The mods herein focus on making the universe more challenging, while being compatible with just about every mod.

This collection includes bounty commander powers, reworked bosses, increased Enemy Durability, better equipment for bounty targets, more potent weapons, and more. Bounty Quests and NPC combat are also more fast-paced and exciting

Be Warned; this makes the base game Harder but also scales up the rewards. Additionally these mods will still allow You to join Vanilla multiplayer (though the new bounty weapons may need to be saved off world world before joining).

Here's what each of them do:

• Rapid Rank Rising: Reduces the grind in bounty hunting, allowing You to level up to higher peacekeeper station ties sooner and face more challenges earlier.
  
• Tougher Mobs with Better Loot: Commanders NPCs have special powers, bosses have reworked A.I. and the health of all NPCs and monsters are increased. Drop rates of enemies are greatly enhanced and You can carry an extra pet.
  
• Neo + and Peacekeeper's Arsenal, Bounty related NPCs have better weapon and You can purchase new equipment from peacekeeper stores.
  
• More NPC Ships: Adds more space encounters both friendly (such as space merchants) and hostile (such as mech fight encounters)
  
• Optimize Bound: Optimizes vanilla texture compression to make the game run faster with no noticeable loss in visual quality.
  
• Boss Loot Bags: Everyone alive at the end of boss fight is rewarded an Expert Mode treasure bag containing items from the bosses loot pool.
  
• Disabled Drop for survival mode: Stops You having to spend time fetching all Your items when killed in survival mode. So You can move onto other challenges.
  
• Perennial crops: Allows You to harvest crops without having to replant them.
  
• Infinite Inventory: Allows You to store excess items in a separate space summoned by an item.
  
• Shellguard Expansion Remastered: A new campaign mod complete with it's own hub, creatures, vehicles and weapons.
  
• Augment extractor: A craftable object that allows You to extract augments, collars and reels from EPPs, pets and fishing rods.
  
• Supper's Combat Overhaul - But it's only NPC changes. Makes all NPCs faster, smarter and more aggressive in combat.
  
  WARNING with this last mod: with this mod certain special close ranged attacks are not telegraphed (e.g. lunge attacks). This is probably the hardest mod on the list

These mods were selected to:

• Be compatible with just about any mod.
  
• Are multiplayer compatible (though if You're hosting: Shellguard, Peacekeeper's Arsenal and Neo+ will need to be installed on the clients joining if they want to see those parts of the game).
  
• Are Vanilla Multiplayer compatible IF you store away any modded custom items (e.g. Shellguard Remastered) off-world before joining a Vanilla server.
  
• You can safely uninstall these mods without breaking Your universe (just store away custom items offworld somewhere if You want to keep them).