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Hollow Settings
Switch the overhaul systems on or off for this PC: every world you host or play alone.
How it works
- Main menu > Play > New Game or Continue Game > HOLLOW SETTINGS.
- Pick a tab at the top: GENERAL, HORDES, DISPLAY or SURVIVAL. Click a value (or its arrows) to change it; it saves at once. DEFAULTS puts the tab back.
- Dread events, Dread nights, Creature scaling, Special infected, Rift demons, Crop disease, Farms draw the dead, Hail storms, Dirty solar panels, Menu music, VHS menu, Gore and Gore effects cap (see Gore).
- Toolbelt 11-14 key and Toolbelt slot 11-14: the keys for the four extra toolbelt slots (see Toolbelt).
- HORDES tab: blood moon size and ramp, wandering horde size and frequency, migrations, blood moon max alive, blood moon sieges, special zombies and Rift demons in hordes, city zombies, forest and town zombies, tier 5-6 POIs, zombie cap, airdrop guards and zombie outfits. AUTO follows your difficulty; DIFFICULTY DEFAULTS sets them back (see Hordes).
- DISPLAY tab: running sway, bodycam, cinematic look, screen effects, the ESC info panel, HUD layout, window mode and the toolbelt keys (see Toolbelt and Window Mode).
- Trader hours: ALWAYS OPEN (the default) means traders never close and nobody is thrown out at night; VANILLA brings the closing time back. On a blood moon night the horde still clears the compound.
- Trader protection: ON keeps trader compounds safe like vanilla. OFF lets you (and zombies) shoot, blow up, dig and build in them; only a small pocket right around each trader stays safe, so they cannot be walled in.
Tips
- A dedicated server reads the settings file in its own user data folder (dsd_hollow_settings.xml).
- Creatures that were already scaled keep it when you switch scaling off.