Better Simple Clouds

Better Simple Clouds

New in 1.2.3: Rain that follows its cloud, with wind, splashes and wet ground (NeoForge 1.21.1), a higher frame rate with a large cloud field, and fixes for a crash, for an OpenGL error with Supplementaries or Immersive Portals, and for clouds that went missing.

Fixes and additions for Simple Clouds: how its clouds look from inside, far away, at night, under a shader pack and with Distant Horizons. Requires Simple Clouds.

Inside a cloud

• Cloud faces are solid from inside and above instead of see-through.
• The inside fills with haze up to a view distance you set, with motes drifting through it.

Far clouds

• Cloud Smoothing builds far clouds from smaller cubes that follow their shape, so they stop looking like stairs.
• Small Cloud Detail keeps distant small clouds from collapsing into giant cubes.
• Clouds are fogged over their own distance, not the terrain's.

Distant Horizons

• Clouds are hidden behind LOD terrain, and their render distance can follow Distant Horizons'.
• The distant rain is drawn over loaded chunks and LODs alike.
• A shader pack and Distant Horizons work together with Simple Clouds, which alone switches its clouds off for that combination.

Night and shader packs

• At night the dark range Simple Clouds crushes is opened up again, and cloud edges near the moon glow.
• Shader Fog on Clouds, on by default: far clouds fade into the haze the pack drew.

Rain and cloud types

• Rain Weather, on by default, makes the rain as heavy as its cloud: a thin drizzle under a stratus deck, slanted sheets in a thunderstorm.
• Wet Ground: open ground near you darkens and shines, and puddles fill the hollows until some minutes after the rain. Not under a shader pack.
• Downpour Rain: dense short streaks instead of sparse rain ribbons.
• Any cloud type can be blocked from spawning. Only itty_bitty is blocked by default.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge 21.1 (Java 21) or 1.20.1 on Forge (Java 17), with Simple Clouds 0.7.3. Rain Weather and Wet Ground are in the NeoForge build only. Client side; on a dedicated server install it there too, for the spawn list. Optional: Sodium or Embeddium (video options), Iris or Oculus, Distant Horizons. Icon by Ultimate Victim.

Related mods

NeoForge 1.21.1 and Forge 1.20.1. Client side. Free to use in modpacks.