This mod is quite punishing. In multi you can always use one player to lure enemies from the body, but I can imagine problems in singleplayer. In multi we were able to recover bodies sooner or later.

Basically we were extremely careful, often run away, avoided unnecessary combat, fought deathsquitoes mainly with bows, etc. Real fun stars when fighting goblins and then wolves appear ;).

To be honest I would prefer something to be done to the difficulty, especially in multi, but more stars are quite poor option. I would prefer more enemies spawning with proper scaling to team size, maybe some enemies with special attacks. Just adding hp and hitting power is very crude method of increasing difficulty.