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Ambient Particles

Ambient Particles Vanilla Minecraft's night forests feel too quiet, and swamps feel too empty. **Ambient Whispers** fills that space with 9 kinds of subtle ambient particles. **Client-side only**

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Latest stable file ambient-particles-1.0.0.jar

Game version 26.2

Loader Fabric

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About this project

What does Ambient Particles add?

Ambient Whispers — Ambient Particles

Vanilla Minecraft's night forests feel too quiet, and swamps feel too empty.
**Ambient Whispers** fills that space with 9 kinds of subtle ambient particles. **Client-side only** — nothing needed on the server, works in multiplayer for each player who installs it.

> **"Like real fireflies"** — Fireflies are the size of the real insect (≈3–5 cm), appear only at night, spread evenly up to 10 chunks (160 blocks), and flash every 1.4–4 s.

✨ 9 particle effects

Particle	Where	Notes
Firefly	Night (time 13,000–23,000)	Evenly spread up to 160 blocks, gold↔lime per individual, glowing trail on flash
Moon Mote	Night + forest biome, sky light < 12	Pale blue, drifts upward
Leaf Drift	Near leaves	Gold/orange, slowly sinks
Pollen Glow	Near flowers	Yellow/orange, wide sway
Frost Spark	Snow & ice	Very rare, 50% opacity — subtle only
Ember Mote	Magma, netherrack, basalt, blackstone	Orange/red, never rises above 0.65 block
Aurora Mote	Night + snow/ice	Teal/emerald, rising
Spore	Mushroom blocks / dark forest	Long-lived drifting spores
Deadwood Mist	Podzol, coarse dirt, mangrove roots, mud, logs	Large faint mist rising from the ground

*Water Spark is registered but currently not spawned.*

🔥 Fireflies

**Night only** — they fade out within 1 second after dawn (firefliesNightOnly).
**Up to 10 chunks (160 blocks)** — the fill radius adapts to your render distance; density is even from your feet to the horizon.
**Realistic size** — ≈2.9–5.0 cm by default, distance-compensated (1–1.8×) so they stay visible as tiny points far away.
**Flash pattern** — instant rise, 0.8–1.6 s decay, every 1.4–4.0 s, with a 15% double-flash. Size barely changes, so the light never "blooms".
**Lifetime 6–24 s**, each individual pulses on its own cycle.
**35% density over water** compared to land.
6% chance of a 2–3 firefly cluster; 30% hover 1.6–4.2 blocks above the ground so grass doesn't hide them.

⚙️ Configuration

config/ambientparticles.json is generated on first launch.

Option	Range	Default	Description
toggles (`fireflies`, `spores`, …)	true/false	true	Enable/disable each effect
`density`	0.5 – 2.5	1.5	Overall count (2.0 → up to 680 fireflies)
`firefliesNightOnly`	true/false	true	Night only
`nightFireflyBoost`	1.0 – 4.0	2.5	Night multiplier (2.5 = 1.0×)
`fireflySizeScale`	0.2 – 3.0	1.0	Firefly size multiplier
`fireflyFarScale`	0 – 3.0	0.8	Far-distance size compensation (0 = off)
`fireflyGlow`	0.5 – 2.5	1.0	Firefly brightness multiplier

**★ No restart needed** — edit and save the file; changes apply within ~2 seconds.

📥 Installation

Install **Fabric Loader** (0.19.0+)
Download **Fabric API**
Drop both jars into your mods folder

**Requires**: Minecraft **26.2**, Fabric Loader ≥ 0.19.0, Fabric API

🖥️ Performance

When every effect is at its cap, the spawn scan is skipped entirely (≈0 cost while standing still).
Reused coordinates and single-pass block checks cut block lookups per scan by 4× or more.
Verify with /spark profiler.

💬 Spawn manually

Project description from CurseForge.

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