Winter

[Anubisworld]

Hi there ppl.

 My game is 9 days per month, the winter started in October, now is 3 of March, its cold, snow everywhere... How much long will this last? Im about to turn winter off if this does not ends, how the hell does winter take so much time here? My save/world is bugged?

[Blue_Helix]

Hello.

It depends on the latitude you started. I don't really know what you mean by "the winter started in October", but where I am (cool start), the first frost appears end of September and last until late April. So, if you haven't messed with the spawn parameter, you should be free of frost a little sooner?

In any case, at the beginning of may, you should be completely free of snow, and if you want a shorter and less cold winter and you are willing to move, you should move equator-ward (South with default parameters) to reach warmer locations. Or restart a world with the warm/hot spawn.

[Anubisworld]

9 hours ago, Blue_Helix said:

Hello.

It depends on the latitude you started. I don't really know what you mean by "the winter started in October", but where I am (cool start), the first frost appears end of September and last until late April. So, if you haven't messed with the spawn parameter, you should be free of frost a little sooner?

In any case, at the beginning of may, you should be completely free of snow, and if you want a shorter and less cold winter and you are willing to move, you should move equator-ward (South with default parameters) to reach warmer locations. Or restart a world with the warm/hot spawn.

 I mean that the snow and cold started in October. 6 months with snow is way way to much. Yes, i could try to move down, but dont want to "start over", lots off resources and building done. I have change for only spring now.

 Ty for the reply

[Echo Weaver]

I have noticed that on default spawn latitude, the leaves start turning in the second half of August. That's a pretty far-north temperate start. I live in a fairly northerly temperate climate in real life, and leaves start turning in the second half of September. In game, I can continue to harvest cooler-weather crops (turnips, rye, etc) into October, though.

On the other end of things, spring progresses about how I'd expect for a temperate climate -- it gets warmer into the second half of March, and you can plant cooler weather crops in April.

Since supplying yourself through winter is such a big part of the game, I'm pretty happy with this. I can definitely see why someone would want to start further south, though.

Edited October 26, 2025 by Echo Weaver

[RatKing0]

i settled near spawn, so freezes start in October and end around March. moving south will bring you to warmer climates with shorter freezes 

Edited October 26, 2025 by RatKing0

[Michael Gates]

You can usually plant in April, you start seeing berries again in late May, and nobody understands how much preparation winter takes until they've gone through one. Now you've seen the elephant, or perhaps the woolly mammoth.

This is why I start every new world by running south for a couple of days-- you gain a month of growing season by hitting z=5k, and it stops ever freezing at about z=17k. 

[Maelstrom]

18 hours ago, Michael Gates said:

You can usually plant in April, you start seeing berries again in late May, and nobody understands how much preparation winter takes until they've gone through one. Now you've seen the elephant, or perhaps the woolly mammoth.

This is why I start every new world by running south for a couple of days-- you gain a month of growing season by hitting z=5k, and it stops ever freezing at about z=17k. 

Why not just pick a warm spawn climate?

[Michael Gates]

12 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

Why not just pick a warm spawn climate?

Because until they made bauxite show up everywhere you had to make the long run anyway, so you could decide whether the world either had steel, or was cute enough to be worth spending a couple hundred hours in without it. And I'm a creature of habit. Which, yeah, just changing the little thing in the dropdown probably WOULD be more sensible.

[LadyWYT]

On 10/26/2025 at 3:53 AM, Anubisworld said:

My game is 9 days per month, the winter started in October, now is 3 of March, its cold, snow everywhere... How much long will this last? Im about to turn winter off if this does not ends, how the hell does winter take so much time here? My save/world is bugged?

Hmmm...if you kept the default starting climate(temperate) and settled near spawn, it sounds like you may have settled on a high altitude plateau, which is likely causing the local climate to behave more like a taiga/cool climate band than the temperate one. In my experience for the temperate zone, the temperature usually doesn't start to drop that much until late September, and it's late October/early November before the snow moves in. Spring will generally arrive around late March, with the temperatures warming enough to start farming around mid-April(depending on what you plant).

If you settled in a high altitude climate, the easiest solution is likely to just move your stuff to a lower altitude, which should make the winter a little less harsh. If there are chunks with walnut trees nearby, those are likely prime spots, as walnuts tend to spawn in warmer areas. If you're looking for climate that supports year-round growing temperatures though, you will likely want to start a new world and set the starting climate to Warm or Hot--a warm start will cool off in the winter months, but not to the point that farming isn't viable.

[Vratislav]

15 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

sounds like you may have settled on a high altitude plateau

I think that the temperature gradient is between 0,1 and 0,2 degree Celsius per block. Once, I have settled in a pass, about 30 blocks above sea level and the castle base I have build to "guard" the pass was further 20 blocks higher. My main rooms in the tower were more than 60 blocks above the sea level. In second winter I had to abandon the play, because It was unbearable. The winter lasted forever in the castle plateau and there was a mist half of the winter even inside heated valid rooms.