The first image is of a barn I built a while ago, which has been steadfastly doing its job ever since. The second image is what I found when I went outside after working on my house for 45 minutes or so. What the heck happened? Damage this extensive isn't due to a creeper, and my base is lit up and walled so mobs don't spawn inside. It's a single player world, so it wasn't a griefer. I wasn't using it to store TNT... If it was an explosion this massive I'd have heard it anyway. Did my game glitch? I've never experienced a glitch like this. I'm pretty upset; the barn has been fine for years. I recently tore my house down to ground level and rebuilt everything, which included moving some redstone contraptions I had built. The only part of my base I wasn't going to rebuild was the barn, and now this! What the heck?
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Oh, didn't notice Courageous_Marin's response...there's no lave nearby. It must have been lightning
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Note that any lava could be a block or two underground and still start fires, though I think it's unlikely that it would have taken so long unless you recently added something flammable, even just a block or two if they were in the wrong place.
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And I suspect you didn't have a fireplace in the barn?
(You need a really large gap between fires and flammable blocks, a block 5 blocks above the fire will catch fire even if there are non burnable blocks in between.)
No fireplace, no lava. I've had this world since about 1.8, and it's been terraformed multiple times, plus I started it back when mob grinders were still a thing, so I made sure that was the only place mobs could spawn was in the grinder (meaning all the caves around have been thoroughly explored). I'm intimately familiar with the area, and like I said, it's was standing for years, so... shrug, I guess. C'est la vie
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Yeah lightening, it can be very disheartening to see its destroyed one of your builds. How to avoid it in the future though while still keeping the wood look is the question?
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Only way to block lightning is to put blocks overhead with a large enough overhang that lightning doesn't get to wander close enough to your building. This will look butt-ugly, but perhaps there's a incorporative design that you might like. An alternative is to place these blocks all the way up at y=255 and use blocks that as closely match the skybox color as possible.
On further experimentation I find that, for me at least, chests are completely invisible from more than 64 blocks away, that would be below Y=190 if they are placed at build limit.
YMMV.
They do block rain, which I believe is the important factor in hindering lightning.
They cast no shadow and wouldn't allow hostile mob spawning during the day.
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It appears to work!
I created a superflat world with bedrock, 2 layers of TNT, 240 layers of air and a layer of chests.
When I set the weather to thunder the lightning struck the chest layer.
None of the chests are visible until I open them and villages formed at the chest layer.
A similar world without the chests had a lightning strike and started blowing up less than a minute after I started the thunderstorm.
The first image is of a barn I built a while ago, which has been steadfastly doing its job ever since. The second image is what I found when I went outside after working on my house for 45 minutes or so. What the heck happened? Damage this extensive isn't due to a creeper, and my base is lit up and walled so mobs don't spawn inside. It's a single player world, so it wasn't a griefer. I wasn't using it to store TNT... If it was an explosion this massive I'd have heard it anyway. Did my game glitch? I've never experienced a glitch like this. I'm pretty upset; the barn has been fine for years. I recently tore my house down to ground level and rebuilt everything, which included moving some redstone contraptions I had built. The only part of my base I wasn't going to rebuild was the barn, and now this! What the heck?
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Could have been hit by lightning, but it's more likely there is lava nearby (lightning fires tend to get put out by the accompanying rain).
Although, if lightning started a fire under the barn roof...
Ah, crap. I didn't even notice a storm
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Oh, didn't notice Courageous_Marin's response...there's no lave nearby. It must have been lightning
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Note that any lava could be a block or two underground and still start fires, though I think it's unlikely that it would have taken so long unless you recently added something flammable, even just a block or two if they were in the wrong place.
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And I suspect you didn't have a fireplace in the barn?
(You need a really large gap between fires and flammable blocks, a block 5 blocks above the fire will catch fire even if there are non burnable blocks in between.)
Just testing.
No fireplace, no lava. I've had this world since about 1.8, and it's been terraformed multiple times, plus I started it back when mob grinders were still a thing, so I made sure that was the only place mobs could spawn was in the grinder (meaning all the caves around have been thoroughly explored). I'm intimately familiar with the area, and like I said, it's was standing for years, so... shrug, I guess. C'est la vie
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Yeah lightening, it can be very disheartening to see its destroyed one of your builds. How to avoid it in the future though while still keeping the wood look is the question?
Owner of "Ever Crafter SMP" the server where you write your own story!
Playing Minecraft is our chance to escape the reality and mundaneness of everyday life, if only for a little while.
Only way to block lightning is to put blocks overhead with a large enough overhang that lightning doesn't get to wander close enough to your building. This will look butt-ugly, but perhaps there's a incorporative design that you might like. An alternative is to place these blocks all the way up at y=255 and use blocks that as closely match the skybox color as possible.
Skybox?
I don't think there are any good skyblue blocks, I'd suggest trying to make it look like a cloud using wool or quartz or something.
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White glass is the closest to natural looking I can find.
Just testing.
On further experimentation I find that, for me at least, chests are completely invisible from more than 64 blocks away, that would be below Y=190 if they are placed at build limit.
YMMV.
They do block rain, which I believe is the important factor in hindering lightning.
They cast no shadow and wouldn't allow hostile mob spawning during the day.
--
It appears to work!
I created a superflat world with bedrock, 2 layers of TNT, 240 layers of air and a layer of chests.
When I set the weather to thunder the lightning struck the chest layer.
None of the chests are visible until I open them and villages formed at the chest layer.
A similar world without the chests had a lightning strike and started blowing up less than a minute after I started the thunderstorm.
Just testing.