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 an area of 32×4×32 / 64×64×64  blocks to the top of the rod, which can prevent flammable structures from catching on fire during thunderstorms, the block will emit 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.

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.