Lightning can be a fantastic tool for in game, striking a mooshroom cow would turn it into a brown mooshroom cow, currently not obtainable in game. Economy quests require brown mushroom. So this could be. Fun way of achieving the quest, and for farming brown mushrooms better utilising the mooshroom cow spawner too, which only spawns red cows currently.

Striking a creeper would create a charged creeper. A horse would create skeleton horses, those could then be farmed for bones better utilising horse spawners, which at this point on economy have no better use than a Cow spawner seeing as they no longer drop bones.

Almost every mobs texture is changed when struck by lightning. this would make a great feature that doesn’t effect gameplay that much but adds rare mob variations and could be helpful with creating new ways of farming materials.

The cooldown would be needed as lightning can cause lag, but a cooldown such as 2min per strike would still be useful. This could be from natural thunderstorms or giving channeling a real use for trident too.

 

it'd be cool to have this, the cooldown is definitely necessary because we don't want the servers to lag worse than they already do.

 

I'm not sure about making it so that players can just command lightning. I feel like that could be abused. Now adding a weather feature to island settings would be cool if possible. Then you'd get the potential for lighting like in regular survival without just allowing every player to be Zeus. Plus, you could possibly get snow.

 

Yeah I agree a command wouldn't be good. But using channeling on a trident could actually be used given a cooldown so it isn't spammed too frequently

 

Perhaps

 

Neutral on this.

Given that mobs killed by charged creepers drop their heads, that would be need to be handled.

Having some harder to get items like brown mushrooms is not a bad thing. It creates opportunity for players to farm something different. If I can easily change a stack of 10,000 mooshrooms to brown, then that is lost.

I would like to see horses drop bones again because they only drop leather which makes the horse spawner the worst spawner in game for income production.

 

The heads dropped from charged creepers could easily be disabled

 

I do want lightning on the server, but…
I’m going to need you to clarify on the third paragraph. The only one maybe possible is the killer bunny, which can be summoned by commands.
The other ones, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Green eyed spiders? Blue zombies? Spotted sheep? What on Earth are you talking about here? lol

 

Yeah I think I must have seen that on a mod or datapack, maybe it's bedrock idk. Thanks for pointing that out

 

I don't think that's Bedrock lol.

Your rewrite is close. Skeleton horse spawn conditions in vanilla is more complicated. During lightning, there's a chance a skeleton horse trap can spawn in your world. This looks like just a skeleton horse. When approached- BOOM! Four skeleton horses being ridden by skeletons with iron helmets appear. Then you just kill the skeleton and boom, skeleton horses are yours.
Now, this is one of the few instances where I agree with a feature being disabled on the server lol. Your idea that striking a horse with lightning to get the skeleton horse sounds completely fine to me. It's how you thought you get one. It's how, I imagine, a LOT of players think you get one. Perfectly reasonable to have that be how they spawn. I bet a plugin even exists for that already.

I don't think it's accurate to say most mobs change their texture when struck by lightning lol. Here's what DOES happen that you don't mention:
- Pigs turn into zombie pigmen
- Villagers turn into witches
- Turtles die instantly and drop bowls (uh.... maybe leave out this detail lol)

 

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