Lethal Company
by Zeekerss · 23 Oct, 2023
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About the Game
You are a contracted worker for the Company. Your job is to collect scrap from abandoned, industrialized moons to meet the Company's profit quota. You can use the cash you earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards--or you can buy fancy suits and decorations for your ship. Experience nature, scanning any creature you find to add them to your bestiary. Explore the wondrous outdoors and rummage through their derelict, steel and concrete underbellies. Just never miss the quota.
These dangers prey upon the vulnerable and lonesome, and the protection of your crew may be your only hope. You can guide your crewmates from your ship, using the radar to call out traps and using the ship's terminal to access remotely locked doors--or you can all go in together. The Company store has many useful tools for the job, including lights, shovels, walkie talkies, stun grenades, or boomboxes.
Things get dangerous at night. Communicate with your crewmates to carry all valuables to the ship before things get too dangerous, and try not to leave anyone behind.
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Hello, long time no see! Version 80 is out in beta for you to test. You can access it by opting into the public beta branch for Lethal Company on Steam.
V80 brings a complete rework of March's exterior, a wide range of bugfixes, performance improvements, and other improvements, 3 new creatures (and a returning creature), a few new rooms for the factory interior, and the utility slot.
This update isn't quite as content-heavy as it is feature-focused, but it sets up the game with all sorts of under-the-hood fixes and adjustments to fix things I've broken over the past few updates, so I'll be able to think more about just adding new content real soon; this is just the start. Where V70 was mostly just for the costly snow moons, this update focuses on the forest moons, and I also hope it makes the game better for newcomers.
Patch log:
- Completely reworked March's exterior
- Added three new creatures native to the three forest moons (though two of them can be found elsewhere).
* Backwater Gunkfish
* Feiopars
* Cadaver Bloom
- Added a new Sigurd log: "Work"
- Switched to a version of the game's main shader that renders in a single rendering pass (more performant) and allows the usage of foliage and better terrain. (This could not have been done quite as well without help from members of the modding community, so thank you very much.)
- Readded the Kidnapper Fox
* The fox is now more afraid to leave its territory and more accurately determines the size of its territory.
* The fox cannot spawn at the very beginning of the day.
* Weeds will never begin growing nearby the ship, though they can spread to the ship from the place where they started.
* The Vain Shrouds are more rare than before. However, the weeds will always begin growing on the current moon if you repeatedly "savescum" by disconnecting while not in orbit.
- Added proper foliage to the forest moons.
- Reduced frequent, heavy memory allocations in many areas across the game to reduce lag spikes
- Optimized memory usage regarding all creature AI so that they share the same pool of memory when appropriate
- Added functionality to creature AI and settings for creature AI to prevent land creatures from walking deep underwater when outside.
- Fixed the paycheck UI not scrolling properly through all the sold scrap.
- Fixed the player's hand and fingers not quite matching the lever of the ship when pulling the lever to land.
- Added a proper, satisfying animation and sound for the player pushing the lever to leave the moon.
- Added a visual animation for the main entrance door to the interior of all moons and overhauled the sound effects for it. Animations can be seen from inside and outside when another player is entering or leaving.
- Fixed interactions where creatures could collide with and damage players from outside the mineshaft elevator while it was closed and the player was inside (or vice-versa)
* Also fixed some creatures not moving towards the player even when they could be seen in the closed elevator and were still technically in chase. This may also fix cases where creatures did not move towards players if they were standing on certain ledges.
- Fixed creatures setting their destination unnecessarily, which would cause them to stop and 'jitter' on very large maps (mostly just Titan).
- Optimized creature search algorithms to perform better and more quickly, making creatures slightly less dumb and slow on large maps (specifically Titan) where creatures have to calculate longer paths.
- Turned the head-mounted camera around and increased its draw distance.
* Fixed the head-mounted camera not displaying the sky and instead just a black void outdoors.
- Cameras on the monitors indoors now display at a lower framerate to save costs on performance.
- The interiors now have basic distance culling to save on performance especially in large interiors; only rooms near you are rendered.
- Old Birds can now break bridges when walking on them as well as Forest Keepers.
- Lights indoors now have basic "indirect" lighting. This can be toggled off in the settings.
- Added a setting to decrease the game's pixel resolution, which should save GPU performance significantly if needed. This is also fun.
- Added accessibility options:
* Disable head-bobbing when running and jumping
* Enable toggle-to-sprint.
- Fixed company advertisements displaying an inverted sale percentage for a shop item (that is on a sale) for clients vs host.
- Fixed desync between when the "collected ___" hologram would display for different players; now they only display when players drop their scrap in the ship, not all at once when entering.
- Increased time it takes to drown by about a second.
- Baboon hawks dropping scrap will now properly drop it on the cruiser
- Players dropping their items as a result of death, etc. will now properly drop it on the cruiser and mineshaft elevator (and other moving objects.)
- Old Birds can now be stood on while moving, and scrap can be placed on their heads.
- Added three new rooms/halls to the factory interior type.
- Mineshaft interior now has more pockets of caves along with the main cave network, which should make it easier to find scrap. It also limits the generation to a certain distance from the entrance, making the interior more bendy and interconnected.
- Scrap can now spawn at the end of normal hallways in the factory interior.
- When loading while landing the ship, the game loads the interior asynchronously, meaning that instead of a single lag spike, there is a longer but more pleasing loading sequence in which you can mostly use voice chat like normal.
* The visuals and audio of landing the ship and leaving in the ship have been improved and embellished.
- Fixed Hygrodere not properly morphing to accomodate the environment
- Fixed Hygrodere not changing size based on variables
- Fixed Hygrodere camping the main entrance when it would follow a player to the main entrance.
- Added the utility slot, which can only be used for (most) non-scrap, shop-purchased items.
* Shovels are excluded.
* While I liked the strategic tradeoff of having to use a scrap slot to hold tools, it meant that most players opted out of using items all-together.
- Running into your fellow employees will shove them aside; if both employees are running at each other, they will both collide. Crouching or carrying heavy scrap makes you harder to get around.
- Fixed cases where spray paint, etc. would not work when facing up while someone is watching you on the map monitor.
- Added a diversity meter to some moons which limits the amount of unique species that can spawn in a single day, to keep from overwhelming new players especially. This is to prepare for adding more creatures.
- Fixed the game's randomness so that creatures will always spawn in the same order on Challenge Moons.
* When creatures die, which would normally open up space for different creatures to spawn early, it now waits until the determined spawn order has been finished to begin spawning extra creatures.
* Also made it so the Old Birds cannot spawn from thin air.
- The game now detects if your client is running a mod loader and uses this to indicate to other players browsing the server list. This does not mean that mods are officially supported or recommended, but I understand the value they add to the game for many players.
- Fixed Tulip Snakes causing lag spikes for the host player when they would walk the interior.
- Indoor creature spawn curves, which are based on the time of day, now round up as well as down when determining the number of creatures to spawn, meaning that the creature spawn curve defined for each moon is represented more accurately. Spawn levels have all been adjusted down slightly by the same amount to compensate. (This might require rebalancing or I may revert it.)
- Slightly lowered night vision range to make the dark more dangerous without a light source
- Increased the distance at which Coilheads will not enable their collision if they stop while ontop of a player, to prevent Coilheads from pushing players through walls
- Fixed cases where Forest Keepers could be "charged up" by almost seeing one player and then use that charge on another player, causing it to immediately see the other player.
- Crouching or standing still or just walking is now more effective on Forest Keepers when at a distance, and past a certain, far distance they cannot see you at all.
- Starting a new file now sets a random seed initially, instead of always defaulting to zero, which means the furniture on sale will always be different on the first quota.
- Fixed an issue where the clock and candy scrap were not spawning
- Fixed an issue where enemies could not navigate onto the bedroom bed or onto the car in the garage in mansion interiors.
- Fixed enemy interaction with the bathroom shower door in the mansion interior
- Fixed an issue where gift boxes were not spawning items randomly and would all contain the same item depending on the moon.
- Fixed the bird being able to instantly kill enemies rather than doing quick damage.
- Fixed errors regarding the body parts spawned by players who are killed by the Giant Sapsucker, which may have caused crashes.
- Fixed? a memory leak caused by the new directional compass on the HUD.
- Fixed an issue preventing players from opening the buyable fridge
- Fixed a lamp that was floating off the wall in Dine's exterior
- Fixed weedkiller sounds being global
- Fixed an issue where the small stairwell in the mansion interior could lead up to the greenhouse room, which made it impossible to fit through the doorway due to the railing.
- Made the fog in Vow more gradual vertically, where before it used to cut off harshly at the top of the valley
- Fixed some issues regarding the logic that determines if the radar signal has cut out when monitoring players in the caves, which could prevent the signal from coming back on or off.
- Fixed an issue where the radar booster would be covered by a big radar dot while being displayed in a Company commercial
- Fixed the bathroom's shower door not being openable by creatures
- Fixed the bathroom's tub being off-limits to creatures
- Fixed? an issue where a cabinet could spawn halfway inside a bookshelf in one of the mansion hallways.
- The bird can now damage the player in more situations where the player is higher up than the bird
- Slightly decreased chance of mineshaft interior in Rend
- Fixed enemies not being able to navigate up onto the alcove in the narrow hallway in the mansion
- I added snowmen around the ice planets
- I fixed some wonky behavior with the masked enemy that had to do with the elevator
- Presents are more likely to spawn
Mineshaft
- Fixed an error with inverse teleporters when the mineshaft was present
- Fixed an issue where a room could overlap with the mineshaft entrance room.
- Fixed an issue where a specific corner could be walked through in the caves
- Fixed an issue where the Maneater would freeze if it was crushed by a spike trap as a baby.
- Fixed table props not being able to spawn in the mineshaft, which could dramatically reduce its scrap count.
- Fixed an incorrect placement of a navigation blocker in the caves which prevented creatures from pathing through it.
- Fixed an issue where players could drop the child down the elevator shaft. You monsters
- Fixed a breaker box being able to spawn floating in the air
- Scaled up the railing around the elevator to make it reasonably difficult to get ontop of the elevator from below.
- The main entrance doorway can now spawn in a few different locations in the manor and mineshaft.
Coilheads
- Slightly decreased the time coilheads need to spend moving before recharging and decreased the time they spend to recharge
- Coilheads recharge timer counts down 80% slower when they are pushing on a doorway (or otherwise stuck) than when they are actually moving, even if they are not being looked at.
- Coilheads eventually enter recharge mode if they are inside the elevator.
Misc
- Soccer balls should now collide with objects in the ship
- When turrets begin shooting they are now audible to enemies that can hear
- Fixed an issue where pocketing walkie talkies and spray paint in your inventory could cause other items such as jetpacks or flashlights to begin draining battery or activate when being placed.
- Tried a fix for a visual bug for non-host players, where the Maneater would transform and then briefly teleport.
- The Maneater can eat scrap which belongs to hoarding bugs; this would cause hoarding bugs to become enraged forever. Now the Maneater can still eat a hoarding bug's scrap but only if this Maneater has been encountered by players.
- The bestiary entry for the Maneater should now be functional.
- An additional 6 scrap now spawns within the mineshaft to reflect its high risk.
* There is also evidently some inconsistency with the amount of scrap spawning in the mineshaft, and I will look into that.
- Coilheads will not move when looked at, under any circumstances, including if they cannot reach the player that is looking at them.
- Fixed desync in the Maneater's position when it caught a player.
- Fixed some problems with being able to kick the soccer ball.
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Uploaded Apr 27, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Lethal Company.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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