🔥 Thermal Tweaks – Dynamic Temperature Survival

Overview

Thermal Tweaks introduces a lightweight but impactful temperature system. Your body temperature ranges from −20°C to 50°C and reacts to biomes, weather, heat sources, cold blocks, and more.

🌡️ Key Features

Temperature Range

• −20°C → 50°C with realistic thermal inertia

Danger Zones

• ≤ −10°C: Freezing symptoms
• ≥ 50°C: Heat damage
• Damage scales gradually

HUD

• Temperature bar near health
• Threshold markers
• Real-time °C display

Environment Effects

• Rain, storms, water, night, sunlight, hot dimensions

Auras

Nearby blocks influence you:

• Heat: Campfire, furnace, lava, torches
• Cold: Ice, packed ice, snow, water, powder snow

Indoors Detection

Shade or roof reduces extreme temperature influence.

Multiplayer-Safe

Server calculates temperature; client displays it.

🍵 Items & Effects

Tea

• Base drink for variants

Warm Tea

• Gradually increases body temperature

Iced Tea

• Cools instantly

Thermometer

• Shows ambient & body temperature

Warmth Effect

• Strong cold resistance
• assets/thermaltweaks/textures/mob_effect/warmth.png

🛡️ Armor Sets

Fur Set

• Feathers
• Great insulation

Helmet

Chestplate

Leggings

Boots

Desert Robes

• String
• Heat reduction
• Same Crafting recipe as Fur armour but with string

⚙️ Balance & Datapacks

Configurable via Forge config:

• Thresholds
• Rates
• Inertia
• Damage intervals

Datapack tags:

• #thermaltweaks:heat_sources
• #thermaltweaks:cold_sources

❄️🔥 How You Get Hot or Cold

You Get Colder When:

• Snowy biomes
• Night
• Rain/storms
• Wet
• No insulating armor
• Shade/indoors

You Get Hotter When:

• Heavy armor
• Warm Tea
• Near fire/lava
• Nether
• Direct sun in hot biomes

📦 Release 1.2 — Snowstorms, Sandstorms, Wind, Survival

Overview

Release 1.2 brings snowstorms, sandstorms, dynamic wind, world effects, mob changes, and new performance controls.

Key Features (1.2)

Temperature Survival Enhancements

• Same −20°C..50°C system
• New HUD: Snowflake + Wind arrow (km/h)

Snowstorms

• Blue fog/tint
• Snow particles
• Icicles (optional)
• Biome-wide chill

Sandstorms

• Sandy tint
• Dust particles
• Gust bursts
• Optional wind push
• #thermaltweaks:sandstorm_biomes

Wind System

• Synced direction/strength
• Gusts
• Optional push
• HUD arrow + km/h

Items & Armor

• Tea → Warm Tea → Iced Tea
• Thermometer
• Fur Armor
• Desert Robes

World & Mobs

• Snow piling & drifting
• Freezing water
• Footprints
• Zombies shift to strays in blizzard
• Zombies shift to husks in sandstorm
• Passive mobs huddle
• Reduced hostile follow range

Performance & Config

• Storm tick budget
• Watchdog for performance
• Intervals for piling/melting/freezing/icicles
• Toggles for footprints, piling, melting, mob behaviors, villager shelter
• Tags: heat, cold, sandstorm biomes

Commands

/snowstorm start|stop|status
/sandstorm start|stop|status
/wind set <kmh>

Recipes

• Tea: Wheat Seeds + Sugar + Glass Bottle
• Warm Tea: Smelt Tea
• Iced Tea: Tea + Snowball
• Fur Armor: Feathers
• Desert Robes: String

Recommended Defaults

• visualsAlwaysOnDuringStorm = true
• stormOpsBudget = 150
• stormSyncIntervalTicks = 20
• accumInterval = 5
• meltInterval = freezeInterval = 10

Notes

• Requires Forge 1.20.1 + Java 17

Credits

Author: Funnybuble
Thanks to the Forge community.