WePlay: Lightning Rod Equipment

Turn yourself into a walking lightning rod. Equip this module on Fulgora and strikes are pulled toward you, with the captured energy charging the batteries in your equipment grid.

Features

• Personal lightning attractor: while you wear it on Fulgora, nearby lightning is drawn to you.
• Charges your batteries: captured energy goes straight into the battery equipment in your armor's grid.
• Works with any battery: battery equipment, mk2 batteries and modded batteries all charge from strikes.
• Fulgora only: the attractor is removed when you leave the planet, take the module off, or die.

Requirements

• Factorio 2.1
• Space Age

Recipe

• 1 × Lightning rod
• 4 × Supercapacitor
• 1 × Battery equipment
• 10 × Processing unit

It unlocks with the Fulgora lightning technology.

Settings

Startup settings let you tune capture efficiency, attraction range and the capture buffer size.

Notes

Default range is 64 tiles, so while you’re wearing it, it will pull strikes away from nearby lightning rods and collectors. Lower the range in the startup settings if you’d rather share strikes with the lightning rods in your base.

Compatibility and feedback

Released under the Unlicense, so feel free to fork or reuse it. Bug reports and suggestions are welcome in the discussion tab.