clo4 / pause-day-cycle

Pause Minecraft's day cycle and weather when nobody's online (best for small vanilla-ish servers)

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Pause Day Cycle

Lightweight Minecraft datapack to disable doDaylightCycle when nobody is actively playing. It's best suited for small to medium sized 24/7 dedicated servers where there are times nobody is playing -- otherwise, if the server is running all the time, the day count becomes excessive very quickly.

When nobody is online or all online players are tagged as afk (see clo4/afk-datapack) the following gamerules will be set to false:

• doDaylightCycle
• doWeatherCycle

mobSpawning isn't changed because it allows automatic farms to function with nobody present.

You can also hook into it using the tags pause_day_cycle:pause and pause_day_cycle:resume:

announce/data/pause_day_cycle/tags/functions/pause.json

{ "values": "announce:pause" }

announce/data/announce/functions/pause.mcfunction

say Day cycle has been paused because nobody's playing