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Difficulty+

If you want to use this mod with Frackin' Universe, then also get Alternate Armor Scale. The reason for this is explained on the page for Alternate Armor Scale. Failure to do so may or may not result in weird issues later on.

This mod is not for everyone.
I thought starbound was too easy so I wanted to increase the difficulty the laziest (and most compatible) way I possibly could. This DOES NOT change the difficulty levels themselves.
This patches the leveling system in Starbound, increasing everything's damage (including the players) and everything's health (excluding the player). The idea was to basically bring the player down to the NPC's level in terms of health. The upper limit for damage has also been increased, from the vanilla one thousand to a shiny new one million.

The goals of Difficulty+ are straight forward: to be compatible with just about everything, to make difficulty more consistent across the game (not counting missions), and especially make the game reasonably harder.
Compatability: Difficulty+ is compatible with custom weapons, armor, and creatures (these are the things that it changes) as it modifies the leveling system, which hold the tier based multipliers for everything in the game.
Consistency*: Difficulty+ will (should, maybe) make the game more consistent in difficulty. That Tier IV planet should be just as hard as that Tier III planet was IF you have the right equipment. Everything should give and take proportionally the same damage.
Difficulty: The primairy goal of Difficulty+, Starbound should become reasonably harder. Reasonably as in you won't be instantly killed by something as soon as you walk through a door (unless you are somewhere, fighting something, you shouldn't yet). Grab your stims, craft your armor, and make yourself the biggest, nastiest, thing the galaxy has ever seen and you'll be just fine.

*The consistency assumes values from Alternate Armor Scale, but there won't be any serious (or even minor) issues if you don't grab that addon.

With the overhaul update, the idea of using linear equations have been thrown out the window and now more complex formulas (and more difficult to explain, but see the patch notes if you are curious, they are explained a little on the fourth change note) are used in their place to modify the ingame tables.
Below is a table that shows the values used in the mod, with some explanation. Values are relative to vanilla (so if you have a value of 1.23, this means 1.23 times more than vanilla).


MonHP = health multiplier for monsters
MonDam = damage multiplier for monster
NPC HP = health multiplier for npcs
(N)PC Dam = damage multiplier for players and npcs (includes the bast multiplier from the weapon and the multiplier for the tier of standard armor (therfore does not include manipulator module made armor))