Windrose Difficulty Presets
How to change your Windrose server difficulty — Easy, Medium, Hard, and Custom presets explained.
Windrose offers three built-in difficulty presets plus full custom control over individual multipliers. The preset is set per-world in WorldDescription.json.
Presets Overview
Lower enemy health and damage, easier ship combat and boarding actions. Ideal for casual crews or players new to survival games.
- Mob health and damage: reduced
- Ship combat: less aggressive
- Boarding: fewer sailors to defeat
- Boss encounters: easier aggression
Balanced defaults — the standard Windrose experience as intended by the developers. This is what the game is tuned around.
- All multipliers at
1.0 - Combat difficulty:
Normal - Recommended starting point for most crews
Higher enemy health and damage, tougher combat encounters, and more aggressive bosses. For experienced players who want a real challenge.
- Mob health and damage: increased
- Ship combat: more aggressive
- Boss encounters: harder aggression
- Boarding: more sailors required to win
Set any combination of individual multipliers. See World Modifiers for the full parameter reference.
Any custom value in WorldSettings automatically sets the preset to "Custom" on next server start.
How to Change the Preset
Stop your server.
Open File Manager and navigate to:
R5/Saved/SaveProfiles/Default/RocksDB/<game_version>/Worlds/<world_id>/Open WorldDescription.json.
Find the WorldPresetType field and set it to "Easy", "Medium", or "Hard":
"WorldPresetType": "Hard"If you had any custom WorldSettings values, remove them — otherwise the server will override your preset with "Custom".
Save and restart.
Related Guides
- World Modifiers — fine-tune individual multipliers
- Server Configuration — full config reference
- Manage Worlds — create and switch between worlds
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