Season System

✨ New Features

🌿 Seasonal Ambient Particles

• Added seasonal ambient particles for all seasons.
• Spring: soft green leaf, pollen and nectar particles.
• Summer: subtle warm nature ambience particles.
• Autumn: falling leaf particles.
• Winter: light snowflake ambience.
• Particles are fully client-side and optimized for performance.
• Particle spawning was improved so leaves no longer appear randomly in the sky, underwater or far away from trees.

🔊 Seasonal Ambient Sounds

• Added seasonal ambient sound effects.
• Spring can now play subtle bird and nature ambience.
• Summer can play warmer nature ambience.
• Autumn can play leaf and wind-like ambience.
• Winter can play colder snow ambience.
• Sounds use cooldowns to avoid spam.

🍁 Improved Autumn Leaf Colors

• Added more autumn color variety for leaves.
• Oak, Dark Oak, Birch, Jungle and Pale Oak leaves can now use seasonal autumn colors.
• Birch leaves now properly change color during autumn.
• Leaf coloring was heavily optimized to avoid FPS drops in forest biomes.
• Removed expensive per-tree scanning and replaced it with a faster, performance-safe color system.

📖 Season Journal / Calendar Screen

• Added an improved Season Journal screen.
• The existing season keybind "K" now opens a larger calendar interface.
• The journal now shows:
  • Current season
  • Current season day
  • Remaining days until the next season
  • Current year
  • Current temperature
  • Active weather event
  • Forecast for today and tomorrow
• Added season cards for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
• Added seasonal notes to help players understand current effects.

⚙️ HUD Settings Menu

• Added HUD settings directly inside the Season Journal.
• Players can now reposition the season HUD overlay from the journal screen.
• Added controls to move the HUD up, down, left and right.
• Added a reset button for the HUD position.
• Added a toggle to show or hide the HUD overlay.
• Improved layout for fullscreen and windowed mode.
• Added a compact responsive layout for smaller game windows.

🌡️ Temperature System

• Added an optional temperature system.
• The temperature system is enabled by default.
• Winter cold can apply mild effects when players are exposed.
• Summer heat can apply mild effects in hot biomes.
• Cold and heat effects are designed to be noticeable but not overly punishing.
• Added temperature display in the Season Journal.
• Added a temperature bar ranging from cold to hot.
• Temperature can affect crop growth when enabled in the config.

🔥 Warmth From Light Sources

• Added warmth protection from nearby light and heat sources.
• Standing near warmth sources can prevent winter Slowness from triggering.
• Supported warmth sources include:
  • Torches
  • Lanterns
  • Glowstone
  • Redstone Lamps
  • Campfires
  • Soul Campfires
  • Shroomlights
  • Sea Lanterns
  • Jack o'Lanterns
  • Froglights
  • Candles
  • Furnaces
  • Smokers
  • Blast Furnaces
• Campfires, fire and lava provide stronger warmth.

⛈️ Seasonal Weather Events

• Added daily seasonal weather events.
• New events include:
  • Spring Rain
  • Bloom Day
  • Heat Wave
  • Dry Day
  • Windy Day
  • Harvest Day
  • Snowstorm
  • Frost Night
• Events can affect ambience, temperature and crop growth.
• Events are config-controlled and designed to be performance-friendly.
• Weather events now appear in the Season Journal and HUD.

🔮 Forecast System

• Added a simple seasonal forecast system.
• The Season Journal now shows today's event and tomorrow's forecast.
• Added forecast support for commands.
• The forecast display was optimized for smaller screen sizes.

📚 Almanac

• Added an Almanac tab to the Season Journal.
• The Almanac explains seasonal effects, weather events and temperature behavior.
• In compact/windowed mode, the Almanac shows only the currently relevant seasonal event information to save space.

🔔 Toast Notifications

• Added toast-style notifications for season and weather changes.
• Weather event notifications no longer spam the chat.
• Season changes and important seasonal updates are now presented more cleanly.
• Manual command feedback was reduced to avoid chat clutter.

🛠️ Commands

• Added and expanded season commands for testing and server administration.
• Added support for manually triggering weather events.
• Added support for clearing active events.
• Added random event command.
• Added forecast command.
• Added temperature command support.

Example commands:

• /season forecast
• /season event spring_rain
• /season event bloom_day
• /season event heat_wave
• /season event dry_day
• /season event windy_day
• /season event harvest_day
• /season event snowstorm
• /season event frost_night
• /season event random
• /season event clear
• /season temperature get
• /season temperature set cold
• /season temperature set normal
• /season temperature set hot

🥬 Farmer's Delight Refabricated Compatibility

• Added optional crop compatibility for Farmer's Delight Refabricated.
• The integration is only active when Farmer's Delight is installed.
• No hard dependency is required.
• Added seasonal crop support for:
  • Cabbage
  • Onion
  • Tomato
  • Rice
  • Mushroom colonies
• Existing custom crop profiles are not overwritten.
• Server owners can still customize crop behavior through the crop config.

⚡ Improvements

• Improved performance in Oak and Birch forest biomes.
• Improved performance of seasonal leaf coloring.
• Improved spring ambience particle colors.
• Improved particle placement rules.
• Improved windowed-mode support for the Season Journal.
• Improved HUD positioning UI.
• Improved config text display.
• Improved calendar layout spacing.
• Improved Almanac layout.
• Improved temperature display.
• Improved event display in HUD and journal.
• Improved command usability for testing seasonal features.

🐛 Fixes

• Fixed Birch leaves staying green during autumn.
• Fixed seasonal leaf color variation causing severe FPS drops.
• Fixed falling leaves spawning in the air while flying.
• Fixed particles spawning underwater.
• Fixed spring particles using pink cherry leaves from green trees.
• Fixed HUD settings text going outside the panel.
• Fixed Season Notes and Daily Events overlapping or leaving the journal window.
• Fixed compact/windowed mode layout issues.
• Fixed temperature armor slot lookup for the current Minecraft mapping version.
• Fixed winter Slowness still triggering near valid warmth sources.
• Fixed weather event chat spam by moving notifications toward toast/overlay behavior.
• Fixed several UI spacing issues in the Season Journal.