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Snow Everywhere! During the months of December and January in real-time, it will snow in every biome and freeze up the water everywhere. This of course can be changed in the config to how you wish.

Santa is Coming to Town!



Constructing a tree like the one above will grant you the chance for Santa to come! You can have the ornaments and wool whatever color you desire but you must always place the star last! After you should hear a jingle that tells you Santa can visit. The last step is to carry one Hot Chocolate and one Christmas Cookie in your inventory when going to bed. Also keep in mind that there is only a 50% chance that he will actually come so keep on trying if you did everything right. You'll know that you did it correctly when your treats are missing, you hear a humble voice, and you see the presents underneath the tree.

Here's an older but still helpful video on how to set up a tree:

Igloos!

Sometimes these icy domes will spawn with Presents inside! But be warned, as deadly Mini Snow Golems also inhabit the igloo, and they are not welcome to people coming into their home.

Giant Candy Canes!

These giant treats will always have something special underneath them. Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad. Also remember harvesting the Candy Cane Logs will need a Candy Cane Axe.

Elf Cottages!

This rare structure houses the Elves. There house is filled with goodies if you're lucky enough to find one.

Hostile - Mini Snow Golem


Hostile - Gingerbread Man


Hostile - Albino Reindeer


Neutral - Polar bear


Neutral - Penguin


Passive - Snow Man


Passive - Reindeer


Passive - Elf

Would you like to help this mod grow? If so, then please take a look at the positions below as I may not have the time/skills to complete them myself.

Translator - Someone who can translate my mod into a different language. It's all done through a text file.
Wiki Creator - Someone who can establish a wiki for Wintercraft and start filling it with information.
Modder NEI - Someone who can help me implement NEI support for Wintercraft.

Thank you to anyone who can help me! Just send me a message or reply saying what you can do to help. You'll be credited and receive a bonus golden Santa Hat texture in-game.

[Wintercraft-1.1.4.2] - 2016-11-28

For MC 1.8.9 / 1.8

Changed

• Updated to 1.8.9

Fixed

• Freezer cannot be opened
• Wintercraft logo not showing up in Mods section

[Wintercraft-1.1.4.1] - 2016-11-23

For MC 1.8

Fixed

• Server crash on startup

[Wintercraft-1.1.4] - 2016-11-23

For MC 1.8

Added

• Forge's in-game config editor

Changed

• Updated to 1.8
• General code optimization
• Hot Chocolate model now renders like a normal item
• Clicking on leaves with Christmas Lights won't drop the lights anymore
• Freezer block is now transparent
• Fireplace model updated
• Various Ornament textures changes
• Ornament achievement can also be gained by picking up one as well as crafting one
• Christmas trees were limited to only 10 but can supoprt as many as you'd like
• Gingerbread Man drop rate altered
• Gingerbread Man rare music disk drop has been changed to 1.5% and must be at night
• Mini Snow Golem rare music disk drop has been changed to 1.5% and must be at night
• You can now craft every colored candle the same way
• Lowered Freezer, Snow Stairs, and Fireplace's hardness a bit
• Snow Stairs can be broken with shovels now
• Balanced Wintercraft Food satutation

Fixed

• Graphics issue when placing leaves with Christmas Lights next to each other
• Rare and normal Ornament Achievements couldn't be obtained with anything other than Red/Creeper Ornaments
• Candles sound like wool
• Breaking Snow Stairs doesn't return the item

[Wintercraft-1.1.3] - 2015-08-31

For MC 1.7.10

Fixed

• Death by Albino Reindeer shows code name
• Multiple doors are dropped when breaking top section of the door
• Snow Globe only works once per server until they restart

[Wintercraft-1.1.2] - 2014-12-21

For MC 1.7.10 / 1.7.2

Added

• Config options to enable hostile, neutral, and peaceful mobs
• Setting up a Christmas tree tips
• Description for Antlers

Changed

• Polar Bear bounding box is now smaller
• Candy Cane Sword item description
• Christmas Cookie no longer has a colored name

Fixed

• You can't search for the Christmas Cookie in creative mode
• There can only be 1 Christmas tree in a world at a time (Up to 10 trees now!)
• Dark Presents will spam the console when spawned/broken (Fixed for real this time)
• Game crash when placing Fruit Cake

[Wintercraft-1.1.1] - 2014-12-13

For MC 1.7.10 / 1.7.2

Added

• Crating recipe to receive Candy Canes from Candy Cane Logs
• "Naughty Weather!" and "Cold Topic!" achievements
• Config options to change the spawn rate of Igloos, Candy Canes, and Elf Houses
• Special gold Santa Hat texture for Team Members and Beta Testers
• Can be disabled in the config

• Config option to enable Auto Mob IDs or using custom IDs
• Furance recipes to melt Iced Cobble and Iced Stone
• Tips System for people who may be confused on certain mechanics
• Can be disabled in the config

Changes

• General code optimization
• Marshmallow texture
• Iron stick recipe gives 6 now
• Rocky Snowball recipe
• Wintercraft acievement layout
• Star particles to only appear on the tree that will spawn the presents
• Santa Hat model texture
• Elf House spawn rate is higher
• Certain Freezer fuels will last longer
• Present/Christmas Present item drops
• Wintercraft entity IDs to be automatically assigned to any open ID

Fixed

• Chiller Stick recipe still exists
• Dying Candles doesn't consume dye that was used
• Candle block isn't centered
• Taking lights off of leaves can crash the game if you restart the world
• Santa is placing presents at a previous Christmas tree location
• Bad Ice Staff explosion causes invisible blocks
• Marshmallow spelling
• Santa Hat model has a jagged line and out of place segment
• Snow Globe doesn't work after using it once
• Dark Presents spam console when spawned/broken
• Wall Lights Block name showing up as tile.wallLights.name
• Snow Man's name showing up as entity.UsefulSnowMan.name
• Snow Man Head bounding box is too small
• No recipes for Refined Ice and Crystal ARmor

Removed

• Unnecessary textures

~1.1.0~
*Updated to 1.7.10/1.7.2
*Updated many textures
*Added Iced Cobble
*Added config to toggle showing Wintercraft structure coordinates in console
*Added the ability to change Winercraft Mob IDs (Helps when Wintercraft is conflicting with other mods)
*Added Mini Snow Golem center animation
*Added Elf House Structure
*Added Antlers and Antlers Hat
*Added "The Star on Top", "Special Decor" achievement
*Added Ice Skates
*Added Winter Ice and Packed Ice to Freezer Fuel
*Added Fireplace
*Added Mining Fatigue effect to Ice Staff
*Added Santa sound effect
*Added model/particles for Snow Globe
*Added Candy Cane Axe
*Added Cooked Venison
*Added Raw Venison
*Added Advent Calendar
*Added Candy Cane Structure
*Added Candy Cane Block
*Added Christmas Countdown Calendar
*Added anvil repair ability to Chiseled, Refined, and Crystal Ice Tools
*Added Wintercraft mob spawns in the newer biomes
*Added particle effect to Star when it's active
*Added Albino Reindeer Mob
*Added Empty Stocking Decor and recipe to get Full Stocking Decor
*Added rare mob ornaments
*Added 16 more ornaments(New colors!)
*Added another Rocky Snowball recipe with gravel
*Added Candle & Ornament items to place instead of placing the block directly(Like how Sugar Cane is)
*Added Candles to Wintercraft creative tab as they weren't getting noticed
*Added a Gift Box for present trading (Now Finished!)
*Added Cocoa Beans drop to Gingerbread Men
*Fixed messed up Freezer when Optifine is installed
*Fixed Polar Bear hitboxes
*Fixed Snow Stairs lighting
*Fixed Santa Event restarting even if he didn't visit
*Fixed Santa Armor leaving the bonus on when you took off the armor
*Fixed Igloo spawning to always be risen 1 block too high
*Fixed Shift-clicking on the Freezer not working properly
*Fixed Refined-Ice/Crystal Armor not having textures
*Fixed BadStaff achievement through crafting
*Fixed Snow Man Head direction not facing the player when placed
*Fixed Freezer GUI
*Fixed Ornaments being able to be placed under each other
*Fixed Lights being replaced by placing other lights on the opposite side in a corner
*Fixed Lights on walls getting replaced by a block that is placed in front of it
*Fixed breeding with Reindeer being a Carrort on a Stick when it should've be a Carrot
*Fixed Crystal/Refined Ice Armor not being in the Wintercraft creative tab
*Fixed game crash when using the Ice Staff on non-mob entities such as minecarts
*Fixed the ability to spam the Snow Globe
*Fixed Snow Slab.name to Snow Slab
*Fixed Snow Slabs to be more like snow
*Fixed buckets not being returned when using the Freezer
*Fixed the Green Candle being a seperate block
*Changed the Star to drop glowstone when broken
*Changed Chisled tool set recipe to also accept Iced Cobble
*Changed Snow Brick recipe to give 4 bricks
*Changed Ornaments so that they will fall if the block above them is removed
*Changed getting Lights from Spruce Light Blocks to be more visible when they come off
*Changed the Lights Block so that when you punch it the lights will drop
*Changed it so that when you put lights on any leaf block it will turn into the spruce lights block but if you take the lights off it will turn back into the original leaf block
*Changed Ice recipe to give 2 Ice Blocks to speed up the process of getting a Freezer
*Changed Mini Snow Golem Spawn rate to be higher
*Changed Penguin sounds to be quieter
*Changed Reindeer spawn rate to be lower
*Changed Snow Slab texture
*Changed Freezer freeze time to be longer
*Changed Freezer Inputs by adding newer blocks
*Changed Ice Cream effects to last for 45 seconds
*Changed SnowMan Head recipe
*Changed Stocking recipe to give you 4 stockings
*Changed Candle recipe to give you 3 candles
*Changed Wreath recipe
*Changed receiving presents to have them spawn under the tree instead of in your inventory
*Changed the Snow Globe to a block
*Changed Candy Cane hunger fill to 1.5
*Changed Wintercraft creative tab icon
*Changed Reindeer to drop Venison
*Changed SnowGlobe texture
*Changed Crystal Ice Sword and Axe Recipes to the normal sword/axe recipe
*Changed Candles to be not as bright
*Changed CandyCaneSword to take more durability when gettings CandyCanes from it
*Changed Christmas, SnowGlobe, IceStaff, and IceStaffBad achievements
*Changed Chiller Stick to be now held like a tool
*Changed hardness of lights when on walls
*Changed sound when placing lights
*Changed some item/block names
*Changed Ornaments to be one block with metadata
*Changed Ice to drop 0-2 Ice shards when broken
*Removed special Golden Hat for team members
*Removed Chiller Stick Achievement
*Removed Chiller Stick
*Removed Magic Fire
*Removed Magic Snow
*Removed Magic Portal Block
*Removed unfinished North Pole dimension
*Removed seperate Blue Ornament
*Removed seperate Green Ornament
*Removed seperate Green Candle Block
*Removed Winter Ice generation



~1.0.3~
*Changed Ice recipe in the Freezer to receive only 4 instead of 16 Ice Blocks now
*Added "Magic on Fire!" Achievement
*Added very early North Pole dimension
*Took out 'Present' as a Christmas Present drop and replaced it with a Magic Saddle
*Changed Candles and Lightst to be Brighter
*Ice Staff in now held like a tool
*Polar Bears can now be bred with Raw-Fish and they will follow you if you have Raw-Fish
*Changed it so that now when you build a Christmas Tree correctly, you'll hear a jingle instead of lightning
*Changed it so that the very top block can have lights on it or not when building a Christmas Tree
*Added Magic Saddle
*Added Reindeer Mob
*Santa Hat is a 3D-Model
*Changed Fruit Cake Bricks Recipe to receive 16
*Major Texture Update
*Added Wintercraft Ice Recipe (Making crafting the Freezer a bit easier)
*Fixed Ice Staff crashing the game when trying to hit the Ender Dragon
*Added Snow-Man Mob
*Added Refined-Ice Armour
*Added Crystal Armour
*Added a Gift Box for present trading (Still in progress)
*Turned down Igloo Generation a little bit more
*Silk Touch works on Presents now so you can pick them up
*You can't stack SnowGlobes now
*Crafting lights now gives you 3 lights
*Changed Chocolate Milk so that you could drink it
*Fixed food not having any saturation, meaning it ran out really fast
*Added Donator Benefits (Also apply to Mod Team Members)
-Donators now have a greeting announced on a server when they join! (Only if the Server has Wintercraft installed)
*Fixed White Candle when colored green dropping a green candle when broken
*Fixed Santa taking every Christmas Cookie and Hot Chocolate you had in your inventory
*Santa Armour now will make you get 6 presents from Santa if wearing a Full Set
*Nerfed Santa Armour by a lot to make it be a little better than leather

~1.0.2~
*Added Mod Information in the Mods section (McMod file)
*Polar bears will attack Penguins on occasion
*Lights can now be placed on walls!
*Added a candle color for every dye
-New candle dyeing system
-Took Candles out of Creative Tab since it would be very cluttered
-New Recipe
*Added Option in the config for snowing all the time in every biome
*Nerfed Mini Snow Golems by doing only Half-Heart Damage per hit
*Lowered Igloo Generation by abit
*Added "Explosion on a Stick!", "Decorating Time!", "Like Christmas Morning!", "Merry Christmas!" Achievements
*Added Descriptions to some Items to point out features
*Added Blue Ornament
*Added Stocking Recipe
*Re-added Santa Armour(Everything but the texture is done)
*Re-added SnowGlobe

~1.0.1~
*Took the SnowGlobe and Santa Outfit out of the Creative Tabs since they're not 100% done yet
*Fixed freezer recipe

~1.0.0~
*Initial Release