Disasterpiece

Natural disasters for Minecraft that actually feel like natural disasters.

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I got tired of disaster mods where a "tornado" is a spinning column of particles that deletes a few blocks, so I made my own. Meteors come in at an angle and dig real craters. Tsunamis pull the water back off the beach first, then roll in and flood the land before draining back out. Earthquakes give you a small jolt first and the big shaking a few seconds later. Most of it is based on how the real thing works, then tuned so it's still fun to play with. And when it's over, /disaster undo puts your world back exactly how it was.

New in 1.1.0: the big update

On Fabric and Paper for Minecraft 1.21.11 and 26.1 to 26.3 (NeoForge, Forge and older versions get it later):

• 29 disasters. On top of the originals: avalanches, flash floods, derechos, ice storms, heat waves, dust devils, geysers, solar storms, locust swarms and rockfalls, plus lava surges, soul storms and Nether quakes in the Nether, and void storms and ender rifts in the End. Each one only shows up where it belongs.
• 20 real disasters, replayed as they happened: Krakatoa 1883, Tunguska 1908, Pompeii 79, Mount St. Helens 1980, the Carrington Event 1859, the Tri-State Tornado 1925, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Lake Nyos 1986, Black Sunday 1935 and more.
• Shader clouds. With Iris and a shader pack, disasters become part of the sky's own clouds. A tornado is a dark funnel under a slowly turning storm deck that gathers over about 40 seconds and blots out the sun. A volcano sends up a boiling ash column that spreads into an umbrella cloud. Explosions leave a rising ball of smoke. Complementary and Insanity draw it with their own clouds, other packs get it drawn on top. No shader pack? You get detailed blocky clouds instead, from potato to extreme quality.
• The sky reacts. An extinction impact or a Plinian eruption turns the sky black for hundreds of blocks: the light fades to dim brown, the stars go out and ash drifts down until it clears. Big wildfires turn it orange, then deep red. A solar storm brings auroras to the night sky.
• Volcanoes wake up real mountains. If there's a mountain nearby the volcano breaks out of it: trees burn off, snow melts, rock turns to ash and basalt from the summit down, and a crater opens before it erupts.
• Built for survival: warning signs before random disasters, seasons that get harsher as the world gets older, disaster-proof blocks (obsidian, iron doors, concrete and more) for building a real shelter, smoke that only gets in through gaps, and land claims (WorldGuard, GriefPrevention, Lands, Towny, Open Parties and Claims) left alone.
• 44 advancements in their own tab, stats and a leaderboard with /disasterstats, and optional escalation that makes each disaster worse until somebody dies.
• 19 presets from Chill and Family to Hardcore and Apocalypse, picked in one click with /disaster preset, and a full settings screen under Options on Fabric. Every feature can be switched off.

The disasters

Every version has these 14, most with a few variants:

• Meteors: magma, iron, ice comet, ender, small, and the extinction one (a rock about 60 blocks across). Small ones often blow up in the air or break apart before they land.
• Meteor showers: light, heavy, mixed, or a full storm.
• Tornadoes: EF1 to EF5, plus a firenado and an extra debris-heavy one. The funnel reaches the clouds and leans as the bottom moves along the ground. It goes straight through trees and houses, and over water it turns into a waterspout.
• Earthquakes: minor up to great. Foreshocks, cracks that tear open into ravines in the big ones (on the sea floor too), landslides, mud and aftershocks.
• Tsunamis: small, large and mega. A set of waves that floods inland, then drains back out.
• Volcanoes: shield, strombolian and plinian, with lava, ash, flying volcanic bombs, pyroclastic flows and mudflows.
• Lightning storms (supercells too), hurricanes (cat 1-5), wildfires (brush, crown, inferno), blizzards, hailstorms (including giant hail), sandstorms, acid rain and sinkholes.

Big blasts send out a shockwave you can watch roll across the land. Hiding behind a hill won't save you, and when two of them meet they merge into one. If it catches you out in the open, your screen goes white and your ears ring.

Undo

Wrecked your world? /disaster undo plays everything back in reverse: blocks fly back into place, water runs back into the sea, dead mobs (and players) get back up. When it's done the world is exactly how it was before, inventories and all. It only takes a few seconds.

Survival

Out of the box it's set up for playing survival with a couple of friends:

• a random disaster hits somewhere near one of you every 30-60 minutes
• the area around spawn is protected
• animals, pets and villagers are left alone
• broken blocks drop as items
• if a disaster kills you, you keep your stuff

All of it can be changed in game with /disaster settings.

Commands

• /disaster summon <category> <disaster> [variant]: start one, e.g. /disaster summon storms tornado ef5 (on versions without the update: /disaster tornado ef5)
• /disaster: everything you can start where you are, click one to fill in the command
• /disaster stop: stop everything
• /disaster undo: rewind
• /disaster settings and /disaster preset: change how it plays
• /disaster amplify <x>: bigger and harder hitting (2 is twice as big)
• /disasterstats: your stats, /disasterstats top for the leaderboard
• /chaos [seconds] [intensity]: everything at once. You've been warned.

In singleplayer you don't need cheats on. On a server you need to be an operator (or have disasterpiece.use on Paper).

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.19.4 to 26.3
• Fabric (with Fabric API), NeoForge or Forge, or the Paper / Purpur plugin for servers
• Players joining a server with it don't need to install anything. Iris and a shader pack are optional, for the shader clouds.

Good to know

• This mod really does change your world. Craters stay and forests burn down. Undo works, but back up anything you care about anyway.
• The biggest stuff (extinction meteor, mega tsunami, chaos mode) is heavy. If it lags, try /disaster settings particles 50.
• It looks a lot better with shaders. The pictures were taken with Complementary Unbound.

Hey man since you scrolled down to here why not visit the official Disasterpiece website. Bugs go here.