Can you turn weather off in Minecraft?

Question

The arrival of Minecraft Beta 1.5 brought weather conditions. However, it can at times be inconvenient when you're trying to screenshot something and show it off (as it reduces lighting and obstructs your view slightly). Is there anyway to turn weather off?

Alternatively, is there a way to speed up the duration of weather or "skip" it?

Answer 1

As of Minecraft 1.3.1, which brought about server commands, weather is able to be toggled on and off via the following conmmand:

toggledownfall | Toggles rain and snow.

To run commands (by enabling cheat mode upon map creation):

Commands being entered into the Minecraft client itself must be prefixed by a slash (example: /me flips a table). The command window is identical to the chat window and can be accessed by pressing T or starting directly by entering a slash. Commands being executed via the console are not preceded by a slash.

Otherwise, if you do not have cheats mode enabled, you can sleep in beds (only at night!) to skip weather.

Also, if you're playing on survival, and you have the perfect opportunity for a screenshot, but no cheats mode, a quick tip is to "open to LAN" your game (hit esc, click open to LAN), and enable "Cheats Mode: ON".

Then, toggle the weather off, and screenshot away!

Answer 2

This might be a little late, but.. I always use the command /time set 14000 (it's a default command). This command makes it completely dark, so you can use a bed. Most of the time the rain/snow is over when it's morning.

Answer 3

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1032&t=96815

With this mod you can control weather ;)

If there is weather happening in night, bed shall help.

Answer 4

There is no setting to turn this off, the only way to skip weather is as a side effect of sleeping through the night.

Of course if it's not night, or you don't have a bed, then you are stuck..

I wish Notch would add this option in, or at least allow for you to turn down the AMOUNT of rain, since I don't mind the fact that it happens, just the constant lag that it brings.

Answer 5

If you're not averse to a little cheating, the mod TooManyItems has recently added the ability to toggle weather.

Answer 6

if you just want to turn it off, you just need to type in one of the following commands:

/weather clear
/toggledownfall

Answer 7

You can install Optifine, then you can disable it in the settings.(Works in 1.8.1)

Answer 8

To turn of rain, Type /toggledownfall while op'ed, if on a server.

Answer 9

Turning particle effects down to a minimum will reduce the amount of weather effects shown in game.

Answer 10

Try exiting your game and then returning, it might help!