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/Gamerule DayCycleLength

One thing that has always bothered me in Minecraft is how short the day/night cycle is. Twenty Minutes; that's it. This isn't a big deal normally, and I'm sure many people like how long the day normally takes.

But I don't, thus I want to suggest a new gamerule - DayCycleLength - This would speed up or slow down the day/night cycle depending on the value, with 1 being the default 20-minute cycle. This would allow a player to input 0.5 to half the speed that the cycle takes, with 20 minutes of day and 20 minutes of night for a 40-minute cycle, or input 2, to double the speed of the cycle for 5-minute days and nights. This would give players, servers, and map makers more options to work with when configuring a server, offering lengthy days and nights to players who want it, or allowing map makers to create rapid day/night cycles to show the effects of a player's progress in the map.

And it would just give players more options, which is always nice.

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    I have one problem with this. If I wanted, let's say an hour day/night cycle, I would have to type in a recurring decimal, which makes things harder.

    I would prefer to have it display the total number of minutes per day, so 20 for default, or 60 for an hour.

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    just write a short script to go 1 tick back every 3 or 4 ticks of daylight.

    Sooo:
    4 ticks passed >> time add -1 tick

    And now your day is longer!!

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    Please they need to add this so bad. I want to feel like my days and hard nights mean something. 

    This game is too fast. During the day I'll be getting ready to build but before I even head out the door its almost night time again!

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    You can already recreate this with datapacks or command blocks by "/gamerule dodaylightcycle false", and then doing "/time add" as you see fit to make the day last as long as you want it to.

    Someone else suggested that the gameule dodaylightcycle shouldn't be a simple true/false, but rather a number that designates the number of ticks each game day lasts, which I think is a good idea as well.

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    For a workaround, have an impulse command block set to /time add -1 every while, and it will slow down your days slightly. Yes, it isn't precise but it works if you need it.

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    would be better if it was by minutes or ticks.

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    yes, i was looking for an add on (bedrock) that does that, didn't find anything. a vanilla feature like that would be top tier. There is an add on that synchs the time with real time (realtime add on) and there is a java mod that lets u customize the daycycle length (hourglass) but there isn't a bedrock add on that does. It is theoretically possible, it just (to my knowlege) doesn't exist for some reason.

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    I've wanted this for so long. Have used command blocks before but it doesn't work too well.