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Be sure to check the readme inside the pack!
This pack is configured for Optifine and FabricSkyBoxes. Either of these mods is required!
Scroll down for a feature comparison.
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If you like this pack, and would like to support me, please consider donating through PayPal.
Any and all donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you!
So that's about it, I hope you'll enjoy this pack!
Be sure to check the readme inside the pack!
This pack is configured for Optifine and FabricSkyBoxes. Either of these mods is required!
Scroll down for a feature comparison.
Download from Curseforge
Download from Modrinth
If you like this pack, and would like to support me, please consider donating through PayPal.
Any and all donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Moon features
Realistic 3D surface
The benefit of using 3D rendering software, is that the geometry of the surface of the Moon is clearly visible due to the lighting. I've not yet seen any pack doing this.
Blood Moon
Blood moon will happen weekly at night. This feature only works with fabric currently.
Blue Moon
Blue moon will happen once every Blue moon. This feature only works with fabric currently.
Sky features
Some of the visuals became outdated as the updates came out. I will update these examples at some point, it just takes time.
Biome dependent skies
Unique clouds for snowy biomes, warm biomes (badlands, savanna and mangrove), and for deserts for all 4 stages of the day.
(play video)
(play video)
Rain and Thunder clouds
Unique clouds for rain and thunderstorms, for all 4 stages of the day.
(play video)
(play video)
Lightning strikes
These will appear throughout the night when there is a thunderstorm.
(play video)
(play video)
High altitude clouds
These will give you an "at the edge of space" experience if you go above Y=256. I recommend a render distance of about 8-10 for the best effect.
(play video)
(play video)
Supercell
You'll see these in the distance in hot biomes from morning to early afternoon. Low and high altitude variants:
Rainbow
These will appear after a weather event (rain or thunder). This feature only works with Fabric currently.
Asperitas clouds
Low and high altitude variants:
Mammatus clouds
Low and high altitude variants:
Sandstorms
These will appear during weather events in deserts, savannas, mesas and mangrove biomes. Low and high altitude variants:
Tornadoes
You'll see these periodically sweep through the sky during the afternoon.
(play video)
(play video)
Total Solar Eclipse
These will happen every 5 days. This feature only works with Fabric currently.
Gas giants
Jupiter and Saturn will orbit the sky.
Auroras
These will appear at night in cold biomes at new Moon.
(play video)
(play video)
Northern Star
As in real life, the night sky will appear to be rotating around the Northern Star.
(right click video -> loop, and play)
(right click video -> loop, and play)
Shooting Stars
These will appear throughout the night.
(play video)
(play video)
Meteor shower
This will happen at new Moon near the end of the night. (play video)
Black hole
(play video)
Light pollution
The stars visible in the Milky way will become dimmer as the Moon gets more and more full to imitate light pollution
(right click video -> loop, and play)
(right click video -> loop, and play)
Outer Space
If you stand at the top of the world, it'll be like being in outer space. I recommend a render distance of about 8-10 for the best effect.
(play video)
(play video)
Hurricane
These will happen during thunderstorms at certain times.
Low and high altitude variants:
Outer space variant:
Low and high altitude variants:
Outer space variant:
Custom End sky
Main End island:
Unique End biome skies
End barrens:
End midlands:
End highlands:
Small End islands:
End midlands:
End highlands:
Small End islands:
Latent features
Vanilla support
A separate version is available for download that does not require any mods to work, but it's limited to a day and night sky only.
Works for Minecraft versions 1.17 and above. Be sure to enable Fabulous! graphics, otherwise the pack won't work.
Thanks to Csala Bálint for providing the template pack. https://github.com/BalintCsala/minecraft-vanilla-skybox
Works for Minecraft versions 1.17 and above. Be sure to enable Fabulous! graphics, otherwise the pack won't work.
Thanks to Csala Bálint for providing the template pack. https://github.com/BalintCsala/minecraft-vanilla-skybox
Mod support
There are 11 biome mods that are currently supported by this pack, meaning the custom skies will work in those modded biomes as well. They have also been categorized into cold, temperate, warm and hot biome types.
Supported mods are:
-Biomes O' Plenty
-Oh The Biomes You'll Go
-Terralith
-Promenade
-Terrestria
-Regions Unexplored
-Traverse
-William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere
-Nyctophobia
-ExplorerCraft
-Fantasy Trees
Supported mods are:
-Biomes O' Plenty
-Oh The Biomes You'll Go
-Terralith
-Promenade
-Terrestria
-Regions Unexplored
-Traverse
-William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere
-Nyctophobia
-ExplorerCraft
-Fantasy Trees
Shader support
Please read the text file in the pack for instructions regarding shaders.
Complementary comparison: (play video)
Complementary comparison: (play video)
Seamless fog
The point where the skybox meets the terrain is often a point where the illusion breaks with custom sky packs. This pack solves this, leaving no jarring lines on unloaded chunk boarders:
Irregular cloud rotation
This one is a really easy feature to implement, but it's super effective. Clouds will "always" be at a different orientation on the same time of the day.
(right click video -> loop, and play)
(right click video -> loop, and play)
3D atmospheric falloff
Another advantage of using 3D software, is being able to add volumetric falloff to the cloudscape.
(right click video -> loop, and play)
(right click video -> loop, and play)
Proper cloud layering
Using alpha blending, it is possible to create proper layers in the skybox.
For example: at night, clouds will properly block out the stars, and won't show through them.
The glow from the Moon (and Sun) will be behind the clouds:
In Optifine unfortunately, it's impossible to block out the Sun/Moon with sky layers, so they will show through the clouds (this is not an issue with Fabric).
For example: at night, clouds will properly block out the stars, and won't show through them.
The glow from the Moon (and Sun) will be behind the clouds:
In Optifine unfortunately, it's impossible to block out the Sun/Moon with sky layers, so they will show through the clouds (this is not an issue with Fabric).
Counter-rotating stars
This I think really gives a "celestial" feel to the night sky, seeing the Moon rotate freely from the star background.
(play video)
(play video)
Optifine / FabricSkyBoxes feature comparison:
So that's about it, I hope you'll enjoy this pack!
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