Improved Hordes is mainly worth checking through enemy spawns and pressure, spawn rules and encounter density, enemy health, damage, speed, and special effects, server spawn load and loot bags, weapon, armor, ammo, and tool access, and damage, recoil, reload, durability, and mods. Do that in a copied save or test server before changing a main world.
Use Nexus Mods listing for exact file names, branches, screenshots, and update notes, then confirm the in-game behavior listed above still works after a restart.
- Check normal POIs, night travel, blood moon, loot bags, and server spawn limits before raising difficulty.
- Check day, night, biome, POI, wandering horde, and blood-moon behavior separately.
- Test common enemies before judging bosses or high-tier fights.
- Watch FPS, network load, corpses, loot bags, and cleanup timing on multiplayer worlds.