LTOWLethalCompanyBoomboxMod

Howdy, Pardner

To the lucky fella who happens to find this note:

Y'all mighta noticed the chests with equipment that have been left behind, carryin' some useful stuff, but there's one piece of equipment in particular I want to bring your attention to. It's a bona fide Boombox! Bought it from some company that claims to have truly professional employees.

That monumental relic not only plays some... (ahem)- "jammin' tunes", it also actually has a purpose that'll help you. It can work as a fair handful of fuel for the train, but the vibrations of its bass will also occassionally pierce the sands, possibly distracting the worm by making it seem like one of you pardners is movin' around.

Now hurry, ya got a train to catch...
- Gilbert

The Mod

Introduction:

Want to add a little something booming to your desert survival? Well, get ready, as this mod adds Lethal Company's Boombox to Wormtown!

It can be found in the same chests that other equipment such as rifles is found in, and it even includes all its original music! And it's high time to turn that grim desert into a groovy desert with this certified company jig. So now, get back to worm- uhm... work!

Customization:

Feel like adding your own playlist to the boombox? Or want to lengthen the amount of time you can enjoy the music? Then change it!

Go to this mod's Config file to change a handful of options, such as being able to load custom music from your own computer, setting for how long the boombox's battery can play, and how frequently a boombox that's lying on the sand will ping the worm's attention. There's a total of 9 customizable options, some of which affect the whole lobby while some are personal to your game only, so choose whatever fits you and your group!

Creation:

• My intention with this mod was to learn how to mod Wormtown from within a native Unity project, as opposed to just working in code.
  • This went really, really slowly, since there was no modding support for this game and thus no Unity-decompilers, and for some reason Unity version 2021 prevented me from importing the necessary assemblies despite version 2022 not doing that? Because of that, I also made this mod in v2022 instead of v2021 (what this game uses) as a last resort. I really hope it doesn't break...
• And, as you might have noticed, this mod first released as a v0.9.0 Test Release, since there was still stuff I wanted to change, but didn't want to keep this mod offline for too much longer.
  • The main things were the boombox's visuals not using the claymation effect and not turning invisible for the worm, these are now fixed.
  • But maybe some netcoding things will still need updating, and the sound could use a few extra touch-ups, especially when picking up and dropping the boombox.

Credits:

• Lethal Company, its boombox, and its model and sounds and music belong to Zeekerss, with a few songs having been made by ZedFox.
• Thanks to the people on the Wormtown modding discord server and to the TunnelersTrinkets mod for helping me understanding how to copy over the game's claymation effect to modded items.
• The loading of custom music into the boombox is directly inspired by, and reuses large swaths of code from, the Lethal Company mod Custom Boombox Music and its 'Fixed' counterpart.
• And thank you for checking out or even downloading this mod!