Harder Nights

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Every night hunts you. Blood Moons invade.

Nights in Hytale are pretty relaxed: a few monsters wander around and you can mostly ignore them. Harder Nights changes that. After dark, monsters come looking for you, so a safe home finally matters. Every now and then the moon turns red and a full invasion hits until sunrise. Survive it and you get a reward chest worth fighting for.

🌙 Every night is dangerous

• More monsters after dark. Monsters build up after sunset, and the night gets more dangerous as it goes on.
• They come looking for you. Monsters no longer just wander around. Groups of them hunt you down and attack, from the ground and from the sky.
• Building a shelter finally matters. Until now there was little reason to build a house in Hytale. With Harder Nights, a well-lit home is where you survive the night. Light keeps monsters away, and dark corners invite them in.
• A fresh start every morning. When the sun rises, the monsters retreat and the day is yours again.

🩸 Blood Moons

Some nights the moon rises red. The Moon Bleeds.

• A real invasion. Wave after wave of monsters swarms you until sunrise, and the toughest creatures of each area come out to fight.
• Stronger monsters. Everything hits harder and takes more to bring down.
• Nowhere to hide. Monsters already around you close in, and you can't sleep through it.
• Its own atmosphere: a red moon, a warning banner with an omen, and its own eerie music for the night.
• Rare but inevitable. Blood Moons don't come every night, but the longer it's been, the closer the next one is. A brand-new world gets a few calm nights first.
• See it coming. The settings window and /hardernights status show how likely the next Blood Moon is.

🏆 Blood Moon rewards

Every monster you kill during a Blood Moon earns points, and tougher monsters are worth more. Reach higher tiers for better rewards:

• Loot from your other mods too. Weapons, armor, food and treasures from the mods you have installed can end up in your chest.
• A chest at dawn. When the Blood Moon ends, a reward chest appears next to you with everything you earned.
• Multiplayer. The whole team shares one bar, everyone who fought gets their own chest, and the best player is crowned Moonslayer.
• Not there at dawn? Your chest waits for you and appears the next time you join.

⚙️ Easy to set up

Type /hardernights settings for an in-game settings window:

• Night difficulty: one click for Easy, Normal, Hard or Nightmare.
• Sliders for:
  • night monsters
  • Blood Moon chance
  • Blood Moon monsters, health and damage
• Reward difficulty: Easy, Normal or Hard targets for the reward tiers.
• Switches:
  • Harder Nights on/off
  • Blood Moons on/off
  • sleeping during Blood Moons
• Blood Moon controls: start or stop one right away (great for testing or a planned event night).

Everything else, for server owners who want to fine-tune, is in config.json in the world's mods/NoeKing_HarderNights folder.

💬 Commands

🧩 Compatibility

• Made for Hytale 0.6.8. An update for Chapter 1 will follow when it releases.
• Works with creature mods. Monsters added by other mods join the night too, and the mod works out on its own which creatures are hostile.
• Works in single player and on multiplayer servers.
• Your companions are safe. Pets, mounts and summoned allies are never treated as monsters. If a taming mod's pets are ever mistaken for monsters, add a line like Wolf_Black = normal to overrides.txt in the world's mods/NoeKing_HarderNights folder.

🐞 Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment. For bugs:

1. Run /hardernights debug.
2. Play until it happens.
3. Attach the log from the world's mods/NoeKing_HarderNights/diagnostics folder.