Lightning rod + Charged not working?

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allmyr

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So, last night I set up a Matterfabricator+Lightningrod in a Charged Mystcraft Age on my server. When I woke up today, I had gotten zero UU-matter. I did have the Iron fences up to Y level 255. My mystcraft Age: Single Biome, Beach Biome, Noon, Zero Length, Normal Sun, Dark Moon, Normal Stars, No Weather, Charged, and Clear Modifiers. I guess I'm just being unlucky...
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Setup+Extracting Scrap from an ender chest.
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Iron Fences from y Level 2 to Y level 255.
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Any help would be much appreciated. I do not know if this is a bug or if I am just being impatient.
 
I'm pretty sure that lightning rods only work with lightning made in a natural thunderstorm, but I could be wrong.
 
Mash said:
I'm pretty sure that lightning rods only work with lightning made in a natural thunderstorm, but I could be wrong.
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I thought that they worked in Charged worlds because I have seen many people using it, but maybe a Gregtech update has changed that.
 
Yeah, I can't be sure about that. They might, but i certainly haven't used them to any great extent. It's a neat idea, but way too unreliable to be practical for my purposes.

In any case, if there's anything you learn about GregTech, it's that he makes nothing easy. There's a fair chance that he altered how lightning rods work for exactly that reason.
 
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Lightning rod only generate their own lightning strikes when it's raining or thundering. This is not for balance, as far as I'm aware, but a limitation of the way he coded them.
 
abculatter_2 said:
Lightning rod only generate their own lightning strikes when it's raining or thundering. This is not for balance, as far as I'm aware, but a limitation of the way he coded them.
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Quoted for truth.

Although it could be for balance as well, just imagine having a stack of those lightning strike daggers from Aether handy.
 
Poppycocks said:
Quoted for truth.

Although it could be for balance as well, just imagine having a stack of those lightning strike daggers from Aether handy.
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Ok. Do you think I could have an eternal weather age instead? Would that generate EU?
 
Lightning rods have literally *nothing* to do with lightning. They should be called "storm-based random EU generators". They randomly generate EU when it's raining.
 
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