COMPANY-MANDATED MESSAGE:
Listen up, employees! The Company has very important news to share!
Due to a recent series of earthquakes across all moons, remnants of mining activities have shaken loose and revealed scrap items covered in a golden coating. The Company suspects excavators had found gold in the region, and celebrated the occasion by turning their wares into golden versions.
These golden variants are EXTREMELY VALUABLE, effectively doubling the selling value of the original item. So, needless to say, the Company expects ALL employees to return with as many of these golden items as possible. However, as an aside, our risk analysis team does stubbornly keep saying these golden items are also more dangerous, because the gold coating would make the items roughly 1.5 times heavier, and due to gold being a conductive metal, but do NOT let this deter you from your scrap-collecting contract!!
That is all for this message. We hope you stay a great asset to the Company.
The Mod
Introduction:
Ready to dive back into the facility to push for even higher quotas?
This mod adds 30 rare gold versions of scrap that greatly reward you for managing to bring them back to the ship. Sell them at the first next deadline to get a ton of extra spending cash, or save them up for later once the quotas get tough to stay in the game and earn your keep for the Company.
But don't expect the journey to be easy, as the added weight and lightning-prone nature of gold scrap will add an extra layer of challenge...
Creation:
- Previous versions of this mod were a little more convoluted than your average LethalLib scrap mod. I'll try to add a technical explanation to the Thunderstore page, under 'Wiki'. But the current version should be stable and flexible, void of major bugs.
- This mod first released as a v0.9.0 Test Release, to get feedback and fix final bugs. Patch notes can be found in the Changelog.
- Thank you so so so much to everyone who already downloaded the Test Release! Seeing that download count soar up was absolutely unreal. And I recommend upgrading to v1.4.0, as there are some very cool additions and very important fixes.
- I still have more ideas for this mod, so please stay tuned to see what more this mod will have to offer.
- Something I don't think I'll be able to do though, is animations. Scrap with special animations seem to store them in such a way that it'll be very difficult to use them on the gold version.
- Personally speaking, the creation of this mod was a giant 2-month rollercoaster of a journey with ups and downs and thrills and fears and joys and long evenings, but I'm super happy with the result, and I hope you'll enjoy it too!
Credits:
- Big props to Zeekerss, seriously. After having to dissect Lethal Company and how it works so much for this mod, I have come to greatly respect what he has delivered with this game, and it's taught me more programming than my college ever has over the past 4 years.
- Massive, massive, MASSIVE thank-you to poprev-3d for answering a question on the Unity Forums, providing a ready-to-go method to copy models during runtime. Without it, the first version of this mod would likely never have happened.
- Also a huge thank-you to iwillbenice on the Unity Forums, as they provided a method that made saving and loading audio clips possible. Again, without it, this mod likely would not have gotten released at all.
- And despite having gotten rid of the dependency on LethalLib, I also want to thank Evaisa for creating LethalLib and UnityNetcodePatcher as, again, this mod would have never gotten off the ground had these tools not been available.
- Once again thank you to the Lethal Company Modding Wiki and HarmonyLib for all the guides, tools, and all their other work that made developing this mod possible for someone as new to programming as me.
- A big thank-you too to all my friends who supported me in the making of this mod, helped test it, and have given feedback about what they liked and hoped for with this mod. A few key features were modeled after things they enjoyed, or things I thought they would enjoy, so I simply wouldn't be as proud to present this mod had it not been for all their support! <3
- And thank you for checking out or even downloading this mod!
