Changing Difficulty Presets on Your Enshrouded Server

Learn how to change between Default, Relaxed, Hard, Survival, and Custom difficulty presets on your Enshrouded dedicated server.

Enshrouded comes with five difficulty presets that you can use to quickly adjust how challenging the game is. You can change these directly from the XGamingServer game panel.

Changing the Difficulty Preset

Open the Startup Settings

Select Your Difficulty

Find the Difficulty setting and change it to the desired difficulty preset.

Start Your Server

Start your server to apply the changes.

Available Difficulty Presets

Default - The standard difficulty setting with all values at default. This is the recommended setting for first-time players.
Relaxed - Reduces the number of enemies and provides players with more resources and loot. This mode is ideal for players interested in base building and lighthearted adventuring.
Hard - Increases the number of enemies and makes them more aggressive for a tougher combat experience.
Survival - For players who seek additional survival mechanics on top of more aggressive enemies.
Custom - When selected, a long list of individual settings can be tweaked. This setting is required if you manually adjust your enshrouded_server.json file.

💡 Tip: If you want to tweak individual game settings, you will need to set Difficulty to Custom and edit the enshrouded_server.json file. See our Custom Difficulty Settings guide for details.