Lightning Rod
| Lightning Rod | |
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| Collects energy from lightning storms and turns it into battery packs. | |
| Information | |
| Source | Crafting |
| Season | Spring • Summer • Fall |
| Sell Price | Cannot be sold |
| Crafting | |
| Recipe Source |  Foraging (Level 6) |
| Ingredients |  Iron Bar (1) Refined Quartz (1) Bat Wing (5) |
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The Lightning Rod creates a 
Battery Pack 24 hours after getting hit by lightning during a storm. It is not necessary for the player to be on the farm when the lightning strike happens.
Since rods do not protect a specific area, the exact placement of a rod on the farm has no bearing on its chance to intercept a lightning strike. A Lightning Rod has a very good chance of intercepting a lightning bolt if it isn't already processing one.[1]
Since each rod only protects the farm from harm if it is not already processing a previous lightning strike, it is advisable to place multiple rods on the farm. The number of lightning strikes during one day is random.
A lightning rod is the reward for completing the 
10,000 Bundle in the Vault.
Notes
- Though it is possible to place lightning rods outside of the farm map, they will never get hit by lightning there, and thus will produce no battery packs.
- Storms (and thus lightning) never occur in Winter.
- More lightning will strike the longer you stay awake. If you fish until 2am on a stormy day, you will need upwards of 10 and possibly as many as 20 lightning rods to absorb all the lightning strikes. Going to sleep earlier will allow you to get by with fewer rods without damaging your farm.
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