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Does anyone know a good way to change the length of seasons? I'm running a Nordic server soon and would love to ensure that it's cold and snowy maybe 6-8 months of the year. 


As a side note, I'm assuming this will affect crops?  Are there crops that grow in the cold?

 

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In an unmodded game, crops are unaffected by the season and grow the same winter or summer.

 

However there is a mod that might suit your Nordic server, that introduces temperature survival.  You can die in winter if you do not keep warm, either indiors near a fire or outdoors with a campfire. With this mod,  crops won;t grow in winter; it also introduces warm woolen clothing and various temperature related changes.

 

 

 

If you have not already chosen a map, CountZero has one in this thread  that might suit a Nordic theme -- however if people dig very much in the "snow," it turns to regular dirt and won;t revert back to snow:

 

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I cannot recall offhand whether you need a mod to have an extended winter season. Maybe someone else has ideas for that. I will say that the severity of the Survival Mod (freezing temperatiure etc) make even a short winter have a very profound impact, and the map above would give a wintery look year round (except for the green areas to the south). 

 

Joedobo has a clientside mod that lets you affect the graphical display of seasons, which is not quite what you are looking for I think. It only affects textures and only on the users own monitor, not serverwide:

 

 

BDew has a serverside mod that removes all winter graphics and replaces with fall/spring textures. While that is obviously NOT what you want, it might be possible to tinker with it to have a "reverse" type mod that   removes summer and has only winter, spring and fall colors. These only affect textures however; with the survival mod you would still have a "short winter" temperature wise even if textures made it look wintery year round.

 

 

Someone else may have other ideas & suggestions.

 

 

Edited by Brash_Endeavors
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if you really wanted you could easily make it winter all year round.

In server > wurmcalender

Spoiler

  public static int getSeasonNumber()
  {
    int season = 0;
    if (isWinter())
      season = 4;
    if (isSpring())
      season = 0;
    if (isSummer())
      season = 2;
    if (isAutumn())
      season = 3;
    return season;
  }

 

Hook into that little puppy and make it always return 4.

If you want to have all 4 seasons still but change the amount of time of each then it gets way more complicated.

 

--=== edit ===--

Hmm on closer inspection that method seems to only be used in fishing, sigh.

They really did make seasons complicated  haha

Edited by Cuddles

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Thank you both, I will look into the survival mod as it seems to be close to what I need. If anyone has any further suggestions for mods, in general, that I should put on a viking-themed hardcore PVP/economics server, please let me know!

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