DAtime Mod – Custom Day/Night Cycle

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DAtime Mod – Custom Day/Night Cycle

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The Datime mod slows down Minecraft's day/night cycle to match real-world time. Specifically, it extends one full Minecraft day (normally 20 minutes) to 1 hour and 30 minutes in real life.

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🌤️ DAtime : Time Forecast

By default, a full Minecraft day lasts a mere 20 minutes. With DAtime, that cycle is extended to a realistic 1 hour and 30 minutes IRL.

☀️ Daytime

45 Min
(0–12000 ticks)

Longer exploration, building, and storytelling moments before the sun sets.

🌙 Nighttime

45 Min
(12000–24000 ticks)

Survive the prolonged darkness and experience true nocturnal immersion.

⚙️ Technical Barometer (How It Works)

The mod disables vanilla time progression (doDaylightCycle = false) and manually increases time by 0.2222 ticks per server tick (= 4.444 ticks/second instead of 20).

  • ✔️ No Performance Hit: Does NOT affect gameplay mechanics.
  • ✔️ Vanilla Speed: Everything else (entities, redstone, combat) stays at standard speed.
  • ✅ Stable 20 TPS: Server runs normally, only the timeOfDay is slowed.
  • 🔄 Full Cycle: 24,000 ticks = 5400 seconds = 90 minutes.

No lag, no desync — just smooth and immersive time control.

🌡️ Ideal Climate Conditions For:

⛺ RPG Servers 📖 Story-driven Adventures 🕶️ Realistic Survival 🔧 Plug-and-play (No config)

⚙️ How it works:

Vanilla time progression is disabled (doDaylightCycle = false).

The mod manually advances the world's time by 0.2222 ticks per server tick, which equals 4.444 ticks per second, instead of the default 20.

This simulates a much slower day/night rhythm without affecting gameplay or server performance.

⏱️ Technical Details:

The server continues running at 20 ticks per second.

Only the world's time (timeOfDay) is modified.

Entities, redstone, player actions, etc., remain at normal speed.

A full cycle (24,000 ticks) now takes 5400 seconds = 90 minutes IRL.

    ☀️ Day (0–12000 ticks): 45 minutes

    🌙 Night (12000–24000 ticks): 45 minutes