On the new game creation screen in 7 Days to Die, you can choose things like day length, XP multiplier, and block durability from a handful of preset steps, but the available options are surprisingly coarse. This D6 – Extended Game Options v2.0 (author: Deadlee6 / category: XML Edits) appears to be a MOD that greatly refines those choices all at once.
What Kind of MOD Is It?
It’s an XML-editing MOD that expands the “available choices” for the various settings values at the start of a game. Rather than adding new systems or items, it’s the type that increases the granularity of vanilla’s setting sliders and dropdowns, so the fundamentals of appearance and behavior don’t change—it’s a modification aimed purely at widening your “freedom to fine-tune.”
Key Features
According to the description, the following settings gain substantially more options.
- Day Length (DayLightLength): from 0 to 23 hours, in 1-hour increments
- Day/Night Length (DayNightLength): from 5 to 240 minutes, in many steps
- XP Multiplier (XPMultiplier): from 10% up to an extreme 10000%
- Block Durability (Player / AI / Blood Moon): 10% to 10000% each
- Loot Abundance (LootAbundance): 10% to 10000%
- Daily quest progress cap, loot respawn days, party shared kill range, and more are also subdivided
Since you can even specify extreme values that normally aren’t selectable (e.g., daylight all day long, 100x XP), it looks like it can accommodate a wide range of play, from novelty runs to punishing challenge playthroughs.
Installation Tips
Being an XML Edits MOD, installation appears to be relatively simple. The general procedure is that it should be recognized just by placing the downloaded folder directly under 7 Days To DieMods. The author notes that when using Vortex, you should be careful not to end up with a doubled Mods folder (ModsMods). Given the nature of a MOD that expands setting values, it’s likely to take effect when creating a new world, so it’s safer to use it when starting fresh rather than on an existing save. If you’re using it on a server, whether participants also need to install it may vary depending on the version and configuration, so we recommend checking in advance.
Who Is It For?
- People who find vanilla’s setting steps insufficient and want to fine-tune day/night and difficulty with pinpoint precision
- People who want to progress quickly in short sessions with high XP multipliers, or conversely those who want to enjoy a hard challenge with low loot
- Hosts who want to avoid major behavioral changes while building the foundation for a server’s own custom rules
Since this is a MOD that “adds notches to suit your own way of playing” rather than piling on new features, it seems especially well suited to people who like to meticulously fine-tune their settings.
※This introduction is a draft based on the description posted on Nexus. The actual options and timing of when they take effect may differ by version, so please check the latest description before installing.
For details and the latest compatibility status, please check the original Nexus page.