Christmas Season

Version 1.2.3 (2025-11-28)
A comprehensive update for a complete, intelligent event reset without damaging natural terrain.

🎁 New Features
Full Entity & Loot Cleanup

When resetting the event (/xmas off), all spawned event entities and items are now removed automatically:

• 🎨 Decoration items (items with custom display name)
• 🎁 Gift chests (chests named "Weihnachts-Geschenk")
• 👤 Elves & helpers (tracked via the internal tracker system)
• ⛄ Snowmen (tracked via ScoreboardTags)

Details:

• Cleanup now runs before stopFeatures(), so all trackers are still populated
• Console log shows exactly how many entities/items were removed

⚡ Improvements
Smarter Biome-Specific Reset

Snow removal:

• Snow is only removed in biomes that naturally do not have snow (e.g. PLAINS, FOREST, DESERT)
• In natural snow biomes (SNOWY_PLAINS, SNOWY_TAIGA, GROVE, etc.) snow is preserved ✅
• Improved logic: snow above water is now detected and removed as well (fixed break condition on fluids)

Ice handling:

• Ice is only turned back into water in biomes that naturally don’t have ice (e.g. PLAINS, FOREST)
• In icy/cold biomes, ice is preserved ✅
• Supported examples: FROZEN_OCEAN, FROZEN_RIVER, ICE_SPIKES, SNOWY_PLAINS, SNOWY_TAIGA, GROVE, JAGGED_PEAKS, etc.

Technical improvements:

• 🔧 Chunks are automatically loaded if they aren’t loaded during reset
• 📊 Detailed debug output for easier troubleshooting
• 🎯 Optimized order: Cleanup → StopFeatures → BiomeReset

🐛 Bug Fixes
Critical fixes:

• 🔴 Elves & helpers were not removed reliably → fixed by running cleanup before stopFeatures()
• 🔴 Ice in SNOWY_PLAINS was removed → isNaturallyIcyBiome() extended to include all relevant snowy biomes
• 🔴 Snow above water stayed behind → loop logic corrected, break now only on solid blocks

Additional fixes:

• Ice is no longer left behind in non-icy biomes (e.g. PLAINS, FOREST)
• Natural snow in snow biomes is now correctly preserved
• Event entities and items are removed completely during reset
• Biome reset now works correctly even with previously unloaded chunks

Known issues

• ⚠️ Currently, even manually placed regular ice (not packed or blue ice) in non-icy biomes will also be turned back into water during the reset. I’ll try to improve this behavior in a future update, but the logic to reliably distinguish natural from player-placed ice is quite complex.