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Description:

This tutorial allows you to make a fully funtional clock and calendar in RPG maker MV. (Works also in MZ) This system, includes:

1. A fully functional 24 hour clock, with hours and minutes.
2. A fully functional 365 day calendar, with days, months and years, starting at the date of your choice.
3. Day/night cycles.
4. Inside and outside lightning according to day/night
5. Events that only arrive during day or night or even certain hours, like
   • breakfast, dinner, lunch
   • nightly monsters
   • merchants that close late at night
6. Seasonal maps
7. In game holidays
8. Buffs/debuffs for being fed/hungry*, for being hydrated/thirsty* and for being rested/tired*
9. Skipping time by sleeping
10. And much more.

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This tutorial is written inside events and common events in an example project. This means you have to download the project (only 4 Mb) and open it in MV. Now you can check the events and common events to see how I did what.

Everything I did in those events and common events, I explained in comment notes.

Screenshots explain this a lot better than words. The green text in me explaining the system:

Start a test run first to see how things go in practice, or start reading the events right away. Either way, make sure you read common event #2 before you read the other events. I've named that "ClockCore" and is the whole engine that makes the system.

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The entire system is made with purely events. No coding is used. However, the project does have a tiny little plugin delivered with it. It is made (by me) to trigger a common event on map transfers. I use this to trigger the clockcore after every transfer in my own projects. I disabled the plugin for this project, to show how everything can be done with only events.

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You can download the tutorial project for free on my itch page:
https://johndoenews.itch.io/clock-and-calendar-workshop

Or if you own MV on steam you can open it as a workshop in MV:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1819490994

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I will keep improving this project over time, so if you have any suggestions for examples what to do with the time system, feel free to leave a comment.