Global Warming & Clean Energy
Every furnace you light has a cost. In the Global Warming & Clean Energy add-on, that cost is measured in pounds of CO2, and the atmosphere is keeping score. This ambitious mod, originally built for the MCreator x CurseForge ModJam, turns everyday smelting into an environmental dilemma. The more you burn, the worse your world gets, until the sky itself turns against you.
How the Climate System Works
The core loop is deceptively simple. Each time you smelt an item in a vanilla furnace, global warming increases. As the number climbs, the consequences stack up. At moderate levels, smoke fills your screen and you will need a smoke mask to see anything clearly. Push further and random wildfires begin igniting at an accelerating rate. Reach one million pounds of CO2 in the atmosphere and you trigger the apocalypse: the entire world floods, every mob burns constantly, and visibility collapses into a grey haze.
Fortunately, smelting is not the only option. The add-on introduces a new machine called the oven, which cooks anything at any speed without burning fuel, as long as you can supply power. That power comes from four distinct sources, each with real trade-offs.
Your Clean Energy Options
- Hydropower: Powers the block below it when waterlogged, but only functions in river biomes.
- Wind Power: The higher you build, the better the returns.
- Solar Power: Works only during daytime, in clear weather, and with no roof blocking the panel.
- Nuclear Power: Runs on uranium found in abundance under oceans. It is easily the most effective source, but has an extremely low chance of exploding and destroying everything, and sometimes generates nuclear waste that damages you.
If you want to track your impact, craft a weather balloon and fire it skyward with the weather balloon cannon. It reports the current level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The cannon also happens to make a decent weapon, though that is not its intended purpose.
Commands, Gamerules, and Supported Versions
Global Warming & Clean Energy for Minecraft includes several tools for players who want to experiment. The command /getglobalwarming displays the current warming value, while /setglobalwarming <number> lets you jump straight to any level you like. Three gamerules round out the package: DoGlobalWarming toggles the entire system, DeadlyFlood makes flood water lethal for natural disaster minigames, and OceanRises allows sea levels to climb when warming is enabled.
The add-on is built with MCreator and targets Forge, with builds available for Minecraft 1.20.1 and similar recent releases. Before you download Global Warming & Clean Energy, confirm that your loader and game version match the file you grab, since mismatches are the most common cause of crashes.
Players who prefer a frictionless setup often turn to the foxygame.net launcher, which lists Global Warming & Clean Energy directly in its add-on catalog and handles version matching automatically, so you can jump from browsing to playing in a single click. It is a convenient option if you would rather not juggle loader files by hand.
How to Install
Manual Installation
- Install the correct Forge version for your Minecraft release.
- Place the downloaded .jar file into your mods folder.
- Launch the game once to generate config files, then adjust gamerules to taste.
If you are wondering how to install without touching config files, the launcher route above skips most of these steps entirely.
Final Thoughts
Global Warming & Clean Energy is one of the few Minecraft add-ons that makes you think about your crafting habits. It rewards planning, punishes carelessness, and offers a genuinely tense endgame if you ignore the warning signs. Whether you are chasing a sustainable base or deliberately racing toward the flood, this mod delivers a climate system with real teeth.