Game-day

A day lasts 24966 Game-ticks or 416.1 Game-seconds.

The light varies throughout the day varies in a cycle consisting of 4 phases:

Phase	Behaviour	Time of day at start	Time of day at end	Duration (in ticks)	Duration (in seconds)
day	fully light	0.75	0.25	12482	208.0333
dusk	darkening	0.25	0.42	4245	70.75
night	fully dark	0.42	0.58	3994	66.567
dawn	lightening	0.58	0.75	4245	70.75

  ------------- day -------><---- dusk ----><---- night ----><---- dawn ----><-------- day ------------
  
% 0    5    10   15   20   25   30   35   40   45   50   55   60   65   70   75   80   85   90   95  100
  |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

During dusk, the light level decreases linearly from fully light to fully dark. During dawn, it increases linearly from dark to light.

Note: The actual time between phases can vary +/- a tick due to rounding errors.

These values are accurate as of version 0.11.8.

See also

• Time
• Lua/Game#tick.
• Game-tick
• Game-second
• Units