Seasons & Extreme Weather
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Now with EF0-EF5 tornadoes, real floods that wash away buildings, tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires and hailstorms on top of four seasons and blizzards. Survive it all with shelters, high ground and a live HUD.
Seasons & Extreme Weather
Survive the weather. Master the seasons. Outlast the disasters.
The world is not safe anymore. Deserts burn you, tundras freeze you, blizzards and dust storms swallow the horizon, and winter kills your crops. Now tornadoes rated EF0 to EF5, real floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and wildfires can tear apart what you build. Watch the sky, listen for the warnings, and get to shelter. 🌪️🌊🔥❄️
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NEW in v1.1: The Disasters Update 🌪️
- Tornadoes EF0 to EF5: six ratings and six tornado types, from a thin rope to a mile-wide wedge
- Real floods: rivers overflow, the water rises block by block and washes away crops, fences and even wooden houses
- Tsunamis: a giant wave rolls in from the ocean, with a warning and a safe-height guide
- Earthquakes: camera shake, cracking blocks, aftershocks, and a chance of a tsunami near the coast
- Hailstorms, wildfires, extra lightning, heat waves and cold snaps
- Disaster warnings in chat and on the HUD
- Owner settings: turn block damage off, change how often disasters happen, or turn them off
Features
- Body temperature that reacts to biome, time of day, season, shelter, gear and heat sources
- Hot biomes (Desert, Badlands, Nether) and cold biomes (Snowy, Frozen, Ice, Jagged Peaks) with different dangers
- Blizzards and dust storms with custom fog and particles
- Four seasons with seasonal farming and greenhouses
- Six kinds of disasters, all random and based on the season
- Warnings with distance, direction and safe-height guidance
- A live HUD that always shows what is going on
- Works in survival, multiplayer and custom worlds
- Easy to edit: every number is in a config file
The live HUD 📟
A status line is always shown above your hotbar:
[ Winter | Blizzard | Temperature: Freezing ]
[ Spring | Tornado EF3 | Temperature: Comfortable ]It shows the current season, the condition where you stand (Hot, Cold, Wet, Temperate, Blizzard, Sandstorm, Flood Risk, Nether Heat, Heat Wave, Cold Snap, or an active disaster like Tornado, Flood, Tsunami, Hailstorm or Wildfire) and your temperature status. Hide it any time with:
/tag @s add seasons:hud_offShow it again with /tag @s remove seasons:hud_off.
Disasters 🌪️🌊
Disasters start at random, and the odds depend on the season. Every disaster warns you first. Disasters never hurt Creative players. Terrain (dirt, stone, sand, ores, water) and bedrock are never destroyed, so your world keeps its shape.
Tornadoes 🌪️
| Rating | Type | Wind speed | What it destroys |
|---|---|---|---|
| EF0 | Rope | 65-85 mph | Plants, crops, torches |
| EF1 | Funnel | 86-110 mph | Leaves, glass, signs, lanterns |
| EF2 | Cone | 111-135 mph | Wooden planks, doors, fences, wool |
| EF3 | Multi-Vortex | 136-165 mph | Logs, furnaces, terracotta, iron bars |
| EF4 | Wedge | 166-200 mph | Bricks, cobblestone, concrete, polished stone |
| EF5 | Mega Wedge | 200+ mph | Almost everything |
A tornado destroys every block that is no stronger than its rating. Weak tornadoes are common, and EF5 is very rare. A tornado wanders across the land and drifts toward nearby players. Everything inside the funnel is dragged around, thrown up into the air and hurt, and the stronger the tornado, the harder the hits.
Shelter:
- EF0 to EF2: being under a roof keeps you safe.
- EF3 and EF4: a roof is not enough. You need to be underground.
- EF5: nothing protects you. Run, or stay far away.
The higher the rating, the wider and taller the funnel. EF3 and above are multi-vortex, with smaller vortices spinning inside the main one. The tornado speeds up with its rating, but even an EF5 is a bit slower than a sprinting player, so run perpendicular to its path.
Floods 🌊
When it rains, rivers and lakes can overflow. There are four sizes:
| Size | Water rises | Washes away |
|---|---|---|
| Minor | 2 blocks | Crops and plants |
| Moderate | 3 blocks | + leaves, glass, signs |
| Major | 4 blocks | + wooden buildings |
| Catastrophic | 6 blocks | + log cabins and heavy wood |
The water spreads out from the river and rises block by block, deepest next to the river and thinner farther away. It only fills low ground, flows around walls and into any building it can break. Climb to a hill or a high roof, and stay away from the river. When the flood ends, the water drains away on its own.
Light rain in wet biomes (rivers and swamps) still turns nearby dirt into mud for a while.
Tsunamis 🌊
Near a big ocean, a tsunami can roll in. It is usually started by an earthquake, but it can also happen on its own.
| Size | Wave height | Travels inland | Destroys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 4 blocks | 60 blocks | Wood and weaker |
| Large | 7 blocks | 100 blocks | + logs |
| Huge | 11 blocks | 150 blocks | + bricks, stone and concrete |
| Mega | 15 blocks | 220 blocks | Almost everything |
You get about 40 seconds of warning, with a countdown in chat and a message telling you the safe height, for example Get above Y=70 or 100+ blocks inland. The wave is a moving wall of water that gets lower the farther it travels. Anything in the wave is pushed inland and hurt, and drowning is a real danger. When the wave has passed, the land is dry again, but whatever it destroyed stays destroyed.
Earthquakes 🌍
The screen shakes and weak blocks crack and fall apart around you. There are four sizes: Minor, Moderate, Strong and Major. Moderate and bigger quakes slow you down while the ground shakes. Strong and Major quakes cause aftershocks, and when you are near the sea, they can start a tsunami. Stay away from tall buildings and cliffs.
Hailstorms ☄️
During thunderstorms, hail can fall. If you are outside, it hurts, and larger hailstorms break glass. Any helmet reduces the damage, and a roof stops it completely.
Wildfires 🔥
On hot, dry days, a fire can start in a forest or grassland. It spreads with the wind through leaves, wood, grass and wool. Rain puts it out. Stay upwind and keep water close.
Thunderstorm lightning ⚡
In thunderstorms, lightning strikes near players much more often than normal. Stay under a roof and away from trees.
Heat waves and cold snaps 🌡️
For several minutes, temperatures get much worse: a heat wave makes everything hotter (most common in summer), and a cold snap makes everything colder (most common in winter). Plan your gear, water and campfires.
Temperature system 🌡️
Your body temperature runs from -100 to 100 and slowly moves toward the temperature around you. It changes by up to 5 points every 2 seconds, so you get time to react.
| Status | What happens |
|---|---|
| Comfortable | Nothing, you're fine |
| Warm | Nothing yet, but you're heating up |
| Hot | Slowness and Hunger |
| Overheating | Stronger Slowness and Hunger, then burning damage |
| Cool | Nothing yet, but you're cooling down |
| Cold | Slowness and a light frost overlay |
| Freezing | Stronger Slowness, a heavy frost overlay, then freezing damage |
Damage only starts after about 6 seconds in a critical state, so you always get a warning. Fire Resistance protects you from overheating damage.
What changes your temperature
| Factor | Effect |
|---|---|
| Biome | Deserts and badlands are scorching at noon, cold biomes are freezing all day |
| Time of day | Deserts get chilly at night, cold biomes get even colder |
| Season | Summer heats everything up, winter cools everything down |
| Storms and events | Blizzards, heat waves and cold snaps push temperatures further |
| Shelter | Under a roof, extremes are reduced. Deep in a cave they almost disappear |
| Heat sources | Lit campfires, furnaces, lava, fire, magma, torches and lanterns warm you up. Closer is warmer |
| Water | Standing near water cools you a little, swimming cools you a lot |
| Water bottle | Drinking one cools you down |
| Warm food | Mushroom stew, rabbit stew, beetroot soup, suspicious stew and baked potatoes warm you up when you're cold |
| Leather armor | Each piece reduces cold by 12%, so a full set cuts it by 48% |
Temperature only affects Survival and Adventure players. Creative players are never affected, and your temperature resets when you respawn.
Blizzards and dust storms 🌪️
Storms start at random, and the odds depend on the season. A storm only starts if a player is standing in a matching biome. Each one lasts 2.5 to 5 minutes, followed by a 4-minute break.
- Blizzards ❄️ (cold biomes, most common in winter): thick white fog, blowing snow, colder temperatures, and faster, more dangerous Strays.
- Dust storms 🏜️ (deserts, most common in summer): orange-brown haze, blowing sand, and faster, stronger Husks.
Standing under a roof hides the storm particles, but not the fog, so build a shelter and stay inside.
The four seasons 🍂
Each season lasts 8 in-game days, so a full year is 32 days. The season is shown on your HUD, and everyone gets a chat message when it changes.
| Season | What it does |
|---|---|
| Spring 🌱 | Crops grow faster, more baby animals, tornadoes and floods are most common |
| Summer ☀️ | Everything is hotter, crops grow normally, dust storms, wildfires and heat waves are most common |
| Autumn 🍁 | Cooler weather, crops grow slower, falling leaf particles in forests |
| Winter ❄️ | Freezing cold, outdoor crops stop growing and can wither, fewer wild animals, blizzards and cold snaps are most common |
Winter farming and greenhouses 🌾
In winter, unprotected wheat, carrots, potatoes and beetroot stop growing, and some will wither into dead bushes. To keep your farm alive, build a greenhouse:
- A roof above the crops
- Walls on at least 3 sides
- A real heat source nearby: a lit campfire, soul campfire, furnace, blast furnace, smoker, fire or lava
Torches and lanterns warm you up, but they are not strong enough to keep crops alive.
Wildlife 🐺
- Winter hibernation: wild wolves and polar bears in cold biomes fall asleep during winter. Tamed wolves are never affected.
- Livestock: in winter, fewer cows, sheep, pigs and chickens spawn. In spring, some spawn with a baby.
How to survive 🛡️
| Danger | What to do |
|---|---|
| Freezing in a cold biome | Wear leather armor, stand near a campfire, eat a hot stew, or get under a roof |
| Overheating in the desert | Travel at night, drink water bottles, stay near water, or go underground |
| Blizzard or dust storm | Build a shelter with a campfire and wait it out |
| Tornado (EF0-EF2) | Get indoors under a roof |
| Tornado (EF3-EF4) | Go underground. A roof will not save you |
| Tornado (EF5) | Run far away, perpendicular to its path |
| Flood | Climb to high ground and stay away from the river |
| Tsunami | Climb above the Y level in the warning, or run far inland |
| Earthquake | Move away from tall buildings and cliffs |
| Hailstorm | Get under a roof, or wear a helmet |
| Wildfire | Move upwind, away from forests, and keep water close |
| Winter crops dying | Build a greenhouse with a roof, walls and a campfire or furnace |
Installation
- Download the
.mcaddonfile. - Open it with Minecraft Bedrock. It imports automatically.
- Create or edit a world and activate both the Behavior Pack and the Resource Pack.
- Load into your world. The HUD should appear on your screen right away.
Requires Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.0 or newer. No experiments are needed.
Updating from an older version: remove the old Seasons & Extreme Weather packs from your world, import the new file, then activate both packs again.
Server owner settings ⚙️
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/scriptevent seasons:setting blockdamage off |
Disasters still hurt players, but never destroy blocks (use on to turn it back on) |
/scriptevent seasons:setting frequency 2 |
Disasters happen twice as often (use 0.5 for half as often) |
/scriptevent seasons:setting disasters off |
Turns random disasters off (use on to turn them back on) |
/scriptevent seasons:cleanup |
Removes any leftover flood or tsunami water |
Test commands 🎮
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/scriptevent seasons:disaster tornado 0-5 |
Spawns a tornado of that rating nearby |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster flood 1-4 |
Starts a flood (stand within 24 blocks of a river or lake) |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster tsunami 1-4 |
Starts a tsunami (stand near a big ocean) |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster earthquake 1-4 |
Starts an earthquake |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster hail 1-3 |
Starts a hailstorm |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster wildfire |
Starts a wildfire (stand near trees or grass) |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster heatwave |
Starts a heat wave (also: coldsnap) |
/scriptevent seasons:disaster stop |
Ends all disasters |
/scriptevent seasons:storm blizzard |
Starts a blizzard (also: sandstorm, stop) |
/scriptevent seasons:temp -90 |
Sets your own temperature (any number from -100 to 100) |
/time add 192000 |
Skips ahead one full season |
Tips
- Build a small underground shelter near your base. It protects you from tornadoes up to EF4.
- Pay attention to the warnings. They tell you the distance, direction and safe height.
- Don't build next to a river if you can avoid it.
- Near the coast, learn the safe Y level for tsunamis before you need it.
- Wear leather armor before you head into the snow, and always carry a campfire.
- Travel through deserts at night, and drink water bottles during the day.
- Build your farm as a greenhouse before winter arrives. Torches alone won't keep crops alive.
- Use the test commands on a creative world before you play, to see how each disaster looks.
FAQ
Do I need any experimental features?
No. It works with standard Bedrock scripting.
Will disasters destroy my world?
No. Terrain (dirt, stone, sand, ores, water) and bedrock are never destroyed. Only buildings, trees, crops and similar blocks are affected, and you can turn block damage off completely with /scriptevent seasons:setting blockdamage off.
Does the flood or tsunami water stay forever?
No. All flood and tsunami water is tracked and removed again, even if you close the world while it is happening. If anything is ever left behind, run /scriptevent seasons:cleanup.
How often do disasters happen?
They are random and depend on the season. You can make them more or less frequent with /scriptevent seasons:setting frequency.
Do disasters affect Creative mode?
No. Temperature and disaster damage only affect Survival and Adventure players.
Why did my tsunami command not work?
Tsunamis need a big ocean within about 130 blocks, and only one can run at a time. Stand on a beach and try again.
Can I change the numbers?
Yes. Open BP/scripts/config.js for seasons, temperature and storms, and BP/scripts/disaster_config.js for tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and chances.
Can I add my own heat sources or insulated armor?
Yes. In config.js, add the block to HEAT_SOURCES, or add an armor item to LEATHER_ARMOR. Any armor with the lore line §7Insulated also counts as insulated.
Does it work in multiplayer?
Yes. Every player has their own temperature and HUD. Seasons, storms and disasters are shared by the whole world.
Does it work on mobile and console?
It works anywhere Bedrock supports add-ons with scripting. Big disasters (EF5, Mega tsunami) can be demanding on weaker devices, so you can lower the numbers in disaster_config.js.
Does it change the actual leaf colors?
Not the blocks themselves. Minecraft doesn't allow scripts to recolor leaf blocks, so autumn and winter use falling leaf and snow particles instead.
The frost overlay isn't showing, what do I do?
Make sure the Resource Pack is activated, and that your temperature is -50 or lower. You can test it with /scriptevent seasons:temp -90.
Community 💬
Got a bug to report, an idea for a new disaster, or a wild tornado clip to share? Come hang out!
Leaving a comment or a rating on this page also helps a lot. Thank you for the support! ❤️
Notes
- Disasters are random, so you can't predict exactly when one will start. That's what makes them scary.
- Biomes are checked every 2 seconds, so the HUD can take a moment to update when you cross a biome border.
- Particles and sounds use the game's built-in assets, so nothing extra needs to be downloaded.
Survive the weather. Master the seasons. Outlast the disasters. 🌪️🌊🔥❄️
Seasons & Extreme Weather Team
