RealisticSeasons

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)