Bottled Horizons

Some moments are too beautiful—or too useful—to let them pass.

Bottled Horizons lets you capture the Overworld sky inside handcrafted, animated bottles. Save a sunrise for a journey, carry midnight into a build session, or bottle a thunderstorm until the world is ready for it.

Capture six kinds of horizon

Dawn — the first light of a new day
Daylight — clear skies and a high sun
Dusk — the last glow before night
Midnight — a deep, star-filled sky
Rain — a stored downpour
Thunder — the full fury of a storm

Every filled bottle has its own original four-frame animated texture. They are collectibles as much as they are useful tools.

Six animated horizon bottles containing dawn, daylight, dusk, midnight, rain, and thunder against a magical sky.

How it works

Craft an Empty Horizon Bottle.
Stand beneath the open Overworld sky and use it to capture the current horizon. Capturing costs 3 experience levels by default.
Hold use on the filled bottle for 1.5 seconds. Amethyst chimes rise, magical particles gather, and the stored horizon spills across the world.

Release is intentionally a ritual rather than an instant button. Let go early and nothing is consumed.

Designed for survival

Bottled Horizons is useful without making beds, weather, or natural progression irrelevant:

a shared 2-minute per-player cooldown follows each release;
capture requires experience and direct access to the sky;
weather releases last 5 minutes by default;
the bottle returns empty and must be filled again;
the recipe uses copper, gold, amethyst, a clock, and a lightning rod.

A small mod with real progression

The dedicated advancement tree guides players from crafting their first vessel to the final A World in Glass challenge: holding every bottled horizon at once. Completing the collection awards 100 experience points.

Server and modpack friendly

Works in singleplayer and on dedicated servers
No required library dependencies
Server-authoritative time, weather, cost, and cooldown behavior
Configurable capture cost, release cooldown, weather duration, sky requirement, and time/weather bottle availability
Modpack use is welcome

The common configuration file is generated at:

config/bottled_horizons-common.toml

Compatibility

Minecraft	Loader	Side	Java
1.21.1	NeoForge	Client and server	21

The mod must be installed on both the client and the server.

FAQ

Can I use it in a modpack?
Yes. Public and private modpacks are welcome.

Does it permanently lock the weather or time?
No. It performs a normal global time or weather change. Rain and thunder use a configurable duration.

Why can I not capture or release a bottle?
By default you must be in the Overworld with a clear view of the sky. Capturing also requires 3 experience levels, and releases share a per-player cooldown.

Can server owners disable part of the mod?
Yes. Time horizons and weather horizons can be enabled independently, and the balance values are configurable.

Is this client-side only?
No. The mechanic changes the real server world, so the mod is required on both sides.