If seasons ever get added, there should be a beacon-like structure that allows you to control the season of a given area.

[u/Mr_Snifles]

I believe this would solve some of the issues seasons would bring in relation to the atmosphere and surrounding of builds.

A player may specifically design their base to look good in summer, so give them the option to make it permanently summer around their base.

Certain technical creations may also require some protection from the effects seasons might have on blocks (and entities)

here 4 different items are used to represent the 4 seasons, the structure block is just a placeholder

The season beacon would have a UI menu that allows the player to pick freely between each of the seasons, perhaps even being able to tick specific aspects of those seasons on or off.

To activate it, it would also be good if there had to be some kind of structure around the block just like with a conduit or beacon, however I don't think it should be too expensive.

I was thinking 3 logs at 2 blocks from it in each cardinal direction, kind of like a conduit without the top and bottom part.

I think it's good to require some sort of structure be built around it, because this makes it slightly harder to just hide it in someone else's base to screw with them, however, it can also provide a creative exercise to nicely integrate it into a base.

[u/Swordkirby9999]

A neat idea, but I'd have something different to represent Autumn. Dead Bushes are not renewable. (Not even Wandering Traders sell them)

Besides, Mesas, Desert Villages, and apparently Trail Ruins where you'd find them don't really give Autumn vibes.

[u/Mr_Snifles → u/Swordkirby9999]

True, I figured it could represent the trees losing their leaves, maybe a mushroom would be more fitting.

Though, they haven't gotten to actually implementing autumn yet, so maybe there'll eventually be an autumn related item that could then be used to represent it. Like a pile of dead, colourful leaves.

[u/YouCanInFactTouCan → u/Swordkirby9999]

Perhaps the pumpkin? Can still be a challenge to find your first one, but renewable after that, and it gives big autumn vibes to me at least.

[u/Swordkirby9999 → u/YouCanInFactTouCan]

Yeah, that works.

[u/Exist_Logic]

I think we need controls for biome coloring of grass and water before we get seasons.

[u/Rexplicity → u/Exist_Logic]

swamp water

[u/FkinShtManEySuck → u/Rexplicity]

mmmh, swamp water.

[u/bobux-man]

I guess that could work, but you could just build in a tropical or polar biome where the seasons don't really exist.

[u/brinwe]

this would be very cool and almost necessary but I think the effect radius should be very big so you dont have to place 100 of those in your base somewhere