ZenWorldSettings

v1.13.5·Updated 2026-10-12

Burn all woods, use spark to light fires, refill candles, hide sky tree, limit snowstorm particles. Prevent tombstone abuse. Protect newbies from hard spawns. Door keys: break/repair. Shield Gens: pro

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ZenWorldSettings

Designed to be used in conjunction with other ZenMods. Especially ZenSign, ZenUseItem, and ZenHoverItem.

Modifiers (Configurable)

Environment:

  • Option: Do not display day number at dawn.
  • Option: Do not display the sky tree.
  • Option: Adjustable day length
  • Option: Adjustable snow storm particle limits

Spawners:

  • Prevent high-level monsters from spawning in low-level biomes due to advanced world progression. Highly configurable, but the default configuration should meet most player needs. Off by default. Pair with ZenBossStone for excellent multiplayer per player progression.

Fireplaces:

  • Fires can require applying a spark for ignition.
  • Campfires can start unlit.
  • Candle can be refilled after expired.
  • Burn any wood type in a fire. (Can be configured to burn anything)
  • Use the hotbar to select the wood type and apply it to the fire. Install ZenUseItem to make the process easier.
  • Toggle individual fireplace infinite fuel (Admin only by default)

Ships:

  • Option: Prevent monsters from targeting ships that do not have any players onboard.
  • Option: Adjust the resources returned when a ship is destroyed to discourage ship-in-a-box. (Default 50%)
  • Option: Rename ships
  • Option: Owner is Captain, only the owner can pilot the ship.
  • Option: Ship captain claims control of the ZDO to help with multiplayer experience.
  • Option: Ships do not suddenly stop when you jump off, dock them properly.

Smoke:

  • Smoke can pass through metal grids like iron grates and floors.

Tombstones:

  • Tombstones are free 32-slot indestructible containers that can be easily abused.
  • Option to prevent them from being used as reusable containers.
  • Once opened, a tombstone will begin to decay.
  • Each time they are opened it consumes one allocated usage limit.
  • When they are all used the tombstone self destructs and drops contents on the ground.

Quests & Loot:

  • Configure Hildir's Quest to be per player
  • Drop loot, one per player.

Craft / Teleport Rules:

  • Allow / Deny items from being crafted.
  • Allow / Deny / Exclusive items for teleport.
  • Configure the Forge of Potential to downgrade instead of break items.

Shield Generators:

  • Can eject their fuel to turn them off manually.
  • Can protect fireplaces from the rain and snow.

Turrets:

  • Option to disable targeting player
  • Option to disable targeting tames
  • Adjustable max number of targets, default 2. Install ZenUseItem to assign targets directly from your inventory instead of needing to place them on the 1-8 hot bar first.
  • Install ZenHoverItem to see the icons of the assigned trophies when looking at a Turret.

Limited Use Door Keys:

  • Make keys limited use, they break after you use them too many times.
  • You can repair and upgrade them at the forge by default. (configurable)

Admin Tip: For testing it is sometimes helpful to intentionally break door keys so that you can repair them. Admin can do this by being in god mode, pick up a key from their inventory, and while it is on the cursor, press and hold Right Shift, then tap Right Control.

Improve Your Experience

CORE MODS

The full collection of all Zen MODS:

  • Radically improved QoL
  • Incredible performance
  • Pre-configured
  • 100% Gamepad support
  • Spectacularly immersive

Enjoy!

Sample Config File

Settings file was created by plugin ZenWorldSettings v1.13.3

Plugin GUID: ZenDragon.ZenWorldSettings

[Craft / Teleport]

[Admin] Downgrade items instead of destroying them when you fail at the Forge of Potential.

[Vanilla: false]

Setting type: Boolean

Default value: false

Craft Refine - Downgrade Enabled = false

[Admin] When downgrade fails, remove this many levels from the item.

NOTE: It will never drop below level 1.

[Set to 0 to remove no levels]

[Set to -1 to remove ALL levels and revert to level 1]

[Vanilla: 1]

Setting type: Int32

Default value: 1

Acceptable value range: From -1 to 10

Craft Refine - Downgrade Levels = 1

[Admin] List of items to remove from crafting.

Recipies are removed and new instances of the ite

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

ZenDragon-Zen_ModLib

File & checksum

Filename
ZenWorldSettings-1.13.5.zip
File size
80.9 KiB