Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25565811-20170120101550/@comment-25101089-20170120151906

MrHobit1234 wrote: Wait, are solar eclisps possible? Solar eclipses are impossible in Minecraft because the sun and moon are always perfectly opposite each other.

To have a solar eclipse you need the moon to pass between the sun and the earth, so the moon's shadow is cast upon the earth, but that can't happen when they are always in opposite sides of the sky.

To have solar eclipses I would need to rewrite the code to add a separate path for the moon that would have to be quite complex, and have something that would be able to test when this moon path intersects the sun path, and I'm not even sure how it would work.