Weather

Weather gives the valley a living sky. At any moment one weather is in effect, drawn from a pool weighted by the current season. Weather grants small, always-positive bonuses to your skills and activities — there are no penalties. A bad day is simply Clear Skies, never a setback. Because the forecast is known in advance, weather is a light planning layer rather than a gamble.

How it works

Weather slots. Weather changes every 2 hours, with each slot drawn from a pool weighted by the active season.
Seasons. Four seasons cycle underneath, each lasting 24 hours of real time, so a full seasonal cycle is four days. Each season favors a different set of weathers and carries one small passive bonus of its own.
Forecast. The upcoming weather is always visible ahead of time (current weather, time remaining, and the next slots), so you can time your activities around it.
Buffs only. Every weather effect is a bonus or neutral. Clear Skies is the common filler and does nothing either way. Bonuses are modest (roughly 8–15%).

Weather is global — the same sky covers every biome.

Weather types

Weather	Effects
Clear Skies	None — a plain, honest day.
Rain	Fishing speed +10%; farm growth +12%; Alchemy speed +10%.
Storm	Expedition strength +10; Delving double-yield +10%.
Heatwave	Mining speed +10%; Smithing speed +8%.
Tailwinds	Foraging speed +10%; Logging speed +8%.
Morning Mist	Hunting double-yield +12%; Crafting speed +10%.
Snowfall	Cooking speed +10%; Taming speed +8%.

Severe weather

Beyond the everyday skies, each season can roll one severe weather — rarer, stronger events (bonuses up to +25%) that are still forecast a full day ahead so you can plan around them.

Severe weather	Season	Effect
Aurora	Frost	Taming speed +25%
Fog Bloom	Verdant	Foraging double-yield +25%
Migration	Amber Fall	Hunting double-yield +25% and Expeditions double-yield +25%
Emberflow	Blaze	Mining speed +20%, Smithing speed +25%

Weather-window gathers

Some gathering actions only appear while a matching sky is overhead — bonus harvests you can only take in the right weather window. These are hands-on only: you must run them yourself, as hired hands and camp workers can't be assigned to weather-window actions.

Track the Migration (Hunting 65) — during Morning Mist or Migration — yields the Trailhorn Antler.
Windfall (Foraging) — during Tailwinds — yields Windfall Fruit.
Stormfish run (Fishing) — during Storm or Rain — yields Stormfish.

Seasons

Seasons cycle in the order below. Each raises the chance of certain weathers and grants a small standing passive.

Season	Passive bonus	Favored weather
Verdant	Farm growth +10%	Rain, Tailwinds
Blaze	Mining speed +5%	Heatwave, Storm
Amber Fall	Foraging speed +5%	Tailwinds, Mist
Frost	Fishing speed +5%	Snowfall, Mist

Clear Skies stays roughly a third of every season's pool, so any weather can appear in any season — the season only shifts the odds. Even Frost carries no penalty; it simply drops the spring growth bonus rather than adding a debuff.

Planning around weather

Because the schedule is forecastable, you can line up activities with the right sky:

Batch Fishing and farm planting under Rain.
Run Expeditions and Delving under a Storm.
Push Mining and Smithing during a Heatwave.
Gather with Foraging and Logging on Tailwinds.
Hunt in the Morning Mist.
Cook and tame during Snowfall.