Hoarfrost: Snow & Blizzards

Hoarfrost: Snow & Blizzards

Cosy, realistic snowy weather – seven kinds of snowfall and blizzard, flakes carried by a living wind, soft snow
settling on the land and a quiet winter soundscape.

📦 Requires NeoForge 1.21.1 or Forge 1.20.1 · works on the client alone, on the server too for shared
snow and real drifts

✨ Features

• ❄️ Seven kinds of snow – light snow, snow, heavy snow, large flakes, light blizzard, blizzard and a whiteout heavy
  blizzard, each with its own flakes, wind, haze and sound, gliding into each other. In snowy land it snows under a
  clear sky too, with a clear spell now and then.
• 🌬️ A living wind – turns, gusts and lulls, rises over hills and walls, is calm behind them and barely reaches
  under roofs; flakes, crystals, clumps and grains drift with it.
• 🏔️ Soft snow on the ground – one smooth cover on land, roofs and crowns, with drifts in the lee, wind-swept ridges
  and caps on fence posts; out to the render distance, melting near lamps.
• 💨 Snow with physics – wind charges, explosions, gusts and running feet blow up powder; footprints that depend on
  the ground (a rim of snow on soil, crisp prints on stone, slips that sweep the ice bare) and trodden paths that fresh
  snow fills again.
• 🌫️ Storms with volume – clouds of snow rolling over the land, a bright overcast sky and a blue-grey haze, never
  indoors or underground.
• 🌲 Snow on the trees – green leaves with a cap of snow on the crowns that falls off when you brush, bump or break
  them, and real snow drifts piling up when the mod is on the server.
• 🔇 A quiet winter soundscape – the hush of falling snow, wind growing to a howl, muffled indoors, footsteps
  crunching and squeaking.

🤝 Compatibility

✅ Pocky Shaders (shader pack) – a shader pack that shows Hoarfrost’s snow: blizzards stay bright, and the haze closes in with the storm’s visibility and gusts.

✅ Petrichor: Rain & Storms (optional) – Petrichor draws the rain, Hoarfrost the snow, both blown by the same wind.

✅ Distant Horizons (optional) – the snowy haze covers the distant land too, and far snowy trees stay white.

✅ Serene Seasons (optional) – snow falls and lies where the season makes it cold; deep winter brings blizzards.

✅ Iris (shader packs) – flakes and the snow cover take on the pack’s look and lighting.

✅ Sodium – works, snowy leaves included.

✅ Sound Physics Remastered (optional) – the hush of falling snow lets Sound Physics do the muffling.

✅ Sable (optional) – snow lands on the roofs of flying houses and airships and no longer drifts through their walls.

✅ LambDynamicLights (optional) – a torch in hand or a glowing mob lights up the snow around it like the ground.

✅ Particle Rain (optional) – Hoarfrost draws the snow, Particle Rain the rain, sand and fog, all in the same wind.

✅ Living Wind (optional) – the snow flies and drifts the way its wind vanes point, and a soft snowfall or a blizzard blows harder or softer with its wind.

⚙️ Configuration

Mods > Hoarfrost > Config: a quality preset and a switch for every effect. Per world: chances of each kind of snow,
seasons and drifts. Operators can force the weather with /hoarfrost weather <kind>.

📸 Screenshots

Steady snowfall in a snowy taiga

Light snow under a clear winter sky

💛 Credits

Made by Pocky · source code · sounds: CC0 field recordings from
Freesound, authors listed in the README.

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