Atmospheric

Overview

Atmospheric is a biome mod that adds two major biome families to your Overworld: the warm, forested Rosewood biomes and the hot, arid Dunes biomes. Each biome family comes with its own wood type, unique vegetation, food sources, and building materials. The mod doesn't just add empty landscapes; every biome is packed with new blocks, items, and mechanics that integrate naturally into vanilla Minecraft gameplay.

You'll find four new wood types (Rosewood, Yucca, Kousa, and Aspen), each with a complete set of building blocks. There are new food items with unique effects, three custom potion effects, throwable projectiles, and over 150 new blocks in total. You can browse every item and recipe this mod adds using the tabs at the top of this page.

Rosewood Forest Biomes

The Rosewood Forest is a warm, lush biome that generates with a Podzol-covered surface similar to Mega Taiga biomes. It spawns with Sheep, Rabbits, Foxes, Parrots, Wolves, Chickens, and Pigs as passive mobs, making it a great place to set up a base with diverse animal farms. The forest is dense with Rosewood trees and features Passion Vines, Monkey Brush flowers, and Gilia plants throughout.

There are four variants of the Rosewood biome. The standard Rosewood Forest is the most common and features dense tree cover. Rosewood Mountains add elevation with mountainous terrain while keeping the forest canopy. The Rosewood Plateau creates flat-topped elevated terrain, while the Rosewood Forest Plateau combines both features with forested flat highlands. All four variants are classified as rare biomes with jungle and forest tags, meaning they generate alongside warm biome clusters.

Passion Vines

Passion Vines are the signature plant of the Rosewood Forest. They grow on the sides of blocks, face a cardinal direction, and progress through five age stages (0 through 4). At each tick, the vine has a 1-in-7 chance to either grow downward or advance its fruit stage. At stage 4, right-clicking harvests 1 to 6 Passionfruit and resets the vine to stage 1. Passion Vines also function as Ladders, so you can climb them for easy vertical navigation through the forest canopy.

You can craft 9 Passion Vines into a Passion Vine Bundle, which is a decorative block with a special property: when broken without Silk Touch or Shears, it unfurls into a column of Passion Vines hanging from the nearest wall. This makes it a convenient way to deploy vines quickly. The Passion Vine Coil item works similarly as a throwable projectile; throw it at a wall and it creates a vine column on impact.

Monkey Brush Flowers

Three variants of Monkey Brush flowers generate in Rosewood Forests: Warm Monkey Brush, Hot Monkey Brush, and Scalding Monkey Brush. These are primarily decorative plants that add vibrant color to the forest floor. They can be potted for indoor decoration and are used in some cross-mod compatibility recipes.

Dunes Biomes

The Dunes are hot, arid biomes that use a custom surface of Arid Sand over Gravel. Unlike vanilla Deserts, the Dunes have no rainfall and generate with a temperature of 2.0, making them some of the hottest biomes in the game. Rabbits spawn as the only passive creature, along with standard hostile mobs including Husks, Zombies, Skeletons, Creepers, Spiders, Witches, Slimes, and Endermen.

Four Dunes variants exist. The standard Dunes biome features sparse Yucca trees and fossils. Rocky Dunes add stone formations and Dune Rocks scattered across the landscape. Petrified Dunes are a bleaker variant with even sparser vegetation. Flourishing Dunes are the most hospitable variant, classified as lush, with more plant life and better conditions for building a desert outpost.

Barrel Cactus

The Barrel Cactus is a unique growable block found in the Dunes. Unlike vanilla Cactus which grows vertically, the Barrel Cactus expands in place through four growth stages, getting wider and taller at each stage. It can only be planted on Arid Sand or Red Arid Sand, and it damages entities that touch it. The damage scales with growth stage at 0.5 per stage, and touching it also applies a Slowness effect with a duration of (stage + 1) x 40 ticks. Mobs pathfind around Barrel Cacti, treating them like vanilla Cactus obstacles.

Yucca Plants

Yucca trees are the wood source of the Dunes biomes. They produce Yucca Logs that craft into a complete set of Yucca wood building blocks. Yucca Flowers and Tall Yucca Flowers grow around these trees as decorative plants. The Yucca Sapling, Yucca Flower, and Yucca branches all deal contact damage to entities, making the Dunes a prickly environment to navigate carelessly.

Wood Types & Building Blocks

Atmospheric adds four complete wood types, each with the full range of vanilla wood products. Every wood type includes Logs, Stripped Logs, Wood blocks, Stripped Wood, Planks, Stairs, Slabs, Fences, Fence Gates, Doors, Trapdoors, Buttons, and Pressure Plates. Beyond vanilla equivalents, each wood also gets a Bookshelf (which provides enchanting power just like vanilla Bookshelves), a Ladder, Vertical Planks, a Vertical Slab, and a Leaf Carpet. Each wood type also has its own Boat.

Rosewood

Found in Rosewood Forest biomes. Rosewood has a warm, reddish-brown tone and comes with Rosewood Leaves and Rosewood Saplings for replanting. The Rosewood Leaf Carpet is a thin decorative layer (1 pixel tall) that can be placed on the ground for natural forest-floor aesthetics.

Yucca

Found in Dunes biomes. Yucca wood has a pale, sandy appearance fitting its desert origin. Yucca trees also produce Yucca Bundles and Roasted Yucca Bundles as special blocks, along with Yucca Casks for compatible mods. Yucca Leaves and Yucca Saplings allow replanting outside the Dunes.

Kousa

Kousa wood comes from Kousa trees, which generate in jungle-adjacent biomes as part of the Kousa Jungle biome set. The wood has a lighter color palette and includes all standard building variants plus the decorative extras.

Aspen

Aspen trees are found in Aspen Parkland biomes. The wood features a distinctive white-barked appearance. Aspen biomes also introduce the Crustose block, a special grass-like block that spreads across Dirt and can even convert Aspen Logs into Crustose Logs when conditions are right (adequate light and adjacent spread). This gives Aspen forests a unique mossy, weathered aesthetic.

Decorative Blocks

Travertine

Travertine is a decorative stone block that comes in four color variants: Ivory, Peach, Persimmon, and Saffron. Each color has a full building set with standard blocks, Chiseled variants, Cut variants, Stairs, Slabs, Walls, and Vertical Slabs. Each color also has a Fumarole variant, a special decorative block. With four colors and seven+ variants each, Travertine alone adds over 28 decorative blocks to your building palette.

Arid Sandstone

Arid Sand crafts into Arid Sandstone, which has its own complete building set separate from vanilla Sandstone. You get standard, Smooth, Cut, Chiseled, and Brick variants, each with Stairs, Slabs, and Walls. Red Arid Sand produces Red Arid Sandstone with the same full set of variants. Between the two colors, there are dozens of new building blocks for desert-themed builds.

Leaf Carpets & Other Decorations

Each wood type's leaves can be crafted into Leaf Carpets, thin 1-pixel-tall decorative blocks with no collision. These are perfect for creating natural-looking ground cover in gardens and forest builds. The mod also adds Gilia flowers, Aloe Bundles, and storage crate blocks for Passionfruit and Shimmering Passionfruit.

Food & Consumables

Atmospheric introduces a variety of food items sourced from its biomes. Each food has unique hunger values and some apply special potion effects, making them more than simple nutrition.

The standout food item is Passionfruit Sorbet, which restores a massive 15 hunger points and grants Speed V for 15 seconds. It functions as a stew item (unstackable), making it an excellent emergency food and escape tool. Yucca Juice is a drinkable item that returns a Glass Bottle after consumption and grants a short burst of Speed III. For everyday sustenance, Roasted Yucca Fruit offers a solid 6 hunger with good saturation, comparable to Cooked Chicken.

Aloe Leaves and Aloe Kernels are risky emergency food with only 2 hunger and a 20% chance of inflicting Poison. Processing Aloe into Aloe Gel Bottle removes the poison risk and gives slightly better nutrition. The Yucca Gateau is a placeable cake-like block similar to vanilla Cake.

Potion Effects & Brewing

Atmospheric adds three new potion effects and a full brewing tree. The Relief and Worsening effects interact with the damage system in creative ways that can be powerful tools in the right situations.

Relief

The Relief effect is a beneficial effect that converts damage into healing. When you take damage while under Relief and at full health, you heal for (amplifier + 1) health points instead of taking that damage, as long as the incoming damage is at least (amplifier + 1). Relief I heals 1 HP on hit, while Relief II heals 2 HP. If you take damage while already hurt, Relief instead increases the damage by (amplifier + 1), so it's a double-edged sword if your health isn't topped off.

Worsening

Worsening is the harmful counterpart to Relief, created by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Relief. When you take damage while under Worsening and at full health, the damage is increased by (amplifier + 1). However, if you take damage while already hurt, it heals you for (amplifier + 1) instead. This inverted behavior makes Worsening Potions potentially useful as splash weapons on enemies who are at full health.

Spitting

The Spitting effect causes the affected entity to automatically fire Passionfruit Seed projectiles. At Spitting I, seeds fire every 6 ticks (roughly 3 per second). At Spitting II, the rate doubles to every 3 ticks. This effect is applied by eating Passionfruit and cannot currently be brewed into potions.

Throwable Items

Passion Vine Coil

The Passion Vine Coil is a throwable item that stacks to 16. When thrown at a surface, it attempts to place a column of up to 8 Passion Vines hanging from the wall nearest to where it lands. If no suitable wall is available in the initial direction, it rotates through all four cardinal directions trying to find a valid surface. This makes it a great tool for quickly creating climbable vine columns in caves, ravines, or cliff faces.

Passionfruit Seeds

Passionfruit Seeds are automatically fired as projectiles when the Spitting effect is active. They deal 0.5 damage plus the Spitting amplifier level (so 1.5 damage at Spitting I, 2.5 at Spitting II). Hitting an entity with a Passionfruit Seed while the Spitting effect is active triggers a special advancement. These are not items you throw manually; they're generated automatically by the Spitting effect.

Boats

Each of the four wood types has its own Boat variant: Rosewood Boat, Yucca Boat, Kousa Boat, and Aspen Boat. These function identically to vanilla Boats with the same two-passenger capacity and water physics. When a boat is destroyed, it drops three Planks of its wood type and two Sticks, matching vanilla behavior. The boats also support dispensing from Dispensers and have a special rocking animation when disturbed by bubble columns.

Crustose & Aspen Parklands

The Aspen Parkland biomes feature a unique mechanic through the Crustose block. Crustose is a special grass-like block that behaves similarly to vanilla Grass Block but with an extra trick: it can spread not only to adjacent Dirt blocks but also convert Aspen Logs into Crustose Logs. This spreading requires adequate light (light level 9 or higher above the block) and happens during random ticks.

Crustose reverts to Dirt if the block above it is too opaque (blocking light), just like vanilla Grass Block. The visual effect of Crustose spreading over Aspen Logs creates a beautiful, weathered forest aesthetic that makes Aspen Parklands one of the most visually distinctive biomes the mod adds.