Immersive Storms
With Immersive Storms installed, deserts, badlands, savannas and swamps get weather-driven fog and dust effects on the client.
What it does
The mod adds fog and particle effects that follow the weather in several biomes. Deserts, badlands and savannas receive sandstorm-style dusty fog during rain, which thickens during thunderstorms. Snowy weather produces whiter fog that grows thicker in thunder, signalling a blizzard with reduced visibility. Swamps and the Pale Garden gain a dense fog during any rainy weather, not only thunderstorms.
Windswept hills and mountains become windier in all weather, with a breeze that carries dust and rock particles. Deserts and badlands get the same airborne particles, although the wind sound there is the vanilla one. Because the effects run on the client, the mod is installed on player machines only, and single-player worlds show them as well.
Immersive Storms targets Fabric and Quilt and needs Fabric API and YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL) to run. Files cover 1.21.5 – 26.3 and the latest build, 1.8.0+26.3, was published on 2026-09-26. The code is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later.
Key features
Biome-based sandstorm fog
Deserts, badlands and savannas gain a dense sandy fog during rain that becomes thicker in thunderstorms.
Blizzard visibility
Snowy weather whitens the fog, and thunder makes it thick enough to reduce how far players can see.
Rainy swamp and Pale Garden fog
Swamps and the Pale Garden fill with heavy fog in any rain, matching the thickness of the strongest sandstorms.
Windswept dust particles
Hills, mountains, deserts and badlands carry drifting dust and rock particles in a soft breeze.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
How it compares
Pale Garden Effects is a Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt mod for 1.21.4 – 26.3 that is client-side only and open source under the MIT License, so it covers a similar Pale Garden atmosphere without the wider biome set. FogShiftWEATHER is a Fabric-only mod for 1.21.5 – 1.21.11 that is not open source, and it needs both the client and the server. Better Pale Garden is a server-required mod for 1.21.4 across four loaders, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immersive Storms | Fabric and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-26 |
| Pale Garden Effects | Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 – 26.3 | Client-side only | 2026-09-27 |
| FogShiftWEATHER | Fabric | 1.21.5 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-03-05 |
| Better Pale Garden | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-12-15 |
Questions
Does Immersive Storms need to be installed on the server?
Which dependencies does Immersive Storms require?
Does Immersive Storms work on NeoForge?
In the catalog
Immersive Storms is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
A small client-side mod that adds subtle and immersive fog and particle effects to various biomes, based on the weather. Deserts, Badlands, and Savannas are now affected by Sandstorms. When it rains in the world, a dense sandy fog will close in and a fierce wind will kick up new dust particles. When thunderstorms…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/immersive-storms
- Owner
- TheDeathlyCow
- Published
- 2025-06-14
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15