I don't think I will use this mod since I seldom plant more than 2 or 3 fruit trees, but as someone that plants trees for a living. I can attest to the fact that 80% or 90% success rate is far closer to reality for a planted and maintained domesticated tree. In fact, we seldom lose more than 2 a year out of all the trees we plant for clients. I can't speak about game balance, I'm no coder, so I have no idea why the death rate was set so high by the developers.

cool mod, anything else that did something like this hasnt been updated in quite a while, thank you.

Some mods I feel go into the extremes when making adjustments, this tweek feels right, I always though 60ish% was a better fit for trees. Thanks for your time on this. I would like to see Vanilla make base 40% and every better grade of soil bumps it some random amount 5~10% and then have mechanics ingame that make you produce better nutrtious fruit and more of it, like in real life.