# Unusual Precipitation
\nIt’s raining cats, diamonds, arrows, wardens, eggs… It’s raining anything and everything!<\/p>\n
This datapack adds a highly configurable custom weather cycle to the game that rains random mobs, items and projectiles from the sky. The vanilla weather system is unaffected by this datapack.<\/p>\n
There is the raining weather cycle, which rains items, neutral mobs and mostly non-dangerous projectiles. Then there is the thundering weather cycle, which rains hostile mobs and dangerous projectiles (e.g. fireballs).<\/p>\n
# Configuration – `rain_interval` – The number of seconds between the end of the previous weather cycle and the start of a new one. # Setting Custom Weather – `\/function unusual-precipitation:start-custom-weather {entity:’ The first function is used to rain mobs\/projectiles by replacing ` To stop the custom weather, simply run `\/function unusual-precipitation:stop-custom-weather`. Then, to reenable the datapack’s weather cycle, run `\/function unusual-precipitation:enable-weather-cycle`.<\/p>\n # Other Things to Note… —<\/p>\n Credit to MC: Ultimate List as it helped greatly in creating this datapack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This datapack rains random items\/mobs\/projectiles from the sky!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":163006,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"unusual-precipitation","_minecraft_project_id":"vGOSL0ob","_minecraft_author":"Ninjaking312","_minecraft_license":"MIT","_minecraft_downloads":1720,"_minecraft_follows":22,"_minecraft_client_side":"optional","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"unusual-precipitation.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":254099,"_minecraft_version_count":7,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T03:33:14.948801Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2024-02-16T18:47:58.088157Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2026-03-13T00:52:15.352203Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/unusual-precipitation","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":163006,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-09T16:24:59+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"e58ee39f9addba3b110c7b56785c5268","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[43,84,89,866,137],"mod_loader":[86],"minecraft_version":[94,101,102,62,37,40,41,73,74,38,78,79,80,81,82,83,167,163],"class_list":["post-163005","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-cursed","mod_category-datapack","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-minigame","mod_category-mobs","mod_loader-datapack","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-5","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1","minecraft_version-1-21-10","minecraft_version-1-21-11","minecraft_version-1-21-2","minecraft_version-1-21-3","minecraft_version-1-21-4","minecraft_version-1-21-5","minecraft_version-1-21-6","minecraft_version-1-21-7","minecraft_version-1-21-8","minecraft_version-1-21-9","minecraft_version-26-1","minecraft_version-26-1-1","minecraft_version-26-1-2"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nTo configure this datapack, run the command `\/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar unusual-precipitation-config`. Each scoreboard entry can be edited using the command `\/scoreboard players set
\n– `rain_duration` – The number of seconds a single weather cycle lasts.
\n– `thundering_chance` – The percentage chance that a thundering weather cycle occurs instead of a raining weather cycle. Values range from 0 to 100.
\n– `include_items` – Whether to include items in the raining weather cycle. Value of 0 means false while 1 means true.
\n– `include_mobs` – Whether to include mobs in the weather cycle. Value of 0 means false while 1 means true.
\n– `include_projectiles` – Whether to include projectiles in the weather cycle. Value of 0 means false while 1 means true.
\n– `chaos_mode` – When enabled, this will constantly roll a different entity to rain within the same weather cycle. Value of 0 means disabled while 1 means enabled.<\/p>\n
\nYou can also set a specific entity to be rained from the sky non-stop using these two functions:<\/p>\n
\n– `\/function unusual-precipitation:start-custom-weather-nbt {entity:’
\n– To remove the datapack, run `\/function unusual-precipitation:uninstall` and then delete\/disable the datapack.
\n– If the datapack’s weather cycle ever gets stuck or somehow stops working, which can happen when disabling then enabling the datapack, try run `\/function unusual-precipitation:enable-weather-cycle` to restart it.
\n– Any changes made to `rain_duration` and `rain_interval` may take an extra weather cycle to take effect.
\n– The entities that rain from the sky are summoned at Y=350 and randomly distributed in a 50-block radius around each online player in the overworld. The nether and end dimensions are not included in the weather cycle.<\/p>\n