# Difficulty System

### Difficulty explained

Our goal with the Silverlight modpack is to continuously engage the player. This is done by keeping monsters strong, but adjusting them to your point of progression within the pack. The mod Scaling Health is used for it's mechanics, but the difficulty is regulated through the Silverlight Addon mod.

As you play through Silverlight, you may see a difficulty bar pop up on your screen, showing two bars - one small, one big. The small bar is your player difficulty, whereas the big bar (+ text) are the difficulty of the area which you are currently in.

### Player difficulty

By default, Scaling Health would increase the player difficulty over time spent playing. Silverlight has adjusted this by using the Silverlight Addon mod, which utilizes progression gates to increase player difficulty. These gates are tracked per player, and trigger after the player has defeated a boss, found certain items, or performed other actions that progress the game. The player is notified when one of these gates is reached.

The player difficulty level is then combined with the area difficulty level (distance from spawn). Based on the outcome, the health and damage of monsters spawning around this player are then calculated and applied. 

### Growing stronger

There are several ways for you to grow stronger in this world. 

You can craft various weapons, armours, and defences. With these items made, you will be able to do more damage and endure more pain.

You'll also find obelisks spawning around the world - these were sent down by your goddess Moon, but can only be activated at night. Some more clues to their activation can be found on prophecy stones which accompany them. Activating them will grant you additional damage on your attacks.

You can gain hearts by consuming various unique foods. Some are good, some are bad, others downright toxic. Silverlight counts over 700 unique foods, with a total of 20 hearts to be obtained spread out over this number. You can craft the food book to see your progression towards your next heart, or have a look below:

**Heart per foods eaten**\
5, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 170, 200, 210, 230, 250, 270, 290, 300, 310, 330, 350, 365, 370, 380, 395, 400, 410, 415, 420, 440, 450, 470, 480, 490, 500, 525, 550, 575, 585, 625, 650, 690

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