LocalizedWeather

Localized Weather

A Fabric mod that replaces Minecraft's global weather system with per-zone localized weather. Rain, snow, hail, and thunderstorms happen independently across the world, with smooth transitions at zone boundaries and Minecraft-style storm clouds.

Loader Support

• Fabric — primary supported loader.
• Quilt — supported with native Quilt metadata and Fabric API compatibility. Install Fabric API or Quilted Fabric API in the Quilt instance.
• NeoForge — an isolated 1.21.11 NeoForge workspace now lives in neoforge/README.md. It validates the native loader entrypoint and metadata, but it is not a release artifact until the Fabric event, networking, client, and mixin integrations are ported.

Features

• Localized weather zones — 256×256 block zones each have their own weather state
• Biome-aware rules — deserts stay dry, snowy biomes get snow, etc.
• Hailstorms — occasional icy hail squalls with custom falling hail particles
• Smooth transitions — rain/fog/sky color blend seamlessly across zone boundaries
• Storm clouds — blocky, Minecraft-style 3D cloud layers appear over storm zones, visible from a distance
• Directional darkening — sky, fog, and clouds darken toward approaching storms
• Vanilla cloud rendering — localized rain gradients drive Minecraft's own blocky clouds without a cloud renderer dependency, keeping the mod compatible with renderer mods such as VulkanMod

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.9+
• Fabric Loader 0.19.2+ or Quilt Loader 0.19.2+
• Fabric API, or Quilted Fabric API when using Quilt

Optional Dependencies

• Mod Menu — in-game mod configuration

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader or Quilt Loader, plus Fabric API
2. Drop the mod jar into your mods folder
3. Launch the game

How It Works

Weather happens automatically — no commands needed. Each 256×256 block zone rolls its own weather independently:

• Clear skies last 10 minutes to 2.5 hours before a chance of weather
• Rain, hail, and storms last 10–20 minutes before clearing
• Biome rules kick in automatically — deserts stay dry, cold biomes get snow instead of rain
• Transitions blend smoothly over 20 seconds at zone boundaries
• Storm clouds appear as blocky 3D cloud layers over rainy/stormy zones, visible from far away

Just install and play — the weather will do its thing.

Credits

Idea by Mr. Random on Discord.

License

MIT