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How to make one player sleep skip the night in Minecraft

Run /gamerule players_sleeping_percentage 1 and one sleeping player is enough to skip the night. Use 50 to need half the players.

players_sleeping_percentage

Sets the percentage of players who must sleep to skip the night.

/gamerule players_sleeping_percentage <value>

Examples

/gamerule players_sleeping_percentage 1

One sleeping player skips the night.

/gamerule players_sleeping_percentage 50

Half the players need to sleep.

Arguments

valueOptional
Whole number to set. Leave it out to show the current value.

What it does

With the default of 100, every player in the Overworld has to be in bed. Most multiplayer servers lower it so a single player or a few can skip the night: set it to 0 or 1 and one sleeper is enough. Values above 100 stop sleeping from skipping the night at all.

Run it on your server

On a SLASHPLAY server, type it in the Console tab without the leading slash; in game, operators type it in chat with the slash. New to this? Start a Minecraft server first.

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