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 Some information is outdated, but the gist remains the same.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 Feb 2, 2013We have the plugin on our server currently, and after checking the permissions I have confirmed that no one has the storm immunity permissions, however, anyone who is OP is still immune from the damage.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013Replied.
Don't be too sure about that, by the way... I've had a few plugins (like SimpleClans) fail on me due to being on Spigot. Just another thing to test.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@CorruptedHelix
There shouldn't be a difference between Spigot and Craftbukkit... I've sent you a PM though.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@Icynene
Yeah, this is from -1 but it reports as a previous version (before R1 even). Keep in mind I'm using Spigot, not CraftBukkit.
It reports as a log from the 30th due to my server's timezone.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013Finaly out!
i remember seeing this as a first closed beta, good job.
i even forgot it existed, Great job!
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Posted Feb 1, 2013@CorruptedHelix
I uploaded a version just yesterday. Is that error from 0.1.2 R1 - 1? If so, I may have to whip up a R1 - 2 :( I have no clue as to why the recent changes in CraftBukkit have broken so much of Storm. If this continues, I may have no choice but to abandon.
In the meantime, I've added a warning at the top of this page. I hope these issues will be resolved shortly.
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Posted Feb 1, 2013Latest version of Storms, the supposed fix, single-handedly broke Multiverse and before that, put me into an infinite restart loop until I stopped it... somehow, don't know how. Here's my startup log so you can see what's going on.
http://pastebin.com/Nx2j8XL4
EDIT: Looking through again, it claims that I'm running the version before R1, which isn't true, I used the latest download. Did you upload the wrong version?
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Posted Jan 29, 2013Just a quick request, if you get the time, you should make a reload command for this plugin, so we can reload the configuration without having to restart.
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Posted Jan 29, 2013@Superboop
"Storm version: 0.1.2B". I fixed it in 0.1.2 R1
@Superboop
Sure thing.
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Posted Jan 29, 2013@N1T3SLAY3R
A meteor in a Towny town... Oh, that'd be fun, having everything you worked for washed away. :)
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Posted Jan 29, 2013An error seemed to have popped up. I didn't encounter any error in the game, but it showed up on the log, so I'm posting it anyway.
http://pastebin.com/LdgfKwzc
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Posted Jan 28, 2013alright that sounds great xD so a meteor can happen in a towny town? that sounds ok, anyways i am satisfied so keep up the good work XD btw, whats with earthquakes? as in could you post a video of one/images so that i can see how devistating it is on the enviroment? thanks
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Posted Jan 28, 2013@CorruptedHelix
R1 should work :)
@cam100100
If you run Bukkit for 1.4.6, you need to use Storm 0.1.2. If you are running it for 1.4.7, you should run 0.1.2 | R1. The versions are NOT interchangeable.
@Darkvortexes
@CorruptedHelix
Wonderful. Just like the Bukkit developers to not leave well enough alone, and randomly change method calls around. *grumble* Just another reason for a developer to kick Bukkit and walk away. I'll push out a fix today.
@N1T3SLAY3R
Storm has WorldGuard and Residence support, so regions protected by the latter two will be safe. Never go around to Towny protection.
On another note, I've created a 'FAQ' section in the description.
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Posted Jan 28, 2013quick question, how does this plugin relate in terms of compatibility? As in if you have meteors enabled will they wreck territory in the spawn (world guard protection)? Or would acid rain melt through townys protection (thats not as major tho) etc.?
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Posted Jan 27, 2013@Darkvortexes
Similar for me, except for the fact that the server doesn't crash or export any error to console. Instead, it says that this type of weather or natural disaster isn't enabled for the targeted world even though I am absolutely sure it is (I even checked).
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Posted Jan 27, 2013Hello to the authors of Storm. I've been running a server with a few friends. I wanted to add this interesting plugin, so I did. I'm sort of new for servers, etc. However, everything has been running alright so far without Storm. Running the server with Storm plugin is fine, but each time I use a command for a type of storm to activate ,it crashes. For example, each time I use the command for acid rain, I always get an error and the server crashes. Sorry if it's an easy fix, because I don't exactly know what to do about ticking entities. Anyway. here's the crash report I recieved: http://pastebin.com/X3Adhp8m (1-99 is the Crash Report. 102-127 is what I got in the server log) It would help if anybody could give me some advice about what to do. I also run about 10 plugins on my normal server, but I tried on a server with plugins and no plugins, and they both crashed. (I'm also using Build #2602, which is Beta Build 1.4.7.R0.1)
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@Icynene
It didnt work I updated my server and put a new storm plugin in and didnt work i cant do any commands of the storm plugin but i can see the worlds now in my TnT world this is what says:
Hope you can help me fix this
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@Icynene
I was running the latest version on the BukkitDev page at this time of posting, v0.1.2R, for further reference.
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@Icynene
Ow I see I am running 1.4.6 Thank :D
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Posted Jan 26, 2013@t33mo
Oh darn. Danggit. Well, there's a bug in earthquakes where the player is not reset to their original speed. Thanks for finding that, I'll fix it for the 1.5 version.
@CorruptedHelix
Thanks, will look into it.
@cam100100
What MC version are you running?