Set time doesn't reset day count
Few things sting more in survival Minecraft than carefully tracking your progress, only to type /time set day and watch your world's day counter snap back to zero. Whether you are timing crop growth, planning mob spawns, or simply keeping a personal record of how long you have survived, that sudden reset throws everything off. The Set time doesn't reset day count add-on exists for exactly one reason: to make time commands behave the way they always should have.
What This Add-On Actually Does
In standard Minecraft, changing the time of day with a command wipes your day count back to day 0. This mod rewrites that behaviour. When you set the time, it snaps to the nearest meaningful point in the day cycle, such as day, noon, night, or midnight, and it only ever moves time forward. Your day count stays intact no matter how often you adjust the clock.
There is one important nuance worth understanding. If you type a raw tick value like /time set 20, the game still jumps to tick 20 and your world resets to day 0. The protection applies to the natural time-of-day presets, not to arbitrary tick values. Keep that in mind and you will never be caught off guard.
Why Players Install It
- Preserves your day count for accurate survival milestones and bragging rights.
- Removes the frustration of accidental resets during building or testing.
- Keeps redstone and mob-spawning schedules predictable on long-running worlds.
- Works quietly in the background with no configuration screens or menus.
If you have ever lost a hundred-day streak to a single careless command, this mod is a small quality-of-life upgrade that pays for itself immediately. Many players also appreciate how naturally it fits into the vanilla feel of the game, since it changes nothing except the reset behaviour.
Supported Minecraft Versions and Loaders
Fabric and NeoForge
The mod is built for Fabric and targets Minecraft 1.21.x era releases. If you prefer NeoForge, the developer recommends running the Fabric build alongside Sinytra Connector rather than waiting for a native port. Note that this is default vanilla behaviour starting with 26.1, so the mod will not be updated beyond 26.1. That makes it a perfect fit for older modpacks and long-term worlds that are staying on their current version.
Because the add-on is lightweight and touches very little of the game's core logic, it plays nicely with most other mods. You can drop it into a large modpack without worrying about conflicts, and the developer explicitly allows use in any modpack hosted on this platform.
How to Install Set time doesn't reset day count for Minecraft
Getting started takes only a couple of minutes. Follow these steps:
- Confirm you are running a Fabric-compatible Minecraft version and have Fabric Loader installed.
- Place the mod file into your mods folder inside your Minecraft directory.
- Launch the game once so the loader registers the mod, then check the mod list to verify it loaded.
- Join a world and test with /time set day to confirm your day counter stays put.
For NeoForge users, install Sinytra Connector first, then add the Fabric version of the mod in the same way. If anything misbehaves, the developer asks that you open an issue on GitHub or send a direct message on Discord to @macuguita.
If you would rather skip manual file juggling, the foxygame.net launcher offers a one-click install path that drops Set time doesn't reset day count straight into a ready-to-play profile, so you never have to hunt down the correct folder by hand. Its built-in add-on catalog also keeps your installed mods updated automatically, which means version compatibility headaches become a thing of the past.
A Small Fix With a Big Payoff
When you download Set time doesn't reset day count, you are not adding flashy new content or overhauling the game. You are fixing a single, nagging annoyance that has quietly bothered players for years. Your day counter becomes a reliable record again, your survival milestones mean something, and time commands stop feeling like a gamble.
For builders, redstone engineers, and long-term survival players alike, this mod is the kind of quiet utility that you install once and forget about, until the moment it saves your streak. Give it a try on your current world, and let your days keep counting the way they were always meant to.