Storms of the Wild

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# STORMS OF THE WILD

Storms of the Wild is a mod that aims to make thunderstorms and lightning feel more interactive, dangerous, and hopefully fun. Inspired by Breath of the Wild, wearing or holding conductive items during a thunderstorm can attract the power of the sky, striking you with considerably stronger lightning bolts if you don't react in time.

But that is just the core of it. Storms of the Wild turns lightning and thunderstorms into a complete system. Be mindful of your equipment, watch the mobs around you, discover ways to become immune to lightning, summon storms at will, and even weaponize the sky itself. All of this is seamlessly integrated into existing Minecraft items and mechanics, making storms feel like a natural part of the world rather than just background weather.

## The Conductive Attraction System

The main feature of the mod. During a thunderstorm, if you are exposed to the sky, standing in a biome with visible rain, and holding or wearing something conductive, you risk attracting lightning. Each conductive item you hold in your hands or wear as armor increases the chance that the sky will choose you as its next target and zap you.

But lightning won't just strike you down without warning.

Once you are targeted, sparks and crackles will begin to appear and rapidly increase in frequency, giving you time to react. Take off the conductive item, get cover, or find another way to avoid the incoming zapping. If you do get zapped, there is a small cooldown before attracting lightning again.

All conductive items will come with their own tooltip to let you know.

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### The Particles

You won't have to guess what is attracting lightning either. The sparks are localized, appearing directly on whatever piece of conductive equipment you are wearing or holding so you can take it off. If you remove that item, the sparks disappear and the strike is cancelled.

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### True Lightning Damage

All of this would be mostly pretty visuals if lightning was left unchanged.

In vanilla Minecraft, lightning deals only 5 damage and can be heavily reduced by armor. Storms of the Wild changes this by making lightning always deal a flat 10 damage, ignoring armor completely.

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## Avoiding getting zapped

Taking cover and removing conductive equipment is good and all. But Storms of the Wild isn't meant to turn lightning into just a nuisance. The goal is to let players overcome it, wield it, and even weaponize it.

For that to work, there must be reliable ways to survive a strike.

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The Unshockable effect allows you to completely shrug off the damage from lightning bolts. There are several ways to obtain it, each with its own trade-offs.

### Thunder Helm

The most reliable method is the Thunder Helm enchantment.

This treasure enchantment can be applied to helmets and will completely negate lightning damage and even grant a moment of fire resistance after being struck. However, each strike will consume 4% of the helmet's durability.

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### Leather Armor

Leather armor also provides natural insulation.

Each individual piece of leather armor reduces lightning damage by 2. Wearing a full set will grant Unshockable, no fire resistance tho.

Each strike will consume 5% durability of every leather piece equipped, not great in the long-term.

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Insulating armors also come with their own tooltip.

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### Potion of Lightning Resistance

If you have access to both the Nether and a Swamp, you can brew a Potion of Lightning Resistance. This potion grants one and a half minutes of Unshockable, no matter what you wear.

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## Lightning rods

Lightning rods placed nearby and above you can now prevent you from being targeted by lightning.

For this to work, the rod must be decently (about 10 blocks c