Survivalism Mode - A brutal, carefully-balanced modded twist on vanilla survival

Looking for something to put your survival skills to the test, rather than just your building talents or boss memorizations? Maybe you've finished exploring all of the added content? Maybe you're playing alone and want to push your own limits, or else you want to see who's the best survivalist of a group? If any of this sounds familiar, here's the game mode for you!

To begin, you'll need to configure (Host) a new world with the following settings (tl;dr: most settings set to Less):

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1. Forest:
   1. Flowers, Evil Flowers: Less
   2. Grass: Less
   3. Saplings: Less
   4. Tumbleweeds: Less
   5. Flint: Less
   6. Boulders: Less
   7. Mini Glaciers: Less
   8. Berry Bushes: Less
   9. Carrots: None
   10. Mushrooms: Less
   11. Cacti: Less
   12. Rabbits: Less
   13. Moles: None (exploitable)
   14. Butterflies: None (exploitable)
   15. Birds: Less
   16. Gobblers: Less
   17. Pigs: Less
   18. Volt Goats: Less
   19. Beefalos: Less
   20. Hunt Surprises: More
   21. Pengulls: Less
   22. Ponds: Less
   23. Bees: Less
   24. Tallbirds: Less
   25. Spiders: Less
   26. Tentacles: More
   27. Lureplants: Less
   28. Bearger: More
   29. Deerclops: More
   30. Dragonfly: More
2. Caves (all the above, in addition to these):
   1. Touch Stones: Less
   2. Failed Survivors: Less
   3. Trees (All): Less

Mods required (and their configs):

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1. No Ice As Filler - No more (nearly) free winter meatballs.
2. Recipe Rebalancer (or else if you prefer, Recipe Balancer Overhaul) - Tweaks crockpot recipe values, in particular nerfs meatballs. Fishsticks and Pierogis have reduced healing, also.
3. Survivalism - Assorted difficulty tweaks. You'll need to modify the config to enable these two settings:
   1. Fatigue: true - When certain stats are below 20% speed will become sluggish.
   2. Wet Rolls: true - Straw and fur rolls can't be used when water-logged/wet.
4. Working Body Heat - Despite the name, you'll want to modify its behavior with this tweak (hunger only; the default):
   1. Heat/hit: Negligible - No longer gives heat for doing work.
5. Disable World Regrowth - Similar to RoG/SW/Ham, world growths are not automatically renewable, and some sense is needed to not totally expend local resources.

Optional (flavor) mods; use at your discretion:

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1. Scaling Boss Difficulty - Adjusts bosses, either to be harder or else less annoyingly tedious to kill (your preference).
   1. Recommended: Reduce each value by 1 or 2 button clicks, unless you're playing this with lots of people who know what they're doing.
2. Show Me (Origin) - Displays stats on monsters, foods, tools, etc. Recommend these settings tweaks (feel free to add your own):
   1. Food Style: Short
   2. Show Food Units: Yes
3. Better blood-over - Shows a bloody overlay if you're low on health.
4. Smarter Crock Pot - Takes all the magic and wonder out of blinding throwing away ingredients guessing at recipes without a wiki, an open spreadsheet, or else a million hours to expend at trial and error.
5. Wormhole Icons [Fixed] - Labels matched wormhole sets by color. There may be other (better) mods for this function, but I haven't researched them fully.

Brutal Mode

Does this still seem too soft? The following settings tweak will force you to plunge into the deep dark earth to fight cave spiders for your silk. No cheap and easy spider nest grinding to your heart's content. Note: Webber may negate this; recommend avoiding him, or else just his spider nests.

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Forest and Caves:

1. Spiders: None

If you have any mod or settings suggestions, please post them.