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The square sun is falling towards the horizon, and it's a matter of seconds before you realize you're not going to get back to your base in time. But wait - you can save yourself! You can set the time to day!
Steps
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1Open your world in Minecraft and make sure the cheats are on. By default, cheats are disabled in a Survival world, while they're automatically enabled in a Creative world.
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2Open the cheat console. Press the / key, sometimes said to be the ? key. You can also press T and enter in a forward slash manually, but pressing / puts it in automatically.Advertisement
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3Type the command. To set the time to day, type "time set 1" or "time set day". The final command should look like either
/time set 1
or/time set day
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4Hit Enter. Once the processing is done, the game will change to day.
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Community Q&A
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QuestionHow do you make flint and steel?Seasalt25Top AnswererTo make a flint and steel, you need an iron ingot and a piece of flint. You can get flint from breaking gravel blocks, and you get iron from mining iron ore and smelting it in a furnace or blast furnace. Once you have those items, open a crafting table or your inventory crafting and place the flint and iron ingot in any space there. The placement does not matter.
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QuestionCan we do this without commands?Seasalt25Top AnswererNo, it is impossible to change the time in Minecraft manually without using commands or other cheats. Without them, you need to just wait for the time you want.
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QuestionWould sleeping in a bed be the quickest way to set the time to day in MInecraft?Seasalt25Top AnswererSleeping in a bed would work for setting the time to day. Depending on the time it takes for you to type out the command, it may or may not be the quickest way.
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