When the Wirlwind exists in the world it's always thunder and players will get a slowness effect while contacting snow, ice and packed ice. The Wirlwind also uses his wings to fly away when he's damaged and to glide instead of falling. He can shoot icy projectiles at players that create small ice spikes.
Special properties
Very fast and strong; 150 HP.
Drops
The Wirlwind's head (1)
100 % drop chance
New items
Christmas tree
How to get?
Can be crafted with the Wirlwind's head, a gold nugget and a spruce sapling.
Special properties
The Christmas tree has glowing decorations (with 4 colors (green, red, yellow and blue)).
Usage
Needed to get New Year presents.
The Wirlwind's spawn egg
To get this item, do the following:
1. Put an armor stand inside of a blue shulker box. 2. Grab that box and rename it to "Wirlwind's cage" using anvil. 3. Surround it by snow blocks to finally get the item.
Special properties
Unigue-in-way-to-get, I guess.
Usage
Summoning the Wirlwind.
Ukrainian winter holiday calendar
How to get?
Can be crafted with a clock, 4 papers and 4 snow blocks.
Special properties
Cool particles.
Usage
Stand close to it to see what holiday is it today/it'll be tomorrow.
New features
Weather
In this creation it's always snowy, even in other dimensions. Snow will fall from the sky around you. Snow particles will fall as well. This option can be removed by disabling the first box of the module.
Holidays
According to the title this vanilla mod should add Ukrainian winter holidays, and it does! I included the biggest and the most important of them. Here's the list:
Saint Nicolas' day
New Year
Christmas
Old New Year
The Epiphany
So, because of the holidays, all villagers sing songs to nearby players (actually I was just lazy to fix that). Anyway, let's start from the beginning.
Saint Nicolas' day First of, write a letter to St. Nicolas by renaming a piece of paper on an anvil. Throw the item to get your present. But be careful! If you killed other players or villagers, you will get a "reezka": a punishing stick for kids (it's not being used nowadays). Just sleep in bed and then look under your pillow ;)
New Year To begin with, you have to defeat the Wirlwind. If you didn't, but somehow got the Christmas tree, it won't work anyways. Once you've done that, craft the Christmas tree and write Grandpa Frost a letter in the same way as you did with Saint Nicolas' day. After all this, just go to sleep and see what's up under your Christmas tree next morning (spoiler: 4 chests with End City dungeon loot).
Christmas In Ukraine Christmas is very different from Christmas in other countries. It has so many traditions and unique things that I was just too lazy to do it. Instead I made all mobs except the Wirlwind, Ender Dragon and Wither friendly. They won't attack you even if you hit them (if they do, tell me via Twitter (@iNkoR_the_2nd) or email ([email protected])). They will also sing like villagers.
Old New Year Some time ago New Year in Ukraine was celebrated from 13th to 14th January. Nowadays elders still have this tradition. So I made it like this: any potion (even a water bottle is considered as a potion in the game) that you drink will give you speed 3, strengh and night vision. But the next day you fill get nausea, slowness 3 and poison. All effects last for 3 minutes.
Christmas The Epiphany is a religious holiday that is celebrated due to Jesus' baptism. So at this time, you will get instant health while being in water (only the still water counts). All undead mobs will be damaged in water. Here's the list of them:
Skeleton
Skeleton horse
Stray
Wither skeleton
Zombie
Zombie Pigman
Zombie villager
Zombie horse
Husk
Also, have a slideshow of all possible messages that the calendar can give you. And one more thing: after the Epiphany is over, the cycle will stop and after a month it'll be reset.
Achievements
This vanilla mod adds 1 new achievement to the game: