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Make Day Length Variable (and easily moddable)

I've been playing Terrafirmacraft and decided that the short day/night cycle is entirely unfun for me, so I tried to use the mod I've used in other builds, B3M.  But apparently it doesn't work, or gets reset, or something, because no matter how I change the numbers, the time ticks by just as fast.

So I looked for alternatives, and though I found some I'm about to try out, I found comment after comment after comment about how Minecraft hard-codes the time and effectively doesn't count days either.  Meaning that modders practically have to break the game, or do weird things around the hard-coded part, in order to affect the length of the day/night cycle -- and thus it's much harder for mods to work together on this element.  TFC being particularly all-encompassing means it's even less capable of working together than most, but apparently it literally cannot work from a day count -- small wonder the year kept ticking by so much faster than I had anticipated!

So would you PLEASE make the passage of time changeable?  Or at least make it easier to mod?  I would very much like the core options to include how long a day is, and ideally also how long a night is.

This is a matter of accessibility for me, as the shorter vanilla timeframe reduces the generally relaxing feel of the game, ramps up my anxiety, and constantly breaks my concentration just when I think I'm getting somewhere.  My ADHD brain finds longer days essential to my Minecraft experience.

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    So far, there's only one mod that works for TFC and minecraft 1.20.1 - Simple Day Length Extender on Forge.
    I've tried all others including Time Control, B3M, etc - TFC doesn't seem to respect them. So I was very surprised to find at least one working mod...
    Also you can change month's length in TFC config, for longer seasons :)

    Hope that helps

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    This is a matter of accessibility for me, as the shorter vanilla timeframe reduces the generally relaxing feel of the game, ramps up my anxiety, and constantly breaks my concentration just when I think I'm getting somewhere.  My ADHD brain finds longer days essential to my Minecraft experience.

    Exactly my thoughts. I also have ADHD and autism and get very stressed by the vanilla day length. I can't play MC anymore without a time-adjustment mod, with my favorite being 'Custom Time Cycle' by eclipseisoffline for Fabric. I extend the day to 3x and the night to 2x, and it works perfectly for me. Vanilla time ruins my rhythm and, over time, even impacts my real-life executive functioning, making me more scatterbrained and stressed. I really wish Mojang would add a slider for day/night length in the options.