Celestial Showers

Celestial Showers

Celestial Showers is a lightweight, vanilla-friendly night-sky mod that adds shooting stars, slow-moving comets, meteor showers, and a few useful discoveries waiting below.

Celestial Showers is inspired by my own experiences watching shooting stars and meteor showers in real life.

Make a wish, watch the sky through a spyglass, follow a falling meteorite, and bring a little starlight home.

With mountaintop Stargazer Camps, a personal skywatch journal, and glowing decorations, Celestial Showers fits naturally into survival, exploration, and vanilla+ worlds.

Version 0.7.4 Beta

Version 0.7.4 adds Reduced Flashes for softer bright effects and Sky Events: Rare for quieter nights. Meteorite landings have their own frequency setting.

The reusable Star Chart, glowing Stardust Blocks, and existing skywatching features are all here too!

Available now: NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1, 26.2, and 26.3, and Fabric for Minecraft 1.21.1! Fabric also requires Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.1.

Coming soon: More Fabric versions!

Features

Shooting stars and comets: Watch bright trails cross clear night skies, including rare blue-and-gold comets.

Rare sky event: A special, rare event for lucky skywatchers.

Make a wish: Look toward a shooting star or comet and right-click with an empty main hand for temporary Luck. Each player can make one successful wish per night.

Meteor showers: Enjoy streaks of light overhead. Choose how many particles you see and whether you want event alerts.

Meteorite discoveries: Meteorites can land nearby, leaving Meteorite Blocks you can mine for Stardust. Their frequency can be adjusted separately from sky events.

Useful Stardust: Use Stardust under open sky at night for useful effects (like Night Vision and Luck!), or save it for crafting.

Star Lanterns and Stardust Blocks: Bring a little starlight into your builds with glowing storage blocks and celestial lanterns.

Star Chart and skywatch journal: Check the forecast, record observations with a spyglass, and work toward skywatching advancements.

Stargazer Camps: Discover small mountaintop ruins while exploring new terrain. Cartographers can also offer maps to help you find them.

Easy configuration: Adjust event frequency, meteorite damage, and visual effects to suit your world. Choose Sky Events: Rare for quieter nights or Reduced Flashes for softer bright effects. Each player can choose their own visual settings in multiplayer.

How It Works

Head outside on a clear night under open sky and look up! When a shooting star or comet passes, look toward its path and right-click with an empty main hand to make a wish.

Bring a spyglass to watch the sky and fill out your journal. Craft a Star Chart with three paper, one Stardust, and one compass to keep your forecast and journal close at hand. Right-click to read the forecast in chat, or sneak and right-click to read your journal. You can reuse the chart as often as you like.

If a meteorite lands nearby, mine it for Stardust. Combine one Stardust and one vanilla lantern to craft a Star Lantern, or craft nine Stardust into a Stardust Block. You can turn the block back into all nine Stardust whenever you need them.

For a longer trip, explore the mountains for a Stargazer Camp and a new place to watch the night sky.

Configuration for Players and Modpack Authors

Adjust sky event and meteorite frequency, toggle comets and Stardust blessings, and choose how many particles you see. Sky Events: Rare reduces sky activity without changing physical meteorite frequency.

Reduced Flashes softens bright cores and trails and replaces meteor impact flashes and flames with gentler effects. It works separately from Visual Density. Neither setting changes event timing, rewards, or damage.

NeoForge: Open the mod’s settings from the Mods menu.

Fabric: Use /celestialconfig to open the settings. Server owners can also edit the server config file and restart the server to apply changes.

A few handy commands:

• /celestialshowers forecast to check the sky forecast.
• /celestialshowers journal to read your skywatch journal.
• /celestialshowers alerts off, /celestialshowers alerts chat, or /celestialshowers alerts actionbar to choose where alerts appear. Alerts start turned off.

Want gentler meteorites? Turn Meteor Impact Damage off to prevent small craters and damage to nearby players and mobs. Meteorites can still leave a block to collect. Set Meteorite Impact Frequency to Off to stop natural landings while keeping sky shows.

Land-claim mods aren’t directly supported (yet), so turn off physical impacts if you need to keep claimed builds safe.

FAQ

Which Minecraft versions and loaders are available?

Version 0.7.4 Beta is available for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1, 26.2, and 26.3, and Fabric on Minecraft 1.21.1. More Fabric versions are coming soon! Choose the file matching your Minecraft version and loader.

Does it need any dependencies?

NeoForge: No additional mods are required.

Fabric: Install Fabric API for Minecraft 1.21.1 alongside Celestial Showers.

Both Minecraft 1.21.1 builds require Java 21. The Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3 builds require Java 25.

Does it need to be installed on both client and server?

Yes! For multiplayer, the server and every player need the matching version of Celestial Showers installed.

Will meteor showers damage my world?

The sky shows won’t damage anything. Meteorites that land can cause small craters and nearby damage when enabled. You can turn off their damage or stop natural landings in the settings.

Can I use this in an existing world?

Yes! Sky events and meteorites can appear in existing worlds. To find Stargazer Camps, explore new areas that haven’t been generated yet.

Keep a world backup when trying this mod with an existing world.

Does the Star Chart open a menu?

In 0.7.4, the Star Chart displays the forecast and your journal in chat.

Can I use this in a modpack?

Yes! Feel free to include it in your modpack and adjust the settings and config to fit your world/modpack.

Beta Notes and Compatibility

Version 0.7.4 is still a beta. Large modpacks haven’t been fully tested. Only some shaders and texture packs have been tested.

Feedback and Bug Reports

Found a bug or have an idea? Please include your Minecraft version, loader, and Celestial Showers version, along with a quick description of what happened. A log or screenshot helps too!

Feedback is always appreciated. <3 -Parzival000