What benefits does sleeping provide?

[11clock]

From what I can tell all it does is skip time and make you hungry/thirsty. Is night time actually worth skipping, or is it like Subnautica where the only night time danger is not being able to see as well?

[Flare |UKCS|]

as far as I know, no benefits except changing night to day... and since the nasty mobs come out at night, its decent... but no buffs , even with a simple bed for now.

[Zombie Chow]

I believe if using a Lean-to it's just for passing time, but once you get the bed later on it provides a comfy buff that makes Food/Thirst drain slower.

Edit to add, that apparently the Simple Bed also restores more Health when you sleep than a Lean-to does.

[Nihil]

Nothing except you can skip the night. And after each Super Chip you collect and bring back to the grillmaster robot, you should sleep at least once. ;)

But normally i never sleep since it heals up my HP but also empties the hunger and thirst meter. So that's not a benefit.

[Jaggid Edje]

Bed provide a good bonus that lasts the whole day making you need less food and water. Beds are great.
Lean-to's just heal you and nothing else, so lean-to's are so-so.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Nihil:

But normally i never sleep since it heals up my HP but also empties the hunger and thirst meter. So that's not a benefit.

You realize that over the 8 hours that you would have slept, your thirst and hunger also go down....right? You can't count something that happens whether you sleep or not as a down-side to sleeping.

[Jynn]

- feather beds give you bonuses throughout the day

- passing the night if you don't like playing in the dark because it's hard to see and annoying to have to have torches all the time

- avoiding nocturnal insects like wolf spiders that roam more often at night

the food /thirst drop is negligible because you'll lose that over time during the night anyways, and it's not that hard to kill an aphid or weevil and cook it to fill up again

[blackphoenixx]

It also finishes all production overnight. So if you load up ovens, spinning wheels, drying racks etc. before going to bed they'll all be finished in the morning.
Then you can empty them, load them up again and go do whatever through the day and they'll be finished when you come back.

Also spawns new dew drops on dew catchers and grass/leaves, new acorns and so on. And generally counts against respawn timers of course.

[Flare |UKCS|]

Dew spawn over night to morning iirc, early morning 1am to later spawns more iirc.

[FoamySlobbers]

The Simple Bed is a craftable Utility item. It is an improved version of the Lean-To that restores more health when used for sleep and grant the player Comfy Hunger and Comfy Thirst buffs, which lower the rate at which their respective statistics drain throughout the entire in-game day. just like Jaggid Edje said.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Flare |UKCS|:

Dew spawn over night to morning iirc, early morning 1am to later spawns more iirc.

you dont need to sleep for that. its enough to be not at base. heck, dewdrops even spawn when you are inbase and not looking at them.