What I see:
I can play the game for many hours at a time without ever seeing a rainstorm, or snow or thunder. I was under the impression that these ought to occur every 2-4 hours of gameplay, on average.
What I expected to see:
The frequency at which it rains should be approximately the same whether you sleep regularly in beds (as I do) or not.
Comments/Explanation/Speculation:
Sleeping in a bed, which I do regularly, appears to reset the weather counter. This is fine by me /when it's raining at the time/, because it's a handy way to turn unwanted weather off in survival mode, but I don't think it should reset the counter if it's /not/ raining at the time, because then you can play for days on end without ever seeing it rain.
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Cannot reproduce on SMP.
Regularly sleeping, rain occurs "quite often", somtimes lasting several days, even if sleeping in bed.
I play SSP, no mods, and what Kumasasa sees is definitely /not/ what I see. Sleeping reliably causes the rain fade-out animation to play, though it does take several seconds for the rain to stop completely.
I do see rain sometimes, but it is rare, and usually only occurs when I've been underground for a considerable time without sleeping. To try to quantify, I'd estimate I can easily go 12 hours of gameplay without once seeing it rain, maybe 24? It's hard to be more accurate because that's quite a few sessions of play over several days between each rain shower. I can often play an entire weekly test release without once encountering rain before I replace it with the next weekly. A long mining session underground (and hence, if my speculation is correct no resets of the weather counter) is about the only thing that breaks the drought.
i canot confirm, thoug i am a daily player (jobless...) and play for hours. nearly every day (normal day in rl, not ingame) i have rain AND thunderstorms, though i nearly everytime go to bed to stop the rain. using win7 x86, java 1.6.0_24, mc 1.4.5
rainTime: 40125
thunderTime: 141018
raining: 0
thundering: 0
-> Next rain in 1,67 minecraft days = 33 minutes earth time
-> Next thunderstorm in 5,87 minecraft days = 117 min earth time
(I don't know why Tails wanted the level.dat...)
I was going to report this as a bug myself in 1.17 as it never rains for 100 days straight until I saw that this was resolved as works as intended. In other worlds it rains at a normal amount, but very rarely in a specific world. I know it's been a decade but I'm just pointing out I get this problem in one of my worlds.
@unknown and anyone experiencing this problem in 1.17 or later versions, please see this issue: MC-63340. This is most likely your problem.
Do you have any mods installed?