user-made Lightning rods

Discussion in 'Archived: Plugin Requests' started by Gimmic, Apr 23, 2011.

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    Gimmic

    It would be nice if there were a way to allow for users to protect their areas against lightning strikes.

    An idea would be to allow players to make 'lightning rods'. Something like a block of iron with a wooden pole placed on top could create it. When placed as the highest block in the area, it could 'protect' in an radius of X size.

    Not sure how lightning functions, but it would be nice if this is possible.
     
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    Plague

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    sk89q

    I am currently working on this.
     
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    Gimmic

    Sweet. Plague, I could care less about fires starting. I just want to give an option to the players to protect their precious wooden houses.

    Figure it is a value-add either way. Would be awesome if it can actually 'attract' the lightning, and strike the lightning rod. This would open up for other plugins which might do something with that event.... /mad scientist
     
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    sk89q

    As we discussed this on my server yesterday, I was thinking about an iron block with a stack of 5-10 fences below, essentially "grounding" it, rather than just having floating lightning rods.
     

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