Combined Meltdown Playlist

Randomly plays one of 36 songs when the apparatus is removed and the facility begins melting down. The host selects the song and sends that selection to every client, so everyone hears the same track. Every song appears once in the playlist, giving each track an equal chance to play.

The pack skips PizzaTowerEscapeMusic's eager startup decoding for these 36 files. It opens only the selected OGG as an on-demand stream when the meltdown starts, avoiding the repeated loading stutter caused by decoding the entire playlist.

This is a synchronized music pack for PizzaTowerEscapeMusic and FacilityMeltdown.

During a meltdown it also grants configurable percentage-based stamina capacity and regeneration boosts. These are applied on top of the final stamina changes produced by the game and other mods, including Lategame Upgrades. The package also contains a host-side compatibility failsafe for FacilityMeltdown's automatic departure.

The package includes a configurable meltdown HUD with a reactor countdown, contextual ship or entrance distance, synchronized now-playing information, and a spinning music disc. Every HUD element normally appears red and can pulse yellow to the selected track's BPM.

Installation

Install this package and its dependencies with a compatible Thunderstore mod manager. The following older music packs can then be disabled or uninstalled:

• Sondar-LabirhinMeltdownMusic
• Wallet-GracefulMeltdown
• neRufuss-RUN_FOR_IT_Meltdown_Music

Every player should install the same version of this package. The host is authoritative for the selected track and all stamina/HUD settings. Synced settings apply for the current lobby without overwriting each client's local configuration file. Players without the package will not receive its synchronized selection or configuration.

Required configuration

Open BepInEx/config/bgn.pizzatowerescapemusic.cfg and set:

[Scripting]
Scripts = CombinedMeltdownPlaylist

Open BepInEx/config/me.loaforc.facilitymeltdown.Client.cfg and set:

[Audio]
MusicVolume = 0

Setting FacilityMeltdown's music volume to zero prevents its original music from overlapping the playlist. This setting also mutes FacilityMeltdown's warning voice lines.

After launching the game once, stamina settings are generated in:

BepInEx/config/combinedmeltdownplaylist.sync.cfg

[Meltdown Stamina]

## Percentage of extra effective stamina capacity during a meltdown.
## 20 means 20% more stamina.
ExtraStaminaPercent = 20

## Percentage of extra stamina regeneration during a meltdown.
## 50 means regeneration is 50% faster.
ExtraStaminaRegenPercent = 50

Both values are percentages and can be set to 0 to disable that individual boost. The boosts apply only while a FacilityMeltdown is active and the ship is landed. Ship departure, end-of-round, and meltdown cleanup hooks all disable them as redundant failsafes. The mod does not replace sprintTime or another mod's stored stamina values.

Meltdown HUD

The HUD is shown only while a FacilityMeltdown is active and the ship is landed:

• Outside, the enclosed reactor countdown appears to the right of the vanilla clock and distance points to the ship.
• Inside, the enclosed countdown moves to the top center and distance points to the main entrance.
• While spectating, the countdown moves to the bottom left, the now-playing panel remains visible, and distance is hidden.
• Distance is anchored at the bottom right to avoid the chat panel.
• The now-playing panel appears at right-center with a transparent spinning disc and stationary record-player tonearm.

All 36 included tracks have hard-coded title, confirmed-author, BPM, and beat-offset metadata. Future unknown tracks use a readable filename-derived title, omit the author, and pulse at the fixed fallback interval.

HUD settings are generated in BepInEx/config/combinedmeltdownplaylist.sync.cfg:

[Meltdown HUD - General]
EnableHud = true
HudScale = 1
HudOpacity = 1
BaseColor = #FF2020
FlashColor = #FFD21A

[Meltdown HUD - Elements]
ShowReactorTimer = true
ShowHundredths = true
ShowTimerPanel = true
TimerPanelOpacity = 0.32
ShowDistance = true
ShowSelectedTrack = true
ShowTrackAuthor = true
ShowDisc = true
DistanceUnits = Meters
DistanceDecimals = 0
DiscSpinSpeed = 90

[Meltdown HUD - Flash]
EnableFlashing = true
UseTrackBpm = true
BeatCadence = EveryFourBeats
FixedFlashIntervalSeconds = 4
FlashFadeSeconds = 0.45

DistanceUnits accepts Meters, Feet, or GameUnits. BeatCadence accepts EveryBeat or EveryFourBeats. The fade is automatically shortened when necessary so the HUD returns fully to red before the next pulse.

The [Meltdown HUD - Layout] section provides separate X/Y offsets for the outside timer, inside timer, spectator timer, bottom-right distance display, and right-center track panel.

The host's values in both Meltdown Stamina and every Meltdown HUD section are synchronized to modded clients when they join and whenever the host changes them.

Forced-takeoff compatibility fix

FacilityMeltdown can abort host-side initialization when optional custom-enemy handling throws an exception. This package contains that optional failure so the host's meltdown state can finish initializing. It also arms a host-only departure failsafe near the end of the countdown and retries the intended ship-leave animation if the ship is still landed after FacilityMeltdown's normal departure window.

Tracks and credits

Deltarune/extra tracks

• 079 - BIG SHOT
• 114 - It's TV Time!
• 117 - Black Knife
• 155 - GUARDIAN
• 199 - Flower Man
• Level ! But It's Actually a Soundtrack REMASTERED
• Hotel Chase
• OFF WITH YA HEAD!
• Restore Point Interceptor

Additional tracks

• 072 - Attack of the Killer Queen
• crime with master
• IS
• just a cool silly little idea that I'm gonna keep
• SCP Foundation
• SG - vocal mix
• SH4DY-GR3Y - 1One
• Shady Grey - 3Three
• wwii moment i think

Labirhin tracks

Music by Labirhin. Original music pack by Sondar.

• ApaMaknaNya
• BREAKDOWN
• DeletedMessage
• HereForNothing
• HurtOverlay
• KESUNIYA
• NeedSomeoneLikeU
• PULANG
• TSAF

Grace tracks

Original music pack by Wallet.

• ULTRASONIC FAITH — Phill C.
• Clocktower Mayhem — Sebastian Fennec
• Mayhem Last Soul Standing
• Bloody Devastation — Phill C.
• SPEAK NO EVIL — Sebastian Fennec
• Carnation (CST) — marshall4
• ACTION & CONSEQUENCES — Sebastian Fennec
• For the Greater Goob (CST) — mich

RUN FOR IT

• RUN FOR IT from Escape the Backrooms — insOmic
• Original music pack by neRufuss

HUD font

• VCR OSD Mono — Riciery Leal

AI-use disclosure

This was generated by AI. I do not normally say AI is fine for this, but this mod is so simple I don't think it'd matter.

Changelog

1.4.1

• Moved distance back to the bottom left and lowered it beneath the chat area.
• Split the reactor enclosure into a static dark transparent background and a BPM-reactive border/separator highlight.
• Reduced and re-centered the entire reactor display.
• Added smooth configurable reactor movement between top-center, outside-clock, ship, and spectator positions.
• Moved the outside reactor display farther right of the vanilla time indicator.
• Moved the now-playing panel to the true screen-right edge and reduced it slightly.
• Repositioned the record-player tonearm over the disc's upper-right groove.

1.4.0

• Replaced eager startup decoding of all 36 songs with on-demand streaming of only the selected track.
• Added host-authoritative synchronization for every stamina and HUD configuration value without changing client config files.
• Moved the HUD to the full-screen canvas so right-side anchoring works at common resolutions.
• Moved distance to the bottom right, lowered it away from chat, and tightened the right-center now-playing panel.
• Redesigned the reactor timer as one compact rounded translucent enclosure with a separator line and locked heading/value alignment.
• Added a stationary record-player tonearm over the spinning disc.
• Hardened runtime creation of the embedded VCR OSD Mono font.

1.3.0

• Added a configurable meltdown HUD using the embedded VCR OSD Mono font.
• Added a CRITICAL FAILURE reactor countdown with large total seconds and small hundredths.
• Added inside/outside/spectator timer layouts, ship/entrance distance, and a now-playing panel.
• Added confirmed title/author metadata and BPM/beat-offset data for all 36 tracks.
• Added synchronized red-to-yellow HUD pulses with every-beat, every-four-beats, and fixed-interval modes.
• Added a transparent spinning music-disc indicator and extensive color, scale, opacity, unit, visibility, and position settings.

1.2.0

• Added configurable percentage-based meltdown stamina capacity and regeneration boosts.
• Defaulted to 20% extra effective stamina and 50% faster regeneration.
• Applied stamina changes to the final game/modded drain and regeneration so Lategame Upgrades remains included.
• Added redundant cleanup when the ship leaves, the round ends, or the meltdown handler is removed.
• Contained FacilityMeltdown optional-enemy errors that can abort host initialization.
• Added a host-only forced-takeoff failsafe for stuck automatic departures.

1.1.0

• Added 9 new tracks for a total of 36 equally weighted songs.
• Added host-authoritative song selection so all modded players hear the same track.
• Kept the existing apparatus-removal start and ship-takeoff stop behavior.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Combined 27 unique meltdown tracks into one equally weighted apparatus playlist.
• Added support for PizzaTowerEscapeMusic 2.5.0 and FacilityMeltdown 2.7.5.