Kinda Winter Mode

When installed in a world, the pack changes vanilla terrain generation so that snow and ice cover most of the surface, including non-cold biomes, oceans and caves, and water freezes at the surface. Snow piles up faster during snowy weather, which also affects plant growth and leaf decay. The pack is inspired by the short-lived Winter Mode of an early Alpha version, adapted to a modern version of the game.

The pack is installed as a data pack in a world's datapacks folder, and it takes effect after the player launches the game, chooses the world type and rejoins. It replaces vanilla world generation, so it cannot be combined with other data packs or mods that override that generation, and the author advises making a backup of the world first. Running the pack together with a weather cycle that is disabled is handled through a game rule, and the author notes that a larger snow setting can increase the processing load on the CPU.

Kinda Winter Mode is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and as a data pack for server platforms, with builds for 26.3 as the latest files, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. It is not open source. The server must run it, while players may add it without needing it to join.