Winter
Snow blankets the land and the nights grow long. Stay warm: the cold bites anyone left outside.
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❄️ Winter
Snow blankets the land and the nights grow long. Stay warm: the cold bites anyone left outside.
How it looks?
- Leaves and grass turn white: four different whites (pure white, icy blue, silver and frosty mint) mixed across the land, so a winter forest never looks flat.
- Real snow settles around players and water freezes (
snow.yml). Only what SamsSeasons placed melts again in spring; natural snow and player builds are never touched. - Snow drifts down from branches and falls from the sky.
- The aurora shimmers over the horizon on clear nights.
- Rain falls as snow; the winter wind blows.
Weather and time
- Snow on about 40% of days, thunderstorms almost never.
- Long nights: the winter day passes up to 70% faster.
Temperature
- Cold: about -8 °C to -11 °C on top of the biome.
- Below 0 °C players breathe out little clouds. In the cold band they shiver now and then.
- In the freezing band (below -1 °C) frost creeps over the screen and, once fully frozen, it hurts like powder snow. Leather armour protects, as in vanilla. Fires, shelter, warm clothes and hot soups help.
Farming and animals
- Most crops stop growing outdoors: field crops 0-20%, pumpkins and melons not at all.
- Greenhouses: a crop with glass above it always grows at least at 85%, so players can farm through the winter.
- Animals breed less (40-60%) and need twice as long between breeding. Bees and frogs don't breed at all; wolves don't care.
- Wolves, foxes and polar bears roam the snow.
- Skeletons under the open sky often appear as strays (up to 70%); more zombies, fewer spiders.
Fishing
- Fish bite 30% slower: cold water. Special catches: Frost Cod and Ice Pearl.
Festivals
- Frost Fair on day 5. Christmas (24 December, from the morning) and New Year (31 December, from the night) follow the real-world date.