3 min readUpdated Oct 7, 2026

How To Change the Difficulty on Your Night of the Dead Server

Your Night of the Dead server can run any of the game's seven difficulty presets, from Peaceful to Legend, or Custom, where you set the zombie, loot and world values yourself. The default is Normal.

Choosing a Difficulty

  1. 1
    If anyone is playing, save the world in game first.
  2. 2
    Log in to Bropanel and select your server.
  3. 3
    In the sidebar, go to Settings.
  4. 4
    Under Gameplay, set Difficulty to Peaceful, Easy, Normal, Hard, Survival, Challenge, Legend or Custom.
  5. 5
    Click Save & Restart to apply your changes.

Setting Up a Custom Difficulty

With Difficulty set to Custom, your server uses the values in the [GameSettings/Basic], [GameSettings/Advanced] and [GameSettings/Detail] sections of its settings file. The presets ignore these sections.

  1. 1
    If anyone is playing, save the world in game first.
  2. 2
    Log in to Bropanel and Stop your server.
  3. 3
    In the sidebar, go to Files.
  4. 4
    Open LF/Saved/Config/ServerSettings.ini.
  5. 5
    Change the values you want in the sections below and save the file.
  6. 6
    Start your server.

Each line ends with the setting's name in game, for example ZombieDamage=25 // Zombie Damage. Change only the number.

Basic

SettingValues
NormalZombieHealth, SpecialZombieHealth, GiantZombieHealth, BossZombieHealthLight, Heavy, Giant and Unique zombie HP, 0 to 100
ZombieDamage, ZombieMovementSpeedZombie damage and movement speed, 0 to 100
WorldZombieSpawnHow many zombies spawn in the world, 0 to 100
WaveZombieHealthHP of wave zombies, 0 to 100
WaveNormalZombieAmount, WaveSpecialZombieAmount, WaveGiantZombieAmountHow many Light, Heavy and Giant zombies come in each wave, 0 to 100
AnimalHealth, AnimalDamageAnimal HP and attack damage, 0 to 100
WorldNormalZombieRespawnTimeLight zombie respawn time: 30, 60, 120, 180 or 240
WorldSpecialZombieRespawnTime, WorldGiantZombieRespawnTimeHeavy and Giant zombie respawn time: 120, 300, 600, 900 or 1200

Advanced

SettingValues
NoExperienceLoss, NoDeathItemDrop, NoDeathEquipmentItemDropKeep EXP, items and equipment when you die: 0 off, 1 on
ResearchDataConsumptionResearch data consumption, 0 to 100
FishSpeed, FishingGaugeDecreaseFish speed and fish power, 0 to 100
SuperiorOrHigherEquipmentGainMultiplierHigh-grade equipment drop rate, 0 to 100
BuildingHit, TrapDamageBuilding HP and trap attack damage, 0 to 100
ResourcesReturnedAfterBuildingDestroyedMaterials returned when a building is destroyed, 0 to 100
AmountOfExperienceGainedEXP gained: 1 to 5
ResourceAcquisitionItems obtained: 1, 2 or 3
InitialFoodAmountStarting food: 0, 1, 2, 5, 10, 12 or 15
NaturalObjectRespawnTime, SyntheticObjectRespawnTimeNatural and synthetic object respawn time: 240, 360, 480, 600, 720, 840, 960 or 1200
FarmResourceOutputFarm production amount: 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75 or 2
MachineResourceOutput, AnimalTrapTime, ElectricGeneration, ElectricOvercurrentLimitMachine production amount, animal trap time, power generated and power limit: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 or 2.5
FarmResourceProductionTime, MachineResourceProductionTime, ElectricConsumption, ElectricStandbyPowerFarm and machine production time, power consumption and standby power: 0.5, 1 or 1.5

Detail

SettingValues
OneDayTimeLength of a day: 60, 120, 180, 240, 300, 360 or 420
UnlockAllBuildingUnlock all buildings: 0 off, 1 on
HardcoreHardcore: 0 off, 1 on