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Change Difficulty
"Move a Playrooms save to Cozy, Normal or Hardcore without starting over."
How do I install Change Difficulty?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Change Difficulty for Playrooms in one click.
</>What does Change Difficulty do?
Playrooms asks for a difficulty only when you start a save, and after that it stays fixed. Change Difficulty lets you pick Cozy, Normal or Hardcore in a list and press Change Difficulty while your save is loaded. The game switches modes on the spot. Moving to Cozy sends the night entity away at once and the other scares follow the game's Cozy rules. Moving to Hardcore means getting caught ends the run and deletes the save, as in a save started on Hardcore. Moving away from Hardcore means getting caught sends you back to the morning again. Leaving Cozy is the one change that waits a little: the night entity is set up again and starts hunting at nightfall. Hardcore asks for a second press within ten seconds before it takes, because a catch on Hardcore deletes the save. A save that has already finished the last ball pit can't move to Hardcore. A save that moves to Hardcore any time before that, even one ball short of the end, earns the Hardcore achievement when it finishes on Hardcore.
</>What is Change Difficulty?
Change Difficulty is a Playrooms mod that changes the mode of a save you already have, so you keep your rooms, money and upgrades. Choose Cozy, Normal or Hardcore, press the button while the save is loaded, and the game uses the new mode from that moment. The mod stores the mode in the same place in the save the game uses when a save starts, so the main menu and Continue show the new one. Cozy has no night entity; Normal sends you back to the morning when you get caught; Hardcore deletes the save when you get caught.
</>Common questions about Change Difficulty
Will I lose my rooms, money or upgrades?
No. The button changes the save's mode and nothing else. Your unlocked rooms, your money, the upgrades you bought, your collectibles and the day you are on all stay exactly as they were, and you carry on cleaning from where you stood when you pressed it. You need the save loaded first; on the main menu the button asks you to load in.
When does the new difficulty take effect?
Most of it at once. Moving to Cozy sends the night entity away the moment you press the button, and what happens when you get caught follows the new mode straight away. Leaving Cozy is the one change that waits: the night entity is built again in the background and starts hunting when the next night falls, not in the middle of the current night.
Does the change stay if I quit before the day ends?
Yes. The game normally writes your save at each new morning, but the mode is written to the save file the moment you press the button. Quit to the menu or close the game right after, and the save still shows the new difficulty when you continue it, with the rest of your progress from its last morning.
What happens if I get caught on Hardcore?
The same as in any save started on Hardcore: the run ends and the game deletes the save, with no going back to the morning. Move the save back to Normal before a risk you don't want to pay for.
Does moving to Hardcore unlock the Hardcore achievement?
It can. The game awards it when a save finishes the last ball pit while on Hardcore, and it doesn't know when the save became Hardcore, so a save moved there late, even one ball short of the end, earns it. The one case the button refuses is a save that has already finished the last ball pit. The game also records on Steam which mode you play in, so a moved save counts as played in its new mode.
What options does Change Difficulty include?
Change Difficulty
Switches the loaded save to the chosen difficulty right away and writes it to the save file. Hardcore needs a second press within 10 seconds. Leaving Cozy brings the night entity back from the next night. A save that has finished the last ball pit can't move to Hardcore.
Difficulty
The difficulty Change Difficulty gives the loaded save: Cozy (no night entity), Normal, or Hardcore (getting caught deletes the save). Picking one changes nothing until you press the button.
Change Difficulty switches the Playrooms save you have loaded to Cozy, Normal or Hardcore and writes the new mode to that save.
System Requirements
What features does Change Difficulty include?
- Difficulty list with the game's three modes: Cozy, Normal and Hardcore.
- One button switches the loaded save to the chosen mode.
- No night entity hunting you on Cozy, from the moment you switch.
- Moving off Hardcore stops getting caught from deleting the save.
- Hardcore takes a second press within ten seconds, so it never happens by accident.
Best For
- Turn a Normal save into Cozy to clean the rooms without being hunted.
- Take a Cozy save up to Normal once you know the rooms.
- Move a Hardcore save to Normal so getting caught no longer deletes it.
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