Bukkit

Time Distortion

Features

Time Distortion gives the ability to change the duration of daytime, nighttime, or any custom part of the day that pleases you. There should be no issues with redstone.

This plugin allow you to set time lapses, defined by a begin and end time, and a speed multiplicator. In Bukkit the time in a day ranges from 0 to 24000 ticks, 0 being sunrise, 6000 noon, 12000 sunset, 18000 midnight, and 24000 looping back to sunrise.

• If you set the multiplicator to 2.0, time will be 2x faster and shorter.
• If you set the multiplicator to 0.5, time will be 2x slower and longer.

WARNING !

If you update from a version lower than 0.1.2, the plugin name has changed (due to a typo -_-), you must update config.yml and its folder accordingly.

Commands

the /timedistortion command displays a summary of the current configuration (permission : TimeDistortion.info)

Config

The default config.yml file will be generated the first time you enable the plugin, and sets default time speed, with daytime, nighttime, sunset and sunrise already preconfigured for the world "world", so you can easily tweak it. The config being quite simple and including extensive comments, I think no further help is necessary. A copy of the default config can be read here : sample config page.

Known bugs

• Moon phases may change quickly during the night in some cases
• time distortions tend to be extremely inaccurate when ticks_between_updates is really small (less than 5 in most of the cases) and multiplicator is lower than zero.

Planned features

• French localization (help needed for other languages)
• Add commands to edit config from in game
• Recode the time distortion effect to improve accuracy and smoothing even at high refresh rates (low ticks_between_updates)

Footnote

It has only been tested for 1.3.1 and 1.3.2, but it should work with 1.2.5 and older as well

This is my first Bukkit plugin, constructive criticism is welcome. My mother tongue being French, please excuse me if my English is bad.