Kinda Winter Mode

Kinda Winter Mode is a world generation datapack that transform your vanilla world into a snowy, icey and winter theme world by setting all non-cold biomes, oceans and caves’ temperature to 0.0.

Inspired by the short-lived Alpha version’s Winter Mode, this time on modern Minecraft version! (26.*+)

Features:

• Snow everywhere!
• Frozen surface water!
• Moody atmosphere!
• Teal-tinted grass and foliage!
• Absolutely no other gameplay changes (hopefully)

Compatibility

Compatible with any structures datapacks

Incompatible with datapacks or mods that overrides vanilla biomes generation. Ex: Geophilic

Recommended!

• Snow by IMB11
• Better Snow Coverage by ToBinio
• Snow Under Trees by bl4ckscor3

Dislike the boring teal hue being everywhere?

Check out Kinda Winter Mode – Vanilla Foliage!

DO NOT RUN WITH THOSE DATAPACKS TOGETHER, for they both replace vanilla world generation

Extra

• Want more snow pilling up your world?

Try “/gamerule max_snow_accumulation_height <value>“! ( can go 0 to 8, default is 1)

Note: Going higher than 1 might destroy your CPU because of how Java checks for each individual blocks in simluated chunks for accumlated snow ticks

• Want eternal snowy weather?

Do “ /weather rain ` or ` /weather thunder `<br>
Then Disable weather cycle using ` /gamerule advance_weather false “

• Don’t want frozen ocean/lake/river?

Remove .json file of the corresponded biome in “data\minecraft\worldgen\biome“ inside the datapack

• Adding (and removing) the datapack to existing world/map

Notes: Remember to back up/make a copy of your world!

Open “saves` folder of your Minecraft instance, find your world, put the datapack in your `datapacks` folder. Afterwards, launch the game and enter your world, type `/datapack enable <name of the pack>`, then rejoin your world. There's no snow on ground yet, but there will be when it start snowing. If there still isn't any snow, make sure the `random_tick_speed` gamerule of your world isn't set to `0` (the default is `3“). You can increase it for faster snow piling up during snowy weather, but it also affects plant growth and leaf decay, so be careful on the world you are doing!). And enjoy the winter!

If you’re tired of “winter mode”, you can use “/datapack disable` and delete the datapack from the `datapacks` folder, then rejoin your world. (Disabling it should theoretically be safe, as my datapack only modify vanilla biomes temperature, precipitation and foliage colours. Disabling it would revert them to vanilla biome rules). But the snow on the ground won't melt naturally, so have fun cleaning them up! (or you can just use `/fill“ command)