{"id":155,"date":"2026-08-16T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:54:29","slug":"difficulty-mutators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Difficulty &#038; Mutators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What it is<\/h2><p>The difficulty picker rolls <strong>10 random mutators<\/strong> for your run. Easy draws <em>weaken<\/em> the flock (softer shells, slower spawns, friendlier missiles\u2026), Hard draws <em>buff<\/em> it (thicker skin, stampedes, missile swarms\u2026). Normal keeps the standard game.<\/p><h2>How it pays<\/h2><ul><li><strong>Hard<\/strong> runs bank 50% of eggs earned.<\/li><li><strong>Normal<\/strong> runs bank 30%.<\/li><li><strong>Easy<\/strong> runs bank 25%.<\/li><li>Everyone gets +10 bank eggs per cleared wave and +100 for a new high score.<\/li><\/ul><h2>Pro tips<\/h2><p>Read the 10 mutators before you commit \u2014 a Hard draw with Double Trouble or Thick Skinned is a very different run. Play Easy to learn, Normal to bank steadily, and Hard when you&#8217;re chasing the leaderboard or a fat egg payout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is The difficulty picker rolls 10 random mutators for your run. Easy draws weaken the flock (softer shells, slower spawns, friendlier missiles\u2026), Hard draws buff it (thicker skin, stampedes, missile swarms\u2026). Normal keeps the standard game. How it pays Hard runs bank 50% of eggs earned. Normal runs bank 30%. Easy runs bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}