I like this idea a lot!! I’m a big big fan of nuzlockes and was even running emerald kaizo for a time. I will put more thought into this after my work weekend and try to film something next week. High priority suggestion here so thank you for that! 🙏

Technically it would just disable a moon, since the game automatically gets rid of the all the stuff if everybody dies on it (unless you mean the player themself dying and they can’t do anything if the other people land on it)

@@stop-533 I’m working on a special ruleset for the Nuzlocke since only disabling a moon or disabling an item wouldn’t carry the same weight as losing a pokemon, especially since I’m used to either sending the same moons over and over (which can be optimal depending on the moon), but also playing without items (I mostly run a flashlight for convenience and better lighting for videos, but I’m perfectly comfortable without that too). I haven’t quite finalized a ruleset yet but it’s been a fun challenge to think about so far!

@@stop-533 what I mean is if you die with a flashlight and metal sheet, for the rest of the run you can no longer use or buy flashlights or pick up and sell metal sheets.

​@@sheffaustin You could get a big group of friends, and when someone dies and their body gets recovered, they get put in the back of the line, but are still replaced by the next person. If the body _isn't_ recovered, then that person is out for the entirety of the game session, or until the quota is failed to be met.

that’s the best first way to experience an encounter with her, imo! I wish my friends and I didn’t know what she did before our first haunt

I was watching gameplay the other day where the person being haunted kept screaming and sounding on the edge of tears about it and everyone else like there's nothing there it was such an epic reaction

i got ghost girl the first moon i ever went on first time playing with my friends and when i saw her i had no clue how rare it was on the first moon

I do it because it’s information that I’d personally like to know, and as the only person in my friend group who even looks at the miraheze wiki I imagined that there’s a LOT of other people out there who don’t know the information is out there and would like to know that it is. More than happy to include that info and I’m glad someone out there appreciates it 🫡

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing that with us! 🙏 My friends, especially my friend Nico here and myself, are whole-heartedly invested into playing Lethal Company and finding new ways to share our experiences with everyone, so we're happy to be here and are ecstatic that people are loving what we put out :)

goofy shenanigans + immersive gameplay loop + room for self-imposed challenges is a GREAT combo. Most fun I’ve had gaming + making videos in a long long time

Good luck! Please do better than Nico and I did here lol. Losing that gold bar still hurts to this day

The same RNG that got them an earth leviathan on Experimentation😂

that’s super unlucky, but also really funny 😂

I feel that, a LOT easier to stay alive when you remember where your outs are! I've started leaving scrap trails behind me that lead me back to the exits. Doesn't work every time especially when your friends pick the scrap up but it's a strat! There's also the left/right wall hug strategy too, which is effective but I don't like using that one as much

This is part of the reasons why I don't explore too deeply into the bunkers 😭😭😭😭

I personally like taking note of those things and learned from playing with a lot of different people that the majority of people either don’t know this information or don’t know where to find it, so I want to share whenever I can! I’m glad you found this video to be helpful :)

Thank you! :) I'll definitely try it again as a duo, solo, in a group, as is, and with some of the suggestions shared in the comments here. Helps keep the gameplay fresh when collecting scrap serves additional objectives adjacent to the quota requirements!

Absolutely! 50+ lethal company videos later and my backlog of different ideas is INCREASING, rather than the opposite

such a great decision to give the ghost girl a spawn value on the intro map 😂

I would rather face forest giants at this point tbh, this session gave me worm-related ptsd

That's one of the reasons why march is my favorite free moon! this was before we learned that flashing with a radar booster can stun a giant though. We're pretty awful at navigating around giants otherwise

according to my own video, my friends and I couldn’t do it either 😂 at least not yet!

that just sets an insane precedent for monster encounters in the game 😂

I was so happy to see it too 🙃

@@sheffaustinive have 35 hours in the game and I have yet to find a gold bar

@@NickDa3rd gold bars have a 0.21% chance to spawn on experimentation, a 0.63% chance to spawn on march, and they don’t spawn on any other vanilla map so I’m not surprised 😅 I have almost 90 hours in the game and am just now learning that they spawn on march, even though march is my most played map

@@sheffaustin I copped one on Rend at least once, playing vanilla.

@@vert3432 I got those percentages from the Lethal Company MiraHeze wiki whose drop tables I thought were datamined from the game, but someone pointed out another discrepancy to me on the wiki (specifically that you can actually kill spore lizards; the wiki says you can’t), so I’ve stopped treating those numbers as absolutes since then

Thank you! Next is putting effort into actually completing the challenge I put together for myself 😂

that's why it hurt so much when we died lmao

Encouraging people to play the game, especially in ways they might not have thought of, is my goal with these videos so I'm glad this one has inspired you in that way :)

I like sharing whatever I can and whenever I can! There's so much going on beneath the surface of this simple game and it's super rewarding when you become aware of those elements and apply them to your gameplay. I'm hoping to shed more light on it all as I continue to upload videos!

I will be looking forward to it then😃@@sheffaustin

I like these suggestions!! especially the ones that aren’t map/scrap/monster dependent. I will consider these for a future challenge run! 😁

I’m glad this is what people are vibing with because I’d much rather make this kind of stuff anyway! thank you for the follow :)

I agree with Lethal Company having crazy challenge potential! That's why I'm here uploading every day. Not so much to demonstrate my own mastery (there are people FAR better than me at the game), but rather proof of concept of the game's challenge potential. 1. I like the idea of someone dying NOT failing a run right away, but not collecting their loot might be difficult to enforce in certain cases. I think this rule can flex depending on who you play with, but I like the idea of the run continuing but the dead person not participating for the rest of the run. ie, the run would die when everyone dies. 2/3. I like the idea of using ranks to determine minimum scrap collection per moon! Way better than picking an arbitrary number. I'll look into how accurate the grading system is though, as I got a B rating earlier today despite getting 383/383 scrap 4. I like the task wheel idea, I'm just trying to draft it in a way that can be completed on any map regardless of spawn. Not every map will have killable monsters, an apparatus, etc. But it's not impossible. Maybe the task wheel will be for the duration of the whole deadline, forcing you to go to moons that increase your odds of completing the task assigned to you

@@sheffaustin Yeah, wheel spins with less rng would be a better idea, as for the iron challenge, I came up with that idea half awake, I like people just not participating better, they can just sit on the ship and aren't allowed to help the others in anyway.

happy new year to you too!! this is a super cool comment to read :) thank you for your kind words!

eclipse only iron man and you MUST carry an active boombox the whole time 👀

@@sheffaustin I honestly forgot about eclipse, since I'm not the one who hosted during the about 6 hours I've put in. I might try to convince my buddies to do Eclipse only for a run.

@@DannyCapM8 there’s an eclipse only mod out now too, gonna play around with that this week!

thank you for the feedback! I cut out a lot of deadtime throughout the playthrough in an effort to keep the video more engaging, without taking out any of the important details. I realized in watching my footage back that I speak in intervals since I’m constantly switching between focusing on what I want to say and paying attention to what’s going on in the game, so I cut a lot of the space between my sentences out lol

ah I see, thanks for pointing that out! I’m glad I posted this video as is, because so many people have shared some great suggestions and are helping me refine the current ruleset or come up with completely new ones. While I don’t think skipping deadline days to sell at 100% would be in the spirit of the run, I wouldn’t have been mad if someone did that once just to exploit the ruleset. I’d be more proud in having found that loophole than in completing the challenge that way since that’s clearly easier but also something I clearly overlooked. As for the Titan thing, I never explicitly said it but the plan was to actually collect a piece of scrap and call it there. But now that I think about it that might be just as easy since Titan tends to spawn scrap right at the entrance Maybe another way to handle that is to be required to meet the quota right after you come back from Titan, and not play the 9th day? but that also seems pretty easy. I’ll think about it more when I actually make it that far, and also suffers from the “land and then leave for 100%” strat lol. I’ll think about it a bit more before I give the challenge another go!

that’s how I consume most of my youtube content especially since I commute for an hour and a half every day I work, so I wanted to make videos that I would actually “watch” too! Glad you enjoyed this one 🙏

ah okay, no wonder why I die 99% of the time lol. I thought the worm was approaching me from the front but thinking back about all the times I’ve seen it eat my friends on the monitor your info checks out. Forward it is!

good job!! you’re better ironmen than we are 😂🫡

Let me know how it goes! I’m gonna try it again soon, but I want every moon to be eclipsed next time lol

he shouldn't have went for the ladder 😂

​@@sheffaustin better luck next time I guess :D

Finished the video, too bad you got unlucky but im looking forward to seeing more videos like these!

it still hurts my soul to this day 😅 we’ll make up for it though soon enough, more iron man content coming this week!!

I also prefer playing with friends, so it would mean the world to me if everyone showed the same support to the friends I’m collabing with on their channels as they do on mine! Trying to make this youtube journey work for all of us 🙏 another friend challenge series starting today btw!

I do too! I’ve been getting a lot of comments asking for me to bring this back so that’s gonna be my focus for the next week or so I also try to reply to every comment to show my appreciation for people sharing their thoughts with me in the first place! the support I’ve received in these past two months or so has been insane, so I want to match that energy in whichever ways I find possible 🙏 I’m trying to do youtube full-time by the end of the year and I’m already pretty close, so I have every reason to be as active as I am now and for as long as I can! 🫡

I thought about that, but if we don't use items to begin with then the restriction doesn't feel too bad. I'll have to think about how to incorporate items at some point, but if you check out my spin the wheel videos I make it a requirement to bring an item with me on every run!

ok how about if the challenge included things like stop and yield signs and all ship upgrades and the diy flashbang @@sheffaustin

@@youssefmahany3859 I'll look into it! The yield sign and diy flashbang are a LOT worse than their store-bought counterparts so it could be funny incorporating them into a challenge!

0.44% chance specifically! at least according to the Miraheze Wiki

thank you! I hope you have a happy new year :)

If you liked this just wait until I upload the Hardcore Ironman version of this challenge 👀

@@sheffaustinUltimate ironman version when???

when I saw that I was like “wait we might actually have a shot at doing this!” what a way to take advantage of a 0.18% drop though 😂

thank you for watching! I’ll be revisiting this challenge soon with a few different twist. I’ve been having a blast playing this game and making these videos, so I hope you continue to enjoy what I put out! :)

@@sheffaustin I think I will! your videos are very charming :)

I got that information from the Lethal Company miraheze, which was datamined from the vanilla game files the only time I’ve ever had coilheads on experimentation was during modded playthroughs

Mods. On vanilla it is actually 0%.

that's correct! Only if you prolong your glance though. Sometimes it's good to keep checking to make sure he's actually retreating because sometimes a quick glance won't register and he'll just get you normally

I still think about it everyday 🥲

i agree

I have more solo content coming up this week too!

working on it since that seems to be the most requested change here!

whole quota on each moon is in the works! but I actually think that’s easier than the iron man. The reason why we tried so hard to get scrap early is because we not only needed the 550 for Rend on the second quota, but we would also need the 1300 by the end of the second quota to be able to go to dine and titan back to back in the third quota. Whatever extra scrap we could get from the safer moons would help us survive tougher moons and unfavorable weather conditions In order to make that much, assuming we don’t spend our starting 60 credits, we would need to collect ~300 scrap per moon in the first and second quotas in order to afford both Dine and Titan on third quota. Could always sell whatever we collect on Dine for 33% value to contribute to the Titan fund though, so the actual number could be lower.

just got over 800 solo with no items quota 1 but got Eclipsed on March and couldn't safely make it to an entrance so I went to Rend, got Eclipsed again but at least got a few hundred out. I was 315 behind what I needed for both Dine and Titan so I realized I'd need about 600 from Dine to sell at the reduced rate and had over 560 but got eaten by an Earth Leviathan on my way back with the second load of scrap. I left behind a $19 metal sheet on Offense because I didn't think it'd be worth it but with that and the loot I got from Dine I would've had enough. The challenge isn't too hard as long as you don't get screwed over on weather. It should be fairly easy with 2 people if you plan things out a bit more.

@@sheffaustin btw you'd be selling what you get on Dine at ~53% so it's not too bad.

@@potato4dawin1 Sounds like a good run! The challenge is definitely intended for one person since it should be ezpz duo+ if you know what you're doing and play it safe. I liked the idea of this format since the challenge would only take 8 moons at most to complete, which can make for a short and sweet gaming sesh. The other open-ended challenges can take a few hours and sometimes multiple sessions to complete which, while a good display of skill, just takes a lot of time. But that's why I'm doing what I can to grow a following here on youtube and make it as a content creator. I'd love to push myself to my limits as a gamer, but pushing myself as a creator takes priority at this time. I have just as much fun coming up with new challenges and putting them out there for people to try as I do in trying my hand at them myself. Would never propose a game mode that I wouldn't personally enjoy. That said, I'm glad that you're giving this challenge a shot and did even better than we did! The next step is being able to do the challenge while every moon is eclipsed, and there's now an eclipse only mod to do just that. So I'll be attempting that run in the near future

@@potato4dawin1 thought it was 33% for some reason, my b. 53% is WAY better and a way stronger contender for consideration

this makes me want to do a hitless ironman now 👀

I like that idea! I had a similar one where you have to grab at least one scrap item from every moon for each person. I think it’s fair to have to actually play every moon, wouldn’t feel like a proper challenge if you could bypass unfavorable setups I’ll especially consider money goals for multiplayer runs since having even one more person makes the challenge significantly easier (despite what my own showcase might say, lol). If we want to stay vanilla, maybe you have to buy a jetpack every time you visit the company building. That’s probably fair for a 4-stack and should provide a proper challenge

I saw Thalonius do a run like that too! I’m down to try it at some point. Both solo and as a duo!

I like the idea of forced inverse teleporter, I’ll look into it 👀

I still think about that gold bar to this day

idk if the rock was above me, I want to say it was just beside the rock with me. as someone who dies to sand worm too many times I’m not trusting what anyone says about being safe from worms unless it’s running away from them lmao

@@sheffaustin Yeah I've seen a lot of people repeating the advice that worms can't jump up through solid terrain like walkways or rocks but I'm not convinced it's true. Plenty of stuff in this game can just clip through solid objects when they need to, I doubt the worms are complex enough to check for blocking terrain.

ironman was more of a nod to my background in both osrs and melee, both of which have their own ironman modes! flawless iron man incoming? 👀

I think that would just be optimal! The only reason we bought flashlights was for better lighting in the video, and I'd rather not just raise the gamma as an alternative I think the penalty should be that we're REQUIRED to buy items, maybe like the cosmetic ones, thereby taking away from our moon funds!

thank you! 🙏 in this one I want to say the only mods we were playing with here were ShipLoot so we wouldn’t have to bother with making separate loot piles, and then MoreCompany for the cosmetics

nah I definitely noticed, that’s why I kept glancing back at him to make sure he was actually backing away and not coming towards me! a little hard to talk when tracking/managing a bracken lol

I like some of the suggestions that have been shared here in regard to increasing the difficulty. Still gonna try to beat the base version in the meantime since I haven’t even done that yet 😂 I like the moon-specific challenges though, I’ll brainstorm some challenges around that 👀

@@sheffaustin fair enough, also cool that you saw my comment 😁

@@Rekz00 I think it's cooler that you clicked on my video! Thank you for sharing :)

thanks for the tip! 🙏

I thought it was strange for spore lizards of all things to be invincible, but I never tested it because I thought it was funny and I like having them around. Killing them could also give something actually dangerous an opportunity to spawn in its place That said, I’ve stumbled upon some mods that give killable creatures a drop table so I might have to bring a shovel to them for science…

@@sheffaustin i do agree i usually leave them and the hoarder bugs alone so thats theres less chance of something more dangerous, also pro tip the slimes cant open doors and you can run jump over them so you can trap them in rooms if you have the time

Both challenges are in the works!

I’ll look into it! I’ve full cleared some of the free moons before but I’m not sure it’s possible to full clear the paid ones in vanilla if not just for the sheer amount of scrap that spawns on each moon

I think the play then is to drop the loot before it even reaches you so you can get away before it jumps, and then bring everything back one by one. Once the worm starts its attack it's already over most of the time for both the person and the loot

Worms are dodgeable with loot but you can't just run forward and expect things to work out. They predict where you're going to be based on the direction you were already going

@@clawcaps3224 As far as I can tell, that's not actually true. When the worm decides to attack it teleports so that you're directly in the center of the attack area. The amount of time it takes before it breaks the surface and kills you is randomized, though, so sometimes you can easily escape and sometimes it's actually impossible even with 0 lbs (although rarely). When it's roaming it just chases after you like any other creature does. It's slow but it's hard to know exactly where it is to avoid it, often it's in front of or beside you, especially if you're moving fast. That's where the "run backwards" strats come from, although I'm not convinced they actually help at all.

I enjoy the fun and goofiness of first encounters, but after I've experienced something once that's a sign for me to either stop playing if I didn't like the game or start getting good if I enjoyed it. I super enjoy the gameplay loop this game has to offer as well as the low entry barrier for the game to be a fun challenge, which is why I'm able to play so much and upload every day

I was thinking about that in my duo run with my friend Larry yesterday, though I think you’d have to be really really lucky to even be able to afford a teleporter early 🙃 teleporter might be nicein one of my future group ironman formats though! duo ironman with Larry goes up tomorrow, group ironman sometime soon 👀

nice, good job! 👏

that one's already on my to-do list! Ghost girls are gonna go crazy in that format 😂

I've thought about doing that with 4 people, but I can see if I can get enough people together to do more!

Nico loves him some Doja Cat 🫡

I plan to do that this week, actually 👀

‘cause he tryna indulge in that

they have a 0.44% chance to spawn there, super rare encounter!

@@sheffaustin I watched a friend of mine run into one there TWO DAYS IN A ROW. Insane luck, haha.

yeah that’s definitely not accurate, hygrodere is not killable afaik

That's awesome!! This challenge isn't meant to be impossible, but it IS meant to be completed. So good job! :)

thank you! I'm working on some different variations of this Ironman challenge too (the obvious one being solo ironman!)

you can type “Scan” on the terminal to see how many items there are on any given moon!

I want to say we were only using MoreCompany and ShipLoot here! As well as whatever dependencies those mods have. MoreCompany so we could have the hats, and ShipLoot for better item scans.

gold bar is SO hype on these runs lol, sorry about your teammate though!!

@@sheffaustin na it's fine. We ended up selling them to hit quota

W comment 💯

ShipLoot by tinyhoot! my favorite QoL mod tbh

Ty@@sheffaustin

Dors sveryone need to get it or is it p' the local?@@sheffaustin

Does everyone need to get it or is it the local? @@sheffaustin

@@Ciboullete I want to say it's client-side so not everyone needs it, but I can't say with 100% certainty that there won't be weird bugs if only a few people have the mods, especially if other mods get added to the mix too If you ever run into any trouble with how the game runs, I would look into ensuring everyone's running the same mods and the same configurations for them!

I have some modded ironman content in the works!

I like these! just gotta guarantee that there are killable entities or an apparatus in the first place. would be a shame if a run ended just because conditions out of your control weren’t met

I like the decrease the scrap value idea, I’ll look into that! I also have plans for eclipse only and modded difficulty modifiers so stay tuned for those 👀

@@sheffaustin Ig i somehow predicted the eclipse only lol, but definitely, i want to watch the video as soon as you even dare to press publish.

I have a redo of this challenge going up tomorrow!

I'll try that once I've completed the challenge at least once 😅I've done a one item slot challenge run though if you want to check that out! have two uploads on my channel for that

posted the start of my solo hardcore ironman run today and will be posting more ironman stuff soon!

@@sheffaustin goldmine youtuber

ShipLoot !

@@sheffaustin Thank You, btw nice vid!

I kinda like that! Though I think the loadout would be x pro flashlights and y shovels. We don't really use items all that much. Maybe we just get one of everything off rip, including flashlights, and are required to carry at least one store item with us

Got a run like that in the works, except we can't even pull the lever at 11 we just have to let the ship autopilot lol

they have a 5.73% spawn chance on experimentation!

nutcracker is one of the few enemies that can spawn on every map, surprisingly enough!

actually one of the saddest moments I've had in my 100+ hours of gameplay :(

full clearing some of the later moons would be crazy, iron man or not lol