How to change the Unturned server difficulty

Unturned Server Difficulty

By default, Unturned servers use the "normal" difficulty. You can change this in the server settings. This guide will show you how to do that in a few simple steps.

Updating the server difficulty

  1. Start your server
  2. Pause your server
  3. Open your server's files
  4. Edit the gameserver/Servers/MyServer/Server/Commands.dat file
  5. Add or update one of the following lines:
    • mode Easy to play on easy difficulty
    • mode Normal to play on normal difficulty
    • mode Hard to play on hard difficulty
  6. Save the file
  7. Restart your server

Example config file

Here is an example of what your Commands.dat file could look like if set the difficulty to hard:

mode Hard