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Rain in Minecraft can help put out fires and flaming arrows, hydrate and water farms and crops, and can even help fill up cauldrons with water. Rain often occurs temporarily at random moments during Minecraft gameplay; however, if you want rain stopped, you can disable this weather feature by enabling cheats and entering the appropriate commands.

  1. You can only stop rain by creating a new world and enabling cheats.
    • Rain can only be stopped on the PC version of Minecraft, unless you install custom Minecraft mods developed by third parties on your gaming console. Before installing custom Minecraft mods on your system, contact the developer to verify whether rain can be stopped at any time using that particular mod.
  2. On.” This options allows you to use cheats throughout gameplay when logged into this particular world.
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  3. Your new world is now created with cheats enabled.
  4. As you type one of these cheat commands, the cheat will display at the lower left corner of your Minecraft session.
  5. After pressing Enter, the message “Changing to clear weather” will display on-screen, and the rain will stop in your current Minecraft gaming session. [1]
    • To make rain stop for a predetermined amount of seconds, type “/weather clear < time >,” with “time” representing the number of seconds for which you want the rain stopped. [2]
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  • Question
    Why would I want to stop the rain?
    Owey Hoots
    Community Answer
    It might be annoying for some players.
  • Question
    If I toggle the day cycle off, will it still change the weather?
    Community Answer
    No. The day-night cycle has no effect on the weather.
  • Question
    How can I stop rain permanently in Minecraft?
    Community Answer
    You can’t but, you could get a command block with cheats, and then make a red stone circuit that is connected to the command block.
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      • Try stopping rain if Minecraft gameplay begins to lag or run more slowly than usual. Rain can often cause frame rate drops or “lags” during gameplay, and can lower the quality of your gaming experience. [3]
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      1. Load a Minecraft game.
      2. Open the Game menu.
      3. Enable Cheats in Settings on Bedrock Edition, or Open to LAN on Java Edition.
      4. Return to your game.
      5. Press T , the chat bubble icon, or the right directional button on your controller to open the text chat.
      6. Type "/weather clear" and press Enter .

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