ovneb Posted January 15, 2025 Report Posted January 15, 2025 In real life, the purpose of lightning rods is to conduct electricity into the ground, so I am curious if a lightning rod will still work if placed on a very high floating block.
LadyWYT Posted January 15, 2025 Report Posted January 15, 2025 Welcome to the forums! To my knowledge, you just need to place the lightning rod somewhere high up for it to work. It doesn't need to actually be connected to the ground.
Maelstrom Posted January 17, 2025 Report Posted January 17, 2025 The lightning rod doesn't need to connect to the ground to work, although a floating lightning rod may look... odd. They protect a conical volume below them. The block they are on, then the block below them and the eight surrounding blocks and so on out to a max of about 40 block "diameter", iirc.
idiomcritter Posted January 17, 2025 Report Posted January 17, 2025 I've been putting my floating lightning rod(s) at build height, i mean who's gonna look up to notice? https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Lightning_rod Quote Example: a flat 15x15 area has a radius of 7 blocks around its center block. So the lightning rod would need to be placed at least 7 blocks above the center of that area in order to be able to protect all of it.
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