BiomeVisuals

BiomeVisuals allows you to override biome data before it is sent to the client, allowing you to display special effects.

Documentation

Information

Minecraft currently allows you to register your own biomes via datapacks which allow for adding custom features, caves, mountains, and much more. This had the benefit of making all of the current Minecraft biomes being able to be modified using datapacks as well.

This plugin simply allows you to change the biome data before it is sent to the client, allowing you to modify things such as the color of the biome.

Adding Overrides

Currently, there are two ways to define overrides. You currently are only able to add biome overrides, however it is possible in the future this can be expanded to more things.

API

The plugins offers a built in api that can be used.

The override registry must be fetched with this.

OverrideRegistry registry = (OverrideRegistry) Bukkit.getPluginManager().getPlugin("BiomeVisuals");

Then, you can register the biome override. This signifies that the plains biome will have the override with the biome data specified.

registry.registerBiomeOverride(NamespacedKey.minecraft("plains"), BiomeDataBuilder.newBuilder()
                .precipitation(PrecipitationType.SNOW)
                .effect(
                        BiomeEffectBuilder.newBuilder()
                                .foliageColorOverride(Color.BLACK)
                                .build()
                )
                .build());

File Importing

The plugin will automatically try to import overrides that are defined in the overrides directory located in the plugin directory. (BiomeVisuals/overrides) Inorder to add an override, you must first define the registry type that you are overriding. This is incase if any new overrides are added in the future.

Currently, the supported override types are: worldgen/biome.

Then, you will add the json object for an override, which is:

{
  "key": "minecraft:plains",
  "override": {},
  "condition": {
    "type": "",
  }
}

The key represents the key of item being overwritten.

This usually represents the namespace of something, in this case, a biome.

The override field represents all fields that will be replaced in the original object.

See https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Biome/JSON_format for fields that can be replaced. For converting colors, I recommend using http://www.shodor.org/stella2java/rgbint.html.

The condition field represents a predicate, there is a chance that this may change in the future but my goal was to be able to assign "holidays" for example.

Current valid conditions

"condition": {
        "type": "biomevisuals:static",
        "value": true
}

Value will always return as defined in the value field, in this case true.

"condition": {
       "type": "biomevisuals:date_range",
       "min_date": "2021-12-20",
       "max_date": "2021-12-31",
       "ignore_year": true
     }

Value will return true if the current date is within the range of the two given dates. Ignore year causes the year in the min/max date field to be ignored, useful for re-occuring dates.

JSON Example

{
  "minecraft:worldgen/biome": [
    {
      "key": "minecraft:plains",
      "override": {
        "effects": {
          "sky_color": 1
        }
      },
      "condition": {
        "type": "biomevisuals:static",
        "value": true
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "minecraft:forest",
      "override": {
        "effects": {
          "sky_color": 15138811,
          "foliage_color": 13434879,
          "grass_color": 13434879,
          "particle": {
            "options": {
              "type": "minecraft:snowflake"
            },
            "probability": 0.01428
          }
        }
      },
      "condition": {
        "type": "biomevisuals:date_range",
        "min_date": "2021-12-20",
        "max_date": "2021-12-31",
        "ignore_year": true
      }
    }
  ]
}

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