Atmospheric Phenomena

Meteorites and impact craters appear across the landscape as evidence of past meteoric events. Some craters are fully filled with remnants and buried beneath the surface, while meteorites turn up in holes in the ground. Falling meteors and comets occasionally cross the sky, depending on settings in the config file. Some meteoroids break apart in the air with a bright burst, while others reach the ground and carve craters on landing. Meteorites are only found in the Overworld.

Lightning heats the ground to significant temperatures and can vitrify earthen material: sand becomes glass, dirt and stone become fulgurites, and logs start burning. A lightning strike can also travel along the ground through conductive blocks, usually metal, which pass the charge onward. Some blocks store that charge for later use. Atmospheric Phenomena is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is released under the MIT License and is open source, with files for Forge and NeoForge covering 1.20.1 – 1.20.4.