I have come across a glitch and am curious if anyone else has had the same issue and has managed to do anything about it.
I was building in a snow covered area, and cleared a space for some temporary storage, after I had removed the storage snow no longer falls here and instead for just this tiny patch in the middle of the snow it rains.
I've never had that happen, but now I want to go check on building at certain elevations. Sounds like it could have something to do with building a block near the top to make rain fall through all the other blocks below it.. But I don't know for sure yet!
I have yet to experience it but will check it out myself. My current map is loaded with snow. Is it just that one spot or is it in multiple areas? Also, are there still torches there by any chance?
I have yet to experience it but will check it out myself. My current map is loaded with snow. Is it just that one spot or is it in multiple areas? Also, are there still torches there by any chance?
its just onee area I have come across it and there is no longer anything there.
I did think could it be a persistant version of the light remaining after the source is gone glitch ? as that would presumably prevent the snow ?
I have come across a glitch and am curious if anyone else has had the same issue and has managed to do anything about it.
I was building in a snow covered area, and cleared a space for some temporary storage, after I had removed the storage snow no longer falls here and instead for just this tiny patch in the middle of the snow it rains.
I think snow appears to only fall on blocks that are already snow covered, but I'm not sure. I have found that a block where the snow has been cleared may not get covered again with snow during the first rain/snow after removal of a block from on top of it but it has always eventually reverted back to being a snow covered block and then, for sure, the snow falls on it.
I recently built an igloo in my snow biome and set down my crafting table just outside of it. I also wanted a snow-covered floor, so after building the walls and removing my crafting table, I left until after a storm. The first storm didn't cover every block I had disturbed with snow, so I waited for another and that one did. I just don't know for sure whether it looked like it was raining or snowing on those uncovered blocks since I didn't hang around right by the igloo while it was storming.
I do know that rail tracks, however, do not appear to ever get covered over again with snow once the tracks are laid even when they are not lit; but the storm above them still appears to fall as snow. Ditto for the block my igloo door sits on and one block adjacent to it (not sure why that one is). Maybe it's that the torch above the door is not high enough.
Also the water adjacent to some places where I had plunked down torches did not refreeze immediately after I removed the torch; but it is all ice now.
I think snow appears to only fall on blocks that are already snow covered, but I'm not sure. I have found that a block where the snow has been cleared may not get covered again with snow during the first rain/snow after removal of a block from on top of it but it has always eventually reverted back to being a snow covered block and then, for sure, the snow falls on it.
I recently built an igloo in my snow biome and set down my crafting table just outside of it. I also wanted a snow-covered floor, so after building the walls and removing my crafting table, I left until after a storm. The first storm didn't cover every block I had disturbed with snow, so I waited for another and that one did. I just don't know for sure whether it looked like it was raining or snowing on those uncovered blocks since I didn't hang around right by the igloo while it was storming.
I do know that rail tracks, however, do not appear to ever get covered over again with snow once the tracks are laid even when they are not lit; but the storm above them still appears to fall as snow. Ditto for the block my igloo door sits on and one block adjacent to it (not sure why that one is). Maybe it's that the torch above the door is not high enough.
Thing is its been days of my playing since the area was cleared and there is still no snow cover/fall
Snow only falls in a taiga or tundra biome, no matter what is on the ground. The only possible explanation is that you somehow changed the biome (an event only possible in a version change where a new biome was added).
when the world initially generates, it lies snow on the ground in that spot. However, that spot isn't actually part of the tundra or taiga biome that surrounds it. So, instead of snow, it rains. It's just how biomes functioned in these older versions. It still happens occasionally in the newer PC versions. You'll be walking along, snow on the ground or in the middle of a frozen river/ocean, when suddenly, a little patch is rain, not snow. It can happen in deserts as well. Small patches of rain in the vast seas of sand. It just means that specific spot, no matter how small, is a different biome.
Just because there is snow on the ground, doesn't mean it's a taiga or tundra. when the world first generates, snow tends to cover the ground a small distance outside the snowy biomes.
Snow only falls in a taiga or tundra biome, no matter what is on the ground. The only possible explanation is that you somehow changed the biome (an event only possible in a version change where a new biome was added).
This map has only existed since 1.7 update and its right in the middle of the area that is all snow and was previously snow
Only other thought I have is popping whatever block its raining on and replacing it. If its from what Omni or Mustache_Guy is saying, then you may just have a small patch of rain to deal with. Good luck!
when the world initially generates, it lies snow on the ground in that spot. However, that spot isn't actually part of the tundra or taiga biome that surrounds it. So, instead of snow, it rains. It's just how biomes functioned in these older versions. It still happens occasionally in the newer PC versions. You'll be walking along, snow on the ground or in the middle of a frozen river/ocean, when suddenly, a little patch is rain, not snow. It can happen in deserts as well. Small patches of rain in the vast seas of sand. It just means that specific spot, no matter how small, is a different biome.
Just because there is snow on the ground, doesn't mean it's a taiga or tundra. when the world first generates, snow tends to cover the ground a small distance outside the snowy biomes.
Good to know - I then have the opposite problem, persistent snow on a small little area well outside my snowy biome.
My last thought as to a possibility was that the construction may have redirected a lava flow somehow and there was lava now running underground right below that specific spot.
when the world initially generates, it lies snow on the ground in that spot. However, that spot isn't actually part of the tundra or taiga biome that surrounds it. So, instead of snow, it rains. It's just how biomes functioned in these older versions. It still happens occasionally in the newer PC versions. You'll be walking along, snow on the ground or in the middle of a frozen river/ocean, when suddenly, a little patch is rain, not snow. It can happen in deserts as well. Small patches of rain in the vast seas of sand. It just means that specific spot, no matter how small, is a different biome.
Just because there is snow on the ground, doesn't mean it's a taiga or tundra. when the world first generates, snow tends to cover the ground a small distance outside the snowy biomes.
its the precise area where I had put the chests though is the weird thing, the liklyhood of me managing that in the tiny spot slap bang in the middle of the snow area that isnt snow is huge, especially an area barely 14 blocks wide at the widest.
Good to know - I then have the opposite problem, persistent snow on a small little area well outside my snowy biome.
My last thought as to a possibility was that the construction may have redirected a lava flow somehow and there was lava now running underground right below that specific spot.
its the precise area where I had put the chests though is the weird thing, the liklyhood of me managing that in the tiny spot slap bang in the middle of the snow area that isnt snow is huge, especially an area barely 14 blocks wide at the widest.
it was all above ground
they have had 2 seed changes when we are only on 1.7.3 ?!? which is what I mean by 1.7 anyway
3 actually, whenever they added a new biome really. They added swamps/extreme hills in Beta 1.8, mushroom islands in 1.0 and jungles in 1.2
I was building in a snow covered area, and cleared a space for some temporary storage, after I had removed the storage snow no longer falls here and instead for just this tiny patch in the middle of the snow it rains.
its just onee area I have come across it and there is no longer anything there.
I did think could it be a persistant version of the light remaining after the source is gone glitch ? as that would presumably prevent the snow ?
I think snow appears to only fall on blocks that are already snow covered, but I'm not sure. I have found that a block where the snow has been cleared may not get covered again with snow during the first rain/snow after removal of a block from on top of it but it has always eventually reverted back to being a snow covered block and then, for sure, the snow falls on it.
I recently built an igloo in my snow biome and set down my crafting table just outside of it. I also wanted a snow-covered floor, so after building the walls and removing my crafting table, I left until after a storm. The first storm didn't cover every block I had disturbed with snow, so I waited for another and that one did. I just don't know for sure whether it looked like it was raining or snowing on those uncovered blocks since I didn't hang around right by the igloo while it was storming.
I do know that rail tracks, however, do not appear to ever get covered over again with snow once the tracks are laid even when they are not lit; but the storm above them still appears to fall as snow. Ditto for the block my igloo door sits on and one block adjacent to it (not sure why that one is). Maybe it's that the torch above the door is not high enough.
Also the water adjacent to some places where I had plunked down torches did not refreeze immediately after I removed the torch; but it is all ice now.
Thing is its been days of my playing since the area was cleared and there is still no snow cover/fall
How many storms?
Another thought, is the block remaining a slab, stair or other partial block?
when the world initially generates, it lies snow on the ground in that spot. However, that spot isn't actually part of the tundra or taiga biome that surrounds it. So, instead of snow, it rains. It's just how biomes functioned in these older versions. It still happens occasionally in the newer PC versions. You'll be walking along, snow on the ground or in the middle of a frozen river/ocean, when suddenly, a little patch is rain, not snow. It can happen in deserts as well. Small patches of rain in the vast seas of sand. It just means that specific spot, no matter how small, is a different biome.
Just because there is snow on the ground, doesn't mean it's a taiga or tundra. when the world first generates, snow tends to cover the ground a small distance outside the snowy biomes.
All the remaining blocks are dirt again.
I have had 2 while I have been sat here since I posted.
This map has only existed since 1.7 update and its right in the middle of the area that is all snow and was previously snow
Good to know - I then have the opposite problem, persistent snow on a small little area well outside my snowy biome.
My last thought as to a possibility was that the construction may have redirected a lava flow somehow and there was lava now running underground right below that specific spot.
1.7? They've had 2 seed changes since then, so the biome's probably changed. Or just look at Mustache_Guy for the alternative
its the precise area where I had put the chests though is the weird thing, the liklyhood of me managing that in the tiny spot slap bang in the middle of the snow area that isnt snow is huge, especially an area barely 14 blocks wide at the widest.
it was all above ground
they have had 2 seed changes when we are only on 1.7.3 ?!? which is what I mean by 1.7 anyway
3 actually, whenever they added a new biome really. They added swamps/extreme hills in Beta 1.8, mushroom islands in 1.0 and jungles in 1.2
you are in the xbox forum....
Really? Huh, must of missed clicked. Must check in future. Oops.
Sorry for any confusion I caused.
Mustache_Guy is correct in this case. Snow is generated on the borders of the biomes themselves. So it rains on the snow.
However, Did you actually see snow fall on a block where it now rains? If so, your biome has changed and I don't know how.
yeah the entire area was snow, it has snowed on me while I was using the chests.