ZEN's Better Difficulty

Zen's Better Difficulty 1.0.0

Initial release of Better Difficulty.

Added

• Progressive difficulty scaling based on world age
• Smooth and configurable progression that now extends up to 200 in-game days by default
• Separate base difficulty cap and effective difficulty cap
• Hostile mob attribute scaling for health, damage, speed, follow range, and knockback resistance
• Natural mob variants: Fast, Tank, Berserk, and Elite
• Spawn effects for hostile mobs using vanilla effects
• Night difficulty bonus in the Overworld
• Optional structure and dimension difficulty bonuses
• Mob armor progression, including enchanted armor
• Rare late-game Netherite armor for eligible mobs
• Mob weapon progression, including swords, axes, bows, crossbows, tridents, and maces
• Rare late-game Netherite weapons for eligible mobs
• Non-dropping mod-applied gear to prevent farming exploits
• Boss respawn scaling for the Ender Dragon and the Wither
• Admin difficulty commands for checking and overriding world difficulty
• Full English and French localization
• Full common config support for progression, balance, gear, effects, variants, and boss scaling

Commands

• /betterdifficulty current
• /betterdifficulty set days <days>
• /betterdifficulty set scale <scale>
• /betterdifficulty clear

Balance

• Early game stays close to vanilla
• Difficulty ramps more gradually and more cleanly over long-term worlds
• Improved mobs, effects, variants, armor, and weapons are rarer in early progression
• Late game and night encounters become noticeably more dangerous without changing core vanilla survival systems

Boss Scaling

• Ender Dragon and Wither gain bonus health and damage on each new respawn
• Boss scaling is capped and configurable
• Boss progression is saved per world

Notes

• Designed for NeoForge
• Vanilla-friendly design with no hunger, crafting, inventory, or stamina changes
• No custom mobs added in this version