Lightning Attractor Everywhere

by lad338

Lightning attractors can be placed on any planet. Off a lightning-capable planet, a night-only solar duplicate is built instead -- mined, blueprinted, and rebuilt as the original everywhere.

Tweaks
9 days ago
2.1
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Changelog

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-10-21
  Major Features:
    - Lightning attractors (lightning-rod, lightning-collector, and any other
      mod's own lightning-attractor entities) can now be built on any planet,
      not just ones with real lightning.
    - On a planet without lightning, the building works as a night-only solar
      panel instead, with randomized lightning-strike bursts and visuals; it
      automatically swaps to the real lightning attractor if the planet's
      lightning status ever changes, and back.
    - Mining, blueprints, ghosts, and quality are all preserved -- the
      building is always captured and rebuilt as the original item, no
      matter which planet it was built on.
    - Night-only output is balanced against vanilla's own solar panel:
      lightning-rod averages 2x solar's per-tile output, lightning-collector
      averages 4.5x the rod's own output.