Obvious topic title is obvious. Aside from every pun ("It's dark at night? Unheard of!") and every crude piece of advice ("Get some torches" or "Increase the brightness of your monitor"), the darkness in Minecraft is unbearable. When I say unbearable I don't mean the game is missing bears. I don't mean that I'm frightened of it either. No, the darkness at night in Minecraft reminds me of Doom 3. Which is to say, I feel like Ray Charles.
Stumbling around in the dark not being able to see a thing is about 0% of fun. Maybe even -50% of fun. It reminds me of some stupid mods for Fallout 3 and Oblivion, where the nights are made pitch black. I hope those guys are having fun role playing as Stevie Wonder. Me? I'm looking for my Nighteye spell or something in Minecraft. I want to brave the dark and continue on building, because sitting still for seven minutes is not my idea of fun. No, I will not go into the mines to mine. I just got back from mining. I want to go outside and build but I can't because of the obvious (and the obvious aren't Creepers).
So aside from waiting until Notch realizes that, at some time, the fun of gameplay will have to supersede the nonsense of reality, are there any mods out there currently that allow you to see in the dark more clearly, or perhaps a mod that allows me to change the time of day? I suppose it wouldn't be such a problem if I could alt-tab or do something else like browse the web while I wait for day, but that just pauses the game. Hopefully I am not alone in hating the dark--not because it's "frightening," but because it's down-right frustrating.
Whats wrong with the advice of get some torches? not that hard to get and solves all your problems
Torches offer little light. I'm building walls and buildings that are huge and go up verticle some distance. The last thing I want to do is spend 200 torches just so I can see at night to keep on building a large structure.
and u can tab out, press i to bring up ur inventory and there u go, it isnt paused and u can tab out
Thanks for that. At least I can now plop the game on my second monitor so I know when day comes up while doing something that isn't boring.
I agree with this. It's like the moon's not putting out any light at all. Even on peaceful, there's really not much reason to go outside at night- it's unrealistically dark out there.
And yeah, if torches worked while you carried them, it wouldn't be so bad. But they don't, so it's no solution at all.
Funny thing is...I built my super castle/light tower/home base 75% of the way at night. Now, this was before the patch and lighting does seem to be a little different now, but I really don't experience the issue you're describing.
Here is your problem: Your playing with a dark screen with lots of light in your room. Try closing the door, turning off the light, and shutting the shades. Your eyes will stop trying to torture you with all of the contrast.
Here is your problem: Your playing with a dark screen with lots of light in your room. Try closing the door, turning off the light, and shutting the shades. Your eyes will stop trying to torture you with all of the contrast.
Incorrect. I live in Florida. The shades are always down in the day if anyone knows what's good for them. I've got one soft light lamp in the corner on. That's about all the light that's coming into the room. And short of throwing the brightness so it'd be like I'm looking into the face of the sun, monitor brightness isn't the problem either. It's the game. Nights are too dark for the sake of "reality" (because in a game made out of squares and exploding green things, realism is what should be focused on).
I tried tabbing out. It has the same effect as hitting Escape, that is, it goes to the menu, thus pausing the game.
I concur with the original sentiment.
The darkness at night is completely ridiculous.
It's impossible to tell apart literally the ground you're standing on.
Say you die and respawn at your spawn, but you built a building and stored all your things in it right near the spawn, yet out of line of sight.
If you died at night, you have to stand around for ages waiting for daylight because you cannot see anything other than the starry sky above, so going anywhere risks losing yourself entirely.
You can see some objects when contrasted against the sky but that's it. The only way to know you've just run into a huge cliff wall is at lack of stars in the darkness ahead and above you. And even then it's impossible to tell what kind of cliff and whether there are even blocks of terrain you can jump on to climb up in front of you or if you're just facing a sheer straight wall or whatever else.
As much as survival mode is supposed to be challenging, I don't see much of a challenge in literally being unable to see anything in front of your nose unless you look up at the starry sky, assuming you can even see it.
I've gotten lost despite having only gone off a little bit away from a building I built because even as I was on my way back while darkness was falling, I instantly lost all ability to orientate once all daylight was gone. The world falls into this blinding darkness that makes it impossible to tell apart any terrain or anything, thus pretty much submerging you into complete inability to navigate.
I've got to agree with the O.P. too, the darkness at night when there is a full moon overhead is far too dark.
I'm not the one that is going to fiddle with my monitor settings as it's been calibrated properly and I don't care to have to adjust it for a game, when in reality the game should be adjusted for properly calibrated monitors so that one can actually see at night.
I'm not the one that is going to fiddle with my monitor settings as it's been calibrated properly and I don't care to have to adjust it for a game, when in reality the game should be adjusted for properly calibrated monitors so that one can actually see at night.
This, 100%. I'm really tired of being told I need to compensate for poor game optimization.
There could also be some kind of pseudo HDR system, where your character's "eyes" adjust to the dark, so the night could be dark for a few seconds, but then your "eyes" adjust and then you could see better. Just a thought.
While that would be pretty cool and realistic, I can't say that my eyes have adjusted to the darkness in MC. When I say that my eyes, I mean that my characters eyes have not adjusted to where things are brighter in the pitch of night that is MC.
I hate wasting torches everywhere but it seems unless things are going to be changed in the game, that is my only choice right now, or I have to sit around for 7 minutes waiting on the sun, or use one of the mods that keeps it at dead noon every 5 minutes, which I don't like since then no mobs come out. So, it seems that torches are my only answer to the pitch that is MC nighttime unless Notch is planning to update the game to give us an option to make the nights brighter.
Just throwing in another agreement to the issue. It gets way too dark at night.
I dont think that a light-emitting torch is the fix, either. I honestly think that things need to get a lot brighter. It seems that night-time can still be simulated without actually removing the light source. Maybe a light source that emits a dim and dark blue hue that torches could overpower? I dont know... but the level of darkness is insane.
I hate to do this (and it may even be a tabboo around here that im unaware of), but i'd like to bring up World of Warcraft. The night-time gameplay is beautiful in that game.
To me, it seems almost like it's a problem of how lighting, or rather lack of light, works in the game.
During the day, natural light comes only from the sun. And the sun is so bright, it provides light enough to see even if you're standing in shade such as below a huge tree or anything else blocking out the sun to a degree.
But when night falls, despite there being stars in the sky, light only comes from the moon, which is also far from as bright as the sun.
But the "shadow" effects (lack of light due to obstructions) remain in effect.
As a result, while you would be able to see at least something even in the darkest of shadows under sunlight, you end up looking into complete blackness in the same spot at night.
Perhaps stars should let out some light or shadows shouldn't work the same at night as they do during the day?
I'm not the one that is going to fiddle with my monitor settings as it's been calibrated properly and I don't care to have to adjust it for a game, when in reality the game should be adjusted for properly calibrated monitors so that one can actually see at night.
This, 100%. I'm really tired of being told I need to compensate for poor game optimization.
No my monitor is calibrated properly and I can see fine. Yours is too dark. Don't blame the game for your own mistake.
Stumbling around in the dark not being able to see a thing is about 0% of fun. Maybe even -50% of fun. It reminds me of some stupid mods for Fallout 3 and Oblivion, where the nights are made pitch black. I hope those guys are having fun role playing as Stevie Wonder. Me? I'm looking for my Nighteye spell or something in Minecraft. I want to brave the dark and continue on building, because sitting still for seven minutes is not my idea of fun. No, I will not go into the mines to mine. I just got back from mining. I want to go outside and build but I can't because of the obvious (and the obvious aren't Creepers).
So aside from waiting until Notch realizes that, at some time, the fun of gameplay will have to supersede the nonsense of reality, are there any mods out there currently that allow you to see in the dark more clearly, or perhaps a mod that allows me to change the time of day? I suppose it wouldn't be such a problem if I could alt-tab or do something else like browse the web while I wait for day, but that just pauses the game. Hopefully I am not alone in hating the dark--not because it's "frightening," but because it's down-right frustrating.
Torches offer little light. I'm building walls and buildings that are huge and go up verticle some distance. The last thing I want to do is spend 200 torches just so I can see at night to keep on building a large structure.
Thanks for that. At least I can now plop the game on my second monitor so I know when day comes up while doing something that isn't boring.
And yeah, if torches worked while you carried them, it wouldn't be so bad. But they don't, so it's no solution at all.
Incorrect. I live in Florida. The shades are always down in the day if anyone knows what's good for them. I've got one soft light lamp in the corner on. That's about all the light that's coming into the room. And short of throwing the brightness so it'd be like I'm looking into the face of the sun, monitor brightness isn't the problem either. It's the game. Nights are too dark for the sake of "reality" (because in a game made out of squares and exploding green things, realism is what should be focused on).
I go out all the time at night without torches and I can see fine.
Touche'.
I concur with the original sentiment.
The darkness at night is completely ridiculous.
It's impossible to tell apart literally the ground you're standing on.
Say you die and respawn at your spawn, but you built a building and stored all your things in it right near the spawn, yet out of line of sight.
If you died at night, you have to stand around for ages waiting for daylight because you cannot see anything other than the starry sky above, so going anywhere risks losing yourself entirely.
You can see some objects when contrasted against the sky but that's it. The only way to know you've just run into a huge cliff wall is at lack of stars in the darkness ahead and above you. And even then it's impossible to tell what kind of cliff and whether there are even blocks of terrain you can jump on to climb up in front of you or if you're just facing a sheer straight wall or whatever else.
As much as survival mode is supposed to be challenging, I don't see much of a challenge in literally being unable to see anything in front of your nose unless you look up at the starry sky, assuming you can even see it.
I've gotten lost despite having only gone off a little bit away from a building I built because even as I was on my way back while darkness was falling, I instantly lost all ability to orientate once all daylight was gone. The world falls into this blinding darkness that makes it impossible to tell apart any terrain or anything, thus pretty much submerging you into complete inability to navigate.
I'm not the one that is going to fiddle with my monitor settings as it's been calibrated properly and I don't care to have to adjust it for a game, when in reality the game should be adjusted for properly calibrated monitors so that one can actually see at night.
This, 100%. I'm really tired of being told I need to compensate for poor game optimization.
I hate wasting torches everywhere but it seems unless things are going to be changed in the game, that is my only choice right now, or I have to sit around for 7 minutes waiting on the sun, or use one of the mods that keeps it at dead noon every 5 minutes, which I don't like since then no mobs come out. So, it seems that torches are my only answer to the pitch that is MC nighttime unless Notch is planning to update the game to give us an option to make the nights brighter.
I dont think that a light-emitting torch is the fix, either. I honestly think that things need to get a lot brighter. It seems that night-time can still be simulated without actually removing the light source. Maybe a light source that emits a dim and dark blue hue that torches could overpower? I dont know... but the level of darkness is insane.
I hate to do this (and it may even be a tabboo around here that im unaware of), but i'd like to bring up World of Warcraft. The night-time gameplay is beautiful in that game.
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During the day, natural light comes only from the sun. And the sun is so bright, it provides light enough to see even if you're standing in shade such as below a huge tree or anything else blocking out the sun to a degree.
But when night falls, despite there being stars in the sky, light only comes from the moon, which is also far from as bright as the sun.
But the "shadow" effects (lack of light due to obstructions) remain in effect.
As a result, while you would be able to see at least something even in the darkest of shadows under sunlight, you end up looking into complete blackness in the same spot at night.
Perhaps stars should let out some light or shadows shouldn't work the same at night as they do during the day?
No my monitor is calibrated properly and I can see fine. Yours is too dark. Don't blame the game for your own mistake.