Okay, I have noticed far too many people complaining about lightning destroying their wooden buildings. Building things purely of wood is silly, but hey, it looks nice. As opposed to nerfing or removing lightning, which would be to abolish a good feature, you could simply have a way of diverting it. A realistic way.
Enter, the lightning rod.
Built by arranging iron ingots in a certain way which I am yet to decide, it can draw lightning in the vicinity to it, and away from your precious yet precarious architecture. Simple enough. But an idea like this has so much more potential, and to waste it on a simple diversion would be foolish, to say the least.
Enter, the redstone lightning rod.
Built the same way, but by adding redstone somewhere, this will not only draw lightning to it, but activate redstone circuits, doors, TNT and the likes. This could be used to make some sort of epic Druid fortress which only opens when the weather conditions are right, or to make some sort of semi-useless bomb that... I don't know, expresses your distaste for the weather by exploding? Anyway, you could also set up weather reading outposts which would send redstone signals to you whenever lightning struck them, effectively warning you of when a storm was coming your way.
Thoughts?
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"Minecraft? Realistic? Really? This is a game where you punch trees to get wood, you can make the wood into wooden planks in less than five seconds, and trees don't fall even if you remove a piece of the trunk from the middle. This is a game where animate corpses, giant spiders and exploding green terrorists emerge at night to hunt you down, farm animals run rampant across the countryside, and you can stop the flow of molten lava with a block of snow."
Enter, the lightning rod.
Built by arranging iron ingots in a certain way which I am yet to decide, it can draw lightning in the vicinity to it, and away from your precious yet precarious architecture. Simple enough. But an idea like this has so much more potential, and to waste it on a simple diversion would be foolish, to say the least.
Enter, the redstone lightning rod.
Built the same way, but by adding redstone somewhere, this will not only draw lightning to it, but activate redstone circuits, doors, TNT and the likes. This could be used to make some sort of epic Druid fortress which only opens when the weather conditions are right, or to make some sort of semi-useless bomb that... I don't know, expresses your distaste for the weather by exploding? Anyway, you could also set up weather reading outposts which would send redstone signals to you whenever lightning struck them, effectively warning you of when a storm was coming your way.
Thoughts?
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The redstone thing...Eh.
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