Expanded Weather2 Dynamics 1.05.1

Highlights

• Fixed tentacle-like dust spirals — tornado debris cloud particles now use randomized scatter instead of deterministic spiral positioning, eliminating the unnatural "tentacle arms" look.
• Dust flies higher — increased vertical velocity and height limits across all debris cloud layers so dust rises into a proper chaotic billow instead of hugging the ground.
• Dust particle placement now includes random angular jitter and small positional offsets in all four debris cloud generation passes (dense foot, core, outer ring, and updraft column).
• Lowered the high-updraft debris column activation threshold so it appears on more tornado intensities.
• Fixed Xaero's Minimap label leak — tornado stage labels no longer appear on the HUD when the minimap is hidden or closed. Labels only render when the minimap is actually visible on screen.
• Fixed tornado bounce/stuck — removed a double-position-update bug where atmospheric steering fought Weather2's native movement, causing tornadoes to oscillate in place or stop moving.
• Fixed waterspout/landspout/dust devil movement — removed the per-tick motion decay in the event update loop that caused addon vortices to exponentially slow to a crawl. Steering now preserves speed naturally.
• Fixed missing snow devil entity — snow devils now properly create visible DustDevilEntity instances instead of spawning as invisible events.
• Fixed tornado floating — main funnel base layer and satellite/sub-vortex funnels now clamp to ground surface when formation is complete, preventing funnels from hovering above terrain.
• Revamped addon vortex funnels — waterspouts now have a thin rope-like tube with a wide spray ring at the base; landspouts feature a wider dust bowl and ghostly upper column; dust devils have a 60% wider base with steeper taper.
• Revamped tornado visuals with more stable funnel geometry and smoother movement.
• Added delayed tornado touchdown during formation so new funnels do not immediately reach the ground.
• Removed the unwanted random tornado size pulse.
• Improved wedge morphology stability and prevented wedge-tag flickering.
• Increased tornado dust cloud density to better fill the circulation while keeping realistic particle sizes.
• Tornado dust now rises into an upward plume instead of forming a flat disk or horizontal spiral.
• Added stronger vertical lift to core dust, outer curtains, sub-vortices, horizontal vortices, touchdown rings, and condensation effects.
• Tornado dust particle budget increased to 500 particles per tick by default.

Precipitation

• Revamped rain-wrapped storm precipitation based on Weather2 Remastered behavior.
• Added stable storm-relative rain curtains and denser inner rain cores.
• Added terrain-aware precipitation floors.
• Added wind-slanted, inward-moving, and rotating rain motion.
• Added an inflow-side clear slot for a more recognizable rain-wrapped structure.

Storm Dynamics

• Improved tornado funnel bending and layer stability.
• Prevented visual geometry feedback from compounding between ticks.
• Removed duplicate funnel rotation updates that could cause visible jitter.
• Preserved client-side bend interpolation between multiplayer sync packets.
• Kept tornado size, damage width, and wind physics separate from visual smoothing.
• Added more consistent formation lift and touchdown progression.

Weather Systems

• Added low-pressure and frontal-boundary visualization systems.
• Added warm, cold, and occluded front tracking around organized low-pressure areas.
• Added front convergence influence to storm organization, supercell structure, landspout chances, and gustnado chances.
• Added atmospheric steering support for storm movement.
• Added improved tropical cyclone and hurricane visual handling.

Equipment and Interface

• Added the Tornado Anemometer block and block entity.
• Added radar, outlook, alert, and storm tracking support for the expanded weather systems.
• Added anemometer advancement and creative-tab registration.

Fixes

• Fixed missing AnemometerBlock classes in clean mod builds.
• Fixed stale Gradle build output that could cause ClassNotFoundException at runtime.
• Fixed particle scaling paths that could create oversized tornado dust puffs.
• Fixed water-surface dust rendering by using lighter mist tones.
• Fixed stale wedge width targets after morphology transitions.
• Improved multiplayer synchronization for tornado visual state.

Compatibility

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.230
• Weather2 and CoroUtil required
• Java 21 required