Windy

Windy

Wind you can see. One wind blows over the whole world: its direction veers, its strength rises and falls, and now and then it gathers into a gust. A second system puts drifting motes into the air of many biomes, also when it is calm. Client side only.

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The wind

• Stripes: long ribbons that run downwind and follow the ground over hills.
• Motes tumble in the current wherever the wind reaches. Pale wisps streak past during a gust.
• Leaves are torn off treetops in the tree’s own colour: cherry stays pink, birch stays birch.
• Snow blows near-horizontal where it snows, and dust lifts off sand in hot, dry biomes.

Biome air

• Fireflies over swamps and forests after dark, pollen through jungles and lush caves by day.
• Heat dust across deserts, badlands and savannas, embers in the Nether, snow sparkle in cold biomes, petals in cherry groves.
• The effect is picked from the biome’s name and temperature, so modded jungles, swamps, deserts and cold biomes get one too.
• Motes fade in rain and thin out where you cannot see the sky.

Settings

• The wind and the biome air each have a switch and a strength, and every effect has its own toggle.
• /windy gust starts a gust at once, /windy calm ends it, /windy status reports the wind.
• The particles follow the vanilla particle setting: half on Decreased, none on Minimal.
• NeoForge: Mods, Windy, Config. Forge 1.20.1: config/windy-client.toml. Fabric: config/windy.json, read at startup.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge or Fabric, Java 17), 1.21.1 (NeoForge or Fabric, Java 21) or 26.2 (NeoForge or Fabric, Java 25). Fabric needs Fabric API. Client only: it works on any server, and under Sodium and Iris shader packs.

This mod has been abandoned. It works fine, but it will not receive updates.

NeoForge 1.21.1 and 26.2, Forge 1.20.1, Fabric 1.20.1, 1.21.1 and 26.2. Client only. Free to use in modpacks.