"Beautiful clouds in touch with the vanilla style"

Please, feel free to report any issues

hi everyone, i'm the new maintainer now. the mod is no longer discontinued. cheers
-orangishcat

Better Clouds replaces Minecraft's flat cloud layer with volumetric skies that still feel at home in vanilla. The goal is simple: make the sky look dramatically better without drifting into a style that clashes with the rest of the game.

Features

• Vanilla-friendly volumetric clouds: Adds layered, sculpted cloud formations that matches Minecraft's overall visual style.
• Deep visual customization: Tune cloud size, height, spacing, sparsity, fuzziness, opacity, travel speed, wind response, halo effects, fog fade, brightness, saturation, tint, and more.
• Preset-driven workflow: Start with built-in presets, switch quickly between looks, restore defaults when needed, or create and duplicate your own presets for different worlds and shader packs.
• Shader-aware rendering: Includes Iris-focused support, options for cloud rendering when shaders are active, preset compatibility work, and controls such as depth writing, sun path angle, world curvature, and upscale resolution.
• Performance-conscious options: Adjust generation chunk size, view distance scaling, frustum culling, persistent buffers, ordering behavior, and other rendering settings to fit your hardware and modpack.
• Resource-pack styling: Cloud gradients, noise textures, and preset data can be supplied through resource packs, making it possible to build custom sky looks without changing the mod itself.
• Season and dimension interop: Supports dimension-based activation and integrates with seasonal mods such as Fabric Seasons and Serene Seasons so cloud coverage can shift throughout the in-game year.
• Broad mod compatibility: Includes compatibility layers for common visual and world mods, including shader tooling and distant-horizon-style rendering setups.
• Cross-loader and accessibility support: Available for Fabric and NeoForge, integrates with Mod Menu on Fabric, and ships with multiple language translations.

Download

Download Better Clouds on Modrinth

Contributions

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project.
See the full list here.

Wiki

The wiki documents every setting, explains how to create presets, and includes a list of compatible shaders.
Read it here.

License

This software is licensed under MPL 2.0.
The assets, except for the logo, are under CC BY-SA.

Restrictions on Name and Logo use

I do not grant permission for the use of the name "Better Clouds" or its logo for publication of derivative works.
Derivative works must have a clearly distinct name and logo to avoid confusion with the official "Better Clouds".

Examples

• "Better Clouds Forge", is too similar and can be confused as an official publication for Forge.
• "Better Clouds Reforged", this is fine, as "Reforged" is a common term for unofficial ports to Forge.
• "Better Clouds (Unofficial)", if this is where your imagination ends, this is also fine.