Effects Biomes

Biome Decorations

Biome Decorations makes Minecraft's environments feel fuller and more alive without requiring a heavy shader pack. It adds biome-aware natural details, small environmental scenes and a configurable layer of lightweight visual effects.

Highlights

• More than 100 natural decorations distributed by biome, climate, dimension and surface type.
• Fallen branches, nests, mushrooms, rocks, shore debris, cave formations, river details, large natural landmarks and much more.
• Visual butterflies, dragonflies, fireflies, bird flocks and aquatic schools; they do not create persistent entities.
• Continuous coastal waves and foam, wind fronts, rain details, shooting stars and dimensional weather events.
• Swimming, water-entry, falling, creative-flight and elytra effects.
• Optional shader-lite effects: underwater caustics, heat haze, water glints, localized fog, rain mist, cave dust, local glow and an End aurora.
• OFF, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH and adaptive AUTO quality settings.
• Global performance budgets, distance LOD and compatibility safeguards for Oculus/Iris and Embeddium.
• English and Spanish translations.

Installation and compatibility

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.x
• Java 17
• No additional library dependencies
• Required on both the server and every client in multiplayer

Place the JAR in the mods folder. Natural decorations generate in new chunks. For existing worlds, administrators can use /biomedecorations decorate to process loaded chunks gradually and conservatively.

All gameplay-affecting content is made from normal blocks and world generation. The wildlife, atmosphere and shader-lite layer are visual only and can be configured from Minecraft's menus.