[B42MP/B41]Surviving Through Seasons

Update 7/29/2026

• Updated with new features for B42 Stable. Should be compatible with all future B42 updates.
• You can now set up to 30 days per month per season (previously capped at 15). Setting it to 0 in a season sets it to vanilla same as before.
• Skipping now uses each month's true length (28-31 days, leap years included) instead of a fixed average, so months stay accurate all year round.
• As before: set a season to 0 for normal-length months, or set all seasons to 0 to disable the mod without unsubscribing.
• Save game compatible, safe to add/remove mid-save (you may need to run your game with -debug mode to update your sandbox variables on an existing save else they will default to 10).

Update 12/11/2025

• Updated for B42 Multiplayer (Should work with future B42 MP Updates)

Mod Summary:

• Experience a multi-year/season playthrough without having to put in hundreds of hours or have incredibly short days to do so.
• Always have something to prepare for eg. cold and scarce winters, hot and dry summers.
• This mod allows the player (or host of a world) to set the max amount of days in a month. Min 1 to Max 30 (set to 0 to disable for that season).
• Based on the value set, the mod will dynamically simulate a shorter in-game month.
• NEW 11/8/2024: You can now change month lengths per season (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter). So you can have shorter spring months, and longer winter months for example. You can also now disable whole seasons or all seasons without having to unsub from the mod.
• Should be compatible with all mods.
• Example: 10-day months create a 2 day skip. At every end of the day, 2 days will be skipped. See time-lapse video and pay attention to clock which simulates roughly 7-day months

Time-lapse of Seasons:

How does this affect water/electric shut-off, farming, erosion, days survived, etc.?

[olist] [*]Time-based sandbox settings (zombie/loot respawns included) will only progress when time progresses normally through gameplay and or sleeping (also sped-up time in singleplayer). [*]Example: Lets say your world starts on 7/9/1993 (MM/DD/YYYY) and you set water/electric to shut-off on day 10. [*]If you set this mod with 10-day months. Your water/electricity will NOT shut-off on 7/19/1993. [*]Instead it will shut-off around 8/13/1993, almost a month later because you've only played 10 in-game days but simulated a month of time passing. [/olist]

More Info and recommendations:

• If playing with 10-day (or less) months, set vanilla hours per day to 2+ so you have more time per day for tasks.
• Generally, players may want to increase farming speeds and yields if playing with 10-day (or less) months.

Compatibility:

• Tested w/ B41/B42, can be added/removed from an existing save. (Likely works w/ B40).
• Multiplayer and dedicated server compatible.
• Shouldn't conflict with any other mods.

Future plans:

• Additional settings to allow specific seasons or quarters of the year to be longer (such as winter).
• If possible, develop settings to automatically scale farming speeds, erosion etc.

Known issues:

• Because day-skips are spread randomly, individual months may land a day or two above or below your target (they average out to your setting over time).

Credits:

Inspired from Initial mod: nigel A faster months mod

Workshop ID: 2753086629 Mod ID: survivingthroughseasons