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Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time)
"Make the Martian day as long as your to-do list."
How do I install Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time)?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time) for Occupy Mars: The Game in one click.
</>What does Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time) do?
The Martian day runs out fast when you have a whole colony to build. Longer Sols hands you the clock: stretch each day so you have room to breathe, or freeze time completely and work in permanent daylight with no night, no rush, and no scramble to get inside before dark. Slide the day length to whatever feels right for your playstyle. Time is finally on your side, red planet and all.
</>What is Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time)?
The Martian day runs out fast when you have a whole colony to build. Longer Sols hands you the clock in Occupy Mars: The Game — stretch each sol with a slider, or freeze time entirely for permanent daylight and no night-time scramble. Free from ProjectMods, the community-first PC mod manager and desktop app for 400+ games.
</>Common questions about Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time)
What does Longer Sols do in Occupy Mars: The Game?
Longer Sols gives you control over how fast a Martian day passes in Occupy Mars: The Game. Slide the day length to stretch each sol so you get room to breathe, or freeze the clock completely and work in permanent daylight with no night, no rush and no scramble to get inside before dark. The default sol is short once you have a colony to run, and a genuinely ambitious build session can eat two or three of them. Longer Sols makes the day fit your to-do list instead of the other way round.
What is the difference between stretching the day and freezing time?
Stretching keeps Occupy Mars: The Game honest, freezing stops the clock dead. With a stretched sol you still get sunrise, sunset and a proper night, they just take longer to arrive, so the day-night rhythm survives and you simply get more done inside it. Freezing time holds the cycle exactly where it is, so whatever lighting you had is the lighting you keep until you switch it off. Stretching is the choice for players who still want Mars to feel like Mars. Freezing is what you want for a pure build session where the sun going down is nothing but an interruption, and Longer Sols lets you swap between the two whenever your plans change.
How long can I make a Martian sol?
You can set one full sol anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours of real time. Occupy Mars: The Game runs a 15-minute day by default, so the top of the slider gives you a sol eight times longer than vanilla — long enough that a serious build session fits inside a single stretch of daylight. Night still comes, it just stops interrupting you every quarter of an hour. Nudge it up a little if you only want a bit more daylight for outdoor work, or push it to the top if you're mid-mega-build, and change it again whenever your plans change. If you want night gone completely, that's what Freeze Time is for.
If I freeze time, do I get permanent daylight or permanent night?
You get whatever is in the sky when you freeze it, so freeze it in the daytime. This is the one quirk worth knowing about Longer Sols in Occupy Mars: The Game: the mod holds the day-night cycle in place rather than forcing the sun to a particular position, so flipping the switch at midnight gives you an extremely long, extremely dark night. Wait until the light is where you want it and freeze then. Done at midday it gives you the endless daylight most people are after; done at dusk it gives you a permanent golden hour, which is excellent for screenshots.
Why would I use Longer Sols?
Because time is the constraint nobody tells you about in Occupy Mars: The Game. You can have all the ore and all the blueprints in the world and still lose the afternoon to darkness halfway through wiring a solar array. Longer Sols removes that pressure so the build finishes on your schedule. It suits base-planners, screenshot hunters chasing a specific sky, and anyone playing in shorter sessions who doesn't want to spend half of one waiting for sunrise. It pairs well with Free Build and Power Walker for a colonist who never loses the light.
What options does Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time) include?
Day Length Minutes
How many real minutes one full Martian day lasts. Higher means longer days.
Freeze Time
Stops the clock so it stays the current time of day. Turn off to let time flow again.
Longer Sols is an Occupy Mars: The Game mod from ProjectMods that lets you stretch the length of a Martian day with a slider, or freeze the clock completely and work in permanent daylight.
System Requirements
What features does Longer Sols (Day Length & Freeze Time) include?
- Stretch a Martian sol with a slider, from a normal day to one long enough to actually finish something.
- Freeze the clock entirely and work in permanent daylight. No sunset, no dash to get inside before dark.
- Freeze it at midday for endless noon, or at dusk to park the whole colony in permanent golden hour.
- Fit the cave run, the haul back and the repairs into one day instead of splitting them across two.
- Nudge the slider mid-save whenever the pace feels off. Nothing else about your colony changes.
Best For
- Builders who keep losing half a sol to the sunset and want daylight to last as long as the project does.
- Players juggling a long outdoor job — wiring, hauling, panel-laying — who want the sun up for the whole thing.
- Screenshot hunters who want the light held exactly where it looks best across the colony.
- Colonists who like the day and night cycle but need more daylight hours than Mars is offering.
Free Build (Zero-Cost Construction)
Build and craft without spending your materials, so you can design the colony you actually want.
Unbreakable Kit (No Wear & Tear)
Your tools stop wearing out, so you can dig, cut and repair all day without watching the durability bar.
Endless Air (Bottomless Suit O2)
Your suit oxygen stops draining, so you can roam Mars for as long as you like without racing back to refill.
