DifficultyAndBalance

Difficulty & Balance

Overhaul rebalances the game's game modes, aiming to turn them into actual "skill levels" with no content gating, as well as equalize resourceplay-affecting values such as enemy health, getting rid of bullet sponges in the process. The new skill levels also have new idiosyncratic names and improved descriptions.

Names & Descriptions

• Journey

  The Creative / Accessibility mode (For those who want to be in control)

• I'm Too Young To Mine (Normal)

  Less damage from enemies, but same rewards (For the easy-going)

• Turn Me Undead (Expert)

  The new standard experience (For those who like a fair challenge)

• I Am Cthulhu Incarnate (Master)

  Extreme punishment and new rewards (For the truly ruthless)

Current Changes

Many values are equalized around Expert, while damage to player is slightly increased on Normal & Master.

Vanilla Name Overhaul Name	Normal I'm Too Young To Mine	Expert Turn Me Undead	Master I Am Cthulhu Incarnate
Damage to Player	1.00 ➤ 1.25	2.00	3.00 ➤ 3.25
Enemy Health	1.00 ➤ 2.00	2.00	3.00 ➤ 2.00
Enemy Defense	1.00	1.00	1.00
Enemy Knockback*	1.00	0.90 ➤ 1.00	0.80 ➤ 1.00
Money Drops	1.00 ➤ 1.75	2.50 ➤ 1.75	2.50 ➤ 1.75
Debuff Length	1.00	2.00 ➤ 1.00	2.50 ➤ 1.00
* - Knockback done to Enemies.

Planned Changes

This area of the mod is currently a work-in-progress. Planned changes are:

• Further balancing.
• Remove gameplay-affecting skill gating by "backporting" the vanilla Expert/Master-exclusive changes to Normal, that is: the boss AI, loot, and the new enemies such as the Armed Zombies.
• Improve the world creation screen to communicate Overhaul's difficulty changes to the player.

History

• 5.0: Introduced.