Time

With the release of Tikamoon, I noticed that when trying to get respawns or age animals, the lower limit of 10 game min did not work reliably. WIth 10 game min days, it took 4 days. Then with 12 game min days, it only took 3 days. The other maps did still seem to work at 12 10 game min, but for the sake of keeping things simple I just use 12 game min on all maps now as a min time to make a day count (set a 3 min timer on phone if I am trying to science something fast).

I normally keep track of passing time on a daily basis. Kak2R on Woth Discord pointed out that you can also pass time a year at a time by letting the required time pass on a day, and then sleeping 23 hours in the game. To me, it seems that the mechanic works the same in either case. Yes, if you pass time daily you do have to open a bed/campfire 2 extra times, but the game rule seems to be play 36 game min (9 min real life) and sleep to 3 mornings. I still think that it means the game clock passes midnight or sunrise, but since i don’t often hunt at night, i have never tested where that point is. I imagine the 36 game min can be spread over the 3 day how ever you want, but I have just kept them even at 12 per day when I am using the daily method.

So to pass time daily, play on a map for 12 game min (3 min RL), sleep to the next day. I usually walk a little distance away from the bed before sleeping again to let the game register it, but I am not sure that is required since the yearly method works.

To pass time yearly, play on a map for 36 game min (9 min RL), then sleep to the next day 3 times.

The best way that I have found to get used to how all of this managing time works is to use a test herd. For this I like it to be a small herd (1-6 animals for easy counting), near a parking lot/respawn point, and have both of one type of need zone in easy view. Here is a good example of one that I use in Aurora.