🌳 Natural Regrowth

Natural Regrowth is an immersive and highly configurable addon for ProtoManly's Weather (0.15.3+) that overhauls the aftermath of destructive weather. Instead of leaving permanent, ugly scars in your landscape, storms and wildfires now leave behind a destroyed, but recovering ecosystem.

Now fully compatible with PM Weather 0.16.x!

✨ Key Features:

🔥 NEW: Wildfire Regrowth:

Burnt forests are no longer permanent wastelands. Charred logs will eventually colapse once the fire has passed, allowing the forest to regrow from the ashes.

🚫 Native Decay Rework:

This mod disables PM Weather's native "Rotted Log" decay system, replacing it with a fully immersive and configurable regrowth cycle.

🌲 Universal Tree Compatibility:

Using an upgraded search algorithm, Natural Regrowth can now detect the saplings for almost ANY modded tree.

🌪️ Tornado, Cyclone, and Wind Repair:

Stumps left by tornadoes, and trees stripped by cyclones and squalls, will heal naturally over time.

⏱️ "Catch-Up" Mechanic:

Stumps in unloaded chunks don't freeze in time. When you return to a damaged area, the mod calculates how long you were gone and simulates the sapling growth, so forests heal even when you aren't watching.

🌱 Scoured Earth Healing:

Scoured and Charred grass will slowly heal back to vanilla grass (Configurable).

🪾 4.2.0 Is fully compatable with dynamic trees!

All types of damage supported (Wind, Tornado, Fire). Dynamic trees will follow a similar cycle of felling and replanting after being damaged.

🔥 How It Works (Wildfires):

When a wildfire burns through a forest, it leaves behind Charred Logs.

The Cooling Period: Charred logs enter a "dormant" state. They will wait 20 minutes (configurable) before entering a state where they can attempt to grow.

The Regrowth: Once the area is safe and the config delay has passed, the stump eventually decays, planting a sapling in its place to restart the cycle.

🌪️ How It Works (Wind):

When a tornado tears through a forest, it no longer simply destroys the trees. Trees that are stripped of their leaves and branches now leave behind "Damaged Stumps" (visually represented by stripped wood variants). Over time (approx. 1.5 - 2 hours by default), these stumps will naturally heal and transform into saplings.

Trees on the edge of a destructive tornado that lose their leaves are also considered "destroyed." Natural Regrowth will place a stripped stump at the bottom indicating damage. Eventually, they will collapse and begin the regrowth cycle as well.

🌀 Cyclone and Squall Support:

Natural Regrowth handles wind damage caused by cyclones and squalls. Instead of regrowing the whole tree from a sapling, damaged trees will regrow their leaves and "rebark" themselves over time, fixing the aesthetic damage without resetting the forest age.

⚙️ Configuration & Commands:

A comprehensive config file allows you to adjust:

Regrowth Chance: How fast forests grow back (tuned for real-time hours).

Delays: How long a stump must wait before it starts trying to grow (useful for keeping fire scars visible for a while).

Healing Rates: How quickly scoured/charred grass reverts to normal.

New Debug Commands:

/nr grow - Instantly forces regrowth in an area.

/nr ready - Skips the delay timer for all nearby stumps.

📝 Dependencies & Credits:

Requires ProtoManly's Weather (0.15.3 or higher).

Compatible with Elton's Modified Tornado Damage.

🔴Not Compatable with PMW Trees

Please report bugs to the page on github or on the PM Weather discord server. Thanks!