How to Set Time to Night in Minecraft

Last Updated: September 12, 2019

Sometimes, you just want your Minecraft world to be taking place in the night. Maybe you think it's prettier than day, or maybe you want to be challenged by endlessly-spawning mobs. Here's how to change the time of day in Minecraft to night!

Steps

1
Open your Minecraft world. Make sure cheats are enabled - by default, they're disabled in Survival worlds, but enabled in Creative worlds.
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.

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3
Enter the cheat. Type "time set 13000" or "time set night". The final command should look like /time set 13000 or /time set night.
4
Hit Enter. 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.

Community Q&A

Question

How do you set the time to day in Minecraft?

Seasalt25

Top Answerer

You can set the time to day in Minecraft by typing /time set day in the chat and pressing enter.