Natural Regrowth for ProtoManly's Weather

 # 🌳 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 0.17.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!**