loyalty first, considering if non, yous volition not get your trident back.

Lightning diverted by a lightning rod tin still start fires on flammable blocks and inflict lightning impairment on mobs within a v×5 horizontal area centred on the lightning rod. The lightning rod must be mounted on a flammable cake for side by side blocks to ignite.

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
	Block broken	Blocks	One time the cake has broken	block.copper.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	?	?	?
	None [sound i]	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	cake.copper.fall	None [sound 1]	?	?	?
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of beingness broken	block.copper.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	?	?	?
	Block placed	Blocks	When the cake is placed	cake.copper.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	?	?	?
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	cake.copper.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	?	?	?

1. ↑ ^{a b} MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:^{[ more information needed ]}

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Proper name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Lightning Rod	lightning_rod	Block & Particular	block.minecraft.lightning_rod

Boulder Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Particular ID[i 1]	Translation key
Lightning Rod	lightning_rod	567	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.lightning_rod.name

1. ↑ ID of cake's directly particular form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ Available with /requite command.
3. ↑ The block'southward direct particular form has the same id with the block.

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	up	up down north south e west	The direction that the lightning rod is facing, determined past its anchoring.
powered	simulated	simulated true	Whether or not the lightning rod is powered.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Immune values	Values for Metadata Bits	Clarification
facing_direction	Not Supported	0	0 1 2 3 4 five	Unsupported	The management the lightning rod faces. 0: Down 1: Upward 2: Due north 3: Southward 4: Due west 5: Due east

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resources location
	Surge Protector	Protect a villager from an undesired daze without starting a burn	Take a chance	Exist within 30 blocks of a lightning strike that doesn't set any blocks on burn, while an unharmed villager is within or upwardly to six blocks higher up a 30×30×30 volume centered on the lightning strike.	hazard/lightning_rod_with_villager_no_fire

History [ ]

October iii, 2022					Lightning rods are revealed at Minecraft Live 2022.
					Inventory model was different.
October xx, 2022					LadyAgnes shows a lightning rod can be placed in different positions, and can emit a redstone bespeak.
Java Edition
i.17		20w45a			Added lightning rods.
		20w46a			The texture of lightning rods has been inverse to friction match copper blocks.
					The range of lightning rods has been increased from 16 blocks to 32 blocks.
		21w05a			Lightning rods are at present shaded properly.[1]
		21w10a			Changelog states they can now exist waterlogged, though this is not the example.
		21w11a			When lightning strikes, the lightning rod turns white due to its new blockstate, powered.
					Lightning rods can now exist waterlogged.
					Lightning emits particles during thunderstorms every bit an indicator.
		21w13a			The model of the lightning rod has been inverse that the underside texture is corrected.
Boulder Edition
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.sixteen.210.57			Added lightning rods nether the Caves and Cliffs experimental gameplay toggle.
					Information technology also has a broken texture in the inventory.
		beta 1.16.220.52			Lightning rods tin now be waterlogged.
					At present emits particles when in contact with rain.
ane.17.0		beta one.17.0.50			Blocks connected to a Lightning Rod now correctly comport redstone point when the rod is striking by lightning.
		beta 1.17.0.52			Lightning Rods are no longer bachelor simply through Experimental Gameplay.

Gallery [ ]

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  Range testing in Java i.17.one. Glowstone marks where lightning struck.

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  Range testing in Bedrock 1.17.34, simulation distance 12. Sea lanterns marker lightning strikes.

Bug [ ]

Issues relating to "Lightning Rod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report bug there.

Trivia [ ]

• According to Minecraft Live 2022, Ulraf had the idea of lightning rods when a lightning strike burned down his wooden house.^[2]
• In Minecraft Dungeons, at that place are lightning rod blocks also. These generate on the roof of the Woodland Mansion Ancient Hunt to charge creepers.
• If /item supervene upon is used to place a lightning rod on a thespian's caput, the particular appears upside-down and to the correct of their caput, somewhat resembling a robot's antenna.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}

References [ ]

1. ↑ MC-204446 - fixed in 21w05a despite that existence an affects version; run across comments
2. ↑ "Minecraft Alive: Caves & Cliffs - First Look @ 29:53" – Minecraft on YouTube, October 3, 2022

Source: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Rod

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