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Tougher Mobs with Better Loot!

Adventurer, do you want more challenge and reward from combat (particularly if you run a server)? Or keep your pets and villagers around for longer?

With greater adversity comes greater reward

This mod makes all NPCs and monsters more resilient. Their health buff is ~30% (or higher for elite enemies, bosses at +100%) to aid a harder but more consistent base game difficulty (excludes✖️mech Space Encounter monsters). Most entities have a slow regen rate.
With greater durability: crowd control becomes more strategic, particularly during missions.

Vanilla bosses, particular bounty targets, and commanders have new/updated attack patterns.


The survivability of your A.I.-driven friends is greatly enhanced! Friendly NPCs and pets heal with a bonus
+ 0.25 x { Armor} +50 base hp to pets. Your pets can now last without having to manually revive them constantly or rare healing collars.
Unarmed Villager health is even higher to prevent them from dying to their carelessness or a bird pecking their toes.

You can have an additional active capture pod!

Paradoxically, the mod that increases the durability of your adversaries also decreases the grind for loot, and can save you time!

• Most enemies drop about +50% pixels.
  
• Vanilla campaign bosses always drop their rare weapon, action figurine and more on defeat. No more having to repeatedly replay that 30-minute mission for a 1-in-10 chance to get that rare trophy.
  
• Ancient vaults have about 70% more ancient essence!

55 Rare variants of unique creatures are 5 X more likely to be encountered in the wild (from 1% to 5% chance)!
Most have abilities laced with elemental power!
This should help you complete the rare pet collection.

Pro TIP: Bounty target pets stronger still.

• Rare weapon blueprint chests will contain the component weapons to (tier 2+).
  
• You are 8-15 times as likely to get a rare space weapon/costume/instrument//horn/object during mech encounters(1.6)
  
• 50% more mech parts drops (1.6)

Overhauled behaviours makes them more aggressive and more challenging (and with Swansong fairer)

Erchius Nightmare
Poison Ixodoom
Dreadwing the Conqueror
Commander Asra Nox (both variants)
Shockhopper MK II
Kluex (may add more attacks)
Stronghold/Big Ape v1.8
Glitch Siege/Bone Dragon
Enraged Ruin
Vault Guardians
The Dantalion & Swansong

More details in discussion board:

This includes NPCs from other mods using their treasure pool (excludes bosses as game categorizes them as monsters).

Including otherwise unobtainable weapons

• Arcana
  
• Beta Bound
  
• Fire, Feast & Smoke
  
• Extended Story
  
• Frackin Universe
  
• Project Knightfall
  
• Pandora's Box
  
• Shellguard
  
• And more

Evil Glitch Overlords, some gang leaders, rare bounty monsters and Miniknog generals can summon backup and have increased regeneration.
The wicked king will always drop the crown.



Bonus Peacekeeper Credits or pixels awarded to surviving players on victory.
+20% bonus Rank!

Bounty Target Powers:

• Wilderness call
  
• Lockdown
  
• Master of monsters
  
• Reinforcements
  
• Summon Assassins
  
• Underboss

These dark and deadly warriors will challenge You with teleportation, elemental weapons, and a wide range of attack and mobility skills!


This mod works on the server side and is fully compatible with Vanilla multiplayer and just about any mod. Engineered to only update the minimum required file components to avoid conflicts. With additional synergies with other mods.

Have fun!

• Does everyone who joins a server need the mod installed?
  No, the mod is server-side. There is only some buffs to pets and peacekeeper rank speed others will miss without it though.
  
• What happens if I join a multiplayer server without the mod installed?
  Then it won't trigger, and you'll be subject to the stats of that server. Your pet may have slightly more health than usual though (we had to implement that patch client side to avoid conflict with other good mods). Boss health will look different.
  
• Are my stats reduced? No, your player's stats remain the same. Your allies gain a regeneration bonus.
  
• When NOT to install? 🚫❌
  If you're not yet confident with combat/equipment or are facing a particularly tanky army/tower defense from another mod etc. Uninstalling this mod at will is safe though.
  
• I found a bug/something I'm not a fan of
  Please head to the forum to tell us more
  
• Is loot from other mod entities affected?
  Yes
  
• I have another question/comment!
  Great! Please use the comments or discussion board to let us know!

(Subject to player interest & juggling time between gamedev & office work).

• Improved loot from bosses + pixels/essence (Implemented in Update 1.1)
  
• Ally health regen and durability increased (1.2.x)
  
• More rare elemental variants of monsters in the wild. (update 1.2)
  
• Better space encounters loot (update 1.3.X)
  
• Overhaul/reworks to all 10 mission bosses (1.4-1.6.X)
  
• NPC and base game monster drops +35% (1.5-1.6.X)
  
• Bounty hunting & commander enhancements (1.8 & 1.9)

Special thanks to multiplayer testers

• Axceptional
  
• Omnimax
  
• MicksMack
  
• Gammaboy45

To everyone who's used or shared this mod. Particularly those who've left constructive feedback for improvement or a rating 👍 to help others find it. Thanks to you, the mod has vastly evolved.

(vanilla multiplayer compatible version of the items are coming):

• Unlimited Pets and Tools to Manage them[community.playstarbound.com]
  
• Translocator Staff/ Teleportation Stave [community.playstarbound.com]
  
• Bounty Hunter-Rapid Rank Rising

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