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Skimt's Gas Difficulty Mod

Version: 0.9
Author: Skimt
Date: Jun 16 2021

This mod makes the player consume over 5 times more O2, and makes generators take almost 15 times longer to produce O2 from Ice. This results in the player consuming one O2 tank in 1 day instead of 18 days, and one generator spending 30 minutes filling up one O2 tank instead of 30 seconds. O2 suit capacity, O2 bottle capacity, and O2 farm production are scaled with the player's consumption so that the rest should feel like vanilla Space Engineers.

What this means, is that when you start the game for the first time, you need to prioritize finding ice, but once you've collected enough ice, you can play a relaxing game like you're used to. You will eventually, after several hours of gameplay need to find more ice, but by then it won't be a race against the clock. The mod is not intended to stress you out, nor make you feel like O2 management is a chore, but to incentivize you to get ice first, and maybe create air locks that does not waste O2, and to create a couple of O2 farms to reduce the amount of O2 you consume.

If you already know how to play the game, then it shouldn't be much of a challenge.

The below table shows the original values compared to the values used in the mod.


The mod does not contain any SBC files, so it should in theory work with other mods.