How to Change World Difficulty on a Core Keeper Server

Looking for a greater challenge or perhaps want to tone down the intensity of enemy encounters? This step-by-step guide will walk you through the different game modes available in Core Keeper and how to change the difficulty settings on your Core Keeper server.

Changing the Difficulty

Note: We recommend to fully stop your Core Keeper server before making any configuration or setting changes.

Using Nodecraft Pro Panel

1. Open the Nodecraft Pro Panel for your Core Keeper game server.

2. Navigate to the Game Settings tab and then the World tab.

3. Select the Game Mode or Difficulty that you wish to choose from the selection box.

4. After selecting the difficulty, click the Save Changes button.

Your new settings will apply the next time your Core Keeper server is started.

Manually Editing the Config File

1. Open the Nodecraft Pro Panel for your Core Keeper game server.

2. Navigate to the Server Files tab.

3. Locate the server config file at the following directory: /DedicatedServer/ServerConfig.json

4. Find the line labeled "worldMode" and change its value to one of the following:

   • Casual: 4

   • Standard: 0

   • Hard: 1

   • Creative: 2

{
    "gameId": "AMJsmndf893nASj32n5a",
    "world": 0,
    "worldName": "Core Keeper Server",
    "worldSeed": "0",
    "maxNumberPlayers": 10,
    "maxNumberPacketsSentPerFrame": 1,
    "networkSendRate": 20,
    "worldMode": 1,
    "seasonOverride": -1
}

Understanding Core Keeper Game Modes and Difficulty Levels

Casual Mode

For a relaxed and enjoyable experience with gentler enemies.

Casual mode is one of 4 available game modes. It reduces the health and damage of all enemies. Thus, making it a good mode for newer players or those less focused on combat.

Changes

• Enemy health and damage is reduced by 50%.

Standard Mode

The default Core Keeper experience with balanced challenges and enemies.

Standard mode is the default game mode. It is the default Core Keeper experience!

Hard Mode

For players seeking tougher enemies and greater rewards.

Hard mode is another one of the available game modes. It significantly increases the health and damage of all enemies. Hard mode also increases the amount of loot dropped by bosses, making it a good game mode for larger playthroughs.

Changes

• Enemy and boss health is increased by 50%, and damage is increased by 100%.

• The number of times boss loot is rolled is increased by 50%.

Creative Mode

Creative mode is a unique game mode. It grants players unlimited access to most items in Core Keeper, enabling them to build whatever they wish. It also overrides world generation, instead removing the Core and leaving a large patch of Dirt Block ground at the center of the world.

Worlds set to Creative mode can only be accessed by characters specifically created for it.

Creative game mode includes several tools for the player to use. All are accessible from their inventory. These include:

Creative UI

The creative UI allows the player to obtain almost every object in the game in item form. This includes creatures and objects normally unobtainable, such as Obsidian Blocks.

God Mode

When enabled, the player gains several unique abilities.

• The player becomes immune to all damage, including from enemies.

• The player gains the ability to travel through walls and over pits without obstruction.

• All objects and enemies can be destroyed in a single hit and do not drop items.

• Objects are placed much faster than normal and are not consumed on use.

Pause World

This option essentially disables a world's logic; it stops all creatures from moving and performing any actions and prevents liquids from spreading.
This option can only be toggled by admins.