Crash midgame with SereneSeasons
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Describe the bug
The game crashed during gameplay.
To Reproduce
No idea — I was just flying around when it happened.
Platform(please complete the following information):
- Minecraft Verison: 1.20.1
- Platform Verison: 47.4.0 Forge
- Mod Version: 0.12.0-pre-2-1
Additional context
I hadn’t encountered this issue before installing the mod.
Crash Log:
Q: Does this mod work with Serene Seasons?
A:
As a season mod, Ecliptic Seasons shares many similarities with Serene Seasons — both represent the Minecraft year using four seasons, change grass and foliage colors, modify rain and snow effects, and control seasonal crop growth. However, Minecraft has been around for 15 years, and we aim to push things further.
Also, you might try running both mods together and notice crashes during rain, then assume it’s caused by the new mod. In reality, the problem comes from Serene Seasons’ use of a compatibility-unfriendly @reDIrect mixin to cache data, instead of capturing it with local variables (which was also possible back in the older Mixin days). This design makes their code quite fragile.
Sometimes crashes don’t happen because you have mods like Pretty Rain installed. Those mods add separate rendering logic that bypasses the risky Serene Seasons code, preventing crashes.
You can find this message in my Discord channel, although I only included the first paragraph in the README file—because I don't want to make any public comments about Serene Seasons, or compare which mod is "better."
But mods aren't just 1 + 1 = 2; sometimes 1 + 1 = -1. Seasons are a low-level, exclusive kind of modification.
What really puzzles me is why you expected these two mods to work together in the first place.
If it was just an experiment, you could have simply removed it yourself.
And you’re not the only one. @Narcifal
@joe-vettek
You're absolutely right — I was indeed mistaken for not reading the full description on the mod page and wrongly assumed Ecliptic Seasons to be a patch or addon for Serene Seasons. That was my fault.
That said, I would strongly recommend making it more explicitly clear that this mod introduces entirely new seasonal mechanics to the game. The phrase "a new seasonal experience" can be a bit ambiguous without the additional context you've now shared here on GitHub — especially since most players are used to the Serene Seasons mod.
Thank you for your response, and good luck with the coding!
With all due respect,
Narcifal