There are four available difficulties for your The Forest server:
- Peaceful - which will remove all cannibals and mutants from the surface world.
- Normal - which is the standard and recommended game mode.
- Hard - which makes a range of changes that include more mutants that deal more damage, lower spawn rates for animals/fish, lower health regen and a range of other stat changes that make the world even more unforgiving.
- Hard Survival - which was added in v0.69 increasing the difficulty of hard mode further.
A complete list of the difficulties and the differences between then can be found on The Forest's Wiki here.
Important: When changing difficulty, you are required to use a new save slot.
Changing your Server's Difficulty
Your server's difficulty can be set using The Forest Server Settings on your server's control panel.
- Access your control panel and Stop your server.
- Navigate to Files > Config Files.
- Click The Forest Server Settings.
- Select a difficulty using the Difficulty field's dropdown menu.
- Change the Save Slot dropdown to a slot that you have not used before, as a new world needs to be created when changing difficulty.
- Click Save and Start your server.
If you would like any additional information or have more questions about configuring your The Forest server, you can find our other articles here.
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