DynamicWeather – Implementation Notes

What was built

• Cinematic weather system with 12 events (meteor shower, tornado, acid rain, blizzard, heavy fog, blood moon, sandstorm, ashfall, thunder surge, aurora skies, falling stars, void rift).
• Per-world controls: enable/disable events, auto-rotation timers, allowed event lists, and duration bounds with safety health floor to avoid one-shots.
• Command suite on /dynamicweather (/dw) for starting/stopping events, viewing status, pausing/resuming auto rotation, listing events, and reloading configuration.
• Auto scheduler runs world-specific rotations while respecting player presence and pause state.

How it works & how to use

• Primary command: /dynamicweather start <event> [world] [duration], /dynamicweather stop [world], /dynamicweather status [world], /dynamicweather list, /dynamicweather auto <world> <on|off|now>, /dynamicweather reload.
• Permission dynamicweather.admin (default op) gates all management commands.
• Configurable defaults live in config.yml: settings block (durations, auto interval, announcers, safety floor), worlds block (per-world toggles/intervals/allowed events), events block (per-effect tuning like damage, lift force, lightning rate, visuals), and messages block for prefix/text.
• Auto events broadcast when rolling in; manual triggers announce with event name, world, and duration.

Notes and suggestions

• Weather states (storm/thunder) are set by some events; worlds can override naturally afterward if server rules change them.
• Visual intensity scales with player hardware/settings; for quieter servers you can reduce particle counts or damage/force values per event in config.yml.
• If running on much older server builds, keep event particles to conservative options (already chosen with fallbacks) and tune durations to match performance expectations.

Server Validation

✅ Server validation passed - The mod was tested on a real Minecraft server and loaded successfully.