Storm
Ever bored with the vanilla weather? Storm is a plugin that adds a whole new range of weather mechanics to Bukkit servers.

Features
- Acid Rain: Green rain, which damages players and animals, as well as deteriorates blocks. Turn a 'grey day' into a 'radioactive-green' day!
- Blizzards: Makes snow a real threat! Players and entities caught outside during a blizzard will experience snow acting as slow sand, limited visibility, and cold damage, so long as they are not inside or near a heating block.
- Thunder Storms: If supercharged creepers were not already a threat, how will your players react to hordes of zombie pigmen? Thunder storms are massive discharges of lightning over a short period of time, in which players will be hard-pressed to survive.
- Meteors: Fireballs trailed by explosions, burrowing in the ground, and flattening all entities in their path. Players who survive, however, can delight themselves with the ores the meteor leaves behind.
- Wildfires: We can all safely say vanilla fires are boring. To spice up the game, we've added wildfires; a naturally occurring event in which entire forests will be devoured by fire with pre-1.6B physics.
- Earthquakes: With massive rifts opening up, screens shaking, and blocks flying about, Storm earthquakes will be an experience for your players to remember. Seems to be bugging in Version2.3
- Volcanoes: Large mounds of lava spurting out of the ground, explosions and flying lava bombs. Fun, fun, fun. Seems to be bugging in Version2.3
Getting started with Storm
If you are a visual learner, this video by WoopaGaming is for you! Some information is outdated, but the gist remains the same.
You can gain some more in-depth information from this "Curse Minecraft Spotlight" on Storm, as it presents most of the features of Storm in a nice format. Thanks to Xenius01 of Curse for this one!
Storm has a command for all its weather types:
| Command | Usage | Permission | Description |
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| /acidrain | /<command> [world] | storm.acidrain.command | Starts acid rain in specified world. |
| /blizzard | /<command> [world] | storm.blizzard.command | Starts a blizzard in specified world. |
| /thunderstorm | /<command> [world] | storm.thunderstorm.command | Starts a thunder storm in specified world. |
| /wildfire | /<command> [world] | storm.wildfire.command | Starts a wildfire where player is looking at. |
| /meteor | /<command> [world] | storm.meteor.command | Spawns a meteor and targets the block the player is looking at. |
| /volcano | /<command> [world] | storm.volcano.command | Spawns a volcano at the targeted block. |
| /earthquake | /<command> [world] | storm.earthquake.command | Spawns a earthquake at the targeted block. |
| /cracks | /<command> [world] | storm.earthquake.command | Spawns a crevice at the targeted block. |
And immunity permissions from their associated weathers:
| Immunity | Permission | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Acid Rain Damage | storm.acidrain.immune | Prevents damage from acid rain. |
| Blizzard Damage | storm.blizzard.immune | Prevents damage from blizzards. |
| Lightning Attraction | storm.lightning.immune | Prevents extra damage from lightning & lightning attraction. |
| Meteor Damage | storm.meteor.immune | Prevents damage from meteor shockwaves. |
If Storm doesn't load, first, make sure that you are running a compatible build of Storm. For example, 0.1.2 will run only on Bukkit 1.4.6, while 0.1.2 R1 will only run on 1.4.7. You can see the supported versions in the Files menu. If that doesn't work or Storm throws exceptions, leave a ticket.
When asking for support...
...please answer the following questions: they help us get back to you quicker and consequently address any issues faster.
- What Storm version are you running? Be specific.
- What server implementation are you running (usually CraftBukkit)?
- What Minecraft version are you running?
- What is the issue you are experiencing?
- Provide a traceback, if the issue is a crash and a log is available.

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Posted Apr 18, 2013@ventusanima
I'll be sure to add this to our little imaginary checklist of bugs (although having one at this stage might not be a bad idea...).
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Posted Apr 18, 2013congratulation for this verry nice plugin : ) have wait cuppel of weeks for the uptade. thanks for it.
i support a little hardcore server for me and my friends. yesterday i installed storm. we played little time an then starts a thunderstom and i died in the underground by mining when i was struckt by two lightnings. bad : (
can you fix this? at the moment i reduced the persentage to be struckt by a lightning.
greetings ventusanima (sorry for my bad english : P )
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Posted Apr 17, 2013@Pitsbrgparatrpr
They last approximately 5-10 minutes each. For example, you can toggle acid rain on/off via the /acidrain command. Grass grows back from dirt like normal MC, but trees do not (unless you have a plugin to do this).
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Posted Apr 17, 2013HI! Very excited to try this. A few questions first please! 1. How long does the storm, rain, etc last? 2. Is there a command to stop it once its starts? 3. For the Acid Rain, once its starts to kill an area, does the whole region start to die, as in the whole world, and will trees, grass etc ever grow back?
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Posted Apr 17, 2013@searonoko
Quoted from your log: "17.04 00:48:28 [Server] INFO Enabling Storm v0.1.2B". 0.1.2B: the update is 1.3.0, you must've gotten the wrong download or something :)
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Posted Apr 17, 2013As excited as I am for the update, it seemed to fail to start on my server. I'm using the Bukkit Beta build, and at first I thought that my host may not have updated their beta build, so I dropped a ticket and was informed that they updated to R2 hours after it was posted. Here's the error logs from my console during server start-up. Thanks!
http://pastebin.com/0T330VgX
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Posted Apr 17, 2013Very Nice Plugin
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Posted Apr 17, 2013@Sylevar
Storm 1.3.0 only works with the latest beta build of CraftBukkit, you can download it here. If you're getting an error, you're either using a build prior to the linked beta build, or you're using a dev build (which we can't really provide full support for, since this release was compiled for 1.5.1 R0.2).
If you still error after updating, or if you're absolutely sure that you're on the latest dev build, paste your error to pastie or pastebin and provide the link.
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Posted Apr 17, 2013@Icynene
I too am getting that error and I'm running the most recent build 1.5.1 R2... I'm really new to bukkit though so maybe I'm doing something wrong?
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Posted Apr 16, 2013@jackattackbusa
It does... A file for each world is created in ./Storm/worlds. You turn of weathers per world in the Features section of each config file.
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Posted Apr 16, 2013@Icynene
Nevermind
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Posted Apr 16, 2013@Icynene
How do I get that?
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Posted Apr 16, 2013@Dogrules23
You are running Bukkit 'v1_5_R1'. Storm 1.3.0 only works on the most recent R2 build. Sowwy.
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Posted Apr 16, 2013This is an error I got:
16:35:47 [WARNING] [Storm] Hello. You are running a version of Storm patched for 1.5, R2. Please keep in mind that this build is not supported. In order to facilitate this release, severalfeatures of Storm have temporarily been removed. Please do not report this as a bug. The features removedare entity pathfinding, slowing snow in blizzards, and the error logger. A proper build will mostlikely be available after the 1.5 R2 update. Thank you for using Storm. 16:35:47 [SEVERE] [Storm] Storm is not compatible with current MC version. Storm execution suspended. 16:35:47 [SEVERE] [Storm] Storm failed to start. 16:35:47 [SEVERE] java.lang.NullPointerException 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at com.github.StormTeam.Storm.Storm.onDisable(Storm.java:127) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:219) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at com.github.StormTeam.Storm.Storm.configureVersion(Storm.java:144) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at com.github.StormTeam.Storm.Storm.onEnable(Storm.java:86) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin.setEnabled(JavaPlugin.java:217) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader.enablePlugin(JavaPluginLoader.java:457) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.enablePlugin(SimplePluginManager.java:381) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R1.CraftServer.loadPlugin(CraftServer.java:282) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_5_R1.CraftServer.enablePlugins(CraftServer.java:264) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.MinecraftServer.j(MinecraftServer.java:303) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.MinecraftServer.e(MinecraftServer.java:282) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.MinecraftServer.a(MinecraftServer.java:242) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.DedicatedServer.init(DedicatedServer.java:150) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:381) 16:35:47 [SEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.v1_5_R1.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:573)
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Posted Apr 16, 2013Thanks for being patient, everyone! It may have taken a while, but Storm for 1.5.1 is here, and hopefully, soon enough you won't need to wait for an update every Minecraft version.
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Finally, incrementing to Storm 1.3. This build adds Bukkit 1.5.2 R2 support, as well as addresses a few bugs in Storm. Most of the time on this build was spent removing dependencies on MineCraft code (our goal is to make Storm not need to update every version), so the list of bugfixes is modest. Some of you may breath easier from them, nonetheless.
Bugs fixed:
Additionally, some sections of Storm have been highly optimized to reduce their footprint.
A set of features have been temporarily removed:
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Posted Apr 16, 2013Yay! Thank you helix! :D
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Posted Apr 16, 2013Storm for 1.5.1 will be ready in a matter of time, we're currently waiting in the approval queue.
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Posted Apr 15, 2013@Lotmommy
@piipurkki
@searonoko
@linkstman
We're currently working on beta testing it. Some important stuff came up yesterday, but as far as I can tell, everything is working fine with Storm on the experimental 1.5.1 builds. We're going to test the error reporter when I can, otherwise, this thing seems ready to release, unless Icynene feels like adding in some stuff he took out temporarily to make it work (none of the weather, don't worry :>). In other words (and I don't speak for Icynene, of course, I'm only a tester), you might be seeing a Storm build for 1.5.1 within the next few days.
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Posted Apr 15, 2013How about rain arrows or arrows rain, It's must be great!!