EonIceAge

❄️ EonIceAge

EonIceAge is a hardcore survival plugin for Minecraft that introduces a realistic cold and temperature system, fully compatible with versions 1.18.2 up to the latest release.

The plugin transforms your world into a permanent icy age, where players must manage warmth, shelter, and environment conditions to survive. Cold is no longer cosmetic — it directly affects gameplay, farming, and exploration.

Perfect for Hardcore Survival, Realism, RPG, and Challenging SMP servers.

✨ Features

• 🌡 Advanced temperature system

  • dynamic day/night temperature changes
  • depth-based cold (deeper = colder)
  • extra cold from water, rain, and hunger

• ❄️ Freezing & hypothermia mechanics

  • freeze damage when body temperature is too low
  • slowness, mining fatigue, and weakness effects

• 💧 Wetness system

  • rain and water make players wet
  • wet players freeze faster and warm up slower

• 🔥 Heat sources system

  • torches, campfires, furnaces, lava, lanterns, and more
  • distance-based heat calculation
  • configurable warmth values

• 🏠 Shelter & room detection

  • roof detection up to 7 blocks above
  • walls required to count as a room
  • leaves and natural blocks are ignored
  • indoor warmth and drying bonuses

• 🌱 Farming restrictions

  • saplings will not grow without a proper room
  • requires roof, walls, and nearby heat
  • bonemeal respects the same rules

• 🌨 Permanent winter world

  • automatic winter biome enforcement
  • snow stays on the ground
  • water freezes naturally

• ❄️ Winter accelerator

  • snow and ice spread faster near players during storms

• 🌬 Cold breath visual effects

  • visible breath in cold temperatures

• 🍲 Warm food buffs

  • certain foods provide temporary warmth bonuses

• 📊 Clean action bar display

  • current temperature
  • nearby heat amount
  • nearest heat source
  • fully customizable format and units (°C / °F)

• 📝 Fully customizable

  • config.yml – gameplay, units, action bar
  • messages.yml – all chat messages & heat source translations

• ♻ Reload support

  • reload configuration without restarting the server

🧠 Gameplay Philosophy

EonIceAge is designed to slow down early-game progression and reward:

• smart base building
• proper shelter design
• heat management
• strategic exploration

Surviving the cold becomes just as important as food and tools.

⚙ Configuration Highlights

• Toggle Celsius or Fahrenheit
• Customize action bar format and symbols
• Translate heat source names
• Adjust freezing speed, wetness effects, and warmth bonuses
• Control sapling growth rules

🎯 Best Use Cases

✔ Hardcore Survival ✔ Realism SMP ✔ RPG worlds ✔ Winter-themed servers ✔ Challenge-based gameplay