Living Stormfront V.2

Quickstart

1. Craft and use a Storm Forecaster to open its settings:
2. Choose a weather type and adjust its intensity, footprint, and duration. For a tornado setup, choose Tornadic supercell and set its EF rating, shape, and funnel width.
3. Select Deploy front. The localized storm forms around you and drifts across the area. Try the Storm Probe or Storm Radar to track it.
4. Want weather to appear on its own? Turn on Autonomous storm cycle in the forecaster.

Use the other tools directly from your hotbar. Place the Storm Radar Panel to set up a map station, then interact with the panel to view its scan.

Overview

Living Stormfront creates moving, localized weather fronts with cloud and rain effects, wind, fog, and storm sounds. Fronts have adjustable intensity, footprint, and lifetime. Strong storms can produce hail echoes, and tornado setups develop into visible funnels after a short delay.

The forecaster can create fronts near you or enable periodic autonomous storms. Up to four fronts can be active at once.

What It Adds

How To Use

Forecast fronts

Use the Storm Forecaster to choose among Tornadic supercell, Thunderstorm, Rain squall, Squall line, Supercell, Cumulonimbus, Single-cell storm, Cumulus, and Hurricane.

The settings let you adjust general intensity from 1–10, storm footprint from 16–512 blocks, and duration from 30–600 seconds. Tornado setups have separate EF0–EF6, shape, and funnel-width settings; hurricanes have a CAT1–CAT6 setting. Choose Deploy front to create the weather at your location.

Select Dissipate nearest active front when you want to clear the closest front instead of deploying one. Autonomous storm cycle lets fronts appear periodically without manual deployment.

Read weather

• Storm Probe: Use it to read pressure and whether it is falling, rising, or steady. The reading also identifies the nearest front within 512 blocks, if present.
• Storm Radar: Use it to scan for nearby echoes. Reports include compass bearing, distance, rating, and pressure at the front.
• Weather Balloon: Use it to launch a balloon. It rises while reporting altitude and pressure trends; a player can have only one balloon transmitting at a time.
• Storm Radar Panel: Place the panel in an open area to assemble a 4×4 radar station facing the direction of placement. Interact with the station to open its map and reports. It scans a 512-block range and can show up to four contact reports. The map legend distinguishes light, rain, moderate, heavy, and severe echoes; hail perimeter and hail levels; extreme cores; and tornadoes.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft the tools and panel at a crafting table:

Abilities And Mechanics

Tornado funnels can be cone, wedge, rope, or multi-vortex shaped. A Tornadic supercell begins as a setup and forms its funnel after a delay. Strong supercells can also have a chance to develop tornadoes.

Storms drift, and their wind can push nearby players and other entities. Non-cumulus fronts bring localized fog and weather effects; sufficiently strong storms may also produce hail echoes.

Progression And Strategy

Start with a modest footprint and intensity, then use the probe and radar to follow the front before trying stronger settings. A balloon can provide additional pressure readings as it climbs. Keep your distance from intense fronts and tornado funnels: wind effects reach across the storm’s footprint.