BEFORE YOU READ: No, I don't actually think I have to follow the rules of Islam in games, I just do it for fun, and as a little extra element to the game. I do in fact enjoy it, and I don't believe it makes a difference in my faith. It's just a little extra roll playing I feel like doing.
(Note: Sorry I didn't put spoiler tags on the images, but that screws up the resizing, which really annoys me. So just let it load out, and you should be fine. If it gets too picture heavy, just leave a comment that says so and I'll consider putting the tags to help you all out.)
Well firstly, I've been playing Minecraft for quite a while now, and I just now noticed I was subconsciously thinking this entire process out. You see, I'm a Muslim, and whenever I've played games, I've always for some reason followed the rules of Islam as best I could. This might be because I'm just wired to do so, or maybe it's because I want to see if it would somehow help me in the game, showing how good Islamic laws really are. As an example, when playing fallout 3, I never picked up pork and beans, nor did I drink alcohol or do drugs. Contrast that with my older brother, who walked around jacked up on mentats and whiskey...
So of course, a game like Minecraft gets really complex. The first thing I did when I got the game was avoid killing pigs at all costs. Here's the rules of Islam concerning them:
1. I can't eat pork (duh).
2. I can't give or sell pork to people (So I can't get rid of it that way...)
3. I can't throw away food in general (Hey! This adds another obstacle... )
So with these rules, what do I do with the stuff?! Well usually I just avoid killing pigs, and instead started wheat farms and fishing areas in all of my Saves. But what if they're stuck in my house, or if someone else does and I pick up the pork? In the latter case, I guess if I gave it back right away it would be like picking it up and handing it to them, and not like taking possession and then giving it to them, so I don't take part in the transaction. In the first example, however, (or if I stumble upon it laying on the floor...) I would be stuck with it! You may be thinking I would just have to make a giant chest room for pork, and you would be right. However, it wouldn't be there forever! There is still this rule:
4. I can eat pork if I need to in order to survive, and there is no other food.
Yay! This means that if my hunger bar is so low that I'm losing health and I have no other food on hand, I can eat pork! So that (somewhat) solves that problem. Although now that I can eat other animals, that's not very likely to happen.
And another thing!
5. I can't knowingly do anything that will directly harm me.
Now that raw food can give you food poisoning, I have to be sure to cook the food before I eat it, unless I'm "starving" like in the above scenario, and don't have a furnace handy. This also means that I can't eat rotten zombie flesh, (excluding the above-mentioned scenario), especially because it's basically eating human flesh, which is against Islam anyways.
[EDIT]: Due to the fact that wolves exist, I can just feed my excess pork to those guys, and that's that.
Also: It's looked down upon in Islam to have dogs as pets (since they're unsanitary) unless they're useful (ex: you're a shepherd, they're guard dogs, they're seeing dogs, et cetera) and the wolves are basically hunting/guard dogs and help you out a LOT, so they're ok.
On to the next discussion: Prayer.
You may be thinking, "Ok this is going way to far," but I dunno, I just had to bring it up. Well here is the first tier of rules about prayer:
1. I have to pray 5 times a day. (Duh)
2. Prayer is based on the sun, not on time, so I have to divide the day and find the according times.
3. If I am traveling or ill, I am not obliged to pray. (Traveling = not within view of my home with render distance on far, ill = missing more than half my health, for my purposes)
4. I have to pray towards the Kaaba (I don't know where it is, if there is one in this dimension!!!)
5. I can pray on dirt, grass, sand, or anything natural, along with carpeting.
Well I guess prayer here would be to just make a small Duah, as I can't be bothered to carry out a full prayer (I'm not that crazy...) and I can do it anywhere, as the world of Minecraft is dirt and natural stuffs, although on a server I once played on I actually did make a Mosque with carpeting, which would be considered wool or actual carpets, which have recently been added. However, if I am hurt or not near my house when the time of prayer is, I either do the shortened prayer or none at all, respectively. Now going to the concern of the location of the Kaaba... As I am assuming this is a completely different world I would guess there is no Kaaba. However, the Kaaba is the location of prayer not because the actual building has anything important, but because it is the center of the universe, and is the bride between heaven and Earth. With that logic, the place that best fits that definition would be the spawn. (It's where I appear: Heaven --> Earth, and if you go far in any direction the world begins to fall apart: It's the center of it.) This is actually really handy, due to the fact that the compasses point to it!!! So all I have to do is make a compass, and viola! I know where to pray. But of course there is the question: What if I don't have the ability to make a compass at the time? Then of course I just pray any direction, just like in the real world. (Correct me if I'm wrong here.) Also, as suggested by people, I'll probably make a sort of room with a holed ceiling in order to accurately measure the times of prayer, and will also carry around a bit of colored cloth for a makeshift prayer rug when on the go.
As a note to this section: I currently have both a Kaaba on my spawn and a room for telling the prayer times. Pictures of both can be found in the Gallery at the end of this post.
On to the next discussion: Jihad.
I'll just add this quick section: Jihad is basically fighting for ones religion, wether it be in argument, or war, and I guess I am in a way constantly doing that. I am also fulfilling my duty of spreading the word of Islam, such as right now, or when I build mosques and whatnot on online servers. Also, due to the fact that creepers may possibly destroy some of the religious buildings I have, it is also my duty to protect such buildings. (Griefers too. ) As an added point with the 1.8 update, Enderman can now pull apart my buildings, including mosques (OH THE HORROR! ) so I have to be sure to keep an eye on them too. (Pun not intended.) Also, this might just be a coincidence, but in my experience deserts tend to be full of Endermen at night, while other biomes not so much, and I like to build in deserts, so OH CRAP.
On to the next discussion: Punishment of Law.
Everyone always talks about the strict punishments Islam has on laws, such as stoning to death -> . However, I am not entitle to do such things to people, as you actually have to be a judge or judiciary official to be able to carry out and hand out such punishments. However, with this logic, if I were to be made an Admin of a server, I would be entitled to punish griefers accordingly (Of course by the rules of the server, as stoning has no actual effect in minecraft...). Also, if they were destroying my property, and PvP was on, I would also be entitled to attack them. (This is dipping into Jihad, see above topic).
On to the next discussion: Calendars, Holidays, and Fasting
As all of you that have been here before: the Sun and Moon don't have phases and don't change position (Anti-respectively) so I have no way of calculating the time of year. However I have been thinking about setting it up so that the first time I create a world is the beggining of the year and just keeping track from there. This is now very likely to happen as I accidentally deleted my world while adding some mods , so I'll be starting again anyways. If so I'll keep you guys posted on what time of month it is I minimized the previous part as it is now irrelephant due to the fact I have a day/time counter mod! (Unfortunately it was broken with the update... But it was quite simple so I'm sure I'll have it again soon!) I'll soon post a lunar calendar here based on the days, so that I can tell what time of the lunar calendar it is by the day count. Maybe if I can get someone to mod it for me I can even make it so it displays the lunar calendar date along with the day count!!! (It'll use a simple calculator to convert day count to calendar day.)
Oh and the poll results were:
Keep in-game date with only gaming time: 49
Keep in-game date with total time: 5
Break fourth wall: 30
So keeping in-game date with only gaming time wins! And so I'll make a post when it's Ramadan or Hajj.
And I guess I'll put Hajj under this section as it's still concerning the calendar: I will also make Hajj every year when it's the time of the pilgrimage. I'll go more into detail (possibly with vids or pics) when I do it for the first time.
On to the next discussion: Witchcraft, Magic, and Brewery
By some, enchanting weapons and brewing potions may be seen as witchcraft, which is a mortal sin in Islam.
In fact, the Nether and pigmen have a lot in common with the alternate dimension of Jin. (Mini lesson: in Islam, it is believed that Jin, another sentient race made of fire , were also created by Allah, and reside in a parallel universe that resides besides ours, and are also being tested by Allah. In that regard, there are both good and bad Jin, the same way there are both good and bad humans.) The Nether is in a way parallel to the real Minecraft world, when you think of the way movement between the two works. Also, it is mainly composed of lava and fire . Finally, pigmen are identical in shape to the player , and can be both passive and aggressive. So if thought of this way, going into the Nether should not be allowed. (Mini lesson: in Islam, it is believed that communicating with Jin is possible, and doing so is the sin of witchcraft.) However, the Nether is really fun in my opinion, so I might just ignore this.
The same just about goes for enchanting (magic!) and brewing (potions!). Both are very interesting additions to the game, so I'd hate to disregard them. Also, brewing can be used to make instant health potions, which is basically the same as medicine. And in Islam, it is believed that if you are sick or ill, you can't just rely on God to make you better. You have to follow the advice of doctors and take medicine, basically do everything in your power to get better. So health potions are a good thing.
So far that is all I actually considered. Any more suggestions or whatnot?
Note: Anything in this shade of blue is an opinion from me about Islam and not stated as a fact for everything.
Here's a pic of the final and current Kaaba I had.
Pics of the prayer calculation room mentioned in the thread! (Used Shafi prayer regulations)
The whole building
Entrance and area where you stand
You stand in the middle and use windows on the outside to determine the prayer times based on the position of the sun.
Ok so here's the pictures of one of the many mosques I've built. (Current mosque count: 8)
View at night from watchtower
Entrance with fountain at night
Finished inside (looks the same at day and night)
Finished outside at daytime.
Here's pictures of a church built by raptor777777.
In this picture you can see a baptistry on the left.
Here's pictures of a mosque built by MMS.
Here's a picture of St.Paul's Cathedral from the city of London built by wildstyle.
Here's a picture of a mosque built by egesagin. (It's a 1:1 scale model of Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul)
Thanks to all of those people for letting me use their pics. If you've made a mosque, church, citadel, temple, synagogue, or other place of worship, OR have a picture relating to your take on any religion or lack thereof in Minecraft, just post it here and give me permission, and I'll add it to the OP with credit. Thanks in advance.
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If you can't find your Kaaba in the Minecraft World, set up a sort've monument commemorating it in one direction and pray to that, I don't know if that's allowed. . .
If you can't find your Kaaba in the Minecraft World, set up a sort've monument commemorating it in one direction and pray to that, I don't know if that's allowed. . .
I guess putting this along with my suggestion: I could make a monument on the spawn. Good idea. (I don't think just making it anywhere would be right. Like I said, we're not actually praying to the building but the location it's at.)
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I removed the inflamatory comments from the start of your post as it's bound to antagonise those who dislike Islam. However please do report anyone who is racist/faithist(does that exist as a word?) or generally intolerant, they'll be dealt with.
Also in regards to the idea, it sounds neat. A new way to play the game!
I removed the inflamatory comments from the start of your post as it's bound to antagonise those who dislike Islam. However please do report anyone who is racist/faithist(does that exist as a word?) or generally intolerant, they'll be dealt with.
Ok. I kinda underestimated how big large font is... But thanks I guess. Although I thought I was doing the exact opposite by saying go ahead instead of "you're dumb and your opinions don't matter". And anti-Islam comments don't really bother me. Everyone has biases against what's different.
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Interesting idea.
How would you deal with chest-thieves (and griefers in general) in multiplayer?
Also what about female players?
STONE THEM!!! Lol Jk. Due to the fact that I'm not a judge or have any power, I am not allowed to punish them with what the rules of Islam dictate (That entire "cut off hand" and "stone" thing isn't just whoever want's to do it, there is actually a long process to it.). And as far as girls go, that's their problem. If I went outside and a girl walked by without a Hijab (I live in America, so although this hypothetical statement makes it sound like it's never happened, it does every three seconds.) then I'm not entitled to do anything. It's their choice. Of course I can't lust or anything but... This is Minecraft, so yeah... I don't even know what that would be defined as. (I'm gonna add this to the original post when I eventually feel like it, thanks for bringing it up.)
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Wow... after posting this I realized something. No, the STONE THEM thing was not about the female players, it was about the thieves and griefers. Lol.
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Following religious doctrine in a game? Huh, I never thought of that. I'm Agnostic though, so it's not like there's anything I could do that wouldn't be okay with my religious beliefs, lol. But then I played a lot of games while I was a Christian too, but then there aren't many Christian rules that make games difficult.
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While I can eat pork, I would prefer beef since we have cattle already.
We have wool, so fashioning a rug should be possible and if could be applied like rail.
As for the Kabaa, I would think that you could utilize a pillar chunk error. Though directing devotions to a digital object could be seen as a sort of sacrilege. IDK
I think you should probably skip some rules like daily prayers, you can obviously skip the Hajj (unless someone built a digital Mecca...) But still retain the lifestyle rules I.E. eating pork and what not.
Lifestyles imposed upon the game could be interesting, for example Buddhism, not being allowed to kill anything, or perhaps a Hindu following his/ her laws regarding Brahmin.
I'm atheist, but isn't it kind of the point that rules like these are sometimes inconvenient and hard to follow? I mean, if it was always easy then what'd be the point? Imagine a hypothetical religious dictate that you may never, for any reason, kiss a hedgehog - following it would be trivial, and so become meaningless.
It's an interesting idea, though; a way to add a bit of challenge to a game. Nethack, the granddaddy of adventure games, actually has a somewhat similar thing built right in. When you die or finish the game (no spawnpoints or do-overs there) you get a list of your attributes. They can be things like never having eaten meat, never eaten at all (apparently theoretically doable), never having killed anything, never fallen out of favour with your deity and so on. People who have finished nethack once or twice sometimes try to keep one or mor eof those attributes as a way to challenge themselves.
fascinating post by OP! kudos!
i was going to give you a for your thoughts,
but i think ill give you this :Ham:.
HISSSSSS!
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As for the Kabaa, I would think that you could utilize a pillar chunk error. Though directing devotions to a digital object could be seen as a sort of sacrilege. IDK
Yeah this is why I was saying I can't just build the building anywhere. In the real world we pray that direction because we believe it's the point on Earth closest to Heaven, so it's a way of "facing God" when we pray.
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I think you should probably skip some rules like daily prayers, you can obviously skip the Hajj (unless someone built a digital Mecca...) But still retain the lifestyle rules I.E. eating pork and what not.
Lifestyles imposed upon the game could be interesting, for example Buddhism, not being allowed to kill anything, or perhaps a Hindu following his/ her laws regarding Brahmin.
Yeah, that's what I do in most games, and that's why I said it may seem I'm going overboard with the prayer. But because the entire sun thing, and day/night cycles, I thought it would be fun to incorporate that chore into the game. I'm kinda bored with SSP, if you can't tell.
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(Note: Sorry I didn't put spoiler tags on the images, but that screws up the resizing, which really annoys me. So just let it load out, and you should be fine. If it gets too picture heavy, just leave a comment that says so and I'll consider putting the tags to help you all out.)
Well firstly, I've been playing Minecraft for quite a while now, and I just now noticed I was subconsciously thinking this entire process out. You see, I'm a Muslim, and whenever I've played games, I've always for some reason followed the rules of Islam as best I could. This might be because I'm just wired to do so, or maybe it's because I want to see if it would somehow help me in the game, showing how good Islamic laws really are. As an example, when playing fallout 3, I never picked up pork and beans, nor did I drink alcohol or do drugs. Contrast that with my older brother, who walked around jacked up on mentats and whiskey...
So of course, a game like Minecraft gets really complex. The first thing I did when I got the game was avoid killing pigs at all costs.
1. I can't eat pork (duh).
So with these rules, what do I do with the stuff?! Well usually I just avoid killing pigs, and instead started wheat farms and fishing areas in all of my Saves. But what if they're stuck in my house, or if someone else does and I pick up the pork? In the latter case, I guess if I gave it back right away it would be like picking it up and handing it to them, and not like taking possession and then giving it to them, so I don't take part in the transaction. In the first example, however, (or if I stumble upon it laying on the floor...) I would be stuck with it! You may be thinking I would just have to make a giant chest room for pork, and you would be right. However, it wouldn't be there forever! There is still this rule:2. I can't give or sell pork to people (So I can't get rid of it that way...)
3. I can't throw away food in general (Hey! This adds another obstacle... )
4. I can eat pork if I need to in order to survive, and there is no other food.
Yay! This means that if my hunger bar is so low that I'm losing health and I have no other food on hand, I can eat pork! So that (somewhat) solves that problem. Although now that I can eat other animals, that's not very likely to happen.And another thing!
5. I can't knowingly do anything that will directly harm me.
Now that raw food can give you food poisoning, I have to be sure to cook the food before I eat it, unless I'm "starving" like in the above scenario, and don't have a furnace handy. This also means that I can't eat rotten zombie flesh, (excluding the above-mentioned scenario), especially because it's basically eating human flesh, which is against Islam anyways.[EDIT]: Due to the fact that wolves exist, I can just feed my excess pork to those guys, and that's that.
Also: It's looked down upon in Islam to have dogs as pets (since they're unsanitary) unless they're useful (ex: you're a shepherd, they're guard dogs, they're seeing dogs, et cetera) and the wolves are basically hunting/guard dogs and help you out a LOT, so they're ok.
On to the next discussion: Prayer.
You may be thinking, "Ok this is going way to far," but I dunno, I just had to bring it up. Well here is the first tier of rules about prayer:1. I have to pray 5 times a day. (Duh)
2. Prayer is based on the sun, not on time, so I have to divide the day and find the according times.
3. If I am traveling or ill, I am not obliged to pray. (Traveling = not within view of my home with render distance on far, ill = missing more than half my health, for my purposes)
4. I have to pray towards the Kaaba (I don't know where it is, if there is one in this dimension!!!)
5. I can pray on dirt, grass, sand, or anything natural, along with carpeting.
Well I guess prayer here would be to just make a small Duah, as I can't be bothered to carry out a full prayer (I'm not that crazy...) and I can do it anywhere, as the world of Minecraft is dirtAs a note to this section: I currently have both a Kaaba on my spawn and a room for telling the prayer times. Pictures of both can be found in the Gallery at the end of this post.
On to the next discussion: Jihad.
I'll just add this quick section: Jihad is basically fighting for ones religion, wether it be in argument, or war, and I guess I am in a way constantly doing that. I am also fulfilling my duty of spreading the word of Islam, such as right now, or when I build mosques and whatnot on online servers. Also, due to the fact that creepersOn to the next discussion: Punishment of Law.
Everyone always talks about the strict punishments Islam has on laws, such as stoning to deathOn to the next discussion: Calendars, Holidays, and Fasting
As all of you that have been here before: the Sun and Moon don't have phases and don't change position (Anti-respectively) so I have no way of calculating the time of year. However I have been thinking about setting it up so that the first time I create a world is the beggining of the year and just keeping track from there. This is now very likely to happen as I accidentally deleted my world while adding some modsOh and the poll results were:
Keep in-game date with only gaming time: 49
Keep in-game date with total time: 5
Break fourth wall: 30
So keeping in-game date with only gaming time wins! And so I'll make a post when it's Ramadan or Hajj.
And I guess I'll put Hajj under this section as it's still concerning the calendar: I will also make Hajj every year when it's the time of the pilgrimage. I'll go more into detail (possibly with vids or pics) when I do it for the first time.
On to the next discussion: Witchcraft, Magic, and Brewery
By some, enchanting weapons and brewing potions may be seen as witchcraft, which is a mortal sin in Islam.In fact, the Nether and pigmen have a lot in common with the alternate dimension of Jin. (Mini lesson: in Islam, it is believed that Jin, another sentient race made of
The same just about goes for enchanting (magic!) and brewing (potions!). Both are very interesting additions to the game, so I'd hate to disregard them. Also, brewing can be used to make instant health potions, which is basically the same as medicine. And in Islam, it is believed that if you are sick or ill, you can't just rely on God to make you better. You have to follow the advice of doctors and take medicine, basically do everything in your power to get better. So health potions are a good thing.
So far that is all I actually considered. Any more suggestions or whatnot?
Note: Anything in this shade of blue is an opinion from me about Islam and not stated as a fact for everything.
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Here's a pic of the final and current Kaaba I had.
Pics of the prayer calculation room mentioned in the thread! (Used Shafi prayer regulations)
The whole building
Entrance and area where you stand
You stand in the middle and use windows on the outside to determine the prayer times based on the position of the sun.
Ok so here's the pictures of one of the many mosques I've built. (Current mosque count: 8)
View at night from watchtower
Entrance with fountain at night
Finished inside (looks the same at day and night)
Finished outside at daytime.
Here's pictures of a church built by raptor777777.
In this picture you can see a baptistry on the left.
Here's pictures of a mosque built by MMS.
Here's a picture of St.Paul's Cathedral from the city of London built by wildstyle.
Here's a picture of a mosque built by egesagin. (It's a 1:1 scale model of Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul)
Thanks to all of those people for letting me use their pics.
If you've made a mosque, church, citadel, temple, synagogue, or other place of worship, OR have a picture relating to your take on any religion or lack thereof in Minecraft, just post it here and give me permission, and I'll add it to the OP with credit. Thanks in advance.
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I guess putting this along with my suggestion: I could make a monument on the spawn. Good idea. (I don't think just making it anywhere would be right. Like I said, we're not actually praying to the building but the location it's at.)
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Retired StaffAlso in regards to the idea, it sounds neat. A new way to play the game!
Ok. I kinda underestimated how big large font is...
Hm, it is now :biggrin.gif:
How would you deal with chest-thieves (and griefers in general) in multiplayer?
Also what about female players?
STONE THEM!!! Lol Jk. Due to the fact that I'm not a judge or have any power, I am not allowed to punish them with what the rules of Islam dictate (That entire "cut off hand" and "stone" thing isn't just whoever want's to do it, there is actually a long process to it.). And as far as girls go, that's their problem. If I went outside and a girl walked by without a Hijab (I live in America, so although this hypothetical statement makes it sound like it's never happened, it does every three seconds.) then I'm not entitled to do anything. It's their choice. Of course I can't lust or anything but... This is Minecraft, so yeah... I don't even know what that would be defined as. (I'm gonna add this to the original post when I eventually feel like it, thanks for bringing it up.)
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Wow... after posting this I realized something. No, the STONE THEM thing was not about the female players, it was about the thieves and griefers. Lol.
I lol'd
As some Christians are not as slow to speak as I am.
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We have wool, so fashioning a rug should be possible and if could be applied like rail.
Depends on if we can restrain our opinions despite being on the Internet. Fortunately, I can. ^.^
Actually, I lol'd when I saw the OP's post.
I think you should probably skip some rules like daily prayers, you can obviously skip the Hajj (unless someone built a digital Mecca...) But still retain the lifestyle rules I.E. eating pork and what not.
Lifestyles imposed upon the game could be interesting, for example Buddhism, not being allowed to kill anything, or perhaps a Hindu following his/ her laws regarding Brahmin.
Anyhow, good luck with this.
As for myself, I make my own rules.
~(Atheist)~
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
It's an interesting idea, though; a way to add a bit of challenge to a game. Nethack, the granddaddy of adventure games, actually has a somewhat similar thing built right in. When you die or finish the game (no spawnpoints or do-overs there) you get a list of your attributes. They can be things like never having eaten meat, never eaten at all (apparently theoretically doable), never having killed anything, never fallen out of favour with your deity and so on. People who have finished nethack once or twice sometimes try to keep one or mor eof those attributes as a way to challenge themselves.
i was going to give you a
but i think ill give you this :Ham:.
HISSSSSS!
Yeah this is why I was saying I can't just build the building anywhere. In the real world we pray that direction because we believe it's the point on Earth closest to Heaven, so it's a way of "facing God" when we pray.
Yeah, that's what I do in most games, and that's why I said it may seem I'm going overboard with the prayer. But because the entire sun thing, and day/night cycles, I thought it would be fun to incorporate that chore into the game. I'm kinda bored with SSP, if you can't tell.