Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26553378-20171129123236/@comment-26553378-20171201172102

96.4.180.37 wrote: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Minecraftmage 113, but I think Mevans has scrapped the whole seasons idea because he could not get the grass color to change like he thought it should. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that seasons are no longer a planned feature. If they are not, I do not know why they are still on the Planned Features page. To tell you the truth, my comment was based on another comment I saw on the Planned Features page. Someone asked about the seasons on that page, and someone else (possibly High King Ithilion, but I am not sure, as I cannot find the comment) said Mevans gave up on seasons because of the whole grass-color-changing-thing. I could be interpreting this wrong, but I think seasons are scrapped for now.

So, yeah. Seasons are probably scrapped. I also don't particularly want to have no leaf drops through winter, as, me loving pomegranates, I would not want to have to go through 3-4 IN-GAME MONTHS WITH NO NEW POMEGRANATES!! I want to be able to harvest pomegranates YEAR-ROUND! (Please note that I am always allied with Rhúdel, and I mostly live in Rhúdel, so pomegranates are relatively easy to come by.  They'll be harder to get in winter if this is implemented, however.) harad and its fertile would likely be divided into wet and dry seasons, so you should be able to still get them. reading the rest of that, seeing as rhudel is "   a mild and fertile land " I doubt it would suffer much from winter either.

Beyond that comment... well, I meant ME regions, not real world regions when asking for weather patterns and seasons and stuff.

Also, with the mod now being a coremod, I do believe that mevans would be able to make seasons, however it would involve changing how biomes work on a very base level, and could likely take multiple months for such an update to come out. That considered, he may make a few more rain/temp based changes to how plants and animals work, but I doubt seasons will be implemented until far in the future, likely after the idea of major quest-lines.

Also, to anyone on the mod team that sees this, how much research time goes into each faction update?