Overview
Preferred Difficulty is a Minecraft Fabric mod that lets each player set their preferred difficulty and automatically adjusts the server's difficulty based on who is connected. The mod tracks the preferred difficulty of every player on the server and applies the easiest one chosen among them.
Purpose
This mod was designed to fill a very specific purpose. It came out of a small, casual Minecraft server running on normal difficulty for a group of friends, where some of them wanted a harder difficulty so they could use specific farming setups, while others wanted normal for a more relaxed play style. As a compromise, this mod lets the farms function most of the time, but when a player who prefers an easier difficulty joins, the server automatically changes to the difficulty they prefer. It also has a setting for a minimum difficulty level, because setting the difficulty to peaceful can break some farm designs by causing mobs to despawn.