Drea, if you change the difficulty after you start the game, the number of coconuts will not change. Whenever you start a new game, it always has the settings of the last game that you were playing. If you were looking at a tribe that was set for easy or normal difficulty when you decided to start another tribe, the new tribe will have those settings. If you change the settings to hard, you will have to click Start Over in order to have the new settings take effect.