I haven't been playing for very long and I know it was daylight at one point, now I feel like night is taking forever! I can't tell if the sun cycle happened because I moved around or if it is just on a clock cycle. If it's time based, how long does it take? If it's event based, which areas trigger the change?
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the progression between day and night is time based, so 5 Minutes in realtime match 1 hour Ingame-Risen Time.
But i think that your day-night cycle is corrupt! Its a well known Bug taking place on AMD Dual Core PCs. A Solution is to get the latest AMD Dual Core Optimizer. Hope that works for you: AMD Optimizer
1As the other answer mentions, the risen day-night cycle is based on time.
There are a few options to fast-forward time (and one to slow it down) though:
- You can sleep. During the game you will get a few places "of your own", but there are also plenty of beds in the wild etc. you can sleep in without trouble. This will allow you to fast-forward to the following morning, noon, evening, or midnight (in addition to fully healing you).
- Using the console, there are a few commands to control time. To activate the console, type "minsky" quickly. A message will appear if you got it right. You can now access the console by using the key left of "1" and above tab.
- The console command
time HH.MMwill set the time to HH:MM. timescale Xchanges the relationship between RL time to in-game/Risen time. One source says the default time scale is 1, but I haven't found a way to show default values in the console.
- The console command
Note that I haven't actually played around with the console that much, and I haven't experimented with time or timescale. Using help in the console will give you some guidance, and likewise will the tab-completion help you enter the right commands.
See also the "Time" entry in the Risen Wikia's FAQ:
