So people are constantly asking about how thunderstruck trees work and the mechanics about them or how to obtain them. So in this guide I'm going to explain how to get a thunderstruck tree and some of the myths and whats legit.
One of the first misconceptions about thunderstruck trees is it only happens on the islands covered by storms all the time. This isn't true cause weather is just randomly generated and it doesn't increase the chance that something will thunderstruck or not. So people trying to sell you that island 16x16 telling you that its worth 50k gold cause they got a mountain of thunderstruck trees from it chances are they are really just lucky or they are trying to make you think it's good just to get you to buy it. If it was so good people wouldn't sell said locations.
Thunderstruck tree's are a product of RNG that happens during tree evolution phases. Yes this works like
Pokemon:
Basically as tree's evolve they have a chance that they will be thunderstruck. After a tree reaches the mature state and are a full tree it is impossible to have the tree get thunderstruck so that means when it goes from a "tree to an old tree" this is not going to give us a thunderstruck tree.
Tree's which have a long duration for growing usually have a much higher chance of getting struck this is why many people plant pine trees since the duration is over 2 days for them to grow. Tree's have These stages:
Small Sapling> Sapling> Young Tree> Mature Tree> Old Tree
The first 3 evolution stages can give you a thunderstruck tree. Standing near a tree as it gets thunderstruck is dangerous and fatal to health. If you know the time in which each evolution happens you can watch the tree's turn.
Thunderstruck tree's look like a dead burnt tree that doesn't mean they are still on fire from the picture above you can see a pine sapling that was hit by lightning. In Korea there's a cash shop item which increases the chance in which getting a thunderstruck tree can happen but this item so far isn't being added to the North American server.
The place tree's are planted for thunderstruck doesn't matter the more tree's the more chance one might get struck. Trees planted in the proper climate grow faster meaning different evolution times. Tree's outside of the proper location will grow at a slower rate and the times will be effected by that.
I have not seen any fruit tree's get thunderstruck if anyone confirms otherwise please let me know. As for tree's evolution phases. I'm still doing research on the times that tree's evolve so if you have any information on this for different types of tree's please share it and I'll update the topic as more information is found.
