Enhanced Sleep BZ(Bepinex)
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 2.2% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #42 of 146 Gameplay Effects and Changes mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
BEWARE HARDCORE PLAYERS
AT 100% tiredness you start taking Damage which you can config in the mod options. To Stop the Damage just go to sleep.
a new limits text files to show you limits of the sliders
➤ unlocked narrow bed at start (if there are no cc2 mods recipe is edited to be harder)
➤ Healing - Heal yourself by just jumping into bed.
➤ Decreasing stats - It really doesn't make sense that you don't lose
food or water whilest sleeping. You now will lose food and water
depending on how long you were sleeping and by a radically reduced rate.
➲ No worries, you will not die during sleep. You simply can't go to bed
if you don't have enough food and water to survive the night.
➤ More features coming soon..
➤ Added A Enhanced Sleep Option in the mod options
➤ added A config that you can edit
➤ Added the Ability to change the Amount of tiredness Coffee takes
➲ Drink any water to decrease your Tiredness
➤ Added two new config values "minusfromwidth" ,"minusfromheight" to set when you want the sleep bar depending on your resolution.
➤ Readded the ability to wake up whenever you want also you can now set the keybinding in the mod options.
Upcoming Features:
➤ Tiredness - Sleeping is still not appealing to you? How about a reason for you to quickly build a bed.
➲ You get 12 days to build a bed. After that you will begin to get tired.
➲ 100% Tiredness will be reached in 3 days.
➲ When reaching 80% Tiredness you will start to notice some deficiency symptoms..
➲ Reaching 100% Tiredness will quickly decrease you health.
➲ Tiredness will be reduced depending on how long you sleep: The longer you sleep, the more Tiredness you lose.
➲ A bar for you to check when you really should go to bed.
➲ Maybe some options to adjust all of this stuff.
➲ PDA-Notifications to warn you.
➲ UI is now a bar like oxygen and looks better
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What's in a Soul ? Lament for death
Enhanced Sleep BZ (Bepinex) makes sleeping more realistic and useful in Subnautica: Below Zero, adding essential value and a new challenge. With 143 endorsements and updated December 2025, this mod targets survival players seeking deeper mechanics. Exact changes are sparse, but it promises to overhaul sleep from a trivial action into a meaningful gameplay decision.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- 143 endorsements show the community digs it.
- Freshly updated in December 2025, so it's current.
- Adds depth to a previously shallow mechanic in Below Zero.
⚠️ Cons
- The description cuts off abruptly, so exact changes are unknown until you try it.
- Requires Bepinex framework (as noted in mod name), adding setup steps.
Subnautica: Below Zero survivalists who want sleep to matter beyond a bed skip. Players who enjoy extra challenge and don't mind tinkering with Bepinex. Skip if you prefer vanilla sleep mechanics or want a quick cosmetic fix.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Install Bepinex first, then drop the mod DLL into BepInEx/plugins.
- Check the mod's page or forum for detailed setup instructions, as the description here is incomplete.
- Since sleep now has consequences, time your sleeps carefully before long expeditions.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Subnauticabelowzero Mods
- Author
- Castordog
- Version
- 1.0.9b
- Downloads
- 6,462
- Endorsements
- 143
- Category
- Gameplay Effects and Changes
- Created
- 5/8/2020
- Updated
- 12/21/2025
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