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# Winter

## ❄️ Winter

*Snow blankets the land and the nights grow long. Stay warm: the cold bites anyone left outside.*

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### **How it looks?**

* Leaves and grass turn white: four different whites (pure white, icy blue, silver and frosty mint) mixed across the land, so a winter forest never looks flat.
* **Real snow** settles around players and water freezes (`snow.yml`). Only what SamsSeasons placed melts again in spring; natural snow and player builds are never touched.
* Snow drifts down from branches and falls from the sky.
* The aurora shimmers over the horizon on clear nights.
* Rain falls as snow; the winter wind blows.

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### **Weather and time**

* Snow on about 40% of days, thunderstorms almost never.
* Long nights: the winter day passes up to 70% faster.

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### **Temperature**

* Cold: about -8 °C to -11 °C on top of the biome.
* Below 0 °C players breathe out little clouds. In the **cold** band they shiver now and then.
* In the **freezing** band (below -1 °C) frost creeps over the screen and, once fully frozen, it hurts like powder snow. Leather armour protects, as in vanilla. Fires, shelter, warm clothes and hot soups help.

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### **Farming and animals**

* Most crops stop growing outdoors: field crops 0-20%, pumpkins and melons not at all.
* **Greenhouses:** a crop with glass above it always grows at least at 85%, so players can farm through the winter.
* Animals breed less (40-60%) and need twice as long between breeding. Bees and frogs don't breed at all; wolves don't care.
* Wolves, foxes and polar bears roam the snow.
* Skeletons under the open sky often appear as **strays** (up to 70%); more zombies, fewer spiders.

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### **Fishing**

* Fish bite 30% slower: cold water. Special catches: **Frost Cod** and **Ice Pearl**.

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### **Festivals**

* **Frost Fair** on day 5. Christmas (24 December, from the morning) and New Year (31 December, from the night) follow the real-world date.