Tempests

# ⛈️ Tempests

**Rare, dramatic weather events that transform your world.**

Four kinds of tempest roll in with a warning, take over the sky, the fog and the air, bring their own
creatures, and leave something valuable behind. Forecast them, shelter from them, and profit from them.

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## 🌪️ The Four Tempests

### 🌫️ Ash Storm
Grey-black ash and falling embers swallow the horizon. Breathing it outside builds up **Ash Choke**,
a stacking slowness and weakness. **Ashen** shamble through the haze and burst into blinding ash
clouds when they die.
*Rewards:* Ash Residue (smelts into Cinderglass) and the rare **Ember Core**.

### 💎 Glass Rain
Luminous crystal shards fall from a shifting, prismatic sky and cut anything left in the open.
**Ordinary glass roofs won't save you!** **Prisms** fire split arrow volleys and refract your
arrows right back.
*Rewards:* **Shardglass Clusters** grow wherever the shards land. Mine them (Fortune works) for
Shardglass Shards.

### 🩸 Bloodfog
A crimson fog crawls along the ground under a blood-red sky. Monsters grow stronger, your wounds
refuse to close, and **Bloodbound** spiders heal with every bite.
*Rewards:* Vein Essence and the rare **Hemocrystal**.

### ⚡ Stormcharge
A violent lightning storm that hunts for tall metal. Every strike **charges copper**, turning it
into glowing **Charged Copper** that powers redstone or discharges into **Voltaic Sparks**.
**Voltaic** spirits chain lightning between everything nearby.
*Tip:* bait strikes with lightning rods on copper, far away from your base!

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## 🔭 See It Coming
- **A generous warning** before every tempest: the sky shifts, thunder rumbles from the direction
  it's coming from, a toast pops up, and villagers run indoors.
- **Stormglass Barometer:** right-click it for a forecast, or hang it on a wall for a live animated
  dial. Comparators read the intensity!
- **Tempest Almanac:** a screen showing the forecast, an intensity gauge, and how to counter each
  tempest.
- **Tempest Siren:** wails while a tempest gathers and outputs a redstone signal, so your doors and
  shutters can close themselves.

## 🏠 Survive It
- **Real shelter:** you need a solid roof *and* closed walls. Glass panes, fences and open doors let
  the weather in.
- **Storm Shutters & Reinforced Windows** seal your openings.
- **Stormward Anchor:** fuel it with Ember Cores or Hemocrystals to project a shimmering dome where
  no tempest can touch you.
- **Weatherproof Armour:** each piece counters one tempest, and the full set grants immunity.
  Upgrade it to fireproof **Ashforged Armour**.
- **Stormglass Pickaxe** (mines faster during tempests) and the **Prism Lens** (reveals tempest
  creatures).

## ✨ And More
- 22 advancements
- Tempest creatures **dissolve when their storm ends**, so they never leave lingering pests
- Cinematic sky, fog, haze and particles that fade smoothly in and out
- **Fair by default:** difficulty scaling, plus an optional harsher hardcore mode
- **Accessibility options:** reduce particles, disable camera shake, dim lightning flashes, weaken fog
- Fully configurable, with data-pack support for biome, moon-phase and time-of-day weighting

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## 🎮 Commands (operators)
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| `/tempests start <type> [intensity]` | Start a tempest now |
| `/tempests stop` | End the current tempest |
| `/tempests forecast` | Show the schedule |
| `/tempests schedule <type> <seconds>` | Forecast a specific tempest |
| `/tempests reset` | Roll a fresh forecast |

Types: `ash_storm`, `glass_rain`, `bloodfog`, `stormcharge`

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## 📦 Compatibility
- **Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4.10+**. No other mods required.
- Works in **singleplayer, LAN, dedicated servers and modpacks** (install it on both client and
  server).
- No Mixins, so it is very unlikely to conflict with other mods.

## ❓ FAQ
**When does the first tempest happen?** About 20–40 minutes into a new world, then every 40–90
minutes. Everything is configurable.

**Will lightning burn my base?** No. Stormcharge lightning doesn't start fires unless you enable it
in the config.

**Can I use this in my modpack?** **Yes!** Go ahead, no need to ask. Servers and videos are welcome
too.