Where Winds Blow

Where Winds Blow adds a visible, weather-driven wind system and denser Vanilla+ foliage. Wind changes with the biome, weather, altitude, and nearby shelter, then drives atmospheric effects across the world without pushing entities or replacing vanilla terrain.

Client-only friendly: Install it on the client for visual wind and weather effects without requiring a server-side installation. For multiplayer with WWB blocks and world generation, install it on the server and connecting clients.

What It Adds

| Feature | What it does |
|—|—|
| Dynamic wind | Creates smooth direction changes, gust fronts, calm lulls, and turbulence shaped by the biome, weather, altitude, and surrounding terrain |
| Responsive foliage | Makes grass, crops, flowers, and leaves sway; nearby movement, projectiles, lightning, and explosions can disturb plants locally |
| Visible air movement | Sends pale wind streaks and biome-tinted drifting leaves through the world, following the wind and reacting to terrain |
| Atmospheric weather | Slants rain with the wind and gives snow drifting, fluttering movement as weather strength changes |
| Reactive world details | Bends campfire smoke into wind-shaped plumes and moves banners, hanging signs, lanterns, and chains with the same wind |
| Vanilla+ world generation | Adds flat, dry, dead, overgrown, and wild-wheat grass variants to create denser biome coverage and softer transitions |
| Customization | Provides an in-game visual config plus datapack control over grass placement and biome-specific wind profiles |

Compatibility

• The standard renderer and Sodium support the complete feature set.
• Iris has full support while no shader pack is active.
• With an Iris shader pack active, weather, streaks, leaves, smoke, banners, signs, world generation, and local plant interaction remain available. Foliage sway, wind sheen, and lantern/chain sway are disabled to avoid terrain-shader conflicts.

Where Winds Blow is incompatible with Chunks Fade In because both mods alter terrain shader rendering.

See the datapack guide for more information.

Modpacks

You may use this mod in modpacks, videos, servers, and other projects. A link back to the Modrinth page is appreciated.

Credits

Created by me 😀

License

All Rights Reserved.

Feel free to use this mod in modpacks, videos, etc. Just provide a link back to this page if possible 🙂

Please don’t port this mod without express permission from me.

For any general queries/unlisted questions, DM me on Twitter (@prodbyjvn) / Discord (ijvn).