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 redirect lightning strikes within an area of 32&times;4&times;32 blocks to the top of the rod, which can prevent flammable structures from catching on fire during thunderstorms, and it emits a redstone signal when struck by lightning. Lightning rods striked by lightnings summoned by commands will also emit a redstone signal. Channeling tridents thrown at lightning rods will always create thunder without the need for a mob, but they won't output a redstone signal. However, lightning rods do not divert the lightning created by a trident enchanted with Channeling thrown at an entity during a thunderstorm, or the lightning summoned by commands. Lightning rods can be oriented in different directions.

Lightning rods can also be used to direct lightning towards mobs, which can be useful for creating charged creepers or witches.

Trivia

 * According to Minecraft Live 2020, Ulraf had the idea of lightning rods when a lightning strike burned down his wooden house.