A custom game mode in Sons of the Forest allows server owners to pick and choose various game settings available to them. This can be a great way to spruce up the gameplay experience that Sons of the Forest provides.
There are settings such as damage multipliers, day/night length, animal spawn rate, and much more.
Important
When changing game modes, you must start a new save otherwise the changes will not apply.
# Enabling Custom Settings
You can select the custom game mode in your Sons of the Forest Server Settings section, found in your control panel.
- Access your control panel and Stop your server.
- Navigate to the Config tab and click on Dedicated Server Settings.
- Set Save Slot to a new save number, that you have not used before.
- Set Game Mode to Custom.
- Save your changes.
# Configuring Custom Settings
You can set custom game mode settings in the dedicatedserver.cfg file, found in your servers files.
- Navigate to your Server Files.
- Locate and Open the dedicatedserver.cfg file.
- Within the CustomGameModeSettings parameter, enter each of the game mode settings that you would like applied to your server with a new line. A full list of settings can be found in the table below.
