Real Time Day Cycle Plugin

Minecraft Bedrock Server with an almost lifelike day/night cycle (requires bdsx)

Configuration

When the plugin is run, it will try to read (or create if it doesn't yet exist), the config.json file, loading all the plugin's configuration.

This file is created relative to the current executing process: ../config/RealTimeDayCycle.

This executing process is expected to be bedrock_server or bedrock_server.exe running with bdsx, thus you can expect to find config/RealTimeDayCycle relative to the root of bdsx.

The config options are described as follows:

• recalculation-interval

  How often (in ms) to calculate the ingame time.

  Setting this too LOW will reduce performance (more recalculations).

  Setting this too HIGH will result in "jerkiness" of day/night cycles.

  Default: 1000 (1 second).

• timecycle-multiplier

  Multiplier to which real days relate to Minecraft days.

  Setting this too low or high will possibly have unexpected effects.

  Default: 1.0 (1 real day = 1 Minecraft day).

  Recommended minimum: 0.10.

  Recommended maximum: 72.0 (minecraft default).

  Examples:

  • 0.25 means 1 real day = 6 Minecraft hours
  • 0.5 means 1 real day = 12 Minecraft hours
  • 1.0 means 1 real day = 1 Minecraft day
  • 2.0 means 1 real day = 2 Minecraft days
  • 3.0 means 1 real day = 3 Minecraft days

• reference-date

  Epoch date which the ingame time will be referenced from.

  Since minecraft 24000 is equal to 06:00:00, it is most realistic to set this to the same time, e.g: 2022-07-16T05:00:00.000Z

  The day is less relevant, but the daytime will be based on this date.

  Setting this too far in the past could have unexpected effects.

  Setting this to a future date could have unexpected effects.

  There are no ill effects of bringing this date closer to the current time even in previous worlds.

  Date parsing is done by built-in JS Date constructor. While you can use any format supported by the Date constructor, but only the documented formats here are officially supported.

  Default: based on the current date when config.json was generated

  Examples (assuming all other settings are their default):

  reference-date	Current real time	Minecraft daytime
  2022-07-16T05:00:00.000Z	2022-07-16T05:00:00.000Z	0
  2022-07-16T05:00:00.000Z	2022-07-17T05:00:00.000Z	24000 (1 Minecraft day)
  2022-07-16T05:00:00.000Z	2022-07-17T00:00:00.000Z	18000 (Minecraft midnight)
  2022-07-16T06:00:00.000Z	2022-07-16T05:08:00.000Z	1000 (1 Minecraft hour)