Twenty-four doors, one for every day until Christmas. Here is what's behind a few of them:

• Door 1: a cozy cabin with three fireplaces, armchairs and a grandfather clock
• Door 6: four Grand Christmas Trees, baubles in nine colours and topper stars
• Door 12: a snowball launcher, a snow cannon and a redstone snowball turret
• Door 18: snowman helpers you build yourself, with a carved pumpkin
• Door 24: Old Frostbelly, the boss of winter. Bring friends.

At a glance

• 235 blocks, every one modelled in 3D
• 12 mobs: 1 boss, 3 minibosses, 8 more
• 9 containers, 10 seats, 102 light sources, 42 react to redstone
• Runs on Fabric, Quilt, Forge and NeoForge, Minecraft 26.3, 1.21.1 and 1.20.1

Decorations

• Cozy home: three fireplaces with mantels, armchairs in six styles, a sofa, a dining set, a festive piano and a grandfather clock.
• Trees and trimmings: four grand Christmas trees, topper stars, baubles in nine colours, wreaths, garlands and stockings.
• Gifts and treats: presents in six colours, an advent calendar, gingerbread houses, cookies and milk, a cocoa station and a toy train.
• Lights: twinkle lights in six colours, icicle lights, lanterns, window candles, Moravian stars, light-up reindeer and lamp posts.
• Village and yard: cottages, shops and chapels, market stalls, sleighs, nutcrackers, carolers, ice sculptures and snowy pines.

Snowmen everywhere

The wild ones live in snowy biomes all year, three times as often in December.

• Friendly: Snowman Buddies, hopping Snowlets, Skater Snowmen on frozen rivers and Gift Snowmen that drop presents.
• Pranksters: Snow Tricksters throw snowballs in the dark and Snow Rollers bowl into you, but never take you below one heart.
• Minibosses: the belly-flopping Snow Bruiser and the Blizzard Mage, whose staff breaks into a rage at half health.
• Old Frostbelly (450 health): stamps, throws volleys and calls minions, sheds its belly as a rolling Frostbelly Ball and fights on as a floating head. It drops the Tree Topper Star, which no recipe makes.

Snowball Fun

• Snowball Launcher: hold to spray snowballs; sneak and use to switch ammo.
• Snow Cannon: hold to charge, release for one heavy shot; the home of the Giant Snowball.
• Snowball Turret: a 9-slot redstone turret that keeps firing while powered.
• Special snowballs: Giant (shoves), TNT (explodes), Frost (slows and freezes), Confetti, Glow and Snowdrift (leaves snow).

How to

How to craft

Nearly every decoration can be crafted in survival with plain vanilla ingredients. Pick up an ingredient and the recipes that use it unlock in your recipe book (next to the crafting grid). Roughly:

• Woodwork: Planks, logs and slabs make armchairs, tables, sleighs, cottages and the piano.
• Wool and Cloth: Wool and carpet make stockings, bunting, cushions, scarves and the Christmas rug.
• Paper Crafts: Paper makes presents, cards, the advent calendar and wrapping tables.
• Glass and Light: Glass, glowstone and candles make baubles, twinkle lights, Moravian stars and lanterns.
• Metalwork: Iron and gold make lamp posts, the fire screen, the clock and the snowball launcher.
• Greenery: Leaves, saplings and berries make wreaths, garlands, potted trees and the grand tree.
• Snow and Ice: Snow and ice make snowmen, snow piles, ice sculptures and snowball ammo.
• Sweet Treats: Sugar, cookies and cocoa make candy canes, gingerbread houses and treats.
• Odds and Ends: Bricks, dyes, sticks and string: everything that fits no other group.
• Variants: a colour or wood variant is the base piece plus a dye or ingredient, shapeless (for example White Candle Advent Wreath: Advent Wreath + White Dye).

Open the recipe book, or look for the Deck the Halls advancement, which unlocks as soon as you pick up planks, wool, paper, glass or snow. The advancements lead you through the material groups up to Fully Decked.

Build a snowman helper

Put a Snowman figure on a snow block and a carved pumpkin on the figure: a Frosty Helper, who fights up close and refills your Snowball Turret with dropped snowballs. On a Green Scarf Snowman figure you get a Gunner Snowman, who throws snowballs at your enemies. Helpers follow and defend you, never hurt a player and heal when you feed them snow blocks or snowballs. Up to 4 per player.

Wake Old Frostbelly

Find it asleep in a grove, or build the ritual on flat ground: a 4x4 floor of snow blocks with a lantern on each corner, a 2x2 snow pillar two high in the middle, a Giant Carrot (eight carrots around a gold nugget) on the pillar and a carved pumpkin on the carrot. Needs Normal difficulty or harder.

Summon a Snow Bruiser

Stack two snow blocks, a gold block and a carved pumpkin (Normal difficulty or harder).

Wrap a present

Presents hold 9 stacks and keep them when broken, so a filled present is a gift you can hand over.

Compatibility

Install it on both the client and the server.

Configuration

TNT Snowballs follow tnt_snowball_block_damage in decorationx_christmas_snowball.json: auto (default) breaks no blocks on a dedicated server and works like TNT in single player and LAN; all, weak (follows mobGriefing) and none are the other choices. The December boost, the helper cap and the boss options (camera shake, music, damage cap, rituals) are in the mobs file.

Config files are created in the config folder on the first launch: decorationx_christmas_mobs_client.properties, decorationx_christmas_mobs.properties, decorationx_christmas_snowball.json.

FAQ

Forge? Quilt? Other versions?

Fabric and NeoForge on Minecraft 26.3 and 1.21.1, and Fabric, Quilt and Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1 (Fabric and Quilt need Fabric API). Quilt runs the Fabric file.

1.1.0 (recipe-book unlocks and crafting advancements) is out for every version: Minecraft 26.3, 1.21.1 and 1.20.1. 1.20.1 players: update to 1.1.0, it also fixes broken textures on wreaths, presents and snowmen.

Can I use it in a modpack?

Yes, in modpacks on Modrinth or CurseForge that download it from the official page.

Can I make videos with it?

Yes, videos, streams and reviews are welcome anywhere.

Server or client?

Both. Install it on the server and on every client. On a dedicated server TNT Snowballs break no blocks unless you change the setting above.

License

All Rights Reserved, with two permissions:

• Allowed: Use in modpacks distributed through Modrinth or CurseForge that link to the official download.
• Allowed: Videos, reviews, streams and showcases anywhere.
• No reuploads and no reuse of code, art, textures, models or sounds.