Billow – Realistic & Rounded Clouds

Billow

Better clouds for Minecraft. Pick a cloud style: soft rounded clouds, realistic puffy cumulus, or a sky full of
creeper heads, hearts and ghasts. Move the clouds up or down, make them thicker, slower or more see-through.

Billow is a small client-side mod for Minecraft on Fabric, NeoForge and Forge, compatible with Mod Menu on Fabric.

Supported versions: Fabric 1.20 to 26.3, NeoForge 1.20.4 to 26.3, Forge 1.20.1.

Cloud styles

• Rounded (default) – vanilla’s cloud layout with soft rounded edges and corners, so every cloud reads as one
  smooth shape instead of a stack of boxes. Resource packs that change clouds.png change these clouds too.
• Realistic – soft, wispy clouds made of gas instead of solid shapes, with slowly swirling wisps and edges that
  fade into the sky. Thick clouds pile up higher in the middle and have greyer bases. Coverage sets how cloudy the
  sky is. This style asks the most of your graphics card.
• Shapes – clouds shaped like creeper heads, hearts, smileys, stars, swords, diamonds, ghasts, pigs, cats, fish
  and mushrooms, scattered between regular clouds or on their own.
• Vanilla – the game’s own clouds. Height, speed and opacity still apply.

Features

• Smooth, not stuttery – clouds are built in the background and drift without being rebuilt, so the sky never
  flickers or shows holes while you play.
• Far-reaching skies – clouds stretch out to your Cloud Distance setting (on older versions, four times your
  render distance) and fade softly at the edge instead of ending in a hard line.
• Day and night – clouds darken and tint with the time of day and the weather, just like vanilla clouds.
• Client-side only – nothing to install on a server, works in singleplayer and on any server.

Install

Fabric

1. Install Fabric Loader for your version of Minecraft.
2. Put Fabric API and the Fabric Billow jar for your version in your mods
   folder.
3. Start the game.

Optional: add Mod Menu to get a settings screen (Mods > Billow > Configure).

NeoForge

1. Install NeoForge for your version of Minecraft.
2. Put the NeoForge Billow jar in your mods folder.
3. Start the game. Settings are under Mods > Billow > Config.

Forge (1.20.1)

1. Install Forge for Minecraft 1.20.1.
2. Put the Forge Billow jar in your mods folder.
3. Start the game. Settings are under Mods > Billow > Config.

Settings

Settings are saved in config/billow.json. The vanilla Clouds video setting still decides whether clouds show.

License

MIT