Tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds

Breathe life into barren lands with immersive tumbleweeds. Tumbling into your desert soon!

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🌵 About

Are you looking for the charm of the Wild West and missing its most prevalent icon? You tumbled to the right place!

Tumbleweeds adds animated, loot-dropping tumbleweeds to the desert and badlands biomes, breathing new life into the drylands and immersing you in your journey through them.

This mod is designed to be lightweight and highly configurable in order to enhance any existing gameplay experience of your choosing and to not interfere with any of your other modifications.

🌐 Wiki

If you are looking for a wiki of sorts or just a more detailed walkthrough of the content of this mod, then you can find quick and easy introductions to all the added features of this project below.

If you find no answers to your questions here or want to suggest improvements for the project, then feel free to leave a comment on the CurseForge site (here).

Tumbleweed Animation

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Supported Mods

The following mods should be natively supported. However, support for any of these mods may be broken at any time. If this is the case, feel free to comment on the CurseForge site to let me know!

... Work in progress ...

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🔧 Configuration

If you’re looking for a detailed description of the configuration options and how to access them, you’ll find brief introductions to all available menus and their default values, grouped by privilege class, below.

Admin

Access method:

Run the following command: /function tumbleweed:.menu/admin

Features:

  • Enable spawning of tumbleweeds [True]
  • Enable loot dropping [True]
  • Set maximum number of tumbleweeds [20]
  • Set player cooldown for spawn attempts [600 Ticks / 30 Seconds]
  • Set despawn time for tumbleweed entities [2400 Ticks / 2 Minutes]
Player

Currently no individual config options are available!

📬 Remarks

Please keep in mind that at any given time vast amounts of the mod may be edited or completely overhauled! These changes should not, but may leave existing worlds on older versions corrupted. Creating backups before updating to a new version is advised!

I want to reiterate that this is simply a passion project. It may occur that for longer periods no updates or bug fixes are being developed/released simply because I do not want to.

Available Versions

[1.21.5 - 1.21.8] - v1.1.0release
MC 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7, 1.21.8fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
July 28, 2025
[1.21 - 1.21.1] - v1.1.0release
MC 1.21, 1.21.1fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
July 16, 2025
[1.21.2 - 1.21.3] - v1.1.0release
MC 1.21.2, 1.21.3fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
July 16, 2025
[1.21.4] - v1.1.0release
MC 1.21.4fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
July 16, 2025
[1.21.5 - 1.21.7] - v1.1.0release
MC 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
July 16, 2025

How to Install Tumbleweeds on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended).

2

Set fabric Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.8).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Tumbleweeds". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

fabricforgeneoforgequilt

Minecraft Versions

1.21.8, 1.21.7, 1.21.6 (+6 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

6 GB(min. 4 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Tumbleweeds server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 4 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.8). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Tumbleweeds compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

Tumbleweeds officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.7, 1.21.6. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Tumbleweeds – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 6 GB (per 5 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Tumbleweeds consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Supported Versions

1.21.81.21.71.21.61.21.51.21.41.21.31.21.21.21.11.21