Autumn Foliage

Autumn Foliage is a NeoForge client-side visual mod that gives Minecraft forests a proper autumn look, including broad support for modded vegetation.

Instead of replacing individual leaf textures, the mod recolors vegetation dynamically while preserving the original textures, models, and block shapes. This allows vanilla and modded trees to keep their normal appearance while taking on reds, oranges, golds, and yellows during autumn.

The mod is designed to work with a wide range of vegetation mods without requiring separate compatibility packs for every tree type.

If using Distant Horizons, please use version 3.3.2

Features

• Dynamic autumn coloring for vanilla and modded vegetation
• Supports leaves, saplings, grass, ferns, vines, shrubs, and other foliage
• Preserves original textures and models
• Varied red, orange, gold, and yellow foliage
• Tree-scale color variation to avoid obvious block-by-block color splitting
• Species-aware color tendencies
• Optional evergreen handling
• Optional tropical/jungle autumn coloring
• Configurable foliage vibrancy and brightness
• Configurable strength for different vegetation types
• Configurable color patch size and variation
• Coordinate-based autumn regions
• Multiple autumn regions supported
• Smooth fade transitions at region boundaries
• Full-world autumn by default
• Distant Horizons support
• In-game configuration screen
• No world or biome data is modified

Regions

By default, autumn coloring applies across the entire world.

You can instead define one or more coordinate ranges where autumn should appear. Each range can have its own fade distance, allowing vegetation to smoothly transition between normal and autumn colors.

This is useful for worlds with custom climate bands, where temperate areas can be autumnal while tropical or other regions remain green.

Tropical Vegetation

Tropical and jungle vegetation can be kept green independently of the rest of the world.

This can be toggled in the config, so you can choose between:

• green tropical regions
• fully autumnal jungles
• server-controlled tropical behavior
• client-controlled tropical behavior when the server allows it

Server Support

The mod does not need to be installed on the server.

When used client-side only, each player uses their own local settings.

If Autumn Foliage is also installed on the server, the server can define shared settings such as:

• autumn regions
• fade distances
• vegetation strengths
• tropical behavior
• appearance settings

Server owners can also choose which settings clients are allowed to override.

Singleplayer worlds remain fully editable from the in-game config screen.

Distant Horizons

Autumn Foliage includes Distant Horizons compatibility so distant LOD vegetation uses the same autumn system as normal rendered chunks.

This includes:

• autumn colors at long distances
• coordinate region support
• tropical handling
• matching color families
• configuration refresh support

Distant Horizons is optional and is not required to use the mod.

Configuration

Open:

Mods → Autumn Foliage → Config

Settings are grouped into:

• General
• Colors
• Plants
• Regions
• Advanced

Most visual changes can be applied directly from the GUI without manually editing config files.

Compatibility

Autumn Foliage primarily uses Minecraft block tags and additional vegetation detection, allowing it to support many modded plants automatically.

For unusual mods or blocks, the Advanced settings provide manual include and exclude lists.