Mustellinus

Thanks for the tip Streetwind, but lighting strikes that pass through solid blocks to hit the same 4 x 5 area 100% of the time, every time there is a storm, is still a broken mechanic. A lightning rod shouldn't even be necessary in this situation.

Update. Despite having a lightning rod on the roof over the chicken yard, the lightning somehow dodged the roof and still hit the yard. That's some magic lightning. The lightning mechanic is broken.

I have had lightning strikes kill my chickens every time there is a storm, despite the fact that they are surrounded by taller structures. That should almost never happen once, let alone, every storm. Getting struck by lightning in the game is orders of magnitude more frequent than it should be, and it happens in the exact same place every time, which is also unrealistic. Lightning strikes should only be a problem for tall bases (for which the lightning rod would be needed), and should be an extremely low occurrence in areas with nothing tall closer to the block than the tall structures height. If you are going to implement strikes, the probability of one hitting a give block should be lowered considerably, and the block to be struck should be random.