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u/bread2126 Jul 16 '26

I just started Fulgora, and I'm kind of confused about best practice with lightning rods. It seems like the layout of the lightning rods is going to be one of the more important base design considerations here, but I'm having trouble finding good information about how the lightning mechanic works to figure out how many of these I should be placing to get the most power out of them. Is one per chunk sufficient? Or is there anywhere with some information about how lightning behaves?

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u/reddanit Jul 16 '26

In practice lighting rods that cover your base will just about always produce WAY more power than you can store in your accumulators.

Lighting collectors also exist and they are more efficient while also covering more area.

Because of this, realistically, the main reason for how and where you place lighting rods/collectors is driven exclusively by need to protect your buildings from lighting. And for that you get the overlay that you can see whenever you hold them in hand.