NoMorePowder

🌨️ No more sinking. No more freezing. Just snow.

Overview

You're sprinting across a snowy mountain, the landscape looks solid and safe — and then you sink. Powder snow: invisible, silent, and one of Minecraft's most frustrating terrain hazards. No warning, no indication, just a slow freeze creeping up your health bar.

NoMorePowder fixes this at the root. Instead of patching around powder snow after the fact, the mod intercepts world generation itself and replaces every naturally-spawned powder snow block with a regular snow block before it ever touches the world. The terrain looks identical — it just doesn't swallow you whole anymore.

Your mountain biomes stay snowy and beautiful. You just stop falling through them.

Features

• 🏔️ Seamless terrain — Powder snow patches in frozen and mountain biomes are silently replaced with regular snow blocks during world generation. No visual difference, no more hidden traps.
• 🪣 Powder snow is not gone — You can still collect it the intended way: place a cauldron outside during a snowstorm and wait. It can still be placed and used as a block in survival or creative.
• 🏛️ Trial Chambers untouched — The powder snow traps inside Trial Chambers are deliberately preserved. They are a designed part of that dungeon's challenge and are generated through a completely different system that this mod does not touch.
• ⚡ Zero overhead — No config files, no commands, no runtime processing. The replacement happens once, at worldgen time, and that's it.

What is and isn't affected

Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft.
2. Download the latest nomorepowder-x.x.x.jar.
3. Download the latest compatible Fabric API version.
4. Drop the .jar into your mods/ folder.
5. Launch the game.

Server note: This mod modifies world generation. It must be installed server-side (or in singleplayer). Players connecting to a modded server do not need to install it themselves.
Existing worlds: Chunks that were already generated before installing this mod will not be retroactively changed. The effect only applies to newly generated chunks.

Compatibility

• Fabric Loader
• Java 21+ for Minecraft 1.21.11 / Java 25+ for Minecraft 26.1+
• Compatible with other mods — the intercept targets only SurfaceRules$StateRule.tryApply() and does not affect feature-based placement or structure generation

How it works

Powder snow in frozen biomes (Frozen Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Grove, etc.) is placed via Minecraft's surface rule system — not via world generation features. Surface rules determine which block appears at the terrain surface for each biome, and are applied directly to each chunk column during generation, completely bypassing the feature placement pipeline.

NoMorePowder uses a single Mixin on SurfaceRules$StateRule.tryApply() with @ModifyReturnValue from MixinExtras. This method returns the BlockState that a surface rule wants to place. If that state is POWDER_SNOW, the mod returns SNOW_BLOCK instead — before it ever reaches the chunk.

Trial Chamber powder snow is placed via StructureTemplate (NBT-driven structure files) after terrain generation, which is an entirely separate system that never goes through surface rules. It is therefore completely unaffected by this mod.

Test Server

Feel free to join my Minecraft server to test my mods: play.swordfishbe.eu