LCGoldScrap Lite

An experimental fork of Simon Tendo's LCGoldScrapMod 2.2.7, focused on finding valuable gold scrap and using three shop tools. It retains 50 natural gold scrap types with their existing interactions.

Package version: 1.0.2. Internal plugin version: 2.2.7.3. Target game version: Lethal Company v81; this update still requires in-game and real multiplayer verification.

Retained tools

Tool	Default base price	Purpose
Golden Hourglass	133	Slows the day's passage of time using the original tool behavior.
Golden Ticket	50	Preserves carried items during teleportation, retaining the original normal/inverse teleporter and ticket-consumption rules.
Golden Glove	800	Retains its three combat and remote-item-handling abilities.

Enter gold store in the terminal to view the tools, an item's English name to buy it, or its name followed by info for details. gold scrap displays a short overview.

Disabled content

The other 17 store entries are unavailable for purchase:

Group	Entries
Suits, furniture, and interactive objects	Bronze Suit, Silver Suit, Gold Suit, Golden Throne, Gold Trophy, Gold Medal, Groovy Gold, Gold Toilet, Goldfather Clock
Mining items	Golden Pickaxe, Gold Nugget, Gold Ore
Other store items	Gold Crown, Credits Card, Directory LOG, Cat o Gold, Safe Box

This fork also disables Gold Fever and its rewards, Gold Sale, mining-node generation, special-date triggers and password overrides, active story-log generation and related independent XML persistence, random player tags, optional joke-sound replacements, selectable prototype models, and the optional extra Gold Crate integration.

Vanilla sounds and models are preferred where available, with necessary fallbacks retained. The useful or dangerous interactions of the 50 natural scrap types remain.

The original goldscrapassetbundle is reused. Disabled content still exists in that bundle, and legacy registration identities are retained. This fork does not reduce the asset bundle's size or automatically remove old items from saves. Retaining identities is not a guarantee of safe migration from an original-mod save.

Configuration

Edit BepInEx/config/GoldScrapLite.cfg, or use LethalConfig if installed. Restart the game after changes. There are 115 active settings: 11 original global settings, 1 compatibility setting, 3 tool prices, and 2 settings for each of the 50 natural scrap types.

CONFIG_EXAMPLE.cfg in the download is a reference copy of the defaults, not the active configuration file.

When the new file does not exist, an existing BepInEx/config/LCGoldScrapMod.cfg is copied to GoldScrapLite.cfg to migrate your settings. An existing GoldScrapLite.cfg is never overwritten by this migration, and the old file is not deleted. After migration, edit GoldScrapLite.cfg; subsequent changes to the old file are not synchronized. The plugin GUID remains LCGoldScrapMod despite the new configuration filename.

Tool prices

Each tool has BasePrice in its own section: Shop - GoldenHourglass, Shop - GoldenTicket, or Shop - GoldenGlove.

Defaults are 133, 50, and 800 credits respectively.
0 means free. Prices cannot be negative.
Final price = individual BasePrice × global Multiplier Price, converted to whole credits. Setting the global multiplier to 0 makes all three tools free.
The host sends the final prices to clients. Clients do not apply the multiplier a second time.

IndustrialGoldSafe compatibility

Compatibility / Disable Natural Spawns With IndustrialGoldSafe defaults to true.

When IndustrialGoldSafe is also loaded, gold scrap does not spawn naturally on vanilla or modded moons. Safe rewards, shop tools and existing items remain available.
Set this option to false to allow both safe rewards and natural gold scrap. Existing moon selection and per-item spawn settings still apply.
Without IndustrialGoldSafe, this option has no effect on natural spawning. IndustrialGoldSafe is not a required dependency.
The host controls this behavior. The loaded plugin GUID is checked at generation time; the mods' dependency order is unchanged.

During natural scrap generation, gold entries are temporarily excluded from the level pool, including the game's special single-item and boosted-item selection paths. The original pool and boosted-item index are restored afterward, including when generation throws. Gold item registrations and the safe reward pool are not removed.

Individual scrap spawning

Each natural scrap type has a Scrap - <folderName> section, using its stable asset folder name:

Setting	Default	Meaning
`Enabled`	`true`	Allows this item to spawn naturally.
`SpawnWeightMultiplier`	`1`	Multiplies this item's spawn weight; allowed range: 0–100.

These are relative weights, not spawn percentages or guaranteed item counts. A multiplier of 1 retains the existing weight; 2 doubles it. Actual appearance depends on other items in the pool, the game's selection process, and integer weight calculations.

Setting Enabled = false or SpawnWeightMultiplier = 0 prevents natural spawning. It does not delete existing items. Positive multipliers still respect global spawn settings and moon restrictions.

The original global controls remain: vanilla moon selection, minimum/maximum value multipliers, spawn-weight and carry-weight settings, the shared tool-price multiplier, modded-moon spawn settings and travel-cost threshold, terminal scan behavior, and the original tool-balance option. Their defaults are unchanged; all new item switches start enabled with a multiplier of 1.

Multiplayer and installation

Every player needs the same Lite fork version and asset bundle. Do not install this fork alongside the original LCGoldScrapMod or mix the two in one lobby. They share the plugin GUID LCGoldScrapMod and original assembly identity.
The host controls natural spawning and effective tool prices. Client-side configuration values do not override the host; the client's local settings screen is not a display of the lobby's effective configuration.
Joining clients cannot purchase these tools until host settings and final prices have been applied.
When using a local ZIP, each player must import it separately. r2modman profile codes do not embed a locally imported mod's DLL or asset bundle. A published Thunderstore package can instead be downloaded through its package listing.

Verification status

The 1.0.2 update is checked with real BepInEx configuration binding, linked production spawn logic, Unity Netcode post-processing and assembly metadata checks. Fixtures cover the default-on compatibility option, missing Safe plugin, opt-out behavior, vanilla and modded pools, host-only filtering, boosted-item index remapping, and cleanup after generation failures. Separate fixtures cover store availability and host-price application.

These checks exercise selected production logic and real BepInEx configuration binding; the game-facing fixtures use stand-ins. They do not prove game startup, asset loading, actual RPC delivery, save migration, compatibility with other mods, or successful multiplayer play. Those runtime tests remain pending.

Credits, source, and license

The original mod is by Simon van Luxemburg, known as Simon Tendo. This fork reuses the upstream code and assets. It is an independent derivative and is not an official or endorsed Simon Tendo release.

The upstream copyright and MIT license notice are retained in the distribution.

AI disclosure

OpenAI Codex assisted with this fork's implementation and documentation. This fork reuses the original upstream asset bundle; its art, models, and audio were not redrawn or regenerated with AI for this fork.