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🔒 Sets a difficulty in any world, optionally locked, or force a hardcore mode requirement.
🔒 Sets a difficulty in any world, optionally locked, or force a hardcore mode requirement.
Difficulty Lock is a resource made by Serilum. It supports Minecraft 1.16 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 7,059,644 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Oct 28, 2026.
Difficulty Lock has had 78 releases on Modrinth since Sep 1, 2022. 20 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 26.1.2-5.2-fabric+forge+neo, released on Oct 28, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 26.1.2. It runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. The download is 55 KB.
| Version | Released | Minecraft | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
26.1.2-5.2-fabric+forge+neo | Oct 28, 2026 | 26.1.2 | Release |
26.3.0-5.2-fabric+forge+neo | Oct 17, 2026 | 26.3 | Release |
26.2.0-5.2-fabric+forge+neo | Oct 17, 2026 | 26.2 | Release |
1.21.1-5.2-fabric+forge+neo | Oct 17, 2026 | 1.21, 1.21.1 | Release |
1.20.1-5.2-fabric+forge+neo | Oct 17, 2026 | 1.20.1 | Release |
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Difficulty Lock adds an easy way to configure the difficulty in all (new) worlds. Can be useful for modpacks, or just in your singleplayer experience if you have a default difficulty you always play with. There are config options to force the Hardcore gamemode, disable cheats, or prevent Creative mode from being selected.
The Create World Screen is correctly updated with the config settings. Also works on (dedicated) servers.
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All available config options:
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The priority shows how the mod handles when multiple gamemodes are set to true in the config. E.g. if all are enabled all new worlds will be peaceful.
forceHardcoreMode default false
Sets the world game mode to hardcode mode and ignores the other difficulty settings when enabled.
disableCreativeModeSelection default false
Whether Creative Mode should not be possible to select in the world creation screen.
forcedDifficulty default "Hard"
The difficulty that is set in any world. Disabled leaves the difficulty as it is.
forceCheatsDisabled default false
Whether the cheats option should be forced to be disabled on the initial world creation screen.
shouldLockDifficulty default true
When enabled, locks the difficulty in any world so it cannot be changed.
shouldChangeDifficultyWhenAlreadyLocked default false
When enabled, also sets the difficulty in worlds where it has already been locked.
With the default configuration, all worlds will be set to hard with the difficulty locked:
The Create World Screen is also updated.
Here the config options forceHard and forceCheatsDisabled are true:
The mod also allows users to be forced to play in Hardcore Mode, via the config:
You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.
Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.
For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!
Written by Serilum. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.
This mod is needed on both the server and every player who joins.
Install Fabric, Quilt, Forge and NeoForge for Minecraft 1.16 – 26.x.
Add the mods it needs: Collective.
Download the .jar file from Modrinth and put it in the mods folder of your .minecraft directory.
Start Minecraft with the Fabric profile.
With the CraftRank Launcher you can skip these steps: open Mods, search for Difficulty Lock and click Install.
| Resource | Downloads | Versions | Last update | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1M | 1.16 – 26.x | 12 days ago | Free | |
| 42.2M | 1.16 – 26.x | Sep 27, 2026 | Free | |
| 65 | 26.x | 1 day ago | Free | |
| 13.8M | 1.16 – 26.x | Oct 5, 2026 | Free |
Yes. Difficulty Lock supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, 1.18, 1.16.
Yes. Difficulty Lock is free to download from Modrinth.
Both. The server and every player need Difficulty Lock installed.
Yes: Collective. Install it before Difficulty Lock.
Yes. The last update came out in the past day.
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