Are there any mods out there that would let me change how the in-game clock works so that it’s always following the real time of day?

I’m not sure if things like saving without ending a day or having time pass while not playing the game are even possible for mods.

Also, I’m hoping to use this to play multiplayer, since that might make a difference.

I’ve been looking through mods, but everything that talks about realtime clocks seems to be very simple or something else entirely.

  • Definitelynotacat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    Assuming you manage to find a mod that lengthens an in-game day to 24 hours, you might be able to create a dummy player that never exits the play-through, thus allowing time to continue passing even while all real players are offline. Not sure if that would cause any weird glitchiness.

    Finding the 24hr mod might be harder. :(

    • azdle@news.idlestate.orgOP
      2·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for that suggestion. I found a couple of containerized multiplayer “servers”: https://github.com/cavazos-apps/stardew-multiplayer-docker and https://github.com/JunimoHost/junimohost-stardew-server that seem to (as best I can tell) both run a game client as the server. So it sounds like a dummy player seems to be the way to go.

      Haven’t tried either of those yet though. I assume the JunimoHost one, at least, won’t work with the current version of Stardew.

      I’ve found a couple mods to change timescale that would let me have 1 second = 1 second, but nothing so far that would let me match the time of day properly. Now I’m considering writing a mod for this myself. I just need to decide if all of this is actually worth my time…