Biodiversity - What is it?

Biodiversity is a mod that aims to expand Lethal Company's current selection of enemies by adding variants of pre-existing entities and some original stuff along the way.

Their goal is to provide unique gameplay interactions and spice up the already present gameplay loop, along with aiding the player in some cases.

Currently adds:

• 2 Enemy variants.
• 1 Sub-entity.
• 2 Critter variants (simpler, environmental entities).
• And more coming Soon™.

Entities

The Aloe - Bracken Variant

Ogopogo - Earth Leviathan Variant

Vermin, Prototax and Leaf boys - Critter Variants

Roadmap - What can I expect from Biodiversity in the future?

We have big plans for the future, here's a rough outline of what's to come!

• At least 4 more enemy variants.
• A few more critter variants.
• A few cool items.
• More environmental interactions.
• Unique spawn mechanics.

Credits

Here's all of the wonderful people who helped make this possible!

bio-monty:

Director, project manager, lead concept artist, lead concept designer, texture painter, beta tester, sound guy, world's most annoying boss.

I do commissions :P
Twitter: https://x.com/phomtoonlink

s1ckboy:

Modeller, rigger, concept designer, sound designer, recruiter, overall reliable guy, the team secretary.

loaforc:

Lead coder, Honeyfeeder coder, Prototax coder, spawn mechanics coder.

Github: https://github.com/LoafOrc

Lous Silva:

Lead coder for the Aloe.
Github: https://github.com/LouisSilva

Ccode:

Lead coder for Ogopogo & Vermin, beta-tester.

Github: https://github.com/Ccode-lang

TestAccount:

Leaf boy & item coder.

Github: https://github.com/Test-Account666/

lordham:

Modeller, rigger, concept artist, concept designer.

Twitter: https://x.com/lordham6

Mist:

Modeller, rigger.

Discord: umisst

Meatball Demon:

Modeller, rigger, texture painter, animator.

Check out his stuff!
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/meat_ball_demon
Twitter: https://x.com/M3ATBALLD3MON

Bobilka:

Item modeller and texture painter.

Check out his work!
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bilkathefried

Nethersome:

Lead critter animator, modeler.

Check out his movement!
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nethersome826

Siphonife:

Animator, animation and model consultant.

Check out Surfaced!
https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/SurfacedTeam/Surfaced/

Lydion:

The Ultimate Super Cool Epic and Awesome Lead Audio Designer™, Aloe, Honeyfeeder and Ogopogo sfxs.

Zaitoon:

Critter sound effects, Prototax and Leaf boy sfxs.

Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/zaitoon-tv

KryingKraken:

The beautiful art you've seen on this readme is by them!

Check out their work!
Twitter: https://x.com/KryingKraken

GenericGMD:

Support for Ogopogo on Generic Moons v5.

Check out his work and Generic Moons v5!
Twitter: https://x.com/GenericMattDev
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@genericgmd
GenericMoons: https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/Generic_GMD/Generic_Moons/

Our beloved ideas guys - Without these OGs Biodiversity would have never amassed such a following!

Masachriss - Amazing thread regular and original concept designer of the Aloe, name and lore debater.
Adrigamer64 - 2nd concept designer of the Aloe, overall nice guy and biology wizz.
Catguy - Original concept designer and artist of the ------ and other ideas.
Lunar - Thread regular and original concept designer of the Ogopogo.
Lordham - Thread regular and major contributor, love this dude.
Sniker - Original concept designer for a bunch of ideas in the thread.
Alli/Basil - Thread regular and resident Aloe lover.
SourceShard - Ideas for around 20 critter variants

Special Thanks

FlameBurnt - For inspiring the concept of enemy families/variants, check out their socials! Twitter: https://x.com/FlameBurnt

Xu Xialolan - For creating Giant Specimens and inspiring the concept of Biodiversity.

Mushie and Sebu - For helping me come up with the first enemy variants (the three hoarding bugs).

Siphonife - For helping me and a ton of our team members figure out our tools, thank you so much!

Known Issues - Whoops :3

There are some problems with our entities that we'll look into fixing in the future, like:

• Leaf boys and Prototax spawn at times they shouldn't.
• Ogopogo can wander into the ground on certain spots on Vow.
• Leaf boys don't trigger Eyeless dogs.

Version 0.2.5. - v70 Compatability!

Boom bird:

• Fixed them freaking out if another naturally spawned Boom bird is killed through unusual means.
• EnhancedRadarBooster is now compatible with Boom birds!
• Fixed the radar malfunction's sound being audible from the interior (it is still audible from the exterior, which I see no issue with so if you don't like it cope and seethe idk)

Coil-crab:

• Made their bodies render properly when inside the ship if the door is closed.
• Fixed rotation of Coil-shell item so that it's held properly.

Ogopogo:

• Fixed strange log spam when using radar boosters when an Ogopogo is active.

Misc:

• Mod is now compatible with v70 of LC.
• Progress on the Wax Soldier has started.

Version 0.2.1. - THE NOT WAX SOLDIER UPDATE

Boom bird:

• Made them able to be killed by Earth Leviathans.
• Made it so they can get hurt by all damage sources.
• Added flight animation for when the ship takes off.
• Added a fallback for when Boom birds become stuck upon spawning (they will now despawn after 2 seconds with an animation).
• Added sounds to the ship light malfunctions.
• Optimized a shit ton of code.

Coil-crab:

• Changed scan node to "Coil-Crab"
• Made it so they're targettable by Old birds.
• Made it so they're killable by Earth Leviathans.

Ogopogo:

• Added an extra check for if the player is inside.

Aloe:

• Fixed whack ass footstep bug with the Aloe.
• Made it so player ragdolls don't trigger landmines when being carried by the Aloe.
• Made some slight performance improvements to its code.

Misc:

• Fixed Nethersome duck weight bug.
• Made all items compatible with Runtime Icons.

Version 0.2.0. - THE NOT WAX SOLDIER UPDATE

WE ARE OFFICIAL OUT OF THE PUBLIC BETA TEST PHASE! FEEL FREE TO RESET YOUR CONFIGS AS THERE HAVE BEEN A TON OF BALANCE CHANGES SINCE 0.1.3.! WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE, AND WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS UPDATE.

Aloe:

• Finally fixed the sound issues.
• KNOWN ISSUE (?): The player's visor hud appearing in front of the player's view during the Aloe's dragging, maybe, i think? idk :P !!!! Also other players may still be able to see duplicate bodies when you're getting dragged maybee

Version 0.1.92. - THE NOT WAX SOLDIER UPDATE (BETA)

THIS VERSION IS A PUBLIC BETA TEST!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT THE FEATURES ADDED YOU SHOULD DOWNGRADE TO 0.1.5., 0.1.4. OR 0.1.3. IMMEDIATELY!!!

Misc.

• Finally Prototax global sound (Thank you Ccode!).
• Fixed the Leaf boys' scream sound being desynced.
• Some other cool fixes by Figo.
• Added Kanie to the Ogopogo's defaults.
• Added a new config for Ogopogo.
• Removed peak mod PhysicsAPI as a dependency.
• Removed Wax soldier.

Version 0.1.91. - THE NOT WAX SOLDIER UPDATE (BETA)

THIS VERSION IS A PUBLIC BETA TEST!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT THE FEATURES ADDED YOU SHOULD DOWNGRADE TO 0.1.5., 0.1.4. OR 0.1.3. IMMEDIATELY!!!

Misc.

• Fixed networking issues.
• Fixed typo in the Boom bird bestiary.
• Removed Wax soldier.

KNOWN ISSUES I FORGOT TO WRITE ABOUT LAST TIME:

• Aloe's terminal video files are brokey atm.
• There's a duplicate helmet (the player's hud) that appears when the Aloe is dragging/healing the player.

Version 0.1.9. - THE NOT WAX SOLDIER UPDATE (BETA)

THIS VERSION IS A PUBLIC BETA TEST!!! IF YOU DON'T WANT THE FEATURES ADDED YOU SHOULD DOWNGRADE IMMEDIATELY!!!

Aloe:

• Added config for its healing to deal damage instead.
• Added config to change the max speed of the Aloe during all phases.
• Added config to set whether the Aloe will detonate vanilla landmines and Surfaced seamines while kidnapping a player.
• Removed the view width and view range configs from the Aloe because they are very misleading, and people shouldnt be touching them.
• Fixed the Aloe's global fear effect.
• The Aloe sounds now have a very very slight (random) variation in pitch.
• The Aloe's map dot shouldn't be pink anymore.

KNOWN ISSUES: The Aloe's sounds are brokey right now

Upcoming changes for Leaf boys:

• Reworked wandering.
• Added spawn animation.
• Added the following configs for the Leafboy: player forget time; scared speed multiplier; base movement speed; scary player distance.

KNOWN ISSUES: The Leaf boy's "yell" sound effects are host-only.

Upcoming changes for Prototax:

• Reworked wandering.
• Added spawn and idle animation.
• Fixed global sound effect.

KNOWN ISSUES: The Prototax's "spew" sound is global.

Ogopogo:

• Added a way to cheese the Ogopogo.
• Fixed bug where it would wander under the ground due to elevation changes in areas with water.

Items:

• Added new sound effects to the rubber duck.
• Added a config for developer items.

Misc:

• Added Boom birds.
• Added Coil-crabs.
• Removed Wax soldier.
• Changed 99% of all debug logs to verbose logs which need the verbose logging setting in the config to be turned on to use.
• Added spanish, german and russian translations.
• Added another quote to the quotes list.
• Fixed bug where the mod would produce an error if the Surfaced mod wasn't installed.

Version 0.1.5.

• Readme update (hah)
• Bug fixes and new content will come soon, I promise. For the time being, these are things I (Monty) am able to change from the github, and so I figured I'd drop this, I hope it's enough for the time being.
• Balance changes to weights and damage values.
• Added PhysicsAPI as a dependency to help on development of future enemies and items.

Version 0.1.4.

• Added 0.1.3. changelog (fuck you power company)

Version 0.1.3.

Ogopogo:

• Implemented blacklist to prevent wandering on certain moons (Thanks Ccode).
• Fixed bug where Ogopogo would be able to grab people who are inside the ship. We implemented a check to "block" the grab if the grab box touches a ship-bound player.
• Fixed a bug where Ogopogo would soft-lock players when the grab box touched two people at the same time.
• Change default lose range from 70 to 60.
• A buncha other bugfixes idk

Vermin:

• Fixed them entirely.
• Made them spawn on Ogopogo as opposed to their water origin.
• Implemented Vermin moon blacklist, included Adamance and Dine by default since they "un-flood"
• You can enable em in the defaults now :thumbsup:

Aloe:

• Fixed neck IK script breaking like crazy and causing her to spaz out at times, sorry 'bout that!
• Fixed typo caused by usage of a different english type which lead to logspam about Aloe's skin color.
• Changed heal animation to make the Aloe look down.

Version 0.1.2.

Ogopogo:

• Fixed Ogopogo spawning inside interiors with water, finally.

Aloe:

• Fixed Aloe heads twitching a lot during the healing animation.
• Increased the minimum health needed for Aloes to kidnap players.
• Attempted a fix for health HUD bugs related to Aloe healing.
• Made Aloe avoid players better during stalking phases.

Misc:

• Made changes to the readme.
• Removed debug feature that allowed the knife to harm the user.

Version 0.1.1.

Ogopogo:

• Implemented a bandaid fix to prevent them from bothering people inside the facility. They now are unable to target players inside.

Vermin:

• Fixed log spam for Vermin on flooded weather.
• Disabled Vermin by default through the config file.

Prototax:

• Fixed model clipping into the ground slightly on certain terrain.
• Made hit and spore spew sound effect trigger eyeless dogs.
• Fixed them spawning only at night (they now spawn during the day).

Leaf boy:

• Fixed model floating above the ground.
• Made all of its sound effects trigger eyeless dogs.
• Fixed them spawning only at night (they now spawn during the day).

Added scrap item:

• Nethersome's rubber duck.

Version 0.1.0.

Updated description to remove typo, whoops!

Version 0.0.1.

Released.