Hello, I'm back with another smaller update. While working on this, I started losing steam, even though I was happy with the direction things are going. So I decided to switch to another project for a while (Welcome To The Dark Place) with the hopes of finishing it soon. Rather than holding onto this update I'm releasing it now as V64 since it has a couple nice features:

- The tactical belt bag can now be bought from the terminal. It holds 15 non-scrap items and can be accessed by other players while it's around your waist. Use "INFO" to learn more about it.
- A new, rare 0.6% chance weather event can now occur on any day at a random time.
- A few bug fixes

Here is a list of fixes and changes. boo

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.

Hello, V61 is a patch/hotfix for a few things.

- 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.

Hello! I am happy to bring you Version 60. This update most prominently features a new interior which is common on Offense, Vow, Dine, and Artifice but can appear on any moon.


Patch notes:
- Removed the Kidnapper Fox (for now)
- Removed the Bog Crawler
- Removed the Goopy Goblin
- Made changes to the Dine entrance positions
- Changes to coilheads:
* Coilheads now enter a recharge phase after chasing you for a certain distance.
* Coilheads can lose track of you after a long time of being out of range and line of sight.
* Coilheads cannot complete a jump as easily if they are spotted by a player while jumping.
- Made optimizations to Flowerman and Spore lizard AI to prevent lag spikes when they avoid the player in large maps.
- Added the Maneater
- Added 7 or 8 new pieces of scrap
- Added a rare chance for every scrap spawned on a moon to be the same type
- Changed the wooden doors of the mansion to have a unique sound effect.
- Added the mineshaft interior.
- Slightly reduced the number of weather to be present on many different moons at once
- And more I can't remember off the top of my head

In the next update I'd like to make store-bought items easier and more efficient to bring with you, even while carrying scrap. I also want to add more furniture that you can buy for the ship. For now, enjoy! And get to work.

Hello, Version 55 is here! This update is mainly just the Company Cruiser, an epic luxury transportation vehicle, capable of transporting an unimaginable amount of scrap all at once.

There are also two new creatures and some fixes. Also, you can buy weed killer.


Fixes:

• Fixed some desync problems with the position of nutcrackers and mechs
  
• Fixed inconsistent damage numbers or just totally whiffing when attacking creatures with weapons.
  
• Fixed inconsistent damage numbers when hitting other players with weapons. Also increased the damage when hitting other players from its originally intended 10% to 20% to keep things similar to before.
  
• Fixed incorrect positioning of a breaker box in the factory and vent spawn in the manor
  
• Fixed the logic for weight so that it's not possible to have your speed increased
  
• Fixed an issue where two players could get on the terminal at the same time, which would softlock one of them.

As Version 55 came sooner than Version 50, I suspect Version 60 will come even sooner. I'm planning a bunch of new scrap and new map tiles for the interiors. But for now, I hope you have fun with the truck. I made a truck for you.

Hello, you can now test Version 55 in the public beta branch! Try out the Company Cruiser--the most safe and luxurious method of transportation. I'll be working on improvements and fixes over the next few days until I feel the changes do not harm the experience, then I will release it officially. I hope you have fun!

Hi, it's been a long time, but at long last I have another lethal update to bring you! I hope you'll forgive me for suggesting in a previous post here that lethal updates would be somewhat regular and predictable--that was a bit naïve of me. Sorry, I'm just not working like I have a quota, because that would be ironic.

New additions include:
- A new forest moon, Adamance
- Reworked Dine's exterior
- Two new entities outdoors, one new entity indoors
- Added Easter eggs which can be thrown.
- Two new suits in the rotating shop + a disco ball
- You can now run down slopes faster.
- A new hazard/trap indoors

Changes:

- The bell now makes chimes when dropped (which will alert enemies within a large radius.)

- Baboon hawks now spawn in groups of two, have 4 HP instead of 6, and do less damage when stabbing the player.

- Various small changes to the scrap output and spawn rates in moons, with the goal of making more moons rewarding to go to.

- It's possible to bounce off walls when hitting them at a steep angle.

- Slightly increased the weight of the shovel, to make each player less of a self-sufficient killing machine.

- Fixed crouch-sprinting; previously, pressing the crouch button while sprinting would cause you to crouch and then uncrouch at the same time; when spamming the key, this made it possible to sprint without making noise.
- Falling out of bounds no longer teleports you to the main entrance of the facility
* I know this kind of change might seem antagonistic to speed-runners, etc. But these made it possible to bypass Lethal Company's design and mechanics without requiring any more skill or strategy; I guess it would also make speed runs of Lethal Company less accessible to people who don't want to (or can't) spam a button very fast on the regular.
* As a side side note, I had targeted the jetpack's crazy efficiency for this same reason (safely bypassing part of the game), but I've realized it has an irreplaceable purpose as the most wacky gimmick item, so I will respect that.

- Since the manor layouts are generally more spread out than the facility layouts, manors will now always generate smaller when loaded. This was mostly an issue on Titan, which had a significant chance to generate absurdly large manors.
* To compensate, the size multiplier of indoor levels in Rend and Dine have been increased, which should result in them feeling the same as before. Dine now has the same size as Rend.

In the next update I want to add more creatures outside and inside, and I will probably focus a little less on end-game content for a while. I also still want to add more variety to interiors.

Hello employees, I hope you had a good Christmas. Now get back to work!!!

I've been taking a break, catching up on movies and writing and drawing, so this update isn't too crazy but has lots of little things. In Version 50 I hope to add lots of new creatures and map variation. (However since there are big changes in my life, I might not be able to work on it as quickly as I worked on Version 45.)
Edit: Sorry, I'm not as active on Steam so I forgot to mention here: Lethal Company won the Better With Friends award! Thank you, that is so cool.

Version 47 Notes:
- Added replayable challenge moons
* These are weekly moons that use the same random seed for everyone, based off the current week using the UTC time zone. The profit you make at the end of the challenge day will be uploaded to a leaderboard so you can compare your efficiency to your friends.
* The challenge moons also have randomly generated names, increased amounts of scrap, random starting credits, and other randomly tweaked properties.
* The point of this is less for competition and more to give us all a shared experience. It will also give even the most seasoned employees a challenge; I have no idea what moons will be generated for the months to come, but some of them will surely be crazier than others.
* If you're using a modded client, turn off all mods to guarantee you get the same moon as everyone else.
- Position of random lightning strikes, the destination of the inverse teleporter, contents of gift boxes, and the precise positions of scrap items are now deterministic and based off the random seed.

- Added the server tag feature for the public lobbies list. Type in a tag exactly to filter by servers that were created with that tag.

- Added a new type of hallway to the factory map type.
* For now I'll continue to add more rooms and variety to the current indoor map types, rather than adding new map types.


Changes to existing enemies:
- The thumper's movement has been reworked so its animations and acceleration should be more consistent.
* The thumper speeds up slightly faster after being hit, but its turn speed drops off more reliably when it reaches high speed.
- The bunker spider now becomes slightly faster when it is almost dead.
- The bunker spider's webs have a slightly larger collision radius.
- The forest giant is more likely to leave the ship alone after chasing a player near it.
- Slightly increased the audible range of the coilhead's footsteps.
- Made nutcrackers able to move slightly while aiming
* They only do this if they've fired at the same person several times
- Made the jester take longer to begin cranking

- Added a new journal entry
- Modified the bunker spider file to patch some confusing continuinity

- You can now take a small amount of damage when falling from a slightly lesser height.
* The height damage increases are intended to make verticality feel more important; for example I felt Titan's return trips were too simple for its level of reward.

Fixes :
- Fixed an issue introduced in the previous version where landmines instantly exploded when touching them, rather than waiting for players to step off.

- Made shovel collisions more consistent; you can now hit enemies around corners and nearby objects without it blocking the shovel.

- Fixed an issue which occurred when the masked enemy was interrupted while converting a player, which could result in the player becoming stuck or unable to move their mouse and sync position to other players
* Prevented a case where the masked enemy could create dozens of duplicates of the same player if that player was somehow not allowed to die, resulting in chaos

- Fixed an issue where items were incorrectly considered as being off the ship by the host if a player walked on the ship with them and didn't drop them (and vice-versa).
* Spray paint should now always disappear from the moon when you enter orbit
* Items from gift boxes should always stay on the ship when it moves

- Prevented a case where players could take the same item out of a gift box infinite times if it somehow was not able to be despawned

- Decreased the chance of gift boxes to spawn and removed Christmas decor from the item ship. The old item ship music is back.

- Fixed an issue where placing the extension ladder in the cupboard and then moving it would cause the ladder's colliders to become enabled even when holding them, which resulted in erratic movement.

Hello, and Merry Christmas! At the time of writing this I just released Version 45, so I hope it has been good. The next update will likely focus on maps and environments. Now for the real topic: I had asked you guys to vote for Lethal Company for the Better With Friends award, and you did! Lethal Company has been nominated for the Better With Friends award.

And you ALSO nominated Lethal Company for the Game Of The Year. Now, I wasn't thinking we would go that far, but you went ahead and did it yourself. And who am I to tell you to stop? It's really up to you.

But with such massive and polished games coming out this year like Baldur's Gate and Hi-fi Rush and Resident Evil 4, does Lethal Company really compare?

Of course the Company deserves the most prestigious award of all--it's not even a question! (You do want a promotion, don't you?)