In the sandbox, survival and creative play as it is Minecraft, time actually plays a pretty important role. In-game time serves as a way to perform thousands of calculations for the player and to determine how the environment reacts and behaves in certain situations. This is why understanding the daylight cycle is such a crucial and underrated part of the game.
The daylight cycle basically means the passage of time and the special features that come with day and night and dusk and dawn in Minecraft. Not only does this indicate when the sun rises and the mobs finally fall away, but it also regulates a ton of other in-game features that are often overlooked by players. The more you know about the passage of time in Minecraft, the more you can use it to your advantage.
Updated on May 30, 2023 by Sean Murray: Timing is as important as ever in Minecraft, so we’ve updated this guide with better formatting to make timing easier.
Minecraft time vs real time
Obviously, Minecraft time has very little to do with actual time in real life. According to sources and calculations, it is Time in Minecraft is 72 times faster than normal time. No wonder, given how short the day sometimes feels, especially early for players who have to return to their home to sleep at night to avoid hostile mobs.
Full day and night cycleor the Minecraft equivalent of 24 hoursis about 20 minutes in real time.
This means that from the first moment you spawn, in twenty minutes we should be at dawn the next day if you don’t go to sleep in the evening and skip the night.
Time in Minecraft can also be measured by benches. One Minecraft watch is about 1000 ticks, which is the same 50 seconds in real time. That is little compared to real timetherefore, night can often seem to come much earlier than expected during the game’s adventure.
What happens during the day in Minecraft?
The day begins when it first spawns into the world. His rough start is around 6am Minecraft time when the sun starts to rise. Once at a certain height, enemy mobs touched by the light will burst into flames. The spiders will become neutral and the Endermen will start randomly teleporting around, and if they become aggressive, they will probably become docile again after a few seconds.
Some mobs like Drowned behave in a special way during the day. While they can still attack any player who steps into the same body of water they are in, they will completely ignore players who are on land or riding a boat. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the morning we find a friendly Drowned Man just standing in the water.
During the day, approve each block on aspect a light level 15which is the brightest possible light level in the game.
it is impossible for enemy mobs to appear on such blocks. This light level is ideal for crop growth, grass spread and seedling maturation.
Night and sleep in Minecraft
Nighttime starts around 6pm Minecraft time or thereabouts 10-11 minutes in real time into your gameplay in a whole new world. As the sun goes down, the light level on land drops and can drop as low as four on some blocks that receive absolutely no light.
This makes it an ideal playground for would-be mobsters they start spawning closer to 11 minutes real-time gameplay.
Crops will still grow at night, even just in the moonlight. however if you choose to sleep instead of staying awake, no progress is recorded and the night simply skips by.
That means that everything you left in the ovenfor example, it won’t magically be over when you wake up. Still, yes avoid spawning phantoms, it’s good to sleep at least every other night.
Villagers and their daily routines
If you happen to come across a village, you will notice that the villagers have a very fixed pattern of life that depends on the daylight cycle. The villagers wake up every day at the same time, which is around 6am Minecraft time. Two hours later, they get to work at their special workstations.
Around the afternoon, 15:00 Minecraft time or seven minutes and 30 seconds of your game, the villagers will consider their working day completed. They will spend the rest of the day gossiping with other villagers or breeding.
When 8 in the evening arrives and you’re about ten minutes into the game, the villagers will suddenly run inside and jump into their beds. This is their official bedtime and gives them a few seconds of safety before the hordes begin to spawn around the world and attack them.
Effects of weather conditions on the daylight cycle
Weather conditions actually have a very significant effect on the daylight cycle. During rain, mobs can appear earlier and stay longer due to cloudy weather. This also means that players can go to bed earlier to skip the rain itself and wake up later in the day.
During storms, players can also they sleep when they want skip the weather.
The the differences in mob spawn times compared to clear weather are not very large, but it is an important gameplay mechanic that you need to understand in order to avoid being captured by enemy mobs. Since it is so difficult to tell whether it is night or day during the rainy season, having a watch can be a big help.
How to set the time in Minecraft
they exist three ways to tell the time in Minecraft:
- Make and use a an hour
- Follow the path from the sun or the moon
- Check debug screen
Hours are a handy in-game item that allows players to track time without breaking the immersion with your game. Also works in bad weather conditions when it can be difficult to tell the time just by looking at the sky.
Clocks can be made with four gold ingots and a a piece of redstone dust in the middle. They can also be found as loot in treasures. For a guide on the actual grandfather clock, check out this guide.
But beginners can too simply watch the skywhich says a lot about the game itself. The sun will always rise from the east and move across the sky to the westwhich also helps when you don’t have a compass and need to find your way.
Similarly, the moon also will rise in the east and set in the west, so you can easily find out how many nights you have left by checking how high or low the moon is. During the rain, however, this is impossible.
If all else fails, you can always check the debug screen. Press F3 to open the debug screenand you’ll see a lot of information about your Minecraft world, as well as where you are right now based on your daylight cycle.
Moon phases and their effects in Minecraft
Moon it’s not just to be pretty. Also lays down quite a few rules regarding the mafia in Minecraft, so tracking the different phases of the moon can be very useful.
The full moon is especially important because during and near the full moonthe following happens: