Snow ❄️

[james]

@Blackmage2015

Would it be possible to add a real snow layer on the ground for next winter instead of a white out shader. Could just break the snow to see what’s underneath it. Since the shader seems to go into my house aswell.
Could just have snow blanket the world one time over we could pick it up and place it down or remove it.

This is a cool idea and something we’ve thought about. But it’s not obvious how it could be implemented efficiently. If it snowed across the entire world then we’d need to update the entire world (and hence every chunk of the world) to contain the new snow blocks / slabs. But this would invalidate everything in the cache and require everyone to download all the chunks again. Hmm so not so efficient. It would work. But then the poor regen system would be fighting against the snow falling.

It would be pretty trivial to implement - but would be a pretty significant bandwidth cost for all players. (And we try really hard to keep the bandwidth down.)

@MysticPandora

Just gonna say I love the snow and hope it comes back next year, along with other seasonal effects.
Would be cool if it was an additional layer that had to be broken to disappear, or “melt” during regen.

The snow fall is now part of the weather system so it will remain after the event.

The special case during the event is that ‘rain’ was always upgraded to ‘snow’. So after the event it’ll still snow and start raining again.

@a13o

My suggestion is for an item we can craft that excludes an area from the effect. So we can plop them down like a light source to exclude an area. It’s much less time consuming than building temporary roofing block by block

I would like to add a weather bomb that would allow players to manually trigger different weather states. Maybe something to include in Farming.

@RavenTwospirit

I love how the snow texture “drifts” in through open doors and even the vertical half-block “window slits” I have in my build. I thought it is all very well done!

Thanks!!

@B0ne

I think more weather effects should be encouraged, how about epic rain storms with lightening and thunder, tornado winds throwing you around if you get caught in the open, I think the game could do with more immersion like this.

We could like to link some more game play to the weather. It’s been on the todo list for a while.

For example, we have elemental rain that doesn’t really do anything at the moment.