Lethal Company Guides — Monsters, Scrap and Hitting the Quota

Landing, meeting the quota, and getting back to the ship alive on your first day.

All 70 scrap items: value, weight, and what to carry versus leave when your hands are full.

How the quota works, how to sell scrap, and how to plan a day that clears the target.

All 25 entities: hazard ratings, indoor vs outdoor, and how to answer each threat.

Stamina, exits and not dying — the core skill of keeping the crew alive.

The 16 facility entities: how they hunt and the corridor habits that keep you safe.

The 9 surface entities: day versus night, and how to cross the moon safely.

What the store sells and how to spend credits between days on the right tools.

Flashlights, shovels and stun tools — when each earns its slot and how battery changes a dive.

Reading a moon, planning a route in and out, and using the terminal to stay oriented.

Working as a crew: splitting roles, sharing the haul, and retreating together.

Diving alone: lower risk, honest loot, and the discipline a solo diver cannot skip.

What ends divers early: getting lost, greed, and splitting the crew.

Low-effort habits that pay: exit awareness, value-per-weight looting, using the databases as memory.

Which scrap is worth carrying, ranked by value per weight from the real 70-item scrap table.

Every moon ranked by risk versus return, and when the travel cost is not worth paying.

What to buy first, what to skip, and the buying order for a crew with limited credits.

The stalker that advances when you look away: hold eye contact, back out, leave.

It only moves when nobody is watching. Assign a watcher and walk the crew past it.

It is blind and hunts by sound. Stop running, stop talking, walk away.

The giant on wooded moons. Route around the trees, never cut through them.

It charges in straight lines. Clear the lane, use corners, let it hit a wall.

It follows you, then winds up. The cranking sound is your order to leave.

They guard a pile of scrap. Kill first, loot second, and take the egg.

Harmless until provoked. Walk wide, never swing, and leave if it sprays.

They drop from the ceiling onto your head. Look up at every doorway.

The webs slow you and it moves fast in them. See the web, go around.

It spots you and shoots at range. Break the line of sight, use real cover.

Slow slime that kills on contact. Close doors, never back into a dead end.

The hive pays well. Take it last, on the way out, with your route clear.

Taking the beehive wakes them. Grab it last and walk straight to the ship.

It surfaces under you. When the ground shakes, keep moving toward a door.

Mimics that look like your crew, cannot be scanned, and follow you outside.

Sweeps the floor until someone is alone, then pulls a knife. Killing it releases hornets.

Hops on a beat that speeds up as the day gets later. Listen, step sideways, leave early.

Only the player she haunts can see her. If she appears to you, walk out.

They only attack when they outnumber you. Count the troop before you split up.

Babies cry for 17 seconds, then grow for good. Calm it, or leave the facility.

It only lands on players who are standing. Crouch, and watch the smoke trail.

They latch on and fly you around. Five at once means you lose control of the landing.

Harmless four-winged birds. Killing them is pointless, but a flock can distract an Old Bird.

Harmless swarms that scatter when you run through them. Watch out for the terminal typo.

The Shovel costs 30 credits and fails against five entities. What to buy, and what scrap hits back.

Carrier, fighter, scout and ship operator. Plus what to buy with your first 100 and next 300 credits.

One shovel, one light, and the entities that end a solo run with no counter at all.

Experimentation, then Assurance, then Vow. A five-day plan and the moons that punish new crews.

Ranked by credits per pound, not price. Why a 73-credit roll of toilet paper beats a heavy sign.

The starter map. Manticoils, locusts, and an Old Bird rate of 2.22 percent. Where to drill your habits.

The second free moon. Baboon Hawks first appear at 10.31 percent, and stealing starts here.

The Maneater moon. A 13.98 percent spawn rate and a 17-second crying clock that never resets.

Manticoils at 100 percent and hawks at 28.44. Turrets and landmines are the real threat.

The last free moon. Mild spawns, long open surface, and weather that decides whether you go.

Masked, Ghost Girl and Butler. Nothing you can buy solves this moon. Call names instead.

The Butler moon at 16.35 percent. Killing one releases a hornet swarm. Barber speeds up at night.

The moon people pay for too early. Old Bird outside, Masked inside, and no gear answer to either.

Old Bird at 45 percent and the highest Masked rate in the game. Hostile in both zones at once.

Old Bird at 86.96 percent. Carry no weapons. The crouch key is the entire answer.

The Baboon Hawk capital at 55.32 percent. They attack when you are outnumbered, and they steal.

Every keyword: MOONS, ROUTE, BUY, SCAN, SWITCH, FLASH, PING and EJECT. Plus the shortcuts it accepts.

Fog, rain, storms, flooding and eclipsed. None of them raise scrap value, so read the forecast first.

Turrets shut down for only 4.5 seconds. Landmines chain-detonate. How to cross both.

Barber hop intervals halve by 11pm. Set the turnaround before you land, not after dark.

A 155-credit bar at 77 pounds can be worse than three light items. Trip maths, not price.

What the scanner records, how INFO works, and the two entities that never register at all.

Fifteen utility items at a flat 16 lbs, and only items worth 0 credits fit. What it actually stores.

Teleporter 375, Inverse 425, Signal 255, Loud Horn 100. What each does and the order worth buying.

The only way to drive two-handed scrap home. What it carries, how it breaks, when to skip it.

Intern to Boss: 50, 100, 200 and 500 XP. Why poor grades demote you and what the 1,500 fix changed.

It needs 17 Vain Shrouds to exist, and its nest grows without limit unless your crew stares it down.

A red rope entity still in the code, a moon with no map, and the one developer behind both.

It stuns, it does not kill. A reusable stun grenade at thirteen times the price.

Falling is fatal and flight makes falling easy. When it earns its price, and when it kills you.

A map mark plus two terminal tricks: FLASH stuns monsters, PING guides a crewmate.

Thirty credits for a window instead of a kill. Throw it past the entity, not at it.

One light each at 15 credits, one shovel for the group at 30, and land on Experimentation.

Behind on quota? Sell first, fly cheap, go light. Why the expensive moon is the worst answer.

Thirty credits and the cheapest kill in the game. The five entities it cannot touch are the five that end runs.

Fifteen credits with a low charge. The battery, not the beam, is what decides how long you stay inside.

Twenty-five credits for a larger battery. When that ten-credit difference pays for itself, and when a spare beats it.

Twelve credits, map-wide, large charge. The cheapest item in the store and the one solo players should skip.

Opens locked doors in 30 seconds. The half-minute standing still is the real price, not the 20 credits.

One hundred and twenty credits for speed and stamina, with a squeaky voice attached. A late buy, not a fifth light.

Sixty credits for music that counts as a sound source. The one bait use, and why carrying it inside is a mistake.

Fifty credits for a persistent mark. The direct answer to the thing that kills more crews than any monster.

Sixty credits for a horizontal climbable ladder. The vertical half of a facility crews never search.

Credits per pound, not per item. Why four light items beat one 77-pound gold bar every day.

Scrap is worth nothing until it is sold, and the quota is checked against a daily cycle. Sell every trip.

The last-day sprint: sell everything, land cheap, run short trips, and stop chasing one big item.

No scout, no guard, nobody on the ship. Which crew roles survive at two, and the rules that change.

All three inside, or one on the ship. Two setups, what each costs, and the split that gets people killed.

Get out, take stock, then decide whether today is still winnable. The first minute sets the rest of the day.

Straight lines toward the exit, never corner yourself, drop what slows you. The ship is where chases end.

The one-wall rule, counting turns, marking junctions and a turnaround time. Losing the exit is the real killer.

The way out is rarely the way in. Find the fire exit first, use it as the rally point, and keep your turnaround.

Monitors, map, radar and terminal. The crew inside cannot see the building from above, and that view is the whole job.

Sellable scrap per trip, not per facility. Why the boring free moon out-earns the expensive one every day.

Stamina buys running, weight taxes it, and the crew moves at the speed of its most loaded member.

Read the weather, buy for the moon, agree the exit and the turnaround before anyone confirms the route.

The money is banked and only the equipment is at risk. One more short trip, or stop and stay safe.

Reserve the slots that are not scrap, drop the worst value-per-weight item first, and never drop the light.

Sound hunters and sight hunters need opposite answers. The two-question check for anything you cannot name.

Real Thunderstore download counts, which mods are libraries, and the client-side versus host-only rule that decides whether a lobby loads.

Graphics options that return frames, the keybinds players actually remap, voice chat and sensitivity. The short list that matters.

All 25 entities with hazard rating and location. Filter indoor vs outdoor.

All 70 scrap items with value range, weight and flags. Filter by conductive or two-handed.