Lightning Rod is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 3 items: 3 Copper Ingot. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table.
You need 3 Copper Ingot — 3 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Lightning Rod.
Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.
It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.
Lightning Rod is an ingredient in 1 crafting recipe, for example Waxed Lightning Rod.
