THRIVE - A Balance Overhaul

This is a fan made modification made with unofficial tools. Use this at your own risk, and back up all save files and mods before using.

This is a complete balance overhaul of survival difficulty and the world around survival difficulty. It will refresh the game's difficulty for experienced players without completely changing the game or overdoing it.

It first increases the effort required to SURVIVE, which is the beginning of the game. This targets leaving the vault, establishing basic food and water sources, and early combat, and only impacts people who play on survival mode. This is a challenging time, but short lived. Many of these changes are related to crafting, settlements, and item placement.

Then it increases the effort required to THRIVE, which is the mid and late game. This targets large settlements and world scaling issues and is the main focus of the mod, and impacts all difficulties. You will no longer be a God of the commonwealth a few hours after leaving the vault, you will have to slowly build up to it. Many of these changes are related to XP gain, leveling, perks, items, NPC's, and more.

Scroll through the images to get a quick look at the mod, or go to the bottom of this page for a more detailed list of changes. See the change log tab to see what's new in the updates.

The main 3 goals of THRIVE are as follows:

1: Increase the difficulty of the game at it's core - beyond simple damage adjustments.

2: Increase the time it takes to thrive - you must play the game far longer before becoming God-like.

3: Stay faithful to the game's design - this mod does not change things just for the sake of change.

(There are already overhauls that change the game completely, this does not try to be any of those)

Requires all DLC and a new save game.

Recommended to check compatibility with other mods in FO4edit.

Do not clean in FO4edit.

Essential Mods

The following mods are recommended to be used with THRIVE.

Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch

Fallout 4 Balance Patch

(Load the Balance Patch before THRIVE in your load order)

Sprint Stutter Fix

CryoFreez Fix

Cryo Explosives Fix