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City17 · **on:** February 26, 2022, 06:44:07 PM

pauses the current execution thread, sleeps for timeout of real-time seconds and resumes execution where this function was called. You may only use this inside trigger actions!

The timeout timer has a granularity of 10Hz, this means you can only sleep in 100ms intervals at best (1000ms/10 = 100ms). Timeout of 0 also sleeps for 100ms. Timeouts -120 < x < 0 are the same as 0. Timeouts <=-120 abort further execution.

Quote from: WorldEdit help text

The duration of this wait is specified in real-time seconds.

Therefore the game speed does not affect this timeout. Reforged (v1.32.10): Pausing the game also pauses the ticking of the timeout.

The behavior is similar to coroutines in Lua, this principle is called cooperative multitasking where you hand off control of the execution thread and it is returned to you at a later time.

See: PolledWait for sleeps in game-time seconds.

Example (Lua):

Code: Lua

local secretWord = "please"
DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(0), 0, 0, "Current time is: ".. os.date())
TriggerSleepAction(10) -- sleeps for 10 seconds
DisplayTextToPlayer(Player(0), 0, 0, "After sleep the time is: ".. os.date() .." and the secret word is: ".. secretWord)

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[functions] TriggerSleepAction

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