Lightning Rod

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

Breaking
A lightning rod must be mined with a stone pickaxe or better, or else it drops nothing.

Usage
Lightning rods can be oriented in different directions. Lightning rods redirect lightning strikes within a spherical area, with a radius of 128 blocks / 64×64×64 blocks to the top of the rod, which can prevent flammable structures from catching on fire during thunderstorms; the block emits particles during thunderstorms as an indicator. Lightning rods divert the lightning created by a trident enchanted with Channeling thrown at an entity during a thunderstorm, or the lightning summoned by commands.

Unlike in real life, a lightning rod doesn't require a direct connection to ground, and won't light flammable blocks if it is adjacent to one when lightning strikes it.

Diverted lightning strikes cannot summon skeleton trap horses.

A lightning rod emits a redstone signal when struck by lightning. A trident with Channeling can be thrown at a lightning rod to create lightning, which also emits a redstone signal.

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Trivia

 * According to Minecraft Live 2020, Ulraf had the idea of lightning rods when a lightning strike burned down his wooden house.
 * In Minecraft Dungeons, there are lightning rod blocks as well. These generate on the roof of the Woodland Mansion Ancient Hunt to charge creepers.
 * If is used to place a lightning rod on a player's head, the item appears upside-down and to the right of their head, somewhat resembling a robot's antenna.