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CAT - Hard Mode Difficulty Mod v1.7

Bringing together a collection of mods intended to be played along with the Hard Mode Difficulty Mod for an easy user set up.

Now compatible with Plant and Cook and other mods that require getting organics from stone.

[Brutal mode (core)]
[Hard mode (core)]

[Brutal mode (modpack)] soon

This is a mod for people that like a lot more survival challenge.
It introduces bottle necks in hydrogen production and other resources making them a lot more valuable than previously. You might call this a difficulty overhaul.
My aim is to make it easier for people to play in a way, where taking damage to their ships could lead to escalating problems that need to be solved. Winning a fight with damage, may now lead to your end.

Be warned that not all starts are possible to survive. If you can’t get ice for oxygen in your spawn location within a reasonable time frame (1 minute walk) you will have to restart.
Keep in mind, ice is needed for filling O2 bottles, oxygen farms and tanks are intended for filling airtight spaces.

Don’t forget to take a look at the difficulty rating in the spawn/respawn menu.

All feedback welcome.
We can’t improve content if we don’t know what’s wrong with it.
Positive or negative, your feedback matters.

Note: Resources are intentionally limited rather drastically in some locations.

• Big changes to oxygen balance increasing the value of oxygen and oxygen generation.
  
• Rebalance to increase the value of hydrogen and put a bottle neck in the production system.
  
• Added variation in stone (Refined Stone)
  
• Altered yields of some ores and stone types.
  
• Custom ore maps including asteroids TOOM
  
• Reduced surface ore rock count
  
• Nerfed player jetpack.
  
• Tweaked overall power demand a little.
  
• Increased the need for more exploration and gave reason for space travel.
  
• More damage from not breathing.
  
• Tweaked meteors to give different options.
  
• Weather has been tweaked slightly to be a little more draining.
  
• Rebalanced lightning (annoying is not difficult). Small grid builds now viable in normal weather (Hard Mode).
  
• Everyone now has the mass equal to that of a small lioness, do with this information as you will.
  
• Station prices tweaked.
  
• Added new weather.
  
• Added less common ‘deadly weathers’. These can hurt your small grids so protect them.
  
• Reduced mob drops
  
• Some components may cost a little more to make now.
  
• Interior turret got a tiny damage boost as the weapons 1 updated nerfed it just a hair too far for my liking. No other weapons changes have been made.
  
• Changes to planets all over.
  
• Changed progression tree to make decoys available without having to build turrets, cos lightning.
  
• Custom respawn ships/pods/rovers.
  
• Probably other stuff I forgot to note down \o.o/_,
  
  
• ::Please click here for DETAILS in more depth::

This mod is intended to be played on, Custom game: Star System. although other modes probably work as the mod is very flexable.

"Advanced" settings. Mostly optional, these settings just make sense.



All permissions were given for rebalancing/patching.
Mods dependencies, I attempted to contact most creators, however this proved difficult in practice. Please let me know in the unlikely event that there is a problem.

Thank you to the keen discord for their continued help with my endless mod problems.

An extra shout out to Chipstix213, Digi and Kreeg who were especially helpful in the discord many times over.

And a thank you to all the other mod creators who were happy for me to patch and or rebalance there mods to better fit with the difficulty level, providing a better experience for all.

For the mods or ‘parts of mods’ included in this mod pack that are from other creators, directly or as dependencies, please respect the copyrights and usage rights of the other mod authors and ask their permissions separately from mine. I do not own any content created by someone else including integrated balance patches, which are there for user convenience.

Any mod files, content, scripts or media I have created, are © copyright 2021 E. C. Plant. in order to protect their fair usage. I reserve the right to ask for any related content to be removed at my discretion. Please see the copyright statement on the Hard Mode (core) mod for details.