Hard Mode Easy Damage

HardModeEasyDamage

A tiny Paper plugin for one specific job:

• keep the server on Hard difficulty
• reduce hostile mob damage against players
• keep the rest of Hard-mode mechanics intact

This is meant for servers that want Hard-mode behavior without full Hard-mode combat damage.

Download

• Latest release: GitHub Releases
• Direct download for v0.1.0: paper-hard-mode-easy-damage-0.1.0.jar

What it does

When a hostile mob, or a projectile fired by one, damages a player, the plugin applies a configurable multiplier to the final damage.

Because the server itself still stays on Hard, other Hard-only behavior remains in place, including things like:

• villagers converting instead of always dying
• zombies breaking doors
• other Hard survival mechanics still behaving normally

Default config

damage-multiplier: 0.5
only-when-hard: true
ignored-entity-types: []

Config options

• damage-multiplier
  • multiplies hostile mob damage dealt to players
  • 0.5 means players take half damage
• only-when-hard
  • if true, the plugin only applies its changes when the world difficulty is hard
• ignored-entity-types
  • list of Bukkit entity type names to ignore completely

Install

1. Download the latest jar from Releases
2. Put the jar in your server's plugins/ folder
3. Start or restart the server
4. Keep your Minecraft difficulty set to hard

Commands

• /hardmodeeasydamage reload
• /hmed reload

Build from source

mvn clean package

Built jar:

target/paper-hard-mode-easy-damage-0.1.0.jar

Compatibility

• Paper 1.21.4
• Java 21

Why this exists

Minecraft's built-in difficulty settings tie a lot of useful survival mechanics to mob damage. This plugin splits those concerns apart in a very simple way: leave the world on Hard, but tone down mob damage against players.