How to Set Time to Night in Minecraft

Open your Minecraft world., Open the command line., Enter the cheat., Hit Enter.

4 Steps 1 min read Easy

Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Open your Minecraft world.

    Make sure cheats are enabled
    - by default, they're disabled in Survival worlds, but enabled in Creative worlds.
  2. Step 2: Open the command line.

    Press /, sometimes read as ?, to open up the Minecraft cheat console.

    You can also press T and enter in a forward slash manually, but pressing / automatically puts in the slash. , Type "time set 13000" or "time set night".

    The final command should look like /time set 13000 or /time set night. , Once the processing is done, the game's time will change to night.

    You can enter the cheat /gamerule doDaylightCycle false to stop time from moving.

    To disable this cheat, just enter /gamerule doDaylightCycle true and time will begin moving again.
  3. Step 3: Enter the cheat.

  4. Step 4: Hit Enter.

Detailed Guide

Make sure cheats are enabled
- by default, they're disabled in Survival worlds, but enabled in Creative worlds.

Press /, sometimes read as ?, to open up the Minecraft cheat console.

You can also press T and enter in a forward slash manually, but pressing / automatically puts in the slash. , Type "time set 13000" or "time set night".

The final command should look like /time set 13000 or /time set night. , Once the processing is done, the game's time will change to night.

You can enter the cheat /gamerule doDaylightCycle false to stop time from moving.

To disable this cheat, just enter /gamerule doDaylightCycle true and time will begin moving again.

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