Distant thunders

A realism mod that introduces speed-of-sound physics to Minecraft. Lightning strikes are no longer heard instantly; instead, the thunder reaches you with a delay based on your distance from the strike. It also features dynamic volume scaling and realistic, low rolling echoes.

Features

• Thunder arrives later the farther the strike is
• Far thunder is quieter and deeper
• Echo after the thunder, can be turned down
• Sky flashes right when the lightning strikes, not when the sound arrives
• Storms keep going outside of your loaded chunks, you still hear them and see the flashes
• With Distant Horizons you can see the bolts themselves, even kilometres away

Lightning that looks like lightning

Not a vanilla stick: lots of thin branches that split again and again. It flashes a few times and every flash reaches lower than the previous one.

Storm over the horizon

Bolts start in clouds thousands of blocks up and hit the ground far outside of your render distance.

Presets

You can tweak everything about the bolt (height, number of flashes, branches, thickness, glow, colour, how long it stays), or just pick a preset.

Realistic - default. Cloud 3 km up, three flashes, many fine branches.

Cinematic - thick and bright, five flashes, lots of branches, long glow.

Violet storm - same idea but violet.

Classic - close to the vanilla bolt: low, a few thick forks.

Subtle - low and thin, few branches, almost no glow, no echo.

Needle - one long thin crooked line, nothing else.

Command

/fakelightning <x> <y> <z> [start height] [stroke]

• Makes a strike at that point (~ ~ ~ is where you stand)
• Start height is where the bolt begins
• Last number shows only one flash, so you can look at it

Requires

• Architectury API
• Fabric API on Fabric
• Distant Horizons is optional. Without it you only get sound and sky flashes (Voxy can't show the bolts)