Day/Night Cycle

The Day/Night Cycle is a feature added in the 2018-09-10 update. Before the update, it was always daytime.

As of the 12/?/24 update, the Day/Night Cycle is broken and the time it takes before night comes is currently irregular.

Day

The game during daytime.

Daytime previously lasted from around 10 to 30 minutes (for an average of 20 minutes), but recently daytime lasts from 2–10 minutes. All music plays as normal. This is the default setting for the game.

Night

The game during nighttime.

When the day ends, the sun goes down quickly, and the sky shifts to black, indicating that it is nighttime. During this cycle, all outdoor music is replaced by mountaincall. Entering any area that plays the vendor, crawlers, gbtune1, hibernation1, starhall music or music playing during an Ant, Robo or Stick Bug Challenge will override the night music. Fireflies will also appear, stopping in different fields. The background of the server and walls will turn pitch black. A Rogue Vicious Bee has a higher chance of spawning every night. A moon sprout also has a 60% chance of spawning every night.

Walking near a firefly will make it fly into the air and leave a 1x1 patch of sparkles. Once a player has removed all the fireflies, one of the tokens below will appear in the middle of their formation:

• Moon Charms (increments of 1, 5, or 10).
• Glitter (Very rare).
• Star Jelly (Extremely rare).
• Night Bell (Extremely rare).
• Star Treat (Exceptionally rare).
• Waxing Crescent Moon Sticker (Rare)
• Glowing Smile Sticker (Extremely Rare)
• Star Signs (Extremely Rare)
• Cyan Star Sticker (Exceptionally Rare)
• Shining Star Sticker (Exceptionally Rare)

Fireflies can only stop in the same field three times. After removing all the fireflies in a field three times, they will fly to a different field. Fireflies will only stop in the Rose Field, Cactus Field, Pineapple Patch, Spider Field, Strawberry Field and Bamboo Field.

Night lasts 2 minutes 35 seconds, which is the duration of the night theme (mountaincall). Ever since the 2018-11-25 and 2018-12-19 updates, moon-shaped platforms leading to the Diamond Mask and the platforms leading to Bubble Bee Man and the Night Memory Match are solid yellow only during nighttime if the player has a Moon Amulet (if the player owns the Diamond Mask, the platforms to the Diamond Mask will be blue and stay permanently solid). When sprouts are planted at night, there is a 60% chance for it to be a moon sprout, with the odds of all other sprout types being altered (Supreme Sprouts become more common while the rest are rarer).

Trivia

• If the Stick Bug Challenge ends at night, the normal music will play instead of the night music. If the time cycles from night to day or day to night while a Honeystorm or mythic meteor shower is active, the fog will disappear, but the honeystorm or mythic meteor shower will still be active.
• In some occasions, the nighttime OST doesn't have to end for it to be daytime, it just simply fades.
• A Night Bell and Spirit Bear can manually summon nighttime.
  • Onett can also summon nighttime, but does it globally and with a message (ex: "🌙 One of Mother Bear's cubs has summoned nighttime... 🌙").
    • A full gallery of these messages can be found in the Night Bell page.