{"id":56686,"date":"2026-06-03T06:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/difficulty-lock\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:10:45","slug":"difficulty-lock","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/difficulty-lock\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficulty Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/description\/header\/header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/curseforge.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/modrinth.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/patreon.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wsrv.nl\/?url=https:\/\/workflow.serilum.com\/badges\/svg\/youtube.svg&#038;w=400\" width=\"200\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Requires the library mod&nbsp;Collective.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This mod is part of <span style=\"color:#666\">Serilum&#8217;s Customization Bundle<\/span> mod.<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Difficulty Lock adds an easy way to configure the difficulty in all (new) worlds. Can be useful for modpacks, or just in your singleplayer experience if you have a default difficulty you always play with. There are config options to force the Hardcore gamemode, disable cheats, or prevent Creative mode from being selected.<\/p>\n<p>The Create World Screen is correctly updated with the config settings. Also works on (dedicated) servers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:20px\">Configurable:<\/span> <span style=\"color:#008000;font-size:14px\">(&nbsp;how do I configure?&nbsp;)<\/span><br \/><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>The priority shows how the mod handles when multiple gamemodes are set to true in the config. E.g. if all are enabled all new worlds will be peaceful.<\/em><\/span><strong><br \/>forceHardcoreMode<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Sets the world game mode to hardcode mode and ignores the other difficulty settings when enabled.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>disableCreativeModeSelection<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Whether Creative Mode should not be possible to select in the world creation screen.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>forcePeaceful<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Priority 1: Sets the difficulty in any world to peaceful when enabled.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>forceEasy<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Priority 2: Sets the difficulty in any world to easy when enabled.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>forceNormal<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Priority 3: Sets the difficulty in any world to normal when enabled.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>forceHard<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = true): Priority 4: Sets the difficulty in any world to hard when enabled.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>forceCheatsDisabled<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): Whether the cheats option should be forced to be disabled on the initial world creation screen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>shouldLockDifficulty<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = true): When enabled, locks the difficulty in any world so it cannot be changed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>shouldChangeDifficultyWhenAlreadyLocked<\/strong>&nbsp;(default = false): When enabled, also sets the difficulty in worlds where it has already been locked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">With the default configuration, all worlds will be set to hard with the difficulty locked:<\/span><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/projects\/difficulty-lock\/a.png\" width=\"1142\" height=\"597\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">The Create World Screen is also updated.<br \/>Here the config options <strong><em>forceHard<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>forceCheatsDisabled<\/em><\/strong> are <strong><em>true<\/em><\/strong>:<\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/projects\/difficulty-lock\/b.png\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">The mod also allows users to be forced to play in Hardcore Mode, via the config:<\/span><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.serilum.com\/projects\/difficulty-lock\/c.png\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the Modrinth ecosystem.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Comments are disabled as I&#8217;m unable to keep track of all the separate pages on each mod.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><br \/>For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the&nbsp;Github repo. 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