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Is there a way I can get access to the variables that store the amount of time played? I want to take that time and format it in a way that will display the amount of in-game time a player has experienced, such as how many days, months, and years have gone by.

perhaps game.tick? I do not know if there is a formated version available or not

Its not game.tick for what I am looking. After you save a game or when you are about to load one, you can see how much time you've spent in that level. My most recent displays over 27 hours. Is there a way I can get access to that variable, perhaps via "glob" dot something?

EDIT:
You are correct! "game.tick" is actually what I need.

Is my math correct in that 25,000 ticks per in-game day?

EDIT:
Nope... but I'm super close. Its slightly less than 25,000 ticks. Hey, Factorio devs! What is the exact amount of ticks to an in-game day?

25k ticks/day is correct:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=18&t=738

BUT if you are playing on an older pc, like me you will not reach the 60tick/sec, so if you try to convert the total ticks into hours, minutes, seconds the calculation probably messed up because of this...

Shame on me for not doing the research to find the ticks/day. Thank you for linking the resource. Right now I have the days, months, years all tied to the game tick. I noticed it was slightly off after a full 24 in-game hours. Not using an older PC... I assume the game shoots for 60/sec and probably bounces between 58-60, which would account for the slight difference.