Moon

For how this works in unmodified Minecraft, see Moon on the Minecraft Wiki.

The moon in Matcha Flavoured moves independently of the sun, as the real moon does. Each day it falls a little further behind the sun, so its position in the sky matches its phase: a full moon rises at sunset opposite the sun, and a new moon travels next to the sun. The lunar cycle lasts 8 of the pack's days, as in vanilla, but because the pack's days are three times longer, a full cycle takes 8 hours of real time.

Mechanics

In vanilla, the moon angle is part of the day timeline and the moon is always opposite the sun. The pack removes it from the day timeline and drives it from the moon timeline instead.

• The moon timeline repeats every 576,000 ticks (8 days of 72,000 ticks).
• The moon's angle rises steadily from 90° to 2,610° over the cycle, 315° per day, while the sun turns a full 360° per day. The moon therefore falls 45° further behind the sun every day and comes back into line after 8 days.
• At the start of the cycle the moon is at 90° and the sun at 270°, directly opposite: the full moon.

Phases

Each phase is centered on the day when the moon's position fits it, and changes halfway through the day.

The eight phases, drawn with the pack's moon textures at the middle of each phase, over the chance of slimes on the surface for each day; the shaded bands are nights.

Phase	Starts at tick	Day of the cycle
Full moon	540,000	7.5 (centered on day 0)
Waning gibbous	36,000	0.5
First quarter	108,000	1.5
Waning crescent	180,000	2.5
New moon	252,000	3.5
Waxing crescent	324,000	4.5
Third quarter	396,000	5.5
Waxing gibbous	468,000	6.5

The phase names are those used in the timeline file. Compared to vanilla's order, the pack uses the "first quarter" and "third quarter" names the other way around. The resource pack also replaces the moon phase textures.

Slimes

The chance of slimes spawning in swamps uses vanilla's values, stretched over the longer cycle: 50%, falling by 12.5% each day to 0%, and rising again. In vanilla the chance changes together with the phase, but the pack moved only the phases: the chance still changes at the start of each day, halfway through a phase. Each night therefore gets the chance that vanilla gives the phase before it. The night of the full moon has 37.5%, and the 50% night is the first under the waning gibbous; the night of the new moon has 12.5%, and the 0% night falls under the waxing crescent.

Trivia

• In the design video, the developer lists it among the small visual changes: "I made the moon work correctly. I mean, how cool is that?"

See also

• Day and night