Lightning Podoboo
Makes fire created by natural lightning cosmetic, meaning no blocks are destroyed during thunderstorms.
Keep the doFireTick gamerule enabled without worrying about random fire destroying your builds or nearby trees!
Want to see a quick demo? Watch this short introduction video.
Installation
Ensure you've installed Quilt Loader and drop Lightning Podoboo into your mods folder.
When used on a multiplayer server players connecting do not need to install this mod, and see no benefit from doing so.
Motivation
This mod was created to work in tandem with the ever popular anti ender grief datapacks, disabling an annoying part of the game without causing any unintended side-effects while doing so:
- Fire from other sources burns down blocks as usual
- Lightning created via tridents spawns vanilla fire
- You (and other entities) will still burn when hit by lightning
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.5
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as lightning-podoboo-1.0.18+minecraft-1.21.5.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 651 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.