How To Make A Lightning Storm In Minecraft

A lightning commodities strikes a tree, making information technology potentially flammable. A creeper can be seen walking through the woods; if it had been closer to the strike, information technology would have become charged.

A thunderstorm is a somewhat uncommon and dangerous weather status.

Behavior [ ]

Thunderstorms are an uncommon temporary, global occurrence^[one] that can happen randomly at whatsoever time, within the Overworld. The exact type of atmospheric precipitation during a thunderstorm varies depending on the temperature of the current biome, equally well equally the current distance.

While the articulate counter is counting down, the conditions is always articulate. This counter is used only when the "/weather clear" command is issued, setting the counter to a value given by the player or 5 minutes (meet Commands/weather)
The pelting counter counts down to zero, and each time information technology reaches nothing, the pelting is toggled on or off. When the pelting is turned on, the counter is reset to a value between 12,000-23,999 ticks (0.5-1 game days), and when the pelting is turned off the counter is reset to a value of 12,000-179,999 ticks (0.5-7.five game days).
Similar the rain counter, the thunder counter also toggles thunder on and off when it reaches zero, simply articulate weather overrides the "on" state. When thunder is turned on, the thunder counter is reset to 3,600-xv,999 ticks (3-13 minutes), and when thunder is turned off the counter rests to 12,000-179,999 ticks (0.5-seven.five days).
Thunder can occur in the game only when the rain and thunder states both happen to exist "on" at the same time. The random combinations of the states toggled by the rain and thunder counters result in a 1.44% chance for a thunderstorm to occur, or an estimate average real-time duration of ix hours between thunderstorms.
The values in each range are uniformly distributed.

Thunderstorms tin be skipped entirely with the use of a bed, regardless of the fourth dimension of twenty-four hours. Sleeping in a bed also resets the in-game storm timer, making a tempest right later sleeping unlikely. This means the all-time way to wait for a thunderstorm would be to become without sleeping for several days, every bit sleeping every Minecraft day would minimize the run a risk of a thunderstorm occurring.

Effects [ ]

As with rain and snow, the heaven is darkened and the sun, moon, and stars are no longer visible. Thunderstorms darken the world, causing the light level from the sky to visually decrease to 10. The clouds darken from white to dark gray, although clouds themselves do not precipitate or create lightning. While the dominicus is non visible during rain, the glow associated with sunrise and sunset is still visible.

Dissimilar during regular rainstorms or snowstorms, the low-cal level from the sky is treated as if it were 0 for the purposes of hostile mob spawning, which allows hostile mobs to spawn at whatsoever time of the 24-hour interval.

Lightning [ ]

Not to be confused with Lighting.

Lightning is a lethal element to thunderstorms. Lightning momentarily increases the sky light'south brightness to slightly greater than full daylight.

The burn down that a lightning bolt creates.

Lightning strikes randomly and creates fires (only on normal and difficult difficulty) in a 2 block radius where it strikes. Such fires act normally, igniting all flammable materials, detonating TNT, and fifty-fifty activating nether portals. The lightning itself, however, is non destructive and does not destroy blocks. While most fires are extinguished by the rain, areas that cake rain tin permit the burn to spread, and any netherrack, magma blocks, soul sand, or soul soil lit by lightning is not extinguished by the pelting.

About entities struck by lightning are dealt 5 harm (sometimes twice in succession) and are ready on fire, which may cause additional damage.

If the player is killed past a lightning strike, the expiry message appears: "<player> was struck past lightning". This message does not brandish if the player was killed by the fire created by a lightning bolt.

Lightning in Bedrock Edition changes color from white to orange at sunset, and appears brighter during the daytime.

Lightning may be manually summoned with the /summon lightning_bolt command. It is summoned as an entity, and it can be referred to by commands or selectors.

A group of skeletal horsemen spawned during a thunderstorm.

Lightning is also spawned when a trident enchanted with Channeling is thrown and strikes a mob or a lightning rod during a thunderstorm.

Effects on mobs [ ]

A lightning strike affects sure mobs differently:

Lightning may randomly spawn a "skeleton trap" horse with a chance of 0.75–i.5% run a risk on Easy, i.5–4% on Normal, and 2.8125–half-dozen.75% on Difficult, depending on the regional difficulty. A player triggers the trap past moving inside 10 blocks of the horse, whereupon the horse transforms into four skeletal horsemen. A non-triggered trap horse despawns after 15 minutes.
A pig struck by lightning turns into a zombified piglin.
A creeper becomes charged.
A villager gets replaced by a witch.
A scarlet mooshroom changes into a brown mooshroom and vice versa.
A lightning strike on a turtle instantly kills it, and it drops 1 bowl instead of its normal drops.^[2]

Lightning mechanics [ ]

For each loaded chunk, every tick there is a ^ane⁄_100,000 take a chance of an attempted lightning strike during a thunderstorm. From this probability, if ≈201 chunks are loaded (from a radius of 128 blocks from the player to the center of each chunk) then 90% of the time upwardly to 5 lightning strikes occur in the world each minute, with an boilerplate of approximately 2.4 lightning strikes each minute.

When lightning is to strike, random X and Z coordinates within the chunk are chosen, and the block just in a higher place the highest block that is liquid or obstructs movement is chosen for the lightning strike. If a lightning rod is nearby, it strikes the rod instead. Then if there are whatever living entities that can see the sky in a three×h×iii region from 3 below the target block up to the globe height, 1 such entity is selected at random and the lightning target is moved to the block the entity stands in.

The target block is checked again for the following weather:

Target block can run into the heaven.
Rain (not snow) is falling in the target cake.
- Thus, lightning does not naturally strike within cold biomes or biomes where it does non rain.

If these atmospheric condition pass, lightning strikes.

When lightning strikes, all entities inside a 6×12×6 region horizontally centered on the northwest corner of the target block with the lesser edge iii below the target block are struck by lightning. Multiple passes are made over this region, so items dropped during an earlier pass may be destroyed during a subsequent pass; damage amnesty usually prevents struck mobs from taking more than five harm. Non-solid blocks (such every bit redstone, torches, and snow layers) are non directly affected past lightning.

Thunder [ ]

"Thunder" redirects here. For the Minecraft Dungeons enchantment, see MCD:Thundering.

Thunder is a audio upshot that occurs every fourth dimension lightning strikes. Every player within 160 thousand blocks and the aforementioned dimension hears the thunder.

The power to hear thunder affects multiplayer, equally it is possible to hear lightning strike at someone else'south base or use a modded Minecraft customer to determine the direction of every strike in the world the player is in. Using the direction of strikes, it is possible to triangulate the coordinates of lightning strikes.

Lightning rods [ ]

Lightning strikes inside a radius of 128 blocks (Java Edition) or 64 blocks (Bedrock Edition) of a lightning rod are redirected to the rod, emitting a Redstone indicate. This tin can be used to prevent flammable structures from being struck by lightning, or intentionally straight lightning toward or abroad from mobs. During a thunderstorm, they emit spark-like particles, even in biomes where lightning doesn't strike.

Sounds [ ]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resources location	Translation cardinal	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
Lightning strikes	Atmospheric condition	?	`entity.lightning_bolt.impact`	`subtitles.entity.lightning_bolt.impact`	?	?	16
Thunder roars	?	?	`entity.lightning_bolt.thunder`	`subtitles.entity.lightning_bolt.thunder`	?	?	16 (technical) / 160K (effective)
Trident thunder cracks	?	?	`item.trident.thunder`	`subtitles.item.trident.thunder`	?	?	16

Information values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper noun	Identifier	Translation key
Lightning Bolt	`lightning_bolt`	`entity.minecraft.lightning_bolt`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation fundamental
Lightning Bolt	`lightning_bolt`	`93`	`entity.lightning_bolt.name`

Entity data [ ]

Lightning bolts have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.

Java Edition:

Entity information

Bedrock Edition:

Meet Boulder Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements [ ]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Surge Protector	Protect a villager from an undesired stupor without starting a burn down	Take a chance	Exist inside xxx blocks of a lightning strike that doesn't ready any blocks on fire, while an unharmed villager is inside or up to six blocks higher up a 30×30×xxx volume centered on the lightning strike.	`adventure/lightning_rod_with_villager_no_fire`
	Very Very Frightening	Strike a Villager with lightning	A Throwaway Joke	Striking a villager with lightning created by a trident with the Channeling enchantment.	`adventure/very_very_frightening`

History [ ]

Java Edition Beta
ane.5				Added thunderstorms and lightning.
				The ability for lightning to charge creepers and transform pigs into Zombie Pigmen has been added.
				In multiplayer, the sky during a thunderstorm looks identical to when raining.
Coffee Edition
1.three.one		12w18a		As a event of singleplayer existence inverse to an internal server, the sky during a thunderstorm now looks the aforementioned every bit when raining.^[3]
1.seven.ii		13w39a		The clouds and the sky again appear much darker during thunderstorms.
1.seven.ii		?		The rendering brightness is now decreased during thunderstorms. Previously, the sky would darken, just the ground wouldn't announced to go darker, even though monsters could spawn.
ane.viii		14w03a		Lightning now transforms villagers into witches.
		14w30a		Lightning can now be manually summoned with the `/summon LightningBolt` control.
		14w32a		Lightning now damages Nether mobs and mobs with the Burn Resistance status effect.
one.ix		15w38a		At that place is a now adventure (depending on regional difficulty) that a lightning strike spawns a "skeleton trap" skeletal horse.
1.11		16w32a		The entity ID has been changed from `LightningBolt` to `lightning_bolt`.
1.13		18w07a		If a player throws a trident enchanted with Channeling at a mob during a thunderstorm, a lightning bolt is summoned and strikes that mob. This is the first time that a histrion can manipulate lightning without commands.
1.xiv		19w08a		If lightning strikes near a red mooshroom, information technology turns into a brown mooshroom and vice versa.
i.16		Pre-release 1		Lightning bolts can now be targeted by selectors and save to the world.
ane.17		20w45a		Lightning bolts can be led into a lightning rod inside a 16x16 range.
		20w46a		Lightning bolts tin now be caught inside a 32x32 range.
		21w11a		Lightning bolts now clean oxidation off copper blocks.
		21w11a		Lightning bolts no longer spawn skeleton horses when striking lightning rods.
Pocket Edition Blastoff
v0.12.one		build 1		Added thunderstorms.
v0.14.0		build 1		Lightning now transforms villagers into witches.
v0.sixteen.0		build 1		There is now a run a risk (depending on regional difficulty) for a lightning strike to spawn a "skeleton trap" skeletal equus caballus.
v0.sixteen.0		build 1		Lightning tin at present exist manually summoned with the `/summon LightningBolt` command.
Pocket Edition
one.ane.0		alpha 1.i.0.0		The entity ID has been changed from `lightningBolt` to `lightning_bolt`.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta one.2.13.eight		If a histrion throws a trident enchanted with Channeling at a mob, a lightning bolt is summoned and strikes that mob.
1.13.0		beta 1.xiii.0.9		If lightning strikes nigh a red mooshroom, it turns into a chocolate-brown mooshroom and vice versa.
1.xvi.100		beta 1.xvi.100.51		Hostile mobs can now spawn during thunderstorms in the day.
1.16.210		beta 1.xvi.210.57		Lightning bolts tin now exist caught within a 64x64 range.
1.sixteen.220		beta i.16.220.52		Lightning bolts at present clean oxidation off copper blocks.
1.17.ten		beta ane.17.10.20		Thunderstorms now occur as often as in Coffee Edition.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	one.00	Patch 1	Added thunderstorms.

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Lightning" or "Thunder" are maintained on the bug tracker. Written report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

Lightning, different other weather effects, does non have an epitome file associated with information technology. It is an entity, coded directly into the game engine, allowing for dynamic, realistic lightning.
In Bedrock Edition, lightning strikes closer to the thespian more oft than in Java Edition, due to spawn altitude limits.
Because lightning is an entity, commands and command blocks can be used to kill and remove them from the world.

Gallery [ ]

The void during a lightning strike.
Witches fighting during a thunderstorm.
Thunderclouds appearing in a hot biome with no rain.
Forest lake during the thunderstorm.

References [ ]

↑ "It's temporal and global" – @notch (Markus Persson) on Twitter, April seven, 2011
↑ MC-125562 – resolved as "Works as Intended"
↑ MC-673