This guide will show you How to Configure Day and Night Cycles on Your Conan Exiles Server
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Day and night cycles play an important role in shaping the survival experience in Conan Exiles. The transition between daylight and darkness affects the atmosphere of the Exiled Lands, influences visibility during exploration, and can change how players approach activities such as gathering resources, building settlements, hunting, and defending themselves against hostile creatures. As a server owner, having control over these time cycles allows you to customize the overall pace of your world and create a gameplay environment that better suits your community. Conan Exiles provides several time-related configuration options that allow server administrators to adjust the duration and progression of different periods throughout the in-game day. By modifying these settings, you can determine how quickly time passes, how long daylight lasts, and how much time players spend navigating the world at night. For example, you might prefer longer daylight hours to give players more opportunities to explore and gather resources, or extended nighttime periods to create a more challenging survival experience. Understanding how these settings interact is essential when creating a balanced day and night schedule. For instance, you can keep the overall cycle at its default speed while making nighttime pass faster than daytime. Alternatively, you can slow down the entire cycle to give players more time to complete activities before darkness falls. You can also adjust the dawn and dusk transition periods independently to create smoother or quicker transitions between daylight and nighttime. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to configure and manage the day and night cycle settings on your Conan Exiles server. We'll explain the purpose of each available configuration option, how different multipliers affect the in-game clock, and how to customize these values to achieve your preferred schedule. Whether you're running a casual PvE server, a competitive PvP environment, or a private server for friends, these adjustments will help you create a more enjoyable and personalized survival experience. Before making any changes, we recommend stopping your server and creating a backup of your ServerSettings.ini file. This ensures that you have a copy of your original configuration and can restore your previous settings if necessary.
Configuring Day and Night Cycles
1. Log in to your Game Control Panel.
2. Before making any modifications, stop the server from running by clicking the Stop button.
3. Navigate to Configuration Files.
4. Under Configuration Files, locate the ServerSettings.ini file, then select the Text Editor to open the file.
5. Within the file, locate the Day and Night Settings, then adjust their respective values according to your preferred server configuration.
(Note: If the parameter is not present in the configuration file, you can add it manually below its other settings.)
| Setting | Description | Examples |
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| DayCycleSpeedScale | This multiplies the entire 24hr day cycle speed. Individual parts of the day can be tweaked in the settings below. Note, this multiplier is applied in addition to any settings changes below. |
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| DayTimeSpeedScale | Daytime hours in Conan Exiles are between 7:00 and 16:59 in-game time. Changing this multiplier will multiply the time spent between these hours of the day. |
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| NightTimeSpeedScale | Nighttime hours in Conan Exiles are between 19:00 and 4:59 in-game time. Changing this multiplier will multiply the time spent between these hours of the night. |
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| DawnDuskSpeedScale | Dawn in Conan Exiles is between 5:00 and 6:59. Dusk is between 17:00 and 18:59. Changing this multiplier will multiply the time spent in the period of both dawn and dusk. |
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| UseClientCatchUpTime | Enables or disables the use of Catch up time mechanics on the server. |
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| ClientCatchUpTime | In order to create a smooth starting experience for new players, Conan Exiles has the ability to force a client PC to start at a certain time of day, regardless of the server time. If this setting is applied, new characters will start at the specified time, and then play at that time of day until the server "catches up" to them. We recommend not setting this to the darkest hours of the night, unless you are a sadistic person. | 12.00 will have the player playing at noon until the server rolls back around to noon the next day. |
6. After editing, click the Save button to apply the changes.
