🌨️ Serene Seasons Better Winter
Bring your winter landscapes to life with cleaner tree silhouettes and a stronger seasonal atmosphere.
Serene Seasons Better Winter is a Forge 1.20.1 addon that makes deciduous tree leaves visually disappear during late autumn and winter, creating a natural dormant-season look while keeping conifer and jungle foliage intact.
🎥 Showcase
Cinematic Setup (Recommended)
Embeddium + Dynamic Trees + Complementary Unbound + Serene Seasons Better Winter
Vanilla Renderer (Without Embeddium)
Note: Without Embeddium, some residual canopy shadowing may still occur in very dense or tall foliage.
Vanilla + Embeddium
📦 Requirements
- Serene Seasons (required)
⭐ Highly Recommended
- Embeddium
Best visual consistency, especially for lighting and shadow behavior. - Dynamic Trees
Excellent visual synergy with branch-heavy, leafless winter canopies.
✨ Features
- Hides deciduous leaves in configured leaf-drop sub-seasons (default: late autumn + winter)
- Keeps conifer and jungle leaves visible
- Removes floating snow layers above hidden leaves
- Hides small hanging blocks attached below hidden leaves (for example apples and cocoons)
- Optional server-side pass-through for hidden seasonal blocks
- Optional hidden-block lighting behavior adjustments
- Optional season chat broadcast on leaf-drop and leaf-return transitions
- Optional Distant Horizons integration for LOD leaf hiding and refresh (experimental, client-side)
🧪 Distant Horizons Integration (Experimental)
Distant Horizons support is available as an experimental client feature.
In serene_better_winter-client.toml:
enable_experimental_dh_integration = trueenable_dh_lod_leaf_hiding = truedh_auto_refresh_on_season_toggle = true
Important:
- This integration is disabled by default.
- On some modpacks/setups, LOD refresh behavior may be inconsistent.
- If needed, disable the experimental DH integration and keep the base mod behavior.
ℹ️ Version Info
- Minecraft: 1.20.1
- Forge target: 47.4.10 (runtime-compatible range)
- Mod ID:
serene_better_winter
🐞 Bug Reports and Issues
If you encounter bugs, visual inconsistencies, or compatibility issues, please report them on GitHub:
Issues tracker:
https://github.com/Maeiro/Serene-Seasons-Better-Winter/issues
When reporting an issue, including screenshots, logs, and your full mod list is highly appreciated.
📜 Modpack and Code Usage
This mod is released under the GNU GPL v3.0.
You are free to:
- Use the mod in public or private modpacks
- Modify, fork, or reuse the source code
- Include parts of the code in your own projects
- Distribute modified or unmodified versions
As required by GPLv3, redistributions and derivative works must keep the same license terms.
📄 License
This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.
See the LICENSE file for the full license text.
How to Install Serene Seasons Better Winter (Mod)
Serene Seasons Better Winter by Maeiro is verified for Forge across Minecraft versions 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6 (latest release: 1.4.0, file size: 234 KB). Follow the steps below to install it safely from ModCraft.tv:
- Click the Download button above and select your Minecraft version (1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6) and platform (Forge).
- Make sure you have the compatible loader or environment installed for Forge.
- Move the downloaded Serene Seasons Better Winter file into your Minecraft
.minecraft/modsfolder and launch the game.
All Versions
+ Add Version
- Added Distant Horizons integration as an experimental, client-side feature with explicit config gating and warning logs.
- Improved DH LOD refresh/retrieval behavior and safer recovery options.
- Fixed season chat broadcasts: leaf-drop/leaf-return messages now trigger only on leafless state transitions (entry/exit), avoiding repeated winter spam.
It also adds a synced server-side toggle (hide_blocks_attached_to_hidden_leaves) plus override tags (always_hide_when_attached_to_hidden_leaves / never_hide_when_attached_to_hidden_leaves) for fine control and multiplayer consistency.
