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How to change the difficulty on your The Forest Server.

To change the difficulty on you’re “The Forrest” server, you simply have to find your servers config files. There are 4 different difficulties available for your server;

  • Peaceful: this will remove all cannibals and mutants from the world
  • Normal: this is the standard difficulty and is recommended
  • Hard: this changes the spawn rate on animals/fish, lower health regen ect. It also increases the spawn rate on mutants that deal more damage.
  • Hard Survival: Which increases the difficulty of hard mode further.

How to change

  1. Access your control panel and stop the server.
  2. Navigate to Files > Find the Configuration file.
  3. Open the file using our in-panel text editor and locate “DifficultySettings”
  4. Adjust the settings accordingly.
  5. Save the changes you made using the save button at the bottom of the page
  6. Start your server or, restart your server depending on if you stopped it first.

The changes you made to your difficulty settings should now take effect.


If you require any further assistance, please create a ticket here.


Created By: Cooper A.