`/lightning`

Strikes a bolt right now; needs the gamemaster permission. Also available as /mxt lightning ….

/lightning ...
- ... [pos] color <six hex digits> [alpha [thickness [damage [visual_only]]]]
  
  A single-colour bolt: strikes one bolt of that colour at pos.
- ... [pos] palette <colour,colour,…> [alpha [thickness [damage [visual_only]]]]
  
  A gradient bolt: the colour runs down the list from the top to the ground.

Without pos the bolt lands at the command executor's feet. Apart from the colour it is a vanilla lightning bolt: damage, ignition, lightning-rod charging, copper oxidation, the thunder and the sky flash, and the lightning transformations (villager to witch, pig to zombified piglin, creeper to charged creeper) all happen as usual.

/mxt lightning
/mxt lightning ~ ~ ~
/mxt lightning ~ ~ ~ color 66CCFF
/mxt lightning ~ ~ ~ color 66CCFF alpha 0.5 thickness 2 damage 10 visual_only
/mxt lightning ~ ~ ~ palette 7A5CFF,66CCFF
/mxt lightning ~ ~ ~ palette 7A5CFF,66CCFF,FF4444 alpha 0.5 visual_only

Arguments

Argument	Default	Description
`pos`	the executor's position	The landing position; `~` relative coordinates are accepted.
`color <six hex digits>`	`737380` (the vanilla cool white)	Written without `#`, for example `66CCFF`; tab completion offers a few common colours.
`palette <colour,colour,…>`	none	A gradient: comma-separated six-digit hexadecimal colours, the first at the top (where the bolt starts) and the last at the ground, at most 16 of them; tab completion offers a few presets. Once `palette` is written, `color` no longer tints the bolt.
`alpha <0..1>`	`0.3`	The bolt's brightness. Vanilla lightning is additive-blended, so the vertex colour's `RGB × alpha` is its glow strength — it is not an opacity.
`thickness <0.1..4>`	`1`	The thickness multiplier of the bolt column.
`damage <≥0>`	`5`	The lightning damage.
`visual_only`	off	Strikes the bolt without damage or ignition, for pure decoration.

color <colour> and palette <gradient> are two alternative branches, and each is followed by the same fixed-order tail [alpha [thickness [damage [visual_only]]]]: to write a later one you must write the earlier ones too (tab completion walks you through whatever is left), so reaching thickness means writing a colour or a gradient and then alpha.

The datapack-side behaviour mxt:spawn_lightning accepts any combination of its fields, with the gradient written as palette; see the entity action types.

Registry ids in the command use the vanilla ResourceArgument, which also answers the parsing, the tab completion and the "no such entry" error; the suggestions come from the server's current registries, so whatever completion offers is usable, because an entry a neoforge:conditions block keeps out never enters the registry. For the arguments that do not take that road, see "Completion" on the commands overview.

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