A full realistic weather system.

[jagged oar]

pretty self explanatory,
when a world is generated, its seed would be scanned for,

• large bodies of water
• mountains
• dry and snowy biomes
  which then would then be used for the generation of, in that same order, rain clouds, places clouds should be repelled by, places where it should never/rarely rain (desert, savanna) rain and places where the rain would transition to snow

of course all this sounds way overboard and super heavy on the cpu and the game in general, doing weather simulations for like
30x30 million blocks?, but like most things, could be optimized

• the weather could first off, simply not interact with the terrain (for example thunder and lightning) in chunks not loaded

• the whole weather system could calculate a dynamically updating "active area" based on player generated chunks, imagine selecting the chunks the players have explored, drawing an outline around it all, and increasing it's size by like 20% to avoid clouds being cut off on borders

^ this could either be server side or client sided

both could work

keyword could

[quaint rover]

server side tbh

also aren't there mods for that?

at least I remember that having mod like that on server the weather wasn't synced between client and server

[jagged oar]

that one old mod with the tornados

that's just a random even whenever

around the player

not actual weather

[quaint rover]

there is new one

at least it was for 1.19.2

enhanced weather I think

[jagged oar]

nope it's just the same system

but with a different person recreating the weather 2 mod and with different textures

[quaint rover]

I played with both

and for me they are different in how they behave

[ashen gust]

In general it’s the same, I think what they means is completely random & w different weather events

[jagged oar]

completely random and not based on the position of the player

[bold atlas]

I mean it doesn’t need to go to that exact level, I feel this is something that needs less of a simulation and more of a good approximation

Kinda use the surrounding area and biomes to determine how the weather should behave and some factors about the biome and area can change things, though this system really wouldn’t pair well with how default biome generation is, cus sometimes that is pretty wacky

Honestly I can see a way this could be done, though my Minecraft modding knowledge isn’t enough to actually determine if it is reasonable

[jagged oar]

quite literally

that's why I mentioned mapping out bodies of water in a non performance impacting way

[bold atlas]

Biome checking is the quick and easy way

There is most likely a way to do that without actually generating the chunk

[jagged oar]

plains biome with a huge lake vs plains biome without :

[bold atlas]

I don’t think the lakes get big enough to really consider that anymore

Usually aside from those small lakes, biomes are at play because that lets fish spawn and stuff

[signal peak]

Physics tornadoes confirmed?? 😮

[candid wadi]

No because the mod creator refuses to make any server sided mods which in my opinion really stupid
But for now if you want that you would have to go back a few versions to use a weather mod

Same thing for most realistic mods outside of the physics mod because they are all unupdated

Which give haunba a insane amount opportunity
Considering if they were to add these features the mod could possibly get even more downloads or blow up even more than it already has just due to people needing or wanting these specific features and finding out the physics mod exists

[candid wadi]

Anyways back on topic if the physics tornado gets added then it’s probably just gonna be visual :/ and I doubt they would ever add a visual tornado because that’s just stupid

And it’s honestly sad that we won’t ever see something that cool get added if I’m being honest

[hidden phoenix]

Not really for this mod, but a relative weather system. Like it's raining someplace, but 1000 or so blocks away it's not

[novel warren]

It would be nice if there was an add on mod made for physics that adds weather systems and if people want weather systems then they can download the add on mod

[faint beacon]

Weather2 mod?

[hidden phoenix]

No, just normal minecraft weather but relative

[faint beacon]

You can do that with Weather 2 though. As far as I know you can configure to turn off the tornadoes and stuff. Then you are left with localized weather

[hidden phoenix]

oh, cool

[jagged oar]

would you call it relative really..?

rather global

relative to player weather is what previous weather mods have been doing

[hidden phoenix]

?

[candid wadi]

Doubt there are many weather mods that work for 1.19 or 1.20 though 😭

[jagged oar]

"previous"

[candid wadi]

Oh mb

Still though that gives more reason to add weather features

[jagged oar]

i mean all previous version with that

[jagged oar]

yea

and the mod already has a weather tab

and it does fall under physics

the physics of water percipitation

[candid wadi]

Yup