RealSeasons

Seasons and events that follow the real-world date (Brasília time by default, configurable). Your server gets into the spirit of each time of year automatically, with no manual work.

Compatible with: Paper / Purpur 26.2 · Java: 25

🎄 Christmas (Dec 1 – Dec 26)

• Snow-covered ground around players. The snow melts away on its own when Christmas ends.
• Snowfall around anyone under open sky.
• Christmas snowmen scattered across the world. They are invulnerable and attack monsters.
• Zombies and skeletons wearing Santa hats.
• Monsters drop Gifts. Right-click to open one and get items.
• One free gift per day when you join the server.
• A boss bar counts down the days until Christmas, plus occasional bells.

🎆 New Year (Dec 31, all day until midnight)

• The Minecraft day follows the real-world clock: 00:00 real time is Minecraft midnight, and 12:00 is noon.
• The real time is shown on the boss bar, along with the time left until the new year.
• No hostile mobs during the whole celebration, and the weather stays clear.
• Nobody can skip the night by sleeping.
• At nightfall the sky fills with fireworks and sparkles. The fireworks don't hurt anyone.
• 10…1 countdown on screen and a firework burst at 00:00, with the party continuing for a few minutes.
• After the party, time goes back to normal.

🎃 Halloween (Oct 25 – Nov 1)

• Soul flames on the ground and spooky ambient sounds.
• Monsters wearing pumpkins on their heads.
• Haunted Candy: gives you either a buff or a nasty trick (trick or treat!).

⚡ Random events (any date)

They start on their own, with configurable interval and chance, or you can start them manually.

• Fishing Season: faster bites, double catches, rare treasure and double XP.
• Dark Storm: a real thunderstorm with decorative lightning. Monsters drop double, give more XP and can drop rare bonus items.
• Harvest Festival: fully grown crops give extra drops.

Events don't start during New Year.

📋 Commands

Permissions: realseasons.use (everyone) and realseasons.admin (ops).

⚙️ Configuration

Almost everything can be changed in config.yml:

• dates of each season and the time zone;
• New Year start hour and party duration;
• amount of fireworks, snow radius and speed;
• loot tables and drop chances;
• event duration and frequency;
• all messages, using & color codes.

Each feature can be turned on or off separately.

📝 Notes

• Zombies and skeletons wearing hats or pumpkins don't burn in sunlight. You can disable this with natal.mob-hats and halloween.mob-pumpkins.
• Not compatible with Folia.
• The ground snow is saved to disk, so it is removed correctly even after a server restart.
• Default messages are in Portuguese, but you can translate them in config.yml.