How do I get tired enough to sleep?

[shoehorn]

I need help

[Wii remote gaming]

You don't,just get to a bed and sleep

[Starpilot]

You can only sleep AT NIGHT. Just like Minecraft.

Going to sleep in a bed at night results in you waking up at or just past sunrise. So you can skip over nightime using a bed if you don't like doing stuff at night in the game.

[shoehorn]

Ok, apparentely my game was bugging and said (at night) "You're too tired to sleep"

[Mango Turtl]

Originally posted by Tachanka:

You don't,just get to a bed and sleep

There is a countdown for sleeping: You get tired one in-game day after sleeping.

Originally posted by Starpilot:

You can only sleep AT NIGHT. Just like Minecraft.

Going to sleep in a bed at night results in you waking up at or just past sunrise. So you can skip over nightime using a bed if you don't like doing stuff at night in the game.

Actually, if you accidentally go to sleep in the day (which you can do), you have to wait until the next day to be tired enough to sleep again.

Originally posted by Jurubeba_Mole_Perera:

Ok, apparentely my game was bugging and said (at night) "You're too tired to sleep"

You probably just went to bed in the daytime accidentally.

[SolarSabotage]

Originally posted by Starpilot:

You can only sleep AT NIGHT. Just like Minecraft.

Going to sleep in a bed at night results in you waking up at or just past sunrise. So you can skip over nightime using a bed if you don't like doing stuff at night in the game.

You cannot sleep now, monsters are nearby.

[Testsubject276]

Just go for a long swim, maybe collect some materials, once you get home, you'll be tired enough.

[or0b0ur0s]

Honestly the fixed sleeping duration and fixed cooldown are FAR less useful than they could be. it's still better than nothing, but it's not a "skip time until lighting conditions change", which is what's really needed for gameplay purposes.

I feel this highlights how lighting is not really well balanced in the first place. There are certain things you just absolutely cannot do, or it is extremely frustrating and difficult to do, in certain lighting conditions. The super-fast day/night cycle creates really odd confirmation bias in me, at least. It "feels" like night falls every 60 seconds, then lasts 20 minutes of never-ending-pitch-black-impenetrable darkness, even at the surface in heavily bioluminescent areas. I know that's not the actual case, but...

The reason Minecraft has a "sleep until dawn"' feature instead of "sleep for 10-in-game-minutes feature is to avoid this frustration. Once in a blue moon I might use a Subnautica bed to skip to night time, but that's awfully rare. What we really need is "for crying out loud, turn the lights on already; every time I try to do something it's friggin' dark for what feels like hours", and the current beds make it worse.

How? It takes time to get back to or into your base. Maybe you decide to drop off some items, or eat or drink. This robs you of daylight the next day. Eventually you find yourself sleeping to get to daylight because you just can't stand it anymore and need the light to get something done... only to wake up and have the sun set AGAIN 45 seconds later. And now you're not tired. So you're forced to stare at a wall or find something else to do because you can't do what you want because you can't see your hand in front of your face.

TL:DR: Make beds more like Minecraft, as much as I know that probably pains the creative person in each Dev. They are the way they are because they're useful that way. The current Subnautica beds are barely any better than nothing at all because they don't really help you manage daylight time.

EDIT: If you're going to have the beds skip a fixed amount of time and be on a fixed cooldown, then perhaps a CLOCK of some sort to warn you that it's closer to dawn than dusk, would be appropriate.