Lightning Rod

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

Breaking
Lightning rods 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.

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. plus it can prevent mobs from transforming from a lightning strike. this is because making a lightning rod tower that is atleast 5 blocks high, then summonin' a mob that is affected by lightning, then hitting the bottom lightning rod. will not make it charged or transform. and using a channeling trident on a mob will make lightning strike the top lightning rod. now this feature is only in Bedrock Edition and it's unknown if this is a bug.

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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.