One thing I don't think is mentioned in any guide, placing a bed inside a native hut or house gives the option to sleep till morning or evening. This allows passing large amounts of time without risking attacks from native patrols.
From my experiments, time spent sleeping inside is taken into account for increasing loyalty of captured NPCs inside cages. Also some production facilities like chicken coop and apiary produce resources for time spent sleeping.
But crops don't grow during the time spent sleeping and traps (both small animal and fish traps) don't catch anything during sleep.
	
		
			
		
		
	
								From my experiments, time spent sleeping inside is taken into account for increasing loyalty of captured NPCs inside cages. Also some production facilities like chicken coop and apiary produce resources for time spent sleeping.
But crops don't grow during the time spent sleeping and traps (both small animal and fish traps) don't catch anything during sleep.