Rain no matter what Biome

The title says it all, just want it to be able to rain in every biome even deserts..

 

Afaik rain is client-side and you can only send the information what biome the player is in and if it rains, so if you send, that it's raining and the player is in a desert the rain won't be displayed. So this would require some kind of client-modification.

 

Could you send the player a different biome then it's in?

 

Yeah, not great with these things, but I think there's a way you can use packets to "fake" that the player isn't in a desert. Just tell the client that it's in a forest or something all the time.

Then again that might cause problems with grass and leaf color etc.

 

After messing with ideas for changing the biome info in a temporary copy of a chunk so the server sends that info to the player instead; I settled on the realization that this:

...is the best solution. It requires modifying the net.minecraft code though, which is typically frowned on, as it will cause your plugin to break frequently.