Breathing Room: Relaxed Survival

Less maintenance. More time to build.

Breathing Room adds three fixed, Normal-based difficulty presets for players who want fewer personal-upkeep interruptions while building and exploring. The presets reduce food, water, breathing and eligible personal-power costs. You still need supplies, safe equipment handling and protection from the environment.

Choose your pace

Start with Relaxed for a nominal 90-minute food and water interval. Choose Light Relief for a smaller change or Extended for the fewest upkeep interruptions.

Percentages show the configured use or loss relative to Normal. Lower means slower consumption. These are tuning values; gameplay verification is described below.

* Food and water intervals are calculated from 100% to 20%, awake and online, at 20 C with adequate mood and nominal simulation cadence. They are targets, not guaranteed play times. Food quality, temperature, mood and sleep affect results. Normal's water interval is 26 minutes 40 seconds, rounded in the table.

Breathing is only part of tank use. Suit cooling also consumes gas, so 50% breathing use does not guarantee twice the tank life. Personal power covers supported suit and handheld-device paths, not base power or every form of battery loss. Hygiene relief does not disable sanitation or set a fixed toilet interval.

Each preset applies its full Normal-based definition, including Normal's non-upkeep settings.

Required setup

Windows solo play. Install BepInEx and StationeersLaunchPad separately. Subscribing delivers the mod, not these loaders. Personal-power relief requires the code to load.

• BepInEx 5.4.23.5, Windows x64
• StationeersLaunchPad 0.5.1, client edition
• LaunchPad installation guide

Keep your working loader setup. Do not install StationeersMods alongside LaunchPad. Enable Breathing Room in the LaunchPad startup menu and keep only one local or Workshop copy enabled.

New and existing worlds

Back up your save first. Select a Breathing Room preset for a new world. For an existing offline solo world, open the console with F3 by default and enter one of these commands:

difficulty BreathingRoomLight
difficulty BreathingRoomRelaxed
difficulty BreathingRoomExtended

Use one command, then save. Run difficulty without an argument to check the selection. Installing the mod alone does not change an existing world's difficulty. Disable local hosting for the supported solo setup.

What stays demanding

Sanitation, helmet restrictions and environmental hazards remain. Respiratory relief reduces oxygen used for breathing. Suit cooling also consumes tank gas, so total tank life depends on conditions. The mod does not directly scale cooling gas disposal. Base power, battery capacity, charging and cold-related battery loss are unchanged. Personal-power changes cover inspected suit and handheld-device paths; they are not a global battery multiplier. Multiplayer is unsupported.

Testing and known limits

Version 0.1.1 adds difficulty-card artwork and shorter descriptions; gameplay code and tuning are unchanged from 0.1.0. All three cards were checked in the new-world menu. It targets Stationeers 0.2.6428.27798, Steam build 24703804. A preceding diagnostic build was tested in offline solo play with LaunchPad 0.5.1 and BepInEx 5.4.23.3. In a controlled room near 20 C, Relaxed used about 66% less tank oxygen and 67% less suit battery energy than Normal over matched short samples. Returning to Normal reproduced the earlier rates. This is a measured result for that setup, not a guarantee of tank or battery duration elsewhere.

The repaired personal-power patches loaded successfully. Earlier author reports cover Relaxed in new and existing sessions and removal after returning to Normal. All three presets were selected successfully in the release build, and Relaxed persisted through save/reload. Resource-consumption rates for Light Relief and Extended, handheld tools, respawn equipment and broader mod combinations have not been individually verified in gameplay. Automated checks cover all preset values and inspected power/respawn patch targets. Release startup passed with detailed diagnostics disabled. Workshop subscription files matched the released package, and the subscribed copy passed startup with the local copy removed.

Detailed diagnostic logging is off by default. A previous test installation may retain its enabled setting; close the game and set Enabled = false under [Diagnostics] in BepInEx/config/relaxedsettings.breathingroom.cfg to turn it off.

Removal

While the mod is enabled, load the world, run difficulty Normal or select another available difficulty, save, and close the game. Then disable/unsubscribe and reload. Do not remove the mod while the save still depends on a Breathing Room preset. If the game cannot start, remove the mod and restore your backup.

Created by thejug923. Cover and difficulty-card artwork are AI-generated illustrations, not a gameplay screenshot. This is an independent mod with no affiliation to Stationeers or its loader projects.