LastWords

One final message after death. / 死亡之后，再说最后一句话。

LastWords gives each dead employee one chance to write and publish a final message. It prefers the ship's vanilla Signal Translator when the device is available, while fully modded crews can use a longer, reliable LastWords HUD broadcast.

LastWords 让每名死亡员工获得一次输入并发表遗言的机会。有可用的原版信号发射器时优先使用原版广播；全员安装模组时，也可以使用更长、更可靠的 LastWords HUD 广播。

• Version: 0.5.5
• Author / 公开署名: 青金石
• Thunderstore Team: QingJinShi
• Official page: https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/QingJinShi/LastWords/

Features

• One send-or-skip opportunity after each death; the opportunity resets after revival.
• The prompt opens only while at least one other crewmate is alive.
• Messages can contain Chinese and other Unicode text. Line breaks are converted to spaces and rich-text brackets are escaped.
• Symmetrical last-words input window with a high-priority HUD banner for modded receivers.
• Red [DECEASED] Player: message presentation for full-message LastWords broadcasts.
• Configurable message length, opening delay, and transport mode.
• No fake Signal Translator unlock: vanilla-compatible broadcasts require the real ship upgrade.

Compatibility at a glance

The sender must have LastWords installed. What receivers see depends on the ship and the rest of the lobby:

Important: In Auto mode, owning an available Signal Translator takes priority even when everyone has the mod. That path intentionally keeps the vanilla 10-character display limit.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman

Select Install with Mod Manager. The declared BepInEx dependency will be installed automatically.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInEx 5 for Lethal Company and launch the game once.
2. Copy LastWords.dll to:

<Lethal Company>/BepInEx/plugins/LastWords/LastWords.dll

1. Launch the game. Configuration is created at:

BepInEx/config/cn.lastwords.lethalcompany.cfg

Configuration

BroadcastMode options:

• Auto — recommended; vanilla signal first, LastWords fallback otherwise.
• SignalTranslator — only use the real ship Signal Translator; no device means no broadcast.
• Chat — always use the full-message LastWords network/HUD channel; the whole crew must have the same mod version.

Known limitations

• Vanilla Signal Translator broadcasts are limited by the game to 10 visible characters and its normal cooldown.
• Unmodded receivers need the ship's real Signal Translator to see a last-words message.
• The full-message fallback requires the same LastWords version across the lobby, including the host.
• The one-message limit is designed for normal cooperative play and is not an anti-cheat system.
• Game updates may require a compatibility update. Version 0.5.5 targets the current v81-era Unity 2022/BepInEx 5 environment used during development and testing.

Troubleshooting

• The prompt does not open after a full crew wipe: this is intentional. At least one other employee must remain alive.
• An unmodded player sees nothing: make sure the ship actually owns a Signal Translator and that it is available. Without it, unmodded clients cannot receive the fallback channel.
• A long message becomes 10 characters: Auto selected the vanilla Signal Translator. Use Chat only when the whole crew has LastWords.
• Different mod versions are installed: update everyone to the same version before testing the full-message fallback.

<致命公司目录>/BepInEx/plugins/LastWords/LastWords.dll

BepInEx/config/cn.lastwords.lethalcompany.cfg

Author, license, and redistribution / 作者、许可与转载

LastWords is independently developed by 青金石. Personal, non-commercial gameplay and gameplay videos or streams are permitted under LICENSE.md. Re-uploading, mirroring, redistributing, repackaging, publishing modified builds, selling the mod itself, removing attribution, or impersonating the author is prohibited without prior written permission.

LastWords 由 青金石 独立开发。依据 LICENSE.md，允许个人非商业游玩以及制作游戏视频或直播；未经书面许可，禁止转载、镜像、分发、重新打包、发布修改版、出售模组本身、删除署名或冒充作者。

The package icon was created with image-generation tooling and is disclosed through the AI Generated category. Lethal Company and third-party names, trademarks, character designs, and assets belong to their respective owners. This is an unofficial fan-made mod.

模组图标使用图像生成工具制作，并通过 AI Generated 类别公开标注。《Lethal Company》及第三方名称、商标、角色设计和素材归各自权利人所有；本项目为非官方玩家模组。

Share the official page rather than re-uploading the archive:

https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/QingJinShi/LastWords/

Changelog

0.5.5

• Adds an English-first bilingual Thunderstore description while retaining complete Simplified Chinese instructions.
• Adds a clear compatibility table for vanilla clients, Signal Translator broadcasts, fully modded HUD fallback, and full-crew wipes.
• Separates the player-facing Thunderstore page from source-build documentation and removes developer-only setup details from the public package page.
• Clarifies installation, configuration, known limitations, troubleshooting, authorship, redistribution rules, and AI-generated icon disclosure.
• Contains no gameplay behavior changes from 0.5.4.

0.5.4

• Identifies 青金石 as the public author in the assembly metadata, documentation, and ownership notices.
• Adds a bilingual proprietary end-user license that permits personal gameplay and attributed media while prohibiting unauthorized redistribution, repackaging, impersonation, derivative releases, and commercial exploitation of the mod itself.
• Adds an authenticity notice, a recipient-specific HR evaluation-license template, ready-to-copy publication text, and a repeatable release/evidence checklist.
• Adds guarded release packaging and evidence-archive scripts that generate SHA-256 records and require clean, tagged Git source for final evidence.
• Adds an original 256x256 Thunderstore icon and validates its PNG format and dimensions during release packaging.
• Records QingJinShi as the owner-controlled Thunderstore Team and the canonical LastWords package page.
• Initializes the project for a local Git authorship history without publishing the private source or build artifacts.

0.5.3

• Allows the last-words input to use the configured maximum length even in SignalTranslator mode.
• Makes Auto prefer a real, available Signal Translator for messages of any input length, truncating only the actual vanilla broadcast payload to its first 10 visible characters.
• Shows the sender the exact truncated message and a clear delivery note when the Signal Translator shortened a longer last word.
• Uses the full message through LastWords networking only when Auto cannot find an available real Signal Translator; vanilla clients still require the purchased device.

0.5.2

• Restores BepInEx's safe default Application/.cctor entrypoint so plugins that load Unity textures during Awake, including LC Chinese Project 3.2.9, no longer crash inside UnityEngine.ImageConversion.LoadImage.
• Drives LastWords from narrowly scoped Harmony postfixes on PreInitSceneScript.Start, MenuManager.Update, and HUDManager.Update, instead of changing the startup timing of every installed plugin.
• Preserves the managed LastWords coordinator when Unity destroys BepInEx's early Chainloader carrier, then creates the Canvas on the first verified live Unity frame.
• Keeps vanilla-client compatibility limited to a real, purchased Signal Translator and its original 10-character display limit.

0.5.1

• Centers the transmit and silence buttons symmetrically around the modal's midpoint.
• Restyles the modal and broadcast banner as a dark blood-red final transmission.
• Formats authenticated broadcasts as [DECEASED] PlayerName: message and shows received text in red beneath a MESSAGE FROM THE DEAD heading.
• Bumps the named-message protocol to v2 so mixed 0.5.0/0.5.1 clients cannot misinterpret payloads.

0.5.0

• Replaces the unreliable vanilla system-chat fallback with a LastWords named-message protocol using reliable sequenced delivery.
• Requires all players to install the mod for fallback messages; actual Signal Translator broadcasts remain visible to vanilla clients.
• Validates client submissions on the host, including sender identity, death state, and the presence of another living crew member.
• Displays received last words through an independent always-on-top Canvas on every modded client.

0.4.6

• Sends the vanilla crew-wide system-message ClientRpc directly when the last-words sender is the host/server.
• Avoids the host-to-self ServerRpc round trip that failed to fan out to an unmodded LAN client during a real two-client test.
• Retains the vanilla ServerRpc relay for non-host senders and logs the active network role and selected route.

0.4.5

• Suppresses the last-words opportunity when no other connected, living crew member remains.
• Rechecks the living crew at window-open and submission time, preventing a message after the remaining crew dies while the modal is open.
• Adds a default-off AllowWhenAllPlayersDeadForTesting configuration override for solo UI development.

0.4.4

• Adds an independent, always-on-top Canvas banner containing the submitted last words for eight seconds.
• Keeps the banner visible after the input modal closes, so a solo player's all-dead/spectator HUD cannot hide the local confirmation.
• Continues sending the same crew-wide vanilla system-message RPC to connected clients.

0.4.3

• Inserts the crew-wide fallback into the sender's local chat history before sending the global RPC, so a dead host can see their own last words immediately.
• Shows the submitted text in a 2.25-second local delivery confirmation before closing the last-words window.
• Relies on vanilla duplicate suppression to prevent the host from seeing the local insertion and RPC echo twice.

0.4.2

• Replaces the player-chat fallback with vanilla's global system-message RPC (playerId = -1), which is not filtered by sender identity, distance, or alive/dead state.
• Uses an ASCII [LAST WORDS] prefix because the vanilla HUD font has no Chinese glyphs.
• Logs why Auto mode selected the crew-wide fallback instead of the Signal Translator.

0.4.1

• Defers Canvas and dynamic-font creation from plugin Awake to the first real Unity Update frame.
• Fixes a native UnityPlayer crash caused by calling Font.CreateDynamicFontFromOSFont while Chainloader is still executing inside MonoBehaviour..cctor.

0.4.0

• Returns to a normal BaseUnityPlugin.Update polling loop after identifying the actual BepInEx bootstrap issue.
• Documents and applies the MonoBehaviour/.cctor BepInEx entrypoint workaround required when Application/.cctor loads plugins before Unity can register their components for updates.
• Removes the preloader patcher and all experimental runtime-hook workarounds.

0.3.1

• Moves the preloader bridge from UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks, which is absent from the game's active player loop, to the verified MenuManager.Update and HUDManager.Update methods in Assembly-CSharp.
• Keeps the same pre-load IL injection architecture while ensuring a tick source exists in both the main menu and an active lobby.

0.3.0

• Adds a BepInEx preloader patcher that injects the LastWords tick bridge directly into UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks before UnityEngine.CoreModule is loaded.
• Removes runtime-installed Harmony, RuntimeDetour, synchronization-context, and PlayerLoop callbacks after the tested Unity 2022.3 environment consistently replaced or ignored all of them after Chainloader startup.
• Creates the Canvas lazily when the injected bridge first executes on the live Unity main thread.

0.2.3

• Inserts the polling callback directly into Unity's native PlayerLoop.Update phase, bypassing MonoBehaviour messages, coroutines, Harmony, and synchronization-context dispatch.
• Removes the synchronization-context timer fallback after the tested Unity context accepted posted work but never consumed its queue.
• Retains direct RuntimeDetour hooks for immediate death notification and as an independent polling fallback once the HUD exists.

0.2.2

• Replaces Harmony patches with direct MonoMod.RuntimeDetour hooks after the tested BepInEx environment recorded Harmony patches without ever entering them.
• Adds a managed timer that posts polling work to Unity's main-thread synchronization context, providing a hook-independent fallback without touching Unity objects from a background thread.
• Adds separate diagnostics for the background scheduler, Unity main-thread dispatch, and direct runtime hooks.

0.2.1

• Drives player-state polling from the game's own HUDManager.Update loop instead of a coroutine on a dynamically-added component.
• Registers Unity's native Application.onBeforeRender callback as an independent fallback tick source.
• Adds one-time activation logs for both tick sources, making it possible to distinguish patch failure from player-detection failure.

0.2.0

• Replaces IMGUI with a persistent screen-space Unity Canvas, legacy InputField, and real Buttons.
• Replaces scaled-time InvokeRepeating with a WaitForSecondsRealtime coroutine that also runs while the main menu or game is paused.
• Keeps the Canvas at the highest sorting order so the all-players-dead HUD cannot cover it.
• Uses a dynamic Microsoft YaHei/Arial font chain so Chinese last words render without relying on Lethal Company's limited bundled fonts.

0.1.3

• Makes LastWordsRuntime public so Unity reliably dispatches callbacks to the dynamically-added component.
• Starts state polling explicitly through Unity's native InvokeRepeating scheduler instead of waiting for Update discovery.
• Logs the component's enabled state and the first scheduled poll.

0.1.2

• Fixes frame and IMGUI callbacks not being delivered to the BepInEx plugin component in the tested game setup.
• Creates an explicit active, persistent LastWordsRuntime component for Update and OnGUI.
• Replaces Harmony assembly scanning with an explicit KillPlayer patch and verifies that the postfix is installed.
• Adds startup logs for the runtime driver's first Update and OnGUI callbacks.

0.1.1

• Fixes missed death detection during the single-player all-dead/automatic-return flow.
• Hooks PlayerControllerB.KillPlayer directly while retaining state polling as a fallback.
• Forces the IMGUI window to the foreground.
• Adds diagnostic logs for player tracking, death detection, window opening, first render, and closing.

0.1.0

• Initial implementation.
• Detects the local player's alive-to-dead transition without patching a fragile death-method signature.
• Gives one last-words opportunity per death and resets it after revival.
• Uses the ship Signal Translator when possible and vanilla chat as an automatic fallback.
• Adds configurable broadcast mode, message length, and popup delay.