This seems to be the most useable, since Regional Weather/Bundle (using Climate API) will stop rendering weather effects whenever the player is under a block/roof.
However, the glaring issue here is lack of sounds. If the author is able/willing to do the coding, I would be happy to create some custom, royalty-free loops (Creative Commons Share Alike), if that would help. Let me know...I should get an email notification to replies here!
Best game? Not sure about that, but very good and on track to be. I've played a few dozen hours and what I mainly like, is lack of documentation. Having to figure out most things by trial/error has been quite rewarding and engaging - I can't just search the web to discover the mechanics. Over-documentation is Minecraft's fatal flaw.
There are also at least a handful of uncraftable items (as in there's no recipie, though it seems like logically there should be, such as various drinks/juices).
I like it. I always have some ambient sound mod installed and its weird to hear birds but not see any at all. This fixes that well enough.
I made a couple tweaks to reduce the spawn rate of swarms. Too often, my skies would get unrealistically crowded, and so many moving shadows on the ground was distracting. Also, doubled the despawn distance, so they just fade nicely into the fog, instead of harshly popping off screen. This also improved performance.
What I'd like to see, is more variation in spawn altitude, and the ability for them to change altitude & direction, so they can actually fly around. I just don't know LUA well enough to contribute that much yet.
Also, just noticed a bug where birds can spawn with 0 (or near 0) velocity. They seem to eventually despawn anyway, but it is odd.
No sound?
This seems to be the most useable, since Regional Weather/Bundle (using Climate API) will stop rendering weather effects whenever the player is under a block/roof.
However, the glaring issue here is lack of sounds. If the author is able/willing to do the coding, I would be happy to create some custom, royalty-free loops (Creative Commons Share Alike), if that would help. Let me know...I should get an email notification to replies here!
Very good overall but has a fatal flaw
I installed the Regional Weather mod as recommended. It works well, overall, but one glaring bug:
Whenever the player is under a roof, the precipitation & sound effects stop, which shatters immersion.
There is a mod just called "Weather", which can render the precipitation correctly when indoors, but ironically, it lacks sound effect support.
Sadly, I do not yet know LUA well enough to bring the two together for a fix on either one.
Good
Best game? Not sure about that, but very good and on track to be. I've played a few dozen hours and what I mainly like, is lack of documentation. Having to figure out most things by trial/error has been quite rewarding and engaging - I can't just search the web to discover the mechanics. Over-documentation is Minecraft's fatal flaw.
The biggest bug I've noticed is weather does not seem to work at all.
There are also at least a handful of uncraftable items (as in there's no recipie, though it seems like logically there should be, such as various drinks/juices).
Definitely adds some life to the world
I like it. I always have some ambient sound mod installed and its weird to hear birds but not see any at all. This fixes that well enough.
I made a couple tweaks to reduce the spawn rate of swarms. Too often, my skies would get unrealistically crowded, and so many moving shadows on the ground was distracting. Also, doubled the despawn distance, so they just fade nicely into the fog, instead of harshly popping off screen. This also improved performance.
What I'd like to see, is more variation in spawn altitude, and the ability for them to change altitude & direction, so they can actually fly around. I just don't know LUA well enough to contribute that much yet.
Also, just noticed a bug where birds can spawn with 0 (or near 0) velocity. They seem to eventually despawn anyway, but it is odd.