How to sleep and or speed up the night?

[Shadowziel]

First time playing in years, is there a way I can speed up the night? I had to remove the stairs so the zombies could not get to me, I do not want to wait through the whole night, I have a bedroll.

If anyone knows a way to speed up or sleep please tell me how, I cannot seem to figure it out.

[DthBlayde]

There is no sleep mechanic, so no luck there. Best you can do to "speed up" the nights is probably this:

exit game
set game day length as short as possible
start it up again.
still wait for day break
exit game
reset back to original speed.
jump back in.

[FreedomTrucker]

This may be faster. Go into dev mode. Type dm in console and hit enter. Escape/pause game. You will see a dev menu with a slider for day speed. It's usually at 6 or less, but you can slide it up very high (in the hundreds) and make the night (or day) go by in just a few seconds (pretty cool effect). Just slide it back when you get to your desired time. If you want to leave dev mode, just type in dm again and hit enter.

[BodyBagger]

At night, you should be crafting, mining, or upgrading your base. Once you start mining, you're going to realize that the nights aren't long enough. lol

[Shurenai]

Be wary of manually editing time as Able suggests; either with dev mode or commands as it can royally ♥♥♥♥ things up in your world; Doing it as Dth suggests is by far the safer way to do things.

I would advise against skipping nights however; Instead look forward to the night coming during your day and collect 'things to do during the night' before night hits; EG: Crafting materials, or prep an area to start building in, plan to dismantle a POI, or start mining into the ground for clay and stone; Every minute and hour you skip pushes you closer to the 7 day horde which is balanced against you having used a lot of your time semi-efficently; If you're skipping a full third of every day, you're going to quickly fall behind.

[FT]

If you'd like to make night feel more like day you can do that too. Set zombies to walk during the night in the options toward the right when you're on the map/save selection screen. When it gets dark out, pause the game and turn up your gamma setting in the options (near resolution options) to help you see.

The trader will still be closed until morning, but everything else should work just like daytime with these couple of setting adjustments.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by FT:

If you'd like to make night feel more like day you can do that too. Set zombies to walk during the night in the options toward the right when you're on the map/save selection screen. When it gets dark out, pause the game and turn up your gamma setting in the options (near resolution options) to help you see.

The trader will still be closed until morning, but everything else should work just like daytime with these couple of setting adjustments.

Arguably this makes night way easier; because its -way- easier to sneak at night than during the day; especially outside. Zombies cant see very far at all at night and you can practically walk right in front of one a lot of the time.

[D[n]A]

Originally posted by Shadowziel:

First time playing in years, is there a way I can speed up the night?

YES!

Press F1.

Type dm

Hit Enter.

Press ESC

See Options On The Right.

[DthBlayde]

Well how about that, I learned something as well :) Didn't know about DM commands, but then again I don't go into the console for any reason really. Good info to know though.

[D[n]A]

Originally posted by DthBlayde:

Well how about that, I learned something as well :) Didn't know about DM commands, but then again I don't go into the console for any reason really. Good info to know though.

You can also type cm for creative mode as well.. ;)

[vgifford]

Doesn't speeding up the night that way make the zombies spawn faster and move faster too?

[FT]

Originally posted by vgifford:

Doesn't speeding up the night that way make the zombies spawn faster and move faster too?

No. Whether you speed up time by temporarily (or permanently) making the day/night cycle faster or if you move the DevMode time-of-day slider foward/backward, the entities keep moving at normal speed and I don't think spawning is affected as far as I can tell anyway.

There is one funny bit from moving the time-of-day slider. Most entities will die within a set amount of time after spawning (to keep the game from dealing with too many awakened entities at once), so sliding time forward can sometimes make a whole group of angry zeds fall to the ground for a group nap.
I don't think speeding the time-cycle does this, just the time-of-day slider.