Living Skies

The whole sky, alive: real sunsets, galaxy nights with a glowing moon, an ocean that mirrors it all - and grey rolling storms with rain, lightning and thunder.

Which mod do I need?

This one. Living Skies is the complete package: the full HTF Day and Night cycle is built in, plus the weather on top.

Only want day-night with calm skies and no weather ever? Get HTF Day and Night by itself instead.

Never install both - this mod already contains Day and Night.

What it does

Storms park over the island. A grey ceiling of rolling cloud seals the sky, fog swallows the horizon, the light goes flat and dead, and slanted rain comes down in squalls. Sail out from under it and the storm lets you go - and stays sitting on the island behind you.
Lightning you can see. Jagged bolts crack from the cloud deck to the sea, sometimes striking twice down the same channel, with thunder rolling in late like it crossed real distance. Distant sheet lightning blinks on the horizon before the storm arrives.
Storms wait for the light to fail. Under a high sun a storm spell rolls as heavy rain; the real storm breaks from late afternoon through the night. Weather and hour always agree.
Everyone shares one sky. The forecast is computed from synced server time - the same storm rolls over the whole crew at the same moment, with zero extra network traffic. Storms last about 3 minutes, rain about 3 and a half, with long clear spells between.
Day and night included: real sunsets, a galaxy night with a glowing moon, an ocean that mirrors the sky, co-op synced time, F9 resync, and arrow-key time shifting (your personal view only).

Install

Drop everything into BepInEx/plugins. If you already run HTF Day and Night as a separate mod, remove that copy first - this package carries it.

Your own weather sounds (optional)

Create BepInEx/plugins/HTFWeatherAudio/ and drop in recordings - the mod picks them up automatically, and synthesises anything missing:

file	used for
`rain.mp3` / `.ogg` / `.wav`	the rain bed (a ~30s loop works great)
`storm.*`	heavy downpour layer, swells in past half strength
`wind.*`	gusty wind that leads the front in
`thunder1.`, `thunder2.`, ...	one clip picked per strike

Config

One option: Volume (yoxi.htf.weather.cfg), also adjustable from the F7 menu in game. The weather itself is deliberately not configurable - one tuned storm for everybody, so the whole crew lives under the same sky.

Built by Yoxi.