How does the late Blood Moon work?

[Go_Coup]

Does anyone know how the schedule works with the settings? I set my Blood Moon to occur every 7 days but with a 7-day variance. It seems like it will never occur within the first 6 days, but it can occur as late as the 14th day. If it occurs on the 14th day, does that potentially cancel out the second week's BM? Does the 6-day period without a BM begin after the previous BM(meaning, I have a BM on day 12 and can't have another until day 19, but it might not come until the 26th)?

[blazha]

I have no idea. Why would you set that if you don't know how it works?
If first blood moon show up on day 14 than second will be between day 15 and 21 I guess. Maybe second BM will show up on day 7 and first on day 14 o.O

[Go_Coup]

Testing, trying something new, having a more dynamic experience: there are a few reasons. Not everyone is afraid of the unknown.

[Crater Creator]

I believe the Blood Moon setting is the minimum time between Blood Moons, to which the random variance is added. So after a BM, you will always have 7 (or more like 6 depending on how you look at it) BM-free days, and you may have up to 7+7=14 BM-free days.

[Chaoslink]

I’d try setting it to much smaller numbers first and speed up time to see the results quickly. My guess is that there’s a new 7th day exactly 7 after whatever day you got the horde, then your modifier is applied. The evening immediately after a horde I’d assume wouldn’t have another, but such a high variance value could make it almost the next day or as long as two weeks away.

[Go_Coup]

I thought about that, Chaos. I didn't feel like spending hours figuring it out. I decided to see if anyone else has done it. I think Crater is right: it's 7(14) days after the previous BM.

I guess I could change the time of day through the DM. I didn't think of that. I guess I'll test it later. ...if that works.

[DthBlayde]

Crater and blazha have the right of it. It's not a + / - variable. but a random + range. So a horde every 7 days, with a 7 day variance means the first horde will drop anywhere from day 8-14. Then randomly 8-14 days beyond that and so forth.

What would normally be 7 -> 14 -> 21 -> 28 could become 8-> 19 -> 32 -> 44

[Go_Coup]

Yes, I heard that it can only delay the BM; I'm glad to have that confirmed, though.

I was really wondering whether (for example)the second BM's range always starts on day 14, or if it starts after the previous BM. I guess it makes sense that it's after the previous one: otherwise, it could fall on the same night.

I think it would be more interesting if it was +/- based on its normal day, disallowing the BM's to fall on the same night.

Thanks for the help, guys.

[Shurenai]

If you have it set to a day 7 horde, with 7 days of variance; That means minimum 7 days, maximum 14 days.

So it could happen on Day 7 on up to Day 14.

If you have a horde on Day 12; That means the second horde night will be on Day 19 to as late as day 26.

No horde night gets 'cancelled'; Just each one is a random duration away between <min> and <max>

If you set it to 1 day horde with 30 days of variance, its the same thing. You could, with really REALLY bad luck get a horde every night for a week; Or you may well not see a single horde until day 31.

[Go_Coup]

That sounds really interesting. I think that's what I'll do next time, assuming 30 days is the max. I think I'll have to reduce the speed from Nightmare, though. That, or increase the days to 2 hours and max out the daytime.