PotionCraft Hard Mode 
Developed as a collaboration project by catgocri & HXPMods
This mod uses BasicMod, a Potion Craft modding library.
NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE ON OLD SAVES. MAKE A NEW SAVE FOR THIS MOD.
For those who are seeking a challenge. Hard Mode multiplies Potion Craft's difficulty by tenfold, giving you a nice challenge. Nearly all of the mod's challenge features are either toggleable or configurable, allowing you to customize your challenge! You can find the config file in Potion Craft\BepInEx\Config.
If anyone can get a legitimate Philosophers Stone with this mod enabled you earn our respect haha.
Features
The features this mod adds are:
- Merchants are always selling at higher prices. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Daily gold tax of 5% after reaching 500 gold. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Highlander mode, adding too many of one ingredient fails the potion. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Bone zones are buffed. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Fewer ingredients from the garden. (Toggleable)
- Potion Deterioration. This causes your potion to lose health when it moves through the map. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- As a follow-up to that pouring your base will heal the potion. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Potion health is directly correlated with potion tier. You will need health for higher tiers, keep yer potions healthy. (Configurable & Toggleable)
- Integrated tutorial skip, so you can get going faster on a new save. (Toggleable)
- A health counter showing the exact amount of potion health your potion has. (Toggleable)
- Custom hard mode goals, completing these goals increases an experience point gain modifier. (Toggleable)
- An infinite haggling talent, allowing you to infinitely level up your haggling talent, if you have enough talent points. (Toggleable)
- No automatic health regain when outside bone zone. (Toggleable)
Config (Found at BepInEx/Config)
- damagePotionOnMove Makes the potion take damage when it moves. (Boolean)
- damageRate The rate at which the potion deteriorates. (Float)
- pouringWaterHeals Heal the potion by pouring in base. (Boolean)
- healingRate The rate to heal by. (Float)
- doExperienceModifier If completing hard mode goals should add an experience modifier. (Boolean)
- doGardenModifier If the garden's harvest count should be modified. (Boolean)
- useConfig Whether to use the config. Turning this off will cause Hardmode to do nothing unless used by other mods. (Boolean)
- showWatermark Shows the HardMode watermark. (Boolean)
- bonusGoals Gives bonus goals that also increase your experience modifier. (Boolean)
- infiniteHaggle Adds a haggle talent at the end of the tree that can be gained infinitely. (Boolean)
- boneDamage The amount of damage you take while moving a full unit touching bones. Vanilla default is 0.4. (Float)
- healWhenSafe Potion heals instantly when out of danger. (Boolean)
- highlanderActive If active, potions will fail when adding more than the amount detailed below of a single ingredient. (Boolean)
- maxDuplicateIngredients What the maximum amount of duplicate ingredients can be before the potion fails. (Integer)
- modifyPrices Makes merchants always sell at markup. (Boolean)
- potionHealthAffectsTier If potion health affects tier. (Boolean)
- potionHealthAffectsTierRate The amount that health contributes to the tier. (Float)
- skipTutorial If the integrated tutorial skip should be triggered. (Boolean)
- doTaxes If the game should subtract money from you each day. (Boolean)
- taxPercentageHow much, in percentage, you lose in taxes each day. (Float)
- taxThreshold The minimum amount of Gold you must have before being charged taxes. (Integer)
Known Bugs
- Game shows that you have been taxed 5 gold on startup (even though you haven't).
- Game shows the experience modifier gain notification on startup.
- Potion liquid doesn't start shaking when health is not full.
Installation
This mod uses BepInEx 5! BepInEx is a mod loader, basically, it is what puts the edited code into the game.
- Install BepInEx 5 and extract the zip file.
- Drag the extracted folder into your Potion Craft folder, you should be able to find the Potion Craft folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Potion Craft
- Run Potion Craft once with BepInEx installed.
- Download the mod.
- Drag potioncraft-hardmode.dll, BasicMod.dll and the assets folder into Potion Craft\BepInEx\Plugins
- You are good to go!
Deinstallation
Uninstalling this mod is as easy as deleting one file, you don't even need to delete BepInEx!
- Navigate to Potion Craft\BepInEx\Plugins
- Remove potioncraft-hardmode.dll, BasicMod.dll and the assets folder from the folder.
- You are done!

Alternate download: GitHub Download