Lightning Rod Got Talent

Quickstart

1. Get a vanilla Lightning Rod and hold it. Right-click to throw it in the direction you’re facing—even when aiming at a block.
2. The thrown rod deals 8 damage (4 hearts) to a living target. On hitting a target or a block, it drops a Lightning Rod for you to pick up. In Survival, throwing consumes the rod you’re holding.
3. Hold a Trident and right-click a block to place a trident display in the space just beyond the face you clicked. Right-click the display to retrieve the trident.

Overview

The mod gives Lightning Rods a recoverable throwing attack and lets you place Tridents as visible world displays. It uses vanilla items; it adds no separate weapons or crafting recipes.

How To Use

Throw a Lightning Rod

Right-click while holding a Lightning Rod to launch it. Aim at a target or a block: the rod returns as a dropped item when it hits either. Pick it up from the ground to use it again.

Place and retrieve a Trident

Right-click a block face with a Trident to place it in the adjacent space, which must be clear. The display faces according to your direction. Right-click a placed trident to remove it and, in Survival, recover the same trident and its item details. If your inventory is full, it drops instead.

The placed trident is a display, not a vanilla Lightning Rod block; it does not provide vanilla lightning-rod or redstone behavior.

Crafting And Obtaining

Use vanilla Lightning Rods and Tridents. Lightning Rods follow their vanilla crafting recipe; Tridents are obtained through normal Minecraft gameplay. This mod adds no recipes.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Thrown Lightning Rods deal 8 damage to living targets and drop a rod on impact.
• Throwing consumes one Lightning Rod in Survival, but not in Creative.
• Placing a Trident consumes one in Survival, but not in Creative.
• Retrieving a placed trident returns it in Survival; in Creative, the display is removed without returning an item.

Progression And Strategy

Try the Lightning Rod as a reusable ranged weapon, and place a Trident display where you want a visible trident without leaving the item permanently out of reach.