Weather Control - Set the Weather and Choose How Often It Rains

Set the weather where you stand from Mod Menu, hold it there if you like, and use sliders for how often each weather comes, how long it lasts, how many days are rainy and how often lightning strikes. Every slider starts at the normal game.

The game's world settings have nothing for weather. Sometimes I want a sunny afternoon for building, sometimes I want a proper storm, and sometimes I just want less rain. So this lets you set it on the spot, or tune the odds and leave the game to roll it.

What it does

• []Set the weather here: pick one of 9 weathers and press Set it now. It rolls in over about 10 seconds.[/]

  []Keep the weather: when the weather where you are changes by itself, the mod puts yours back within a few seconds. It follows you from area to area.[/]

  []How often: a slider for each weather, from 0 (never) to 5x as likely, plus four presets: Vanilla, No rain, Always sunny and Stormy.[/]

  []Rainy days: how often the game picks a rainy day.[/]

  []Weather lasts: each weather stays 0. 25x to 4x as long before the next change.[/]

  []Lightning strikes: from none up to 5x as often during lightning storms.[/]

How the game's weather works

Knowing this makes the sliders make sense:

• []Weather is per area. Brynmoor (with the starting area), Dowdun Reach, Umbral Sands and the Scorned Wilderness each roll their own. Setting the weather changes the area you are standing in, not the whole map.[/]

  []Each area rolls a weather, keeps it for a while, then rolls again. The game's own periods are usually 3 to 5 in-game hours, and an in-game hour is 1 real minute.[/]

  []Every day at 4:00 the game picks a dry day or a rainy day, about 1 day in 3 (15% in Umbral Sands). In Brynmoor, dry days only roll sunny, cloudy and fog. Rain, storms and lightning storms come on rainy days, so if you want more of those, raise Rainy days too (the Stormy preset does).[/]

  []Some weathers only start at certain hours. In Brynmoor, fog only starts early in the morning (4:00 to 7:00) and lightning storms around midnight (23:00 to 2:00). The sliders change how likely a weather is, not when it can start.[/]

  []Umbral Sands only rolls sunny, or a sandstorm on its rainy days, so the rain sliders do nothing there.[/]

The weathers

Sunny, Cloudy, Fog, Light rain, Heavy rain, Storm, Lightning storm, and two extras. Six of them from the same spot:

The two extras, plainly. Velgar's sky is the green haze from the dragon fight. Sandstorm is the Umbral Sands weather, and outside Umbral Sands it only gives a hazy, overcast look with no sand:

Setting the weather

Open Esc > MODS > Weather Control, click Weather to set to step through the weathers, then press Set it now. The game is paused while the menu is open, so the change starts when you close it.

A short message at the bottom of the screen says what happened:

• []How long it lasts: a weather you set stays until that area's current weather period runs out, then the game rolls again. Turn on Keep the weather to hold it.[/]

  []A few places have fixed weather. There the mod cannot change or keep it, and the message says "the game keeps the weather fixed here".[/]

  []Keys: optional keys for "next weather" (steps through the 7 normal weathers) and "sunny now". None by default.[/]

What you cannot change

• []Fog thickness and cloud height have no sliders. The game resets those values every frame, so the only way to get fog or clouds is the Fog and Cloudy weathers themselves.[/]

Settings

All live in Mod Menu (Esc > MODS > Weather Control), or in config.txt in the mod folder:

[*]Enabled: on by defaul