TimeFold
Do you think a day needs to have 48 hours for all your work to do?
You don't want to be interrupted by fading out light and torches don't do the job?
But you also want to go on monster hunting in the night?
TimeFold lets you fold the time the way you want!
Features
- Extend/shorten the length of days/nights to an amount of your choice, even zero
- Longer days | Have always day
- Longer nights | Have always night
- Shorter days/nights
- Inconspicuous time changes
- Multiworld support
- Extremely lightweight
- Detects and adapts to external time changes
- Does not break redstone circuits or plant growing
How it works
The plugin cycles through the set amount of days and after that, through the nights.
As for the days, right before dusk, it will set the time back[1] to morning right after dawn until the specified amount of days is reached. Then the same for the nights. If less than 1 day (e.g. 0.5) is left, the time will be set to about noon (exact time is calculated).
For example, if you set it to world:3:2 it will repeat like this:
Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - (Dusk) - Night 1 - Night 2 - (Dawn)
[1] It does not really set the time back into the past (that would break redstone and growing etc) but instead, it skips the night.
Configuration
Way A) Start the server once to let TimeFold create the settings file itself.
Way B) Create the directory and file yourself ("plugins/TimeFold/TimeFold.settings")
Set it up like this:
[default]:1:1 world:3:2 <worldname>:days:nights
Worldnames are case-sensitive.
If you don't specify a world in the file, its day/night cycle will be [default]. If the default isn't set the time remains untouched and runs like normal.
Commands
/timefold [world] Shows you the current day/night in the cycle
/timefold reload Reloads the TimeFold plugin (Permission timefold.reload required)
/timefold version Prints out the current version
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View source on GitHub
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Ok, if you still want this (its reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally helpfull) you can get it from the github link (down here in the page before the comments section), you will need to recompile it on a java IDE but still a not a impossible thing. Try some tutorials for plugins making with eclipse and you can easly get this.
Good luck everyone!
I really would like to have this plugin back nowadays. Its really sad.
Dear,
I'm the Administrator of the minecraft server "Empty Void".
I set the TimeFold.settings file in the same way it would simulate REAL day/night ratio in minecraft.
With some calculations (using the wiki) it should be 75 days (12h30m of light) : 98 nights (11h30m of darkness) (without considering dusk and dawn).
Well, now I would like to know if it exists a data. or config. file it would let me change the time in Minecraft adapting it to the real time.
For example, I'd start the server at 7 am, so the server and the real time would be the same in synchro. (7 am = 1/75 day)
But if I need to restart the server at 5pm, once the restart is done in Minecraft it should be 7am again, but in real time it should be like 5:10pm.
Is there a way I can edit Minecraft time, adapting it to the real time?
Best regards
Claudio
@therennon
Tried it out already?
Hello, I look to the long nights 3 times. I have a Server "Minez" and I want to have very long nights.
that's OK?
Works great on Spigot 1.8!
it is also 1.8.1 compatible tested on my server, Flawless.
@Salitra
Have a look at the game version information of v1.0; it is compatible all the way back to Minecraft 1.3 and probably even further.
Where are the older files? I need 1.7.2. o_o;;
@highlordemerald
I just checked it: TimeFold v1.0 is already compatible to Minecraft 1.7.9. Updated the file information.
:)
possible to get this in 1.7.9 soon?
@thequestingbeast
So if a player goes to sleep the night does not end? Have a look at the plugin Sleep.
TimeFold is not intended to alter this behavior. All it is supposed to do is to change the daytime cycle as such. -> "Keep it simple".
I would love to see attached to this a way to disable beds changing the time from night to day when only one person is on.
@rustyshakelford2
Nice to hear. :) TimeFold is intended to do time manipulation only and not to control the weather (separate functions). I am wondering that you didn't find a good weather manipulation plugin yet. There should definitely be something out there. But unfortunately I cannot name you any as well, as I did not need any up to now.
This plugin is working wonderfully on my server. The multiworld support is exactly what I needed. Have you thought about expanding it to control weather also? I really want a plugin for that and there don't seem to be any up to date ones.
@wtfwasithinking
Uhm, names with spaces should work actually. Have you tried it? Are you sure the spelling is correct?
Would it be possible to have it handle names with spaces in them? I'd love to add this to my server (1:4 would just be awesome for the hunting grounds). Right now my hunting grounds still had 1:1 (default)
@chsedv
I am happy to announce that TimeFold v1.0 is also compatible with CraftBukkit for Minecraft 1.7.2 :)
pls update to bukkit 1.7.2
@alaskascooter
Yes; if all players are asleep the night will be skipped and TimeFold adjusts to the change as soon as it notices it.