Balanced Survival Needs

# BALANCED SURVIVAL NEEDS

## DESCRIPTION

Balanced Survival Needs improves the overall survival experience in ICARUS by reducing the frequency of basic survival needs while fully preserving the game's original balance.

Instead of removing survival mechanics or making the game easier, this mod carefully adjusts hunger, thirst, oxygen consumption, and stamina usage to reduce unnecessary micromanagement during exploration, building, mining, combat, and long expeditions.

The objective is simple: spend more time enjoying ICARUS and less time constantly stopping to eat, drink, or recover stamina.

Every change has been carefully balanced to remain immersive and faithful to the vanilla survival experience.

✓ 25% Less Hunger Consumption

✓ 25% Less Thirst Consumption

✓ 25% Less Oxygen Consumption

✓ 50% Less Stamina Usage

✓ 15% Faster Stamina Recovery

✓ Vanilla Experience Preserved

✓ Multiplayer Friendly

✓ Lightweight & Optimized

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## MAIN FEATURES

• Reduces Hunger Consumption by 25%

• Reduces Thirst Consumption by 25%

• Reduces Oxygen Consumption by 25%

• Reduces Stamina Usage by 50%

• Increases Stamina Recovery Speed by 15%

• Preserves the original survival progression

• No changes to player attributes

• No changes to talents

• No gameplay rebalance

• Multiplayer compatible

• Lightweight implementation

• No additional dependencies

## EXACT MODIFIED VALUES

For players who want to see exactly how the survival values are adjusted compared to the vanilla game:

### PLAYER SURVIVAL

• Hunger Consumption: 600 → 450 (-25%)

• Thirst Consumption: 900 → 675 (-25%)

• Oxygen Consumption: 480 → 360 (-25%)

• Stamina Usage: 8 → 4 (-50%)

• Stamina Recovery: 2400 → 2760 (+15%)

These values represent the direct changes made by Balanced Survival Needs compared to the original ICARUS values.

All unrelated character attributes, talents, progression systems, combat values, and other gameplay mechanics remain unchanged.

## INSTALLATION

1. Download the mod.

2. Extract the included .pak file.

3. Copy the file to:

...\Icarus\Content\Paks\mods

4. Launch ICARUS.

If the mods folder does not exist, simply create it manually.

## MULTIPLAYER

For the best multiplayer experience, all players should use the same version of this mod.

## COMPATIBILITY

This mod only modifies the character survival needs system.

It may conflict with other mods th