📖About RealisticSeasons

RealisticSeasons

Name: Minecraft Server Plugins Directory
Keywords: Minecraft plugins, server plugins, Spigot plugins, Paper plugins, Bukkit plugins, best server plugins

RealisticSeasons brings a complete seasonal simulation system to your Paper/Spigot server with world-specific progression and gameplay impact.

Core Features

4-season cycle: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
Configurable season duration and transition duration
Smooth transition blending between seasons
Per-world season tracking and persistence
Pause/resume/skip/manual controls

Weather System

Seasonal weather patterns with configurable chance values
Dynamic weather duration windows
Winter precipitation behavior with cold-biome snow handling
Thunder pattern variation by season

Temperature Mechanics

Formula-based temperature model using:
- season baseline
- biome factor
- time-of-day adjustment
- altitude penalty
Action bar temperature display with color coding
Toggle command per player
Extreme cold/heat effects and penalties

Crop & Farming Behavior

Seasonal growth multipliers:
- Spring: growth boost
- Summer: growth boost with water dependence
- Fall: normal growth + harvest bonus chance
- Winter: strong growth penalty and indoor/warm-biome checks
Mature crop bonus drops in Fall chance logic

Seasonal Mob Control

Seasonal passive/hostile balancing logic
Spring passive boosts and rabbit increase
Summer night hostile pressure and desert husk conversion chance
Fall wolf/spider boosts
Winter passive reduction and cold skeleton-to-stray replacement

Visual Effects

Spring nature particles
Summer heat shimmer style particles
Fall leaves simulation particles
Winter snow/cold breath effects in cold areas
Winter night aurora-style sky particles
Async scheduled particle pipeline to reduce load spikes

Commands

/seasons info
/seasons set <spring|summer|fall|winter>
/seasons skip
/seasons pause
/seasons resume
/seasons temp toggle
/seasons admin reload
/seasons admin setworld <world> <season>
/seasons admin event <start|stop>

Permission

realisticseasons.admin

Data

plugins/RealisticSeasons/seasons.yml stores per-world season state and event flags.

Requirements

Java 17+
Paper/Spigot-compatible server (loaders listed on this page)