Variable day length

[Gekkey Mathews 33]

I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but it would be really neat if the length of day changed according to the seasons. With summer having the longest days and the shortest nights, and winter the opposite.

The leaf colors right now really add to the feel of time passing, but I think adding variable day-lengths could take it a step further.

[fofi9753 25]

Mojang is working on exactly that in vanilla minecraft for 1.6

[quercus_munitor 5]

Or just make the day scale with your z-coordinate..

Now that would make living at z=+-20k a real challenge!

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Or just make the day scale with your z-coordinate..

Now that would make living at z=+-20k a real challenge!

"or just" heh. That's much harder.

[junweizhu 12]

I could figure out a formula to use for the scaling day/night cycle since that's easy, I just don't know how the day/night cycle is programmed.

Yes, I did say I wanted to study java for things, but never got to it after I got a job...

Edit: I'll do it tomorrow, because I'm too busy to think too much.

Edit2: I finally realized the difficulty of this. (no, not the formula) Isn't it possible to calculate length of day per chunk? Makes it somewhat more workable.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

I could figure out a formula to use for the scaling day/night cycle since that's easy, I just don't know how the day/night cycle is programmed.

Yes, I did say I wanted to study java for things, but never got to it after I got a job...

Edit: I'll do it tomorrow, because I'm too busy to think too much.

Edit2: I finally realized the difficulty of this. (no, not the formula) Isn't it possible to calculate length of day per chunk? Makes it somewhat more workable.

the formula isn't the problem. It's getting minecraft to behave the way we want without editing base files

[Gekkey Mathews 33]

You can already scale day length with a config file, so I dont think it would be that big of a stretch to change it in-game according to the season.

But for the latitude based time, imagine there's one person at 20km south and one person at 20km north. The sun is global in minecraft. So day for one would be night for another, but it can't be. You could set the sun to be player-specific, but you need to mess with the way minecraft servers handle the world on a more fundamental level than changing or adding blocks and entities.

The only plausible way is to change the light levels per chunk and ignore the sun.

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

You can already scale day length with a config file, so I dont think it would be that big of a stretch to change it in-game according to the season.

But for the latitude based time, imagine there's one person at 20km south and one person at 20km north. The sun is global in minecraft. So day for one would be night for another, but it can't be. You could set the sun to be player-specific, but you need to mess with the way minecraft servers handle the world on a more fundamental level than changing or adding blocks and entities.

The only plausible way is to change the light levels per chunk and ignore the sun.

season isn't difficult, I think it's changing when day/night occurs for different players at the same time, which is what latitude would force