Lightning Arrow? - Commands, Command Blocks And Functions

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I was testing out this really fun command:

/execute at @e[type=arrow] run summon lightning_bolt.

It was really fun, summoning an entire line of lightning bolts, one after another, but what if I would only like to have the lightning strike after the arrow has hit something (like a block, not a mob), and I would only want lightning to strike an x amount of times.

There is this code that looks appealing, but I don't know how to use it.

/testfor @e[type=Arrow] {inGround:1b,player:1b}

Is there a way to do this? For example, I were to shoot an arrow, and lightning were to NOT be summoned yet, and when the arrow hits a block/player, I would want it to summon lightning 5 times, and make the arrow disappear, how would I write it in a command block/chain of command blocks?

Also, preferably, I would like to have only the arrows shot from a bow named (let's say it's named "text"), to be affected by this command. So that's another problem I have to deal with.

Thanks for helping me, (if you did)!

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You cant use 1.12 commands for 1.13+ commands.

If you want to summon arrows that summon lightning on the ground:

To detect the person shooting from the bow, it is a bit harder, as you need to detect the person shooting the bow and then apply a custom tag to the arrow for which you detect in the summon lightning command

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Another really fun thing to do is replace the lightning with tnt.

In case you didn't know, in Minecraft java when you summon tnt it is just the explosion, not the actual block.

When you shoot it, the tnt propels the arrow forward dealing insane damage.

This is because Minecraft judges the damage an arrow makes based on speed not the bow charge.