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99 Nights in the Forest - How to Start Hard Mode

To start Hard Mode in 99 Nights in the Forest (Roblox), all players must activate the levers in the basement of the research station. Read on to learn how to start hard mode in 99 Nights in the Forest, its differences from the normal difficulty, and what to do during it!

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How to Start Hard Mode

Activate the Levers in the Research Station

99 Nights in the Forest - Activate Lever

To activate Hard Mode, players must find the research station located in the forest. Head down to the basement and flip the lever labelled with your username. In lobbies with multiple players, each player will have to flip their assigned lever.

Upgrade Your Campfire to Level 2

Upgrade your fire as fast as possible to expand the map. Players can chop down trees to collect logs, collect coal and fuel cannisters, and defeat cultists to use their corpses as fuel for your fire.

Activate Before Day 3

99 Nights in the Forest - Activate Before Day 3

There is a short window at the start of the game to activate Hard Mode. Players must activate the levers on Day 2, for the cutscene on Day 3 to occur, activating Hard Mode. After Day 2, there is no way to activate Hard Mode.

Differences in Hard Mode

The Forest Gets Corrupted

List of Corruption Effects
CheckmarkThe Deer Grows Hungry
CheckmarkPassive Healing is Disabled
CheckmarkCultists Attack More
CheckmarkFood Begins to Rot

Upon activating Hard Mode, corruption will start spreading throughout the forest at a steady rate. As corruption increases, players will be afflicted with certain debuffs.

The Deer Grows Hungry

99 Nights in the Forest - Hungry Deer

Activating Hard Mode causes the deer to grow hungry. This increases its aggro and makes it deal more damage, causing players to have less freedom to explore at night.

Passive Healing is Disabled

At 25% corruption, passive healing becomes disabled, requiring players to look for medkits and approach points of interest more carefully. Looking for armor and ranged weapons becomes a high priority objective.

Cultists Attack More

99 Nights in the Forest - Cultists Attack More

At 50% corruption, Cultists begin to attack your base at night more often. Raids will spawn more cultists, with higher level cultists spawning at earlier nights.

Food Begins to Rot

Rot spores begin to affect food at 75% Corruption. Rotten food damages players when they consume it, however these can still be used in the Biofuel Processor to produce fuel for the campfire.

What to Do in Hard Mode?

Tips for Hard Mode
CheckmarkUpgrade to Corrupted Gear
CheckmarkBuild the Research Monitor
CheckmarkTrack Down and Clear Rifts

Upgrade to Corrupted Gear

99 Nights in the Forest - Upgrade to Corrupted Gear

Hard mode introduces Corrupted versions of tools and weapons. These are high-tier tools that speed up your progression, however they can only be used for a limited time as usage of these tools fills a corruption meter which causes them to break at max corruption.

Build the Research Monitor

99 Nights in the Forest - Build the Research Monitor

To better track the rate of corruption, return to the research station to find the chest containing the Research Monitor Blueprint. This will help track your corruption and warn you of any imminent debuffs.

Track Down and Clear Rifts

99 Nights in the Forest - Find Rifts

Players can also pick up the Rift Detector at the research station, which pings nearby rifts which players must clear. To clear rifts, players must chop down the corrupted trees and defeat corrupted enemies. Once this is done, the rift will stop glowing purple.

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