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Change local temperature using beacons

Basic idea: you can use beacons to set the local temperature to either hot, cold or temperate. This overwrites the biome-based temperature, but reverts when the beacon is deactivated.

The intended usage is mostly cosmetical, whether snow melts or not and if rain turns into snow or stops to be, for terraforming.

One possibility how this is done: build a pyramid of either magma or packed ice blocks and place a beacon on top. This will change the local temperature by a gradient, and have no other effect - with this way, the beacon would not work as a regular beacon.

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    I would place ice on top of the beacon, and that would change the weather to cloudy and start snowing. As for making it so things heat up, it would be preferable if there was a transparent heat-associated block, but as far as I remember there is not. Maybe lava?