Aeternum Seasons

🌪️ AeternumSeasons Update 3.9

This update focuses on stability, protection compatibility, and event behavior improvements, especially for servers using WorldGuard and protected regions.

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🛡️ WorldGuard Compatibility Improvements

Magic Storm

• Lightning strikes are now blocked inside protected regions.
• Prevents unwanted damage or griefing in spawn, towns, or safe zones.
• Storm visuals and atmosphere still work normally outside protected areas.

Tornado Event

• Tornadoes no longer push, damage, or affect entities inside protected regions.
• Crops and breakable plants will not be destroyed in protected areas.
• Tornado spawn logic improved to avoid generating inside protected zones when possible.

These changes make seasonal disasters feel immersive while still respecting server protection systems.

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❄️ Snow & Climate System Fixes

• Winter snow painter now respects excluded_biomes from climate.yml.

• Snow will no longer form in hot or intentionally excluded biomes such as:

  • Desert
  • Jungle variants
  • Badlands variants

• Vanilla snow and ice formation is now also blocked in excluded climates during winter.

This ensures seasonal visuals remain consistent with biome design and server balance.

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🔧 Internal Fixes & Stability

• Fixed crash on modern Paper versions where Biome is no longer an enum.
• Improved config path handling for climate snow behavior.
• Various event safety improvements to reduce unintended world interaction.

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❤️ Thank you

Huge thanks to server owners and testers reporting issues on protected regions and event interactions. Feedback continues to shape the seasonal system into a more server-friendly and performance-safe experience.

More refinements coming soon.