Exhausted Batteries

Exhausted Batteries

Author: Solo00n

Flexible, host-authoritative control over the battery of every item in Lethal Company: capacity, starting charge, the ship charging station, lightning, and flashlight dimming.

Language / Язык: English · Русский

English

What it does

• Store-bought battery items arrive fully discharged.
• Change battery capacity with a global multiplier, per-item multipliers, or both (per-item wins over global).
• Per-item multipliers are auto-discovered into the config as you meet items in-game, including modded ones.
• The ship charging station gets a limited number of uses, shown as a counter in its hover text, e.g. Charge item: [E] [3].
• The charging-station counter is a single shared pool for the whole lobby, refreshed on take-off, with optional carry-over of unused charges and an optional explode-when-empty.
• Teleporters and the Signal Translator can be limited the same way: the regular Teleporter, the Inverse Teleporter and signal transmissions each get their own shared pool and counter.
• Lightning can charge items it strikes; a bolt intercepted by the ship's lightning rod can add a charge to the station.
• Flashlights dim as their battery drains (optional).
• Russian localization, auto-detected alongside RTLC.

How it works

Capacity is scaled through the item's run-time (batteryUsage), and the starting charge is set on spawn. The charging-station limit, the take-off refresh, lightning-to-items, lightning-to-the-ship (via the roof lightning rod / ship power surge), and flashlight dimming each hook a single game method. There is no batteryCharge field in Lethal Company: charge lives in insertedBattery (0..1) and the "capacity" is the item's run-time, which the multiplier scales.

Multiplayer (host-authoritative)

On connect, clients receive the host's config over the network and only apply effects while synced, or while they are the host. A client cannot give itself an advantage in someone else's lobby. The charging-station counter is one shared, host-owned pool, so co-op players draw from the same charges. Only Unity Netcode named messages are used, never a custom NetworkObject, so it cannot crash lobbies. Language and VerboseLogging stay local. Everyone should install the mod; the host's config is what the whole lobby plays with.

Requirements

• Lethal Company (V81)
• BepInEx 5.4.21+ (BepInExPack)

Installation

• Mod manager (recommended): install through r2modman, Mod Manager, or Gale. Dependencies are pulled automatically.
• Manual: install BepInEx, then place ExhaustedBatteries.dll into Lethal Company/BepInEx/plugins.

Launch the game once to generate BepInEx/config/ExhaustedBatteries.cfg, then edit it.

Configuration

[General]

| Key | Default | Description |

| --- | --- | --- |

| GlobalMultiplier | 1.0 | Battery-capacity multiplier for all battery items. |

| EnableIndividualMultipliers | false | Enable per-item multipliers from [IndividualMultipliers] and [ModdedItems]. |

| SpawnStoreItemsDischarged | true | Store-bought battery items arrive fully discharged. |

| InitialChargeMultiplier | 1.0 | Multiplier for the initial charge of non-discharged items (loot). Clamped 0..1. |

| VerboseLogging | false | Verbose logging to the BepInEx console. |

[ChargingStation]

| Key | Default | Description |

| --- | --- | --- |

| MaxCharges | 0 | Max uses of the ship charging station. 0 = unlimited. |

| ResetChargesEachDay | true | Refresh the counter each day, on ship take-off. false = total for the session. |

| CarryOverUnusedCharges | false | Unused charges carry over and add to the next day's allotment. |

| ExplodeWhenEmpty | false | Using an empty charging station makes it explode. |

| ResetChargesOnQuota | false | Refill every counter when the crew fulfils the profit quota. |

| HardResetEachDay | true | Strict daily reset: nothing survives the night. Overrides CarryOverUnusedCharges. |

[Lightning]

| Key | Default | Description |

| --- | --- | --- |

| LightningChargesItems | false | A