Option to change year/seasons duration

[SierraKhaar 20]

We talked about this a little in another thread about the duration of the year and seasons.

Now for me that only plays single-player, 80hours / year is a lot, specially since I can't play that much.

For people who plays on servers, 80 can be too little. Since after less then 4 full days a year has passed.

So maybe we NEED a option to change year/seasons?

Like 3 or 4 options to choose from.

Lets poll about this, and hope that if its what we want, Bioxx can have time to add it .

[fred da kiko 28]

it would make sense. i've been playing on a server that only runs for about 5-10 hours a day, so we haven't had the chance to actually see the seasons change yet.

[UnderCuvaHippo 27]

I definitely see what you mean from a single player perspective since 80 hours of single player is way too long for a year to pass. I don't see too much of a need to adjust multiplayer but it could be a good thing to make it longer with a year passing every week instead of 4 days.

Voted Yes.

Edit - Maybe a good way to go about it would be in the options menu of single player have a season speed multiplier like 2x 4x 8x etc and the same sort of adjustment for someone running a server. And if you found a season you like you could slow it down to normal =P and hurry through the bad ones.

[fred da kiko 28]

i think it would be better if it were chosen during the creation of the world, that way someone isn't in spring or fall for 50 hours and in summer and winter for 15. it would skew the balance if you could rush through seasons.

[UnderCuvaHippo 27]

Honestly, if you're playing single player and want summer for a long time and short winters, I'm all for doing whatever you want in your own singleplayer world. And if your playing multiplayer a reasonable admin/owner would set the time once or adjust it to how people feel it needs to be. I doubt they would just change it drastically out of nowhere without input from people in the server. But it is just a suggestion on how to handle the flow of time.

[k4b6 0]

I like this idea but Fruit trees maybe affected with a duration change like that the option is nice but 2x 4x 6x and 8x would have to speed up growth of the trees witch would entail more bugs.. this is not what we need. We need climate selections like Equator, 10^o ,20^o ,30^o ,40^o ,50^o,60^o for all of the area this would help difficulty on agriculture either making it harder for experienced players by selecting 50^o or 60^o, but for new players they could select equator for an all summertime weather with a little cold waves but that could happen but not very often... kind of like how the earth is...

[DarkLadyPhoenix 62]

Okay.... going from SMP to SSP is insanely difficult.

I've been playing my singleplayer map nonstop for four days and my trees have yet to get out of 'winter mode' in early spring. Coming from having the ability to see a new season every day or two this is really insane how large of an impact having a set time for seasons is and the difference between the two modes. At this rate, my house will be struck by lightning and burned down before I get to enjoy the fruit trees I've planted.

[Deviator 51]

I think this is a good idea. If seasons pass every 20 hours and a server runs 24/7 then you could miss your fruit harvest just because you had to goto work/school. Maybe just adjust the day/night length. Still have the same amount of days per season etc, but make the days longer on SMP and shorter on SSP.

[Yoshari 2]

Currently, the duration of months and years in TFCraft are lengthy in SSP. I don't think that there is a need to change how long days are, but I think the months can be changed. I believe a good solution is to have the months based on the moon cycle (Referring to the moon transitions in a realistic sense). It would make it easier for SSP since seasons would pass much more rapidly. This also benefits SMP when people are only on at specific times of the day because of the extra time length which equates to ~ 3 months difference, which always puts them in a different season when they log back on.

Not to dump math in here, but some data of current times and my proposed time changes:

Current Time:

1 full minecraft day ~ 20 mins

30 full minecraft days = 1 full minecraft month ~ 600 mins = 10 hours

12 minecraft months = 1 full minecraft year ~ 7200 = 120 hours = 5 days

Proposed Time Change: (8 Moon Transitions)

1 full minecraft day ~ 20 mins

8 full minecraft days = 1 full minecraft month ~ 160 mins < 3 hours

12 full minecraft months = 1 full minecraft year ~ 1920 mins = 32 hours = 1.25 days

I am not including half days (Sleeping at night) since it is about half the full time.

This might make fruit trees a very easy supply of food being available almost every real life day, but you also have to consider that you reduce the number of days that you can harvest the fruit from the tree from 30 minecraft days to 8 minecraft days. I believe this is a good way to balance out how long the months are and how plentiful fruit are when they are ripe for picking.

[The Nameless Name 9]

I'm sorry, I see what you mean now, 80 hours of single player is too much, I voted no but now i would gladly plead yes with you.

[SierraKhaar 20]

Yeah some of us don't have the luxury to play games 12hours a day.

That means SMP becomes dull too because everyone will progress much more .

So the new fruits n stuff is a waste of time, before I've played 80hours Bioxx has changed the world gen 4 times (if you are reading this, thx for the latest ore change ^^ )

[horenpa 14]

Yeah, MP is non stop time, you could just go offline but the world continues to pass and grow. On SP is different, you need to open the game so the time could pass. Is like thinking the other suggestion where the game simulate the time when you are offline. I think changing the time is a better way to solve this. Voted yes.