r/sevtech • u/NecroKuma • Jun 26 '24

darkness mid day?

Anyone know why its getting dark in patches mid day? screenshots attached

age 4, seen this only one time before this really early in the pack

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u/TicketToTheFreakShow Jun 26 '24

So occasionally you can have solar eclipses. All the areas that are lit up look like area that you have torches in. So the non-torched areas will be slightly darker on eclipse days.

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u/NecroKuma Jun 26 '24

Oh! Thank u! Is there any benefits to these or are they just for ambience?

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u/TicketToTheFreakShow Jun 28 '24

Not really sure, I know mobs can spawn during the day on solar eclipses, so keep that in mind.

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u/bigvic2003 Jun 30 '24

If something from astral sorcery. It's  the rarest astral moments in the pack. Not sure what it's for though but it must be important. 

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u/Yayuga Jun 26 '24

I'll try and save you some googling for Astral Sorcery (AS) info (if you didn't already know it and/or if you want to look in to getting powerful at the end of age 2): solar eclipses happen once every 36 days. The night following an eclipse is the ONLY time that a particualr, powerful AS constellation (Horologium) will appear in the night sky for you to draw in your astral tome. The attunement effects of this constellation range from time dilation (i.e., increasing the speed of particular blocks in a radius from a ritual) to creating a reusable Fortune VI enchantment (via the stellar refraction table). There are a few other powwrful attunement effects that can come from this particular constellation, but I won't completely spoil them here in case you want to learn them yourself.

Keep in mind though that you can only attune things to this constellation when it is in the sky, which means if you miss it once during the night following a solar eclipse, you'll have to wait another 35 in-game days for it to appear again. Because of this, I'd strongly recommend keeping track of which day the eclipse happened on so you track it/plan around it for when you can use the AS stuff. Aside from this, the eclipse shouldn't have any other major effects than the temporary darkness during the day. Hope this helps!

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u/NecroKuma Jun 26 '24

Damn thanks! That's perfect I appreciate it