ScienceBird Tweaks

Just some small changes my friends and I wanted that I couldn't find elsewhere (though some have since popped up as separate mods by others, I'm grouping the ones I want here for convenience and simplicity).

I reccommend all players have this mod installed (and ideally the same/very similar config), but if you want to try using it client-side, use the Client-side Mode config option.

In the list below, I'll mention which tweaks (to my knowledge) should work client-side. My current testing setup isn't great for testing de-synced modpacks, so if any of this is wrong or if anything breaks client-side, please let me know.

The default values of these tweaks are intended to not interfere with gameplay in an undesired way.

This should minimize upfront annoyance, but I recommend you consider which ones you want to enable.

SHIP TWEAKS

Fixed Ship Objects

Default: ON - Client-side

Do you relate to being unable to press the teleport button while launching or landing the ship? Does it seem like its hitbox drifts away from where the button looks like it is? Have you ever stood on a piece of ship furniture (like the welcome mat) and jittered all over the place? Well, your struggles end now.

All this tweak does is ensure all ship furniture/unlockables will be parented to the main ship object, and thus all of their colliders will stay in sync with the ship.

• Only Fix Vanilla Objects: This is a setting to avoid any unwanted errors with attempting (or failing) to fix modded furniture items.

Default: ON

• Alternate Fix Logic (EXPERIMENTAL): If you end up having any unexpected issues with furniture while using this tweak, you can try this. It's not super thoroughly tested, but it should simplify the code a bit to reduce possible points of failure or incompatibilities with other mods.

Default: OFF

Fixed Suit Rack

Default: ON - Client-side

Same as Fixed Ship Objects, but for suits: properly parents them so they are selectable easily on takeoff and landing without jitter.

Consistent Catwalk Collision

Default: ON - Client-side

If you've ever desperately clambered onto the edge of the ship's railing only to slide right off since you didn't catch the right part of the collision, this change is for you!

This just slightly extends the floor collision of the ship catwalk so you can consistently land on it from the other side of the railing, allowing you to then gracefully vault over it at your leisure.

Tiny Teleporter Collision

Default: ON - Client-side

Shrinks the placement hitbox of both teleporters so they can be more easily placed close to walls or in small spaces (and require less hassle with finnicky rotation).

The exact size of the hitbox is also adjustable in one of the config sections.

Note that this also makes the build selection hitbox smaller, so if you're getting annoyed by being unable to move the teleporter easily, try increasing the hitbox size in config.

Large Lever Collision

Default: OFF - Client-side

Enlarges the start lever's hitbox so it can be pulled more easily at a moment's notice.

The exact size of the hitbox is also adjustable in one of the config sections.

Begone Bottom Collision

Default: OFF - Client-side

Removes the colliders from bottom components of the ship (e.g. thrusters and structural supports), making it easier to access if that is desired. This is still moon dependent, and the underside of the ship still cannot be accessed on the Company moon, for example.

Ship Item Removals

Default: OFF - Client-side (except maybe interactables like clipboard and sticky note?)

Under "Ship Tweaks Removals" in config, you will find a list of items you can remove from the ship according to your aesthetic preferences:

• Service manual clipboard
• "SIGURD" sticky note
• Teleporter button cord
• Long tube (the one connected to the generator which is strewn across the floor)
• Generator (next to the door)
• Helmet (on the counter by the monitors and teleport buttons)
• Oxygen tanks (leaning against the wall)
• Boots (by the suit rack)
• Air filter (in the corner by the monitors)
• Batteries (on the counter by the monitors)

GENERAL TWEAKS

Big Screw

Default: ON - Client-side

Changes the name of the "big bolt" to reflect what it actually is (a big screw).

Falling Rotation Fix

Default: OFF - Client-side

Normally, if you drop an object from high up, it will rotate much slower than the rate it falls. This means the object will hit the ground while its rotation is still being updated (and the game will still consider it in a "falling" state).

The only immediate consequence of this bug is the visual effect of objects strangely spinning on the ground when you drop them from high up. This change may also end up making them set off mines on contact in more cases (rather than setting them off only after their rotation is finished).

In any case, this tweak scales this rotation so it will finish while the object is still in the air and its falling state will end normally.

The default value of this tweak has been changed to OFF after some reports of issues (the fix is so small that it's really not worth risking). However, its code has remained unchanged for a long time and I've never encountered any issues nor recieved any other reports, making it likely a mod incompatibility. So, it should be safe to enable this in most cases, but if you do end up having issues please send the details to me.

Old Halloween Elevator Music

Default: OFF - Client-side

Reverts the behaviour of the mineshaft elevator to its behaviour from the 2024 Halloween patch (v65 to v68), playing a random clip of groovy music by ZedFox. The track is synced, so players using the same mod will hear the same elevator music track.

ButteryStancakes has a more extensively customizeable version of this feature, and if that mod is detected this tweak automatically disables to let it take priority.

BETTER DUST CLOUDS

A few tweaks to make the normally unused dust clouds into a more interesting and gameplay-relevant weather. These consist of:

• Dust (Space) Clouds: Adds a space to DustClouds weather condition when it's displayed on the main level screen or terminal monitor, making it Dust Clouds.

Default: ON - Client-side

• Thick Dust Clouds: Increases the thickness of the dust clouds (exact value configurable).

Default: OFF - All clients

• Dust Clouds Noise: Adds windy sound effects to the dust clouds (same as you hear on blizzard moons like Rend and Dine).

Default: OFF - All clients

(Before and after)

Since Dust Clouds is an unused weather in vanilla, you'll only see this weather if it's explicitly added on a modded moon, or you use a mod like Dusted to add them into the normal weather rotation (which I recommend if you're interested in these changes).

MOD TWEAKS

These tweaks do not require the relevant mods as dependencies, and if they are enabled without those mods, nothing will happen.

Various Mod Patches - JLL/LLL/Wesley's Moons

Some quick patches I put in for issues and inconveniences I've encountered:

• JLL Noisemaker Fix: Fixes occasional noisemaking item malfunctions (e.g. Wesley audio logs not playing) by initializing the RNG functions of JLL objects when a moon loads to avoid an occasional bug with null RNG functions.

Default: ON - Client-side

• LLL Unlock Syncing: Manually applies the host's unlocked moons to all clients, so any moons the host has, the clients will have too (addressing an issue where unlocks in Wesley's Moons could become desynced).

Default: OFF - All clients

• Wesley's Moons Tape Insert Fix (EXPERIMENTAL): A quick patch which attempts to fix a problem where clients would be unable to interact with the casette tape loader or story log machine. I only did fairly light testing with 2 players, and this involves a lot of messing around with player IDs, so I can't be certain how this will operate in varied multiplayer circumstances.

Default: OFF - All clients

Video Tape Skip - Wesley's Moons

Default: OFF - All clients

If you like the tapes in Wesley's Journey™, but don't want to sit through the video every time, try this new and improved skippable cassette loader!

While playing, the projector will give you a prompt to skip the currently playing tape to the end and unlock the moon immediately.

Note this may have some unintended side-effects when used with tapes with special effects like the cursed tape.

True Blackout - Mrov Weathers (EXPERIMENTAL)

Default: OFF - Client-side (?)

Along with disabling all the lights like the Blackout weather condition usually does, this will also darken the emissivity of associated light textures. What this means in practice is lights will not look pure white or with a texture reflecting an "on" state. Instead, they will look dark/dim as if they have been turned off.

Technically this makes the Blackout condition slightly harder to navigate, but this really only exists to make moons more visually appealing when this weather is active.

This tweak should be stable overall, but there will be a significant lag spike when the blackout first loads. Performance will be unaffected afterwards.

Terminal Stock - SelfSortingStorage/TerminalFomatter

Default: ON - All clients

A little patch for the niche interaction between SelfSortingStorage's Smart Cupboard and mrov's TerminalFormatter: items in the cupboard will now count towards the "owned" column in the terminal's store menu.

Try scrolling around or re-entering the store menu if you have any issues with the item counts not being immediately updated.

Diversity Computer Begone - Diversity

Default: OFF - Client-side

Removes the floppy reader computer and floppy disk spawns from Diversity if you don't want those features of the mod (this shouldn't cause any compatibility issues even if you don't have Diversity installed).

This is also compatible (though redundant) with v0xx's more thorough patch DiversityNoFloppy.

GAMEPLAY TWEAKS

Snare Flea Forgiveness Options

Default: Vanilla - All clients

Provides some alternatives to the vanilla behaviour of the snare flea/centipede:

• Second chance: provides players with a second chance, as the snare flea will leave them alone one time after bringing them to low health (default/vanilla is 15 HP).

  • This is equivalent to the singleplayer mechanic, just implemented in multiplayer (any config changes to this mechanic will also affect the singleplayer mechanic as well).

• Fixed damage: The snare flea will do a fixed portion (default 50%) of a player's maximum health before dropping off them (when set at 50%, players will always be killed on their second encounter if their health is above half, and killed on their first encounter if it's below half).

  • To account for Lethal Company's built-in "extra life" when a player reaches critical health (saving them from lethal damage once), a snare flea will always damage a player when they are at critical HP.

These come with config options like the low health threshold for second chance and the health % for fixed damage.

Contact

Let me know about any suggestions or issues on the GitHub, or if you'd prefer you can mention it in my Discord thread (I'm "sciencebird" on Discord).

Version 3.1.5

• Fixed teleporter cord removal not working if using alternate fix mode

Version 3.1.4

• Added a config option to enable the simplified Fixed Ship Objects logic (separate from Client-side Mode)
• Changed Falling Rotation Fix default value to OFF after reports of potential issues

Version 3.1.3

• Added README and license to GitHub along with some other clean-up
• Properly registered DLL version
• Added Client-side Mode config option which determines LobbyCompatibility status and disables a bunch of networked behaviours
• Added some client-side alternative handling for Fixed Ship Objects which doesn't require a network prefab

Version 3.1.2

• Added LobbyCompatibility

Version 3.1.1

• Issues with mod loading when mods associated with mod tweaks are not installed should be fixed

Version 3.1.0

• Added some misc. patches for Wesley's Moons, JLL, and LLL:
  • Ability to send the host's unlocked moons directly to clients, so all players will have the same moons unlocked
  • Fixed some noisemaking items sometimes not working (e.g. Wesley's story audio logs) due to either an incompatibility or issue with JLL
  • Added prototype fix for clients being unable to interact with the tape player or story log machine
• Made default behaviour of Fixed Ship Objects to only fix most vanilla furniture, with an option to fix all furniture
• Optimized the code a bit so failed parenting of modded furniture should be less laggy while loading in and produce less errors
• Updated skip tape interact icon

Version 3.0.1

• Fixed Wesley Tape Skip breaking story log machines (oops :3)

Version 3.0.0

• Generalized ship object parenting fixes into one tweak which should apply for all furniture/unlockables
• Added various tweaks to Dust Clouds, now in their own category "Better Dust Clouds"
  • Increased dust cloud thickness to make it an actual hazard (config adjustable)
  • Audio to go along with Dust Clouds weather
  • Also includes previous tweak Dust (Space) Clouds
• Added Self Sorting Storage/Terminal Formatter tweak adding compatibility between the two, so items in the smart cupboard are counted when determining ship equipment stock
• Added Wesley's Moons tweak allowing you to skip a video tape by interacting with the cassette loader again
• Adjusted big screw tweak to work under more circumstances (e.g. dropping from gift box, being taken out of Self Sorting Storage cupboard)
• Added debug mode for personal testing purposes

Version 2.1.1

• Added options to remove various items from the ship
• True Blackout tweak now supports "BlackoutIgnore" override (ignores light objects with parents named "BlackoutIgnore")
• Fixed teleport button parenting so the buttons won't linger after a run ends
• Fixed client-side exceptions with Fixed Suit Rack tweak
• Fixed some potential exceptions with fall rotation fix if inventory becomes desynced

Version 2.1.0

• Added various ship-related tweaks:
  • Fixed Suit Rack
  • Larger Lever Collision
  • Begone Bottom Collision
  • Tiny Teleporter Collision
• Dust Space Clouds tweak will now also fix "DustyClouds"
• More re-organization of config and README

Version 2.0.0

• Added Fixed Teleporter Button tweak
• Added Fall Rotation Fix tweak
• Added MrovWeathers True Blackout tweak
• Added Snare Flea balance tweaks
• Adjusted default values so no unwanted gameplay changes should be present on install
• Overhauled README

Version 1.0.1

• Edited README

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release