Impactful Weather/Wind

[Calo-Mari]

This isn’t a super super important edition or anything really, just a thing I want for immersion’s sake. I honestly would be fine with a small mod adding in some tiny touches or something like that to make weather actually effect the world more. I’ve looked around on the mod database and haven’t found anything, if anyone reading this knows of a mod please share! 

Okay onto my whole idea blurb thing:

Weather, more specifically wind, is really something that feels like it should have more impact than it does. Right now rain is little more than a cosmetic event that makes things wet. And wind has it even worse with that I’m pretty sure it actually does nothing aside from the visuals. 

Now I don’t mean add in entire natural disasters like tornados and hurricanes (even though that would be cool as hell). Just something simple like “strong wind pushes creatures/ hinders movement” would go a long way to adding more depth to storms. Adding more impact to rain could be tricky though as things like flooding couldn’t reasonably be added in without causing lag. Something smaller, maybe a slight “slipping” effect like with ice could be fun. I do also like the idea of mudslides being a thing when you have dynamic soil blocks enabled.

(Some small semblance of weathering would be an interesting addition to go along with it, like metal blocks oxidizing, oxidized blocks having runoff, stone and wood growing moss, and other things like that. Although this is another whole can of worms from adding more immersion to weather, fun to think about though)

 

Anyways that’s the end of my suggestion thing.
 

 

[LadyWYT]

42 minutes ago, Calo-Mari said:

Right now rain is little more than a cosmetic event that makes things wet. And wind has it even worse with that I’m pretty sure it actually does nothing aside from the visuals. 

Just for the record, there actually are a couple of weather events that your character will react to. Very strong winds in a snowstorm or a dry environment like a desert will cause your character to shield their face with an arm if they are facing into the wind. In a hailstorm, you will also take damage if the hail is large enough.

[Calo-Mari]

39 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

Just for the record, there actually are a couple of weather events that your character will react to. Very strong winds in a snowstorm or a dry environment like a desert will cause your character to shield their face with an arm if they are facing into the wind. In a hailstorm, you will also take damage if the hail is large enough.

I’ve experienced this quite a few times, live near a windy desert in my current world, and I do find it neat/cool. I just want it to be a bit more than just a visual. 

[Facethief]

Hail is one of my least favorite weather types, but it’s funny as hell. Running around, trying to find who knows what? You’ll be fine, it’s only raining. Take a couple steps in the wrong direction, and suddenly you’re getting hit by chunks of flying ice!