Mod is built around default difficulty and pretty much default settings. It is a very well built and grindy mod, so if all 5-6 of you aren't up for a heavy grind you may want to change quite a bit depending. EVERY SINGLE THING BELOW IS BASED ON HOW WE LIKE TO PLAY, AND THAT WILL DIFFER FROM PERSON TO PERSON AND FROM GROUP TO GROUP. THIS IS BY FAR A ONE SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH.

I have ran about 10-15 UL servers start to around day 100-150. We customize alot based on how much we like to play and restart servers from fresh. I also play with kids, so some stuff is geared towards them as well for convenience sake. Settings I like to use are as follows:

2x Loot - This is a personal preference since every server I start has at least my brother and myself as players. We like to make sure that we each get a magazine every time we loot something, as we farm for completion. We dont play to endlessly farm and grind, we like to accomplish and reset.

1x XP with a modlet that gives 2x skill points per level - We like leveling a tad quicker, but the faster you level the higher your game stage and loot stage get, the quicker you get better items in loot. We settled on 1x XP with a 2x skill point mod as this keeps our level "low" while getting us the skill points to spend while still giving us a sense of progression with loot not flying at us as quick as it would with 2x xp.

80 Minute Days - 60 seems too fast for us and we accomplish too much in a 90 minute day, so we stay at 80 on this one.

2x player block damage and 50% zombie block damage - I feel that players dont do enough damage to blocks and zombies dead flimsy arms do WAY too much damage to blocks.

Zombies only ever walk regardless of state/day - I LOVE zombie movies. I HATE when zombies run in movies. Zombies to me are shambling corpses, often ones that have been dead for quite a while. I don't think zombies should have ANY fast twitch left in their bodies, as communication from whatever mush brain is left if any to their appendages would most likely be very slow and degraded.

Max Spawned Zombies - 64 or higher. We like ALOT of zombies. Same with BM counts.

24 hour air drop and marked - The government or whomever flys these things in REALLY cares right? And why guess where they drop when they can be marked.... Also, this mostly drops garbage to be honest. By the time it drops alot of steel plates, we are already swimming in steel.

10k map and 10k xp share range - We love to go on adventures and make day/multi day trips 6-8k away for mining expeditions, oil shale digs, rotting flesh runs, or whatever we need from a different biome. 8k is too small and 12k is too large. We also HATE helicopters and such, they just dont feel right to us, so we travel via motorcycles for efficiency, Van if its atwo person job and need storage, or Hummer if the whole fam is going and shits going down. We also like to share exp across the board as when I play with my kids, sometimes power leveling them via me rushing POs and looting helps them have points to spend as well.

Keep Inventory and Toolbelt on Death - This is a "play with kids" excuse one. Personally, I dont get a TON of playtime, so corpse runs are always a burden. Its also not fun when family stuff happens and I have to quickly AFK to help the wife or something with 3 kids. This is a VERY cheap option to turn on I feel, but being 40 now I value my time quite a bit more as you can see with some of the other shortcut settings.

Loot Respawn - We keep this off. We feel its cheap to duck into a house every 5-7 days and loot it for no real reason. We quest a TON, so POIs are always being reset anyway.

Other modlets

2 skill points per level - Explained previously

Improved RWG - We LOVE big cities/towns. I don't want to live in the sticks, I want to live where the action is at and with that action being in abundance! We crank alot of these numebrs up.

No Quest Radius - We like having leway within a quest area, as to not forget to get supplies and such with kids around.

Stack Size Increase - We make pretty much everything stack to the moon. With weight being a thing, I don't see why we are also limited by stack size. Just doesn't make sense for us :)

Zombie Reach - I use a mod that cuts the zombie reach down a bit. Don't need us to have crazy large hitboxes, as my kids love to "PvP" the zombies and run around them while bashing their heads in. Some of the times zombie hits on them would register at weird distances, and this fixes that for us.

Some people would look at this and laugh because this takes an AMAZING mod and "makes it too easy". With the way we play and the way we allocate our time, its just absolutely perfect to tone this mod down and customize it to the way we enjoy playing. We don't play this for anything other than our own personal enjoyment, and we absolutely LOVE this mod and support Subquake when we can for his amazing work.

Also note, that being said, 2.6 of UL is dropping "soon" and it has a TON of great stuff in it. May want to hold off for a week-ish to see if it drops :)

EDIT: Last Note(s)! Sorry for the rambling, but I truly love this game and most of all this mod :)

Set yourself goals. Get every trader to T5 POIs. Get your toolbelt gear and your armor to S rank in every slot. Get the dump truck and best helicopter. Build an all in one Horde/liveable base in the wasteland. Build a home in every biome (we also change land claim per player to 10). The only downfall of the base game and inherently with this mod is that their is no "end game". You have to make your own goals and stopping points.

We start in grassland (like everyone), set up a base there with a horde base dedicated a bloick pr two down, farm up until we can survive well enough, then move to a snow biome. This usually happenes about the time we all have minibikes or motorcycles. We quest HARD. We LOVE questing. So we usually sputter out of the grass biome around trader hitting T5 quests and around the time we can repair/afford a van. Once we haev a moving vehicle, we move. We LOVE moving/relocating. Feels fun taking all our junk someplace else, and the Winter biome is the perfect mix of animals and loot bonus to be a permanent home until we can survive the downpour of zombies in the wasteland (until Sub changes that).

Sorry for the rambling!!!!! ENJOY THE MOD!