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Offline Akomine (OP)

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Longer days and nights
« on: 13 April 2016, 08:54:12 PM »
The day-night cycle in Minecraft is usually 20 minutes:
- 10 min day
- 1.5 min dusk
- 7 min night
- 1.5 min dawn

We have doubled the length of the day-night cycle to 40 minutes, so now on VC it's:
- 20 min day
- 3 min dusk
- 14 min night
- 3 min dawn


That means about 26 minutes of mob-free daylight to build, explore, and do anything you need to do. This should be a lot more time to do what you need in a day. The night is a bit longer now too, so beware of that. To balance this, the crazy mobspawning rates we were seeing have been lowered quite a lot. It should be a lot fairer now.

You'll notice the sun, moon, and stars move through the sky a lot slower now. I think it feels pretty nice this way. Please let us know what you think.

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #1 on: 13 April 2016, 09:06:31 PM »
What about pigmen spawn rates, are they lowered?

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #2 on: 14 April 2016, 04:55:38 PM »
What about pigmen spawn rates, are they lowered?

Unfortunately, yes. There's no easy way to fine tune spawning per world/mob.

I suppose it's possible to make a plugin which would do this. However, that plugin is backburner, at the moment.

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #3 on: 24 April 2016, 06:10:03 PM »
I've noticed , not sure if it's linked.  But when I'm playing alone and I try to sleep I wake up and it's still night time

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #4 on: 24 April 2016, 06:15:32 PM »
I love it.

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #5 on: 5 May 2016, 04:29:57 PM »
I've noticed , not sure if it's linked.  But when I'm playing alone and I try to sleep I wake up and it's still night time

This is probably a bug. I'll look into it when I have some time. Work has been crazy.

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Re: Longer days and nights
« Reply #6 on: 24 October 2016, 07:03:43 PM »
For some reason the old time system is back. I timed how long night was and it was 7 minutes.