How To Change Difficulty On Your Sons Of The Forest Server

By default, a Game Host Bros Sons of the forest server includes multiple difficulty presets integrated into our game panel to quickly configure the difficulty of your server.

This guide will cover using existing gamemode presets along with how to use custom difficulty settings.

Changing SotF Gamemode Presets

Note

You must create a new world to change difficulty settings. You can do so by changing Save Slot in Startup Parameters.

1. Access the Game Host Bros Panel and Stop your server.
2. Go to Configuration > Startup Parameters.
3. Set Gamemode to your desired difficulty.
4. Change Save Slot to generate a new world.
5. Start your server.

The available difficulty presets to choose from are the following:

• normal, hard, hardsurvival, peaceful, custom

Custom SoTF Server Difficulty Configuration

Note

You must create a new world to change difficulty settings. You can do so by changing Save Slot in Startup Parameters.

Here’s how to set custom difficulty settings in Sons of the forest, this is allows you to adjust individual settings to completely customize the gameplay of your server.

1. Access the Game Host Bros Panel and Stop your server.
2. Go to Configuration > Startup Parameters.
3. Set Gamemode to custom.
4. Change Save Slot to generate a new world.
5. Go to Management > File Manager.
6. Navigate to /serverconfig/dedicatedserver.cfg.
7. Edit the settings you want under CustomGameModeSettings and click save.
8. Start your server.

Here’s a list of all of the gameplay settings found in dedicatedserver.cfg and their respective values.

Setting	Description and Values
GameSettings.Gameplay.TreeRegrowth	Toggles if trees will regrow - true, false
Structure.Damage	Toggles if structures can be damaged - true, false
GameSetting.Vail.EnemySpawn	Toggles if enemies should spawn - true, false
GameSetting.Vail.EnemyHealth	Adjusts the starting health of enemies - low, normal, high
GameSetting.Vail.EnemyDamage	Adjusts how much damage enemies do - low, normal, high
GameSetting.Vail.EnemyArmour	Adjusts enemies armor strength - low, normal, high
GameSetting.Vail.EnemyAggression	Adjusts enemy aggression level - low, normal, high
GameSetting.Vail.AnimalSpawnRate	Adjusts animal spawn rate - low, normal, high
GameSetting.Environment.StartingSeason	Sets your starting season - spring, summer, autumn, winter
GameSetting.Environment.SeasonLength	Adjusts each seasonal duration - short, default, long, realistic
GameSetting.Environment.DayLength	Adjusts day length - short, default, long, realistic
GameSetting.Environment.PrecipitationFrequency	Adjust the frequency of rain and snow - low, default, high
GameSetting.Survival.ConsumableEffects	Enables damage taken when low hydration and low fullness - normal, hard
GameSetting.Survival.PlayerStatsDamage	Enable damage from rotten, or bad food and drink - off, normal, hard
GameSetting.Survival.ColdPenalties	Adjusts the severity of penalties when chilled - off, normal, hard
GameSetting.Survival.ReducedFoodInContainers	Reduces the amount of food found in containers - true, false
GameSetting.Survival.SingleUseContainers	Toggles if containers can only be opened once - true, false