@MrT When hit by lightning, the power-generating version of them acts a bit like a battery that looses its charge fast over time. During this time it will output energy to the powergrid.

Curious if it's like lightning powering solar panels with the flashing.
Doing large brief inputs or anything more consistent?

@MrT What do you mean?

What kind of power this generate?

I am reporting the same issue as what @smileyblacksun has. No console logs.

I'm getting an issue where the rod will attract the lighting bolt, but instead of absorbing it it will strike the ground the point of the rod is over and start a fire. (lighting rod is not over charged, and is hooked up to power network).

Anybody else see this or is it just my setup?

@Booker You can see the supported mod-versions on the top right of any mod-page to see if your game version is supported

The mod was great. Is it still working?

@Pisaka Yes

description of advanced rod is on mode selector
description of unpowered one is not present
is it the same as advanced one on passive mode? (25% intercept chance?)

@Akkebi Yes, as noted in the description

Is this safe to add to an ongoing save file?

@Futstub They have a percent chance to attract the lightning per rod map wide.

So would they just attract lightning from the general area? As in "20 tiles around the rod, when a lightning would strike, it strikes the rod instead"?

And I also was confused about the energy thing, but now I understand that there are 2 versions of the rod. :)

Also: obligatory thanks for everything you do for the community, much appreciated!

@Futstub What part of the description is unclear? You stop fires from being started by lightining and you get free power from the advanced version.

I don't understand what this mod would be used for..?

@Lucas.T.M I have no idea of what you are trying to ask?

this mod is essential because i turned off the fire-rain automatic thingy and forest fires are... wooooo

Is this compatible with lightning storms summoned via the "Rimworld of Magic" mod?

THANK YOU. I'm quite sick of my animal pen getting struck with lightning. Especially when I've got a dozen Boomalopes in that sucker.

Thank you

@Queju Yes

Do the effects of the lightning rod stack? Like, two would give me a seventy-five percent chance to negate lightning strikes, and so on?

@Kahi - Flavious Vile You missed the first step. Test with only this mod loaded. If it works its not this mod but a conflict with one of your other mods

It doesn't give a crash log, I added this mod and it leaves me with a black screen upon launching the game. I remove the mod and the game boots up fine. I do run other mods, but this one made it blank out.

@Kahi - Flavious Vile See ”Reporting Issues”

Gives me blackscreen.

@Игрок The advanced versions generate power

It would be nice if it was possible to charge the batteries, thanks anyway.

Yup works great now, thanks once again for all your efforts keeping these great old mods functional, Mlie. I don't even know where you find all the time.

@Mile you are awesome. It works for me. Thank you very much
@Omega13 make sure your RimWorld downloaded updates, it should be working now. If it is not I'd guess there are some conflicts

@Omega13 Can you verify that you have the latest version of the mod?

Tried it again, Powered Lightning Rod still catching on fire every time, getting colonists hit by lightning.

@Zonk: Yeah it was a weird combination of the fact that the rod would catch fire, and that lightning would hit the whole area around the rod instead of just the rod itself. So rather than protect my base from lightning, the rod just ended up guaranteeing that ALL the lightning was more likely to hit someone.

I will try it out again and see how it works now. Thank you Mlie!

@z0nk @Omega13
Found the issue, the lighning code had changed in the game. Should work better now

First of all thx for the mod. I like it.

But I'm nto sure if this is intentional, the thing @Omega13 writes about. When lightning strikes the rod it starts fire. My pawn rushes to put it out, which is fine, as it's dry thunderstorm. But it kinda beats the purpose of these rods if they catch fire after attracting lightning. Is that intentional or is it some kind of bug?

I was using a powered rod

@Omega13 The basic rod gets damaged, the powered rods should not

So, I remember back in the day the lightning did NOT damage the lightning rod or start fires.

The problem with adding this "balance" is that it means now when the rod gets hit, someone will run over to repair it or put out the fire, and then immediately get hit by lightning.

Just my experience.

@Mlie When am I ever going to learn to read the descriptions!? Thanks.

@toradrow777 Yes, there are informational images above regarding saves

Is this mod safe to add mid-save?

thanxx :-))

This mod + weather generator event that locks the weather to rainy thunderstorms generates so much power that it tripled the power generation of my colony after I built two lightning rods, it's pretty crazy lol

I solved the problem. it looks like there was an mod animal that happened to be breathing fire at the time of the lightning storm

@童话森林有可爱天霆號 I assume so, It seems to work in my tests

Doesn't seem to stop the fire.A mod conflict?

@RedPine Works when I test with only this mod loaded so sounds like a mod-conflict

My basic lightning rod can't be repaired. Is that intentional, or a mod conflict?

@sstepanr Map-wide