Changing day length.

[greygriffin]

When you change the length of the day does it change both day and night length or just the daytime length?

[harleygirl962]

Appears to change both. Careful though....makes the blood moon last longer as well.

[thethomasgeorge]

Yeah but blood moons are RNG events. You can just save and then exit and reload to make it go away.

[F4lc0n]

Do you know about how much longer a day is compared to the default setting? also, what about changing the year? anyone experimented with it yet?

[thethomasgeorge]

I'm not sure, they haven't provided raw numbers on the sliders for info (which is super frustrating), but it seems 3x longer for both. So I expect to finish spring around day 21. I'll have to test it further. Much more chill experience, but winter is going to be hard to overcome because of how long it will be.

I'm going to have to stock up on maybe 4 full warehouses of just food alone and see if I can switch my guys to using coal instead of fire wood.

[TsumeAshori]

These arent exact just rough estimates cause i didnt wanna wait the full in game hour on max/extended but I was wondering myself for the custom day times:
15 minutes on minimum
20 minutes on reduced
24 minutes on normal
48 minutes on extended
1 hour 36 minutes on maximum
Again these are rough estimates

[micah.whiteboxgaming]

Publicado originalmente por thethomasgeorge:

Yeah but blood moons are RNG events. You can just save and then exit and reload to make it go away.

Not true. I keep getting a blood moon on same day no matter how many times i restart.

[thethomasgeorge]

Publicado originalmente por micah.whiteboxgaming:

Publicado originalmente por thethomasgeorge:

Yeah but blood moons are RNG events. You can just save and then exit and reload to make it go away.

Not true. I keep getting a blood moon on same day no matter how many times i restart.

yeah, im pretty sure they fixed it in the latest patch. I had to stop in the middle of a blood moon and go to work and when I reloaded, it was still in progress.

Or maybe it was just a glitch on my end.

[Sirbum69]

also be careful not to set it to rain less, because if you do you will never get mushrooms as you are not able to change the setting to go back to more rain. I made that mistake and now It hardly ever rains but I also never get mushrooms

[Tonisaka]

The answer is yes night will be longer.

Extending the day length is extending how many sec per minute in game.

Example:
normal is 1sec=1min ingame
Max game length 3sec=1min ingame

Pro: longer day time, more preparation for the first blood moon

Cons:
*longer time respawn resources
*You have to feed villagers more since water/food consumption is the same
*You need to check your villagers schedule more since longer time per day. You need to micromanage more sleeping/eating/work per the length of day you choose.
*You have longer bad events

So far that all I got before I wipe my save since I though it adjusted sunlight time vs night

[ScottamusPrime]

It's both, but food decay and villager nutritional needs seem to be adjusted properly. 😊 So it's all good.

[Imazombie14]

Publicado originalmente por ScottamusPrime:

It's both, but food decay and villager nutritional needs seem to be adjusted properly. 😊 So it's all good.

Decay and nutrition needs are not adjusted for longer days. Spring day 3 and i have 3 villagers and 4 foraging spots, they are all bare and everyone is starving.

[Aurelius]

So question here for people that have experimented with the day length more than I have:

Blood moons and invasions seem to have a monster quota which they have to meet, which scales with days played, or perhaps with net villager count - does this expand if the night lasts longer, or is it fixed regardless of day length?

For instance - you've no doubt noticed that if you get a blood moon rush pretty early in the night, it'll end early; You'll get the notice that the blood moon has ended after you kill the last one, regardless if it's 12:00AM or 4:40AM.

Same with invasion - if a random monster chases one of your guys around town, you'll have cleaned up everything else, but until that last monster goes down the invasion event persists. I had a skeleton stuck in my moat in a random place and I was baffled why the invasion just seemed to go on and on, with no new monsters spawning. So it appears that there's a set number on the spawner of how many creatures and of what average "level" they are, more or less, e.g., the more prepared you are, the more the spawn will bias towards draugrs and followers as opposed to wights and skeletons.