Infested - Something Lives Here (Beta)

Something lives here

No Man's Sky already ships a horror game inside it. Almost nobody sees it.

Biological horrors that spawn brood while they fight you, spit, pounce, and nest inside

abandoned freighters - all of it is in the game already, and all of it is locked behind a roll

you can miss for a hundred hours.

This mod does not invent monsters. It takes the horror you already paid for and puts it in

front of you.

The abandoned freighter finally bites back

It was always the best horror location in the game - dark corridors, flesh on the walls, that

sound - and nothing ever happened in it.

Now the nests wake to your torch and to your gunfire, and breaking one calls horrors down on

you. In a corridor. With nowhere to run.

Four gameplay files. Pick ONE.

They edit the same game files - installing two means one silently overrides the other,

and nothing tells you which won. To switch, delete the old folder first.

INFESTED - the full thing, the ceiling of the range.

Twenty times the horror eggs and the sand worm nests. Predators in packs of 5-7 that see you from

80 m and never flee. Twenty-four horrors on you at once, spawning brood mid-fight, pouncing from

three times the reach, spitting constantly. Freighter nests that wake to your torch. No warning

markers on your HUD at all. Almost every planet rolls hostile.

INFESTED - HARD - everything above it except the last four switches.

Twenty times the eggs and worms, packs of 3-5, they never flee, twelve horrors engaged and all

twelve hitting, 3-5 hits per flurry, pounce at 2. 4x, spit with no wind-up, and no horror markers

on the HUD. No brood, no freighter nests, and predators still get a marker. Almost every

planet rolls hostile.

INFESTED - NORMAL - the middle, and the one to start with.

Five times the eggs and worms, three times the ground fauna, packs of 1-2, eight horrors on you

at once, pounce at 2. 0x, half the stalking time. Roughly one planet in four rolls hostile

instead of one in eleven. HUD markers stay, freighter nests stay asleep, nothing spawns brood.

INFESTED - EASY - the same world, without the teeth.

Twice the eggs, twice the worm nests, twice the ground fauna, predators in twos instead of alone,

and they notice you a little sooner. That is the whole list: the horrors behave exactly as

vanilla, your HUD markers stay, and the freighter nests stay asleep.

Easy does NOT change which planets are hostile, and that is deliberate. That is not a

dial for how many dangerous creatures spawn - it decides whether an entire planet is a predator

world. The first release of my predator mod pushed it, and people loaded a save to find the

planet they were standing on had turned against them. Easy leaves it alone. The world you are

already in stays the world you left. Normal moves it to about one planet in four; Hard and

Infested take it to nearly all of them, because that is what you asked for by picking them.

Vanilla    Easy  Normal    Hard  Infested

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Horror eggs / worm nests        x1      x2      x5      x20        x20

Ground fauna per km2            x1      x2      x3      x20        x20

Hostile-planet chance            9%      9%      27%      99%        99%

Predator pack size              1/1    1/2      1/2      3/5        5/7

They spot you at                40m    45m      50m      60m        80m

They give up the chase at      80m    80m    100m    120m      150m

Max creatures loaded            40      45      50      60        70

Horror spots you at            60m    60m      65m      70m      120m

Flees at % health              40%    40%      25%      0%        0%

Horrors hitting you at once      2      2        8      12        24

Hits per flurry                2-4    2-4      2-4      3-5        4-8

Pounce reach                  x1. 7    x1. 7    x2. 0    x2. 4      x3. 0

Vertical a pounce clears      0. 3m    0. 3m    0. 5m    0. 7m      1. 0m

Spits with no wind-up            no      no      no      yes        yes

Stalking before it charges      4s      4s      2s    0. 5s      none

Spawns brood mid-fight          no      no      no      no    yes, 5s

HUD warning markers            yes    yes      yes  no horror    none

Freighter nests wake up          no      no      no      no        yes

Either file CONTAINS "More Aggressive Predators". Install one of these or that one, never