Light Rod Mod v2 - singleplayer, multiplayer, and PvP

This mod lets you craft and launch devastating 'Light Rod' projectiles, photon missiles based on the end rod. It works in singleplayer, multiplayer, and PvP, in all vanilla dimensions.

Shows a player hitting a hidden creeper with a Light Rod projectile
Lighting up a hidden creeper.

About Light Rods

Light Rods are powerful hand-launched horizontal projectiles.
Hold them in the mainhand and sneak to launch.

PvP notes
Hits deal 50 damage.
Light Rods will not hit players at very close range (~3 blocks).
Players can only have one launched Light Rod each in flight at a time.

For the best visual experience
Use Light Rod Mod alongside your favorite dynamic lighting mod.

Here's the recipe. Only the layout and orientation shown here will work.

Shows the shaped recipe layout for Light Rods.

Not feeling crafty? Here's the chat bar command to give yourself 64 lethal Light Rods:
/give @s stick[custom_name={"text":"Light Rod"}] 64

Videos

Gameplay clips from the original singleplayer Overland-only edition.

Recipe and shot demo from the original singleplayer Overland-only edition.

Known issues

Shooting Light Rods while flying in Creative mode is currently potentially lethal.

If you fly around for long enough in Creative mode shooting at everything, you'll eventually fly into your own projectile and die. I'll fix this very soon - in the meantime use strong Resistance, Invulnerability, or armor when flying and shooting!