Endless Snow

• A Minecraft plugin to allow endless snow pile-up and persistent storms
  • Supporting datapack adds a winter world preset to only generate snow biomes, allowing snow everywhere
  • Supports Spigot 1.21.11
• Don't use this on worlds you care about
  • There's nothing intrinsically destructive about this, but it's easy to accidentally bury a snow biome over time
  • I'd recommend creating a fresh winter world, then backup regularly
• This won't work on any 8 layer deep snow 'blocks' created while deep snow is disabled

Datapack:

• Optionally, the frozen biomes datapack can be used
  • It adds winter-base and winter-full world presets that only include snowy biomes
• The plugin works without the datapack, this is only for optional world generation to allow snow everywhere
• It must be installed before world generation, and used as the world preset
  • For servers, set level-type to winter-base or winter-full in server.properties
• winter-base sets the entire world to a frozen river
• winter-full includes all snowy biomes, but is more likely to have versioning issues

Building (datapack):

• Requires python3 and zip
• Use ./datapack.sh to build the datapack to target/
  • By default, this will only build winter-base
  • Use ./datapack full to download biome data and include winter-full
    • This also requires wget

Installation:

• Use mvn package to compile the plugin to target/
  • Alternatively, download a release
• See Building to build the datapack
  • Alternatively, download a release (frozenBiomes.zip)
• Copy the plugin and (optionally) the datapack to your server
  • If the datapack is used, set level-type to winter-base or winter-full in server.properties
  • This will only take effect when a new world is generated, with the datapack

Usage:

Deep snow:

• Use /deepsnow to check deep snow status
• Use /deepsnow on to enable deep snow
• Use /deepsnow off to disable deep snow

Persistent storm:

• Use /persistentstorm to check the persistent storm's status
• Use /persistentstorm on to enable the persistent storm
• Use /persistentstorm off to disable the persistent storm

Config:

• deepSnow: [true (default) / false] - Enable deep snow when the server starts
• persistentStorm: [true / false (default)] - Start a persistent storm when the server starts
• allowLeafAccumulation: [true / false (default)] - Allow deep snow accumulation on natural leaves
• snowPlacementReduction: >= 1.0 (default) - Reduce snow placement rate by a double
  • 2.0 would halve the snow placement rate

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