Download the following two files from the Releases page in Github:
- lethal_company.yaml
- lethal_company.apworld
You also need to install the Archipelago Multiworld Randomizer version 0.4.6 client.
Install the APLC mod from the Thunderstore (you may also install the mod via the R2ModManager).
Then, follow the below steps to setup the randomizer:
The first thing you need to do is configure the lethal_company.yaml file. For that, open and edit the YAML to fit whatever settings you want to play with:
- name: Enter your desired slot name here, could be almost anything. {player} or {PLAYER} are replaced with the slot number, while {number} or {NUMBER} will increment once for each duplicate YAML name
- game_mode: Can be collectathon, trophy, or credit hunt, in trophy mode you need to collect one trophy apparatus from each moon, in collectathon mode you need to collect a certain amount of AP chest scraps, and in credit hunt you need to receive a certain amount of company credit items.
- collectathon_scrap_goal: Can be any number from 3 to 30, default is 10. This is the number of AP chests you have to collect to beat collectathon mode. This does nothing in other modes.
- credit_replacement: Can be any number from 5 to 80, represents the percent of filler items that are replaced with company credits for the credit hunt game mode. This does nothing in other modes.
- required_credits: Can be any number from 10 to 100, represents the percent of company credit items that are required to beat the game. This does nothing in other modes.
- checks_per_moon: Can be any number between 1 and 10, default is 3. This is the amount of checks per moon that can be gotten from completing that moon
- money_per_quota_check: Can be any number between 100 and 10000, default is 500. This is the amount of total quota you must complete to get the check. Be aware that each quota only contributes the required scrap towards this goal, not the sold scrap. If you sell 500 scrap but the quota is only 130, you will only contribute 130 towards the check.
- num_quotas: Can be any number from 10 to 50, default is 20. This is the number of quota checks you can get.
- starting_inventory_slots: Can be any number from 1 to 4, default is 4. This is the number of inventory slots you start the game with, the rest have to be unlocked.
- starting_stamina_bars: Can be any number from 0 to 4, default is 4. This is the number of stamina bars you start with. The rest have to be unlocked.
- randomize_scanner: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true you start without the ability to scan and must unlock it.
- randomize_terminal: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true you start without the ability to open the terminal(which means you cannot route to any moon other than your starting moon)
- randomize_company_building: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true you start without the ability to go to the company building
- scrapsanity: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true 50 new checks are added to the game for collecting at least one of each type of scrap.
- exclude_hive: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true the Bee Hive location is guarenteed to not have a progression or useful item behind it
- exclude_shotgun: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true the Double-barrel location is guarenteed to not have a progression or useful item behind it
- modify_scrap_spawns: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true scrap spawn rates are modified in the following ways: all scrap have the same spawn chance, each moon has five scrap that are exclusive to it, and there are 7 scrap that are common between all the moons. This makes it a lot easier to find every in-logic scrap, which removes those times you are going to the same moon again and again, trying to find a rare item which blocks progression. There are also three special scrap(apparatus, hive, and shotgun), which stay in their normal moons.
- min_money: Can be any number between 0 and 5000, default is 100. This is the minimum amount of money that the money checks will reward you with.
- max_money: Can be any number between 0 and 5000, default is 1000. This is the maximum amount of money that the money checks will reward you with. This can't be less than min_money
- starting_moon: Can be any of the following: experimentation, assurance, vow, offense, march, rend, dine, titan, or randomize. This sets the moon you start the run on.
- split_moon_grades: Can be 'true' or 'false', when 'true' the moon_grade option is ignored and the low, medium, and high_moon_grade options are used instead. When 'false', the inverse happens.
- moon_grade: Can be any of the following: s, a, b, c, d, or f. Any moons completed on this grade or above will complete a moon check.
- low_moon_grade: Same options as moon_grade, only affects Experimentation, Assurance, and Vow.
- medium_moon_grade: Same options as moon_grade, only affects Offense and March.
- high_moon_grade: Same options as moon_grade, only affects Rend, Dine, and Titan.
- The following are filler items, and they fill the empty spots in the item pool according to their weight values, where higher weighted items will appear more than lower weighted items. All have a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 100
- time_add: Default is 20, adds one day to quota
- scrap_clone: Default is 20, clones one scrap on the ship
- birthday: Default is 20, sends one item from the dropship
- weight_reducers: Default is 5, reduces stamina use and increases speed
- bracken_trap: Default is 8, spawns a bracken in the next facility that can spawn a bracken
- haunt_trap: Default is 4, spawns a ghost girl in the next facility that can spawn a ghost girl
- time_trap: Default is 30, removes one day from quota. If quota is already at one day left, it'll wait until the next quota to remove a day
- money: Default is 80, adds a random amount of money to your total
- death_link: Can be 'true' or 'false', when true turns on death link. When a party wipe occurs, a death link is sent, and when a death link is received, a random player dies.
Once your YAML is configured, navigate to your Archipelago installation folder (will vary depending on where you installed Archipielago, but an example path would be C:\ProgramData\Archipelago). In the Players folder paste your YAML file as well as the YAMLs of any other players participating in the multiworld (Note: Only one YAML per lobby of Lethal Company. An example of such would be 2 players playing in the same LC lobby while another player plays a different Archipelago game (or LC lobby)). You would need only 1 YAML for Lethal Company and 1 YAML for the other game/s.).In the lib/worlds folder, paste lethal_company.apworld. Then, open the archipelago launcher and click Generate which will generate a .zip in the Output folder found in your archipelago installation, in the same path where the players folder is. Once the generation finishes, navigate to the archipelago website, click on get started, then click Host Game, then "Upload File" and select the zip folder in the Output subfolder of your Archipelago folder. The game will generate along with the Spoiler log. Click on Create New Room and that’s done! The Archipelago server is now running!
Run the game through Thunderstore (or as you would usually start your modded LC game), and boot up a save. Once you are ready, you can type /connect archipelago.gg:port in the chat, then follow the instructions as they appear. Everyone in the lobby should connect when the host performs a /connect, but if anyone joins late, they can type /connect with no arguments in the chat to connect themselves to the multiworld.
In multiworld games setups, locations are the places you need to go to unlock new things. The locations in Lethal Company are as follows:
- Log Entries(Excluding first log).
- Bestiary Entries.
- Completing moons on a B or higher grade.
- Completing a set amount of quota.
- Gathering each type of scrap for the first time
The items are:
- Moons
- Shop items
- Ship upgrades
- Inventory slots
- Scanner
- Stamina bars
- Strength training(stamina decreases slower and you move faster)
- Filler
- Scrap cloning
- Money
- Quota time increases
- Random items in a dropship
- Traps
- Bracken spawns
- Ghost girl spawns
- Quota time decreases
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE - WILL CHANGE OVER TIME, MAY BE BUGGY AND BROKEN As of 0.6.0, APLC now supports adding custom scrap, monsters, moons, and store items to the randomizer. To do this, first you must install all custom content that you want to include, as well as the UnityExplorer mod. Boot up the game and create a new save file, then open the C# console. From the dropdown, click REPL, then replace all content in the file with the line: APLC.Plugin._instance.GetGameLogicString(); Click run, then navigate to the Lethal Company console window. Highlight any text to temporarily pause the game, preventing the console from autoscrolling while you are trying to copy the logic string, then highlight the entirety of the logic string, from the first { to the last }. Once it's highlighted, copy it, then go to your lethal company apworld. Rename the file to lethal_company.zip and open it, then copy the lethal_company folder into the worlds folder. Finally, inside the lethal_company folder, replace the contents of imported.py with data = , then paste your logic string. Now, you can generate a multiworld using this apworld to use the custom content.
Custom content doesn't work if multiple people are playing lethal company with differing custom content(this would require multiple lethal company apworlds, which would collide and break). However, if everyone playing lethal company uses the same custom content, they should all be able to use the same apworld and coexist.
Eventually, this will be added as a yaml setting so that a few of the main issues are fixed.
Multiworlds might be unbeatable with custom content. If this happens, let me know so I can improve the logic string generation method.
Thanks to my friends for helping me test this and fix a few annoying crashes. Thanks to everyone in the Lethal Company thread in the Archipelago discord server, who helped me fix a ton of bugs and get a bunch of ideas, without which this archipelago mod probably wouldn't be possible. Thanks to Faxium for rewriting the setup portion of this guide, making it easier to understand. Thanks to StevieSP for helping troubleshoot problems in the discord.