AtlyssSeasons

ATLYSS Seasons

Four seasons for ATLYSS. Trees turn gold in autumn and pale in winter, snow falls instead of rain, fog and mist roll in, and souls rise from the ground on autumn nights. The host can also choose how long days and nights last and when it rains, for everyone on the server.

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What you get

• Four seasons that change on their own, once every real week by default.
• New colors for each season on trees, grass, ground and sky, keeping each map's own look.
• Weather: snow instead of rain in winter, more rain in spring, less in summer, and fog or ground mist on some days.
• Effects: falling leaves and petals, fireflies and fairies in caves, rays of sunlight, snow glints, and souls on autumn nights.
• Holidays: Halloween, Christmas and Easter bring their season with them, and Halloween night has a look of its own.
• Day, night and rain for everyone: the host can make days longer, nights shorter, stop the clock or force rain, and even players without the mod see it.
• A day that turns: the world lifts through dawn and settles through dusk instead of switching over at six.
• Places with looks of their own: any map or region can carry its own colors, boosts, fog, snow, vines and rain.
• Share My Look: offer your whole look to another player, or take theirs, with ten slots to keep looks in.
• Rain that darkens the world as it falls, by as much as you like, and by its own amount in places you name.
• Hold any effect out of a map without turning it off everywhere.
• An in-game panel with every setting, a search box, a color wheel on every color row, and a "more info" button.
• Ops and co-hosts, so trusted players can help run the world.
• Dedicated servers, with the same commands typed into the server console.

More about how it works

• The mod drives what ATLYSS already has, the world clock and the rain, rather than adding a clock or weather of its own. That is why players without the mod still see the host's day, night and rain.
• Seasonal colors tint each map's own colors instead of replacing them, so every map keeps its identity.
• Colors are applied with material property blocks, so the game's shared materials are never changed, and switching the mod off puts everything back.
• Snow is the mod's own round flakes. While it snows, the game's rain is simply stopped; its files are never touched.
• Four small Harmony patches, and nothing else is patched: the weather roll, clicks on the panel, keys typed into the panel, and, only on a dedicated server, /seasons typed into the server console.

Getting started

• Install it with a mod manager. Everything it needs is installed with it.
• In game, open the settings menu: Open Panel Key is the first thing on the Seasons tab. Bind it, or type /seasons to open the panel without a key.
• Play. The season changes by itself, and the bottom of the panel shows the season and how long until the next one.

Everything lives in the panel: the settings menu holds the same values, but the panel lays them out, searches them and explains each one.

More about what a fresh install does

• On from the start: the seasons themselves, tree and ground colors, the day cycle, fog, mist, falling leaves in autumn and spring, cave fireflies and fairies, rays of sunlight, ground souls on autumn nights, winter snow and shimmers, Catacombs dust, wind gusts, the blossom garden and scenery props.
• The clock and rain start as the game has them, with two gentle changes: days run a little longer in spring and summer and nights longer in autumn and winter, and it rains more in spring and less in summer. Set the per-season day and night lengths (World/Time/Weather > Time > Advanced) to 1 for the game's own clock.
• Off until you turn them on: Heat Wave, Heavy Snow, Embers, Soul Lights (spring nights), Bare Trees, Summer Sheds Leaves, Winter Sheds Leaves, Wild Leaf Colors, Freeze Water In Winter and Seasonal Water Colors.
• Your settings