Stardew Valley is an exciting and diverse game, and it can be hard to keep up with everything you need to do and everything you need to manage! I, for one, have been guilty of neglecting to protect my farm and regretting it when a storm strikes and does damage to valuable Crops and expensive Trees! That is the key importance of Lightning Rods!
What Are Lightning Rods?
Lightning Rods are objects which you can craft and can be placed around your farm in order to store energy from Storms and create Battery Packs.
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Why Are Lightning Rods Important?
One of the main appeals of placing Lightning Rods on your farm is to protect them from damage during a storm. When a storm occurs on your farm, there is a chance of a Lightning strike occurring which will cause lightning damage to Crops as well as Trees on your farm.
Storms only happen on rainy days, but when they do, there is a chance for a Lightning strike every ten minutes, so you can understand why some players prioritize placing multiple Lightning Rods on your farm. Placing these Lightning Rods means that storms can be intercepted and absorb lightning damage that would otherwise occur on your farm, which then creates Battery Packs.
Battery Packs
Lightning Rods store storm energy, which they then process and turn into Battery Packs. In order to create Battery Packs, Lightning Rod should be placed around your farm.
You will be able to tell when the items are ready to collect as the Lightning Rods will start to move and pulsate to indicate that there are items available to collect. This will occur the day after the Lightning Rod has successfully stored energy from a storm, although it is important to note that this is not always guaranteed.
Battery Packs can be used to create;
A Farm Computer
This can provide insightful information about your farm. It can provide you with information on how many Crops are ready on your farm or how many Crops require water. In order to create the Farm Computer, you will require one Battery Pack, one Dwarf Gadget, and ten Refined Quartz. You can only receive the Blueprint for this by requesting it, especially from Demetrius inside the Carpenters Shop.
An Iron Lamp Post
Can be used decoratively or functionally and only varies from the Wood Lamp Post in its visual appearance. It improves the look of your farm while also providing light which will assist you if you are working on your farm late at night in the dark.
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This requires one Battery Pack and one Iron Bar. The Blueprint for this can not be gifted or unlocked and must be purchased from Robin at the Carpenters Shop for 1000g.
A Mini Juke Box
This is a functional item that can be placed inside your home in order to play music. In order to create this, you will require one Battery Pack and two Iron Bars. In order to receive the Blueprint for this item, you must first work on your relationship with Gus in order to reach five hearts, and he will send you the Blueprint in the mail.
A Slime Egg Press
This is a machine that can be used in order to turn Slime into Slime Eggs. In order to create a Slime Egg, you will need to insert one hundred pieces of Slime for one Egg. In order to create this item, you will require one Battery Pack, one Fire Quartz, and twenty-five pieces of Coal. You will also require Combat level six in order to receive the Blueprint for this item.
A Wood Lamp Post
This is an item that can be used decoratively or functionally. It improves the look of your farm while also providing light which will assist you if you are working on your farm late at night in the dark. This requires one Battery Pack and fifty pieces of Wood.
The Blueprint for this can not be gifted or unlocked and must be purchased from Robin at the Carpenters Shop for 500g.
A Crystalarium
This is a machine that is capable of making infinite copies of whatever Crystal is first placed inside. This means if you first put a Diamond inside the Crystalarium will only create Diamonds. In order to create this, you will require one Battery Pack, ninety-nine Stones, five Gold Bars, and two Iridium Bars. The Blueprint for this is only unlocked when you reach Mining level nine.
An Iridium Sprinkler
This works similar to a regular Sprinkler expect this particular Sprinkler is capable of watering 24 adjacent tiles and so should be placed in the center of a large Crop square. To create this item, you will require one Battery Pack, one Gold Bar, and one Iridium Bar. In order to receive the Blueprint for this item, you will also require Farming level nine.
Battery Packs can be sold or gifted onwards if you do not have a use for them on your farm. These can be sold to Robin in the Carpenters Shop for 500g or gifted to Maru as no other villagers like or love Battery Packs.
The Mysterious Phone
Then lastly, if you want to progress the quest with Mr Qi, then you will need a battery pack. Mr Qi will send you on a quest called Mysterious Qi which will ask you to repair the old phone in the tunnels out behind the bus. To do this, take a battery pack to the phone and interact with it, then you can progress the Mysterious Qi quest further.
Where Should I Place Lightning Rods?
Lightning Rods can be placed in any location as the location does not influence the success of the Lightning Rod. It is important to note, however, that you should not place the Lightning Rod outside of your farm as although it technically can be placed here, it will not be able to collect any energy from storms here.
Once you place Lightning Rods around your farm, they will create Battery Packs by storing energy that is present during a storm. If you are eager to create Battery Packs, you could create and place multiple Lightning Rods all around your farm, as each Rod can only store or collect energy from one storm at a time until it is collected.
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It is also important to note that Lightning Rods do not work or collect energy during Winter. Although you do not need to collect your Lightning Rods in Winter, it is unnecessary to craft and place these during Winter as they will not work effectively until Spring.
If you have free-roaming animals which you want to graze on the grass that grows wildly around your farm, you should not place Lightning Rods among the grass as this will prevent your animals from grazing on the grass.
How Can I Get Lightning Rods?
There are multiple ways in which you can gain a Lightning Rod, starting with crafting. If you want to craft a Lightning Rod, all you require is one Iron Bar, one Refined Quartz Bar, and five Bat Wings. In order to craft the Lightning Rod, you also need to reach foraging level six to receive the Blueprint.
You can get Refined Quartz by mining, collecting trash to recycle or smelting normal quartz and Fire Quartz. You can get an Iron Bar by smelting Iron Ore. Then you can get one bat wing for every bat that you take down in the mines.
Lightning Rods can also be gifted to you as a reward for progressing within the Community Centre. When you complete the 25,000g bundle in the Vault, you will be gifted one Lightning Rod. To complete this bundle, you simply need to save and then deposit 25,000g into the Vault.
How Many Lightning Rods Should I Place on my Farm?
How many Lightning Rods you create really depends on how eager you are to collect energy and create Battery Packs, but you can collect multiple rods on your farm to make the most out of every storm. It also means you must regularly collect energy from the Lightning Rods as each Lightning Rod is only functional when it is not currently storing energy.
If a Lightning Rod has the energy it has gathered from a storm that has not been collected, it is no longer capable of storing energy.
If the Lightning Rods on your farm currently are empty, then they will definitely collect any energy available during a storm; however, if half of your Lightning Rods are already storing energy, the chance of more energy being stored reduces to 75% chance.
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Stardew Valley Lightning Rod Guide: Summary
Lightning Rods are essential not only to protect your farm from avoidable damage during a storm but also can be used to create a range of exciting items using the Battery Packs that the Lightning Rods can create (Especially the Farm Computer)
It is definitely advisable to place multiple Lightning Rods around your farm and to regularly collect Battery Packs from them in order to best protect your farm!
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