Serene Seasons Better Winter
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Serene Seasons Better Winter makes deciduous trees visually leafless in late autumn and winter for a cleaner, more immersive seasonal world
Set in cold, snowy environments, usually with survival elements centered around extreme weather conditions.
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General improvements to world generation, such as bug fixes, aesthetic overhauls, or misc additions.
Enhances plant life and foliage in the game world.
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Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Adds extra features or content to an existing mod.
Introduces lifelike mechanics and detailed enhancements to create a more believable and engaging experience.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
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🌨️ Serene Seasons Better Winter
Bring your winter landscapes to life with cleaner tree silhouettes and a stronger seasonal atmosphere.
Serene Seasons Better Winter is a Forge 1.20.1 addon that makes deciduous tree leaves visually disappear during late autumn and winter, creating a natural dormant-season look while keeping conifer and jungle foliage intact.
🎥 Showcase
Cinematic Setup (Recommended)
Embeddium + Dynamic Trees + Complementary Unbound + Serene Seasons Better Winter
Vanilla Renderer (Without Embeddium)
Note: Without Embeddium, some residual canopy shadowing may still occur in very dense or tall foliage.
Vanilla + Embeddium
📦 Requirements
- Serene Seasons (required)
⭐ Highly Recommended
- Embeddium
Best visual consistency, especially for lighting and shadow behavior. - Dynamic Trees
Excellent visual synergy with branch-heavy, leafless winter canopies.
✨ Features
- Hides deciduous leaves in configured leaf-drop sub-seasons (default: late autumn + winter)
- Keeps conifer and jungle leaves visible
- Removes floating snow layers above hidden leaves
- Hides small hanging blocks attached below hidden leaves (for example apples and cocoons)
- Optional server-side pass-through for hidden seasonal blocks
- Optional hidden-block lighting behavior adjustments
- Optional season chat broadcast on leaf-drop and leaf-return transitions
- Optional Distant Horizons integration for LOD leaf hiding and refresh (experimental, client-side)
🧪 Distant Horizons Integration (Experimental)
Distant Horizons support is available as an experimental client feature.
In serene_better_winter-client.toml:
enable_experimental_dh_integration = trueenable_dh_lod_leaf_hiding = truedh_auto_refresh_on_season_toggle = true
Important:
- This integration is disabled by default.
- On some modpacks/setups, LOD refresh behavior may be inconsistent.
- If needed, disable the experimental DH integration and keep the base mod behavior.
ℹ️ Version Info
- Minecraft: 1.20.1
- Forge target: 47.4.10 (runtime-compatible range)
- Mod ID:
serene_better_winter
🐞 Bug Reports and Issues
If you encounter bugs, visual inconsistencies, or compatibility issues, please report them on GitHub:
Issues tracker:
https://github.com/Maeiro/Serene-Seasons-Better-Winter/issues
When reporting an issue, including screenshots, logs, and your full mod list is highly appreciated.
📜 Modpack and Code Usage
This mod is released under the GNU GPL v3.0.
You are free to:
- Use the mod in public or private modpacks
- Modify, fork, or reuse the source code
- Include parts of the code in your own projects
- Distribute modified or unmodified versions
As required by GPLv3, redistributions and derivative works must keep the same license terms.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.
See the LICENSE file for the full license text.
🌨️ Serene Seasons Better Winter
Bring your winter landscapes to life with cleaner tree silhouettes and a stronger seasonal atmosphere.
Serene Seasons Better Winter is a Forge 1.20.1 addon that makes deciduous tree leaves visually disappear during late autumn and winter, creating a natural dormant-season look while keeping conifer and jungle foliage intact.
🎥 Showcase
Cinematic Setup (Recommended)
Embeddium + Dynamic Trees + Complementary Unbound + Serene Seasons Better Winter
Vanilla Renderer (Without Embeddium)
Note: Without Embeddium, some residual canopy shadowing may still occur in very dense or tall foliage.
Vanilla + Embeddium
📦 Requirements
- Serene Seasons (required)
⭐ Highly Recommended
- Embeddium
Best visual consistency, especially for lighting and shadow behavior. - Dynamic Trees
Excellent visual synergy with branch-heavy, leafless winter canopies.
✨ Features
- Hides deciduous leaves in configured leaf-drop sub-seasons (default: late autumn + winter)
- Keeps conifer and jungle leaves visible
- Removes floating snow layers above hidden leaves
- Hides small hanging blocks attached below hidden leaves (for example apples and cocoons)
- Optional server-side pass-through for hidden seasonal blocks
- Optional hidden-block lighting behavior adjustments
- Optional season chat broadcast on leaf-drop and leaf-return transitions
- Optional Distant Horizons integration for LOD leaf hiding and refresh (experimental, client-side)
🧪 Distant Horizons Integration (Experimental)
Distant Horizons support is available as an experimental client feature.
In serene_better_winter-client.toml:
enable_experimental_dh_integration = trueenable_dh_lod_leaf_hiding = truedh_auto_refresh_on_season_toggle = true
Important:
- This integration is disabled by default.
- On some modpacks/setups, LOD refresh behavior may be inconsistent.
- If needed, disable the experimental DH integration and keep the base mod behavior.
ℹ️ Version Info
- Minecraft: 1.20.1
- Forge target: 47.4.10 (runtime-compatible range)
- Mod ID:
serene_better_winter
🐞 Bug Reports and Issues
If you encounter bugs, visual inconsistencies, or compatibility issues, please report them on GitHub:
Issues tracker:
https://github.com/Maeiro/Serene-Seasons-Better-Winter/issues
When reporting an issue, including screenshots, logs, and your full mod list is highly appreciated.
📜 Modpack and Code Usage
This mod is released under the GNU GPL v3.0.
You are free to:
- Use the mod in public or private modpacks
- Modify, fork, or reuse the source code
- Include parts of the code in your own projects
- Distribute modified or unmodified versions
As required by GPLv3, redistributions and derivative works must keep the same license terms.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.
See the LICENSE file for the full license text.
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Main Showcase GIF - Embeddium + DT + Complementary Un Cinematic Setup (Recommended) Embeddium + Dynamic Trees + Complementary Unbound + Serene Seasons Better Winter -
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Vanilla Without Embeddium Note: without Embeddium, some residual canopy shadowing can still happen in specific dense/tall foliage situations.
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