BaconPackRPG

Lethal Company with RPG classes. Pick a class, level up, and unlock skills only your class has.
8 classes with their own skills · XP and promotions · Skill cards at every level-up · Quota cards that open moons and curse the run · 1 to 10 players

What's different

• Pick a class. Scout, Hauler, Security, Operator, Medic, Engineer, Hacker or Unemployed. Each plays differently: the Scout hears through doors and sends fake footsteps, the Hauler throws loot, Security taunts monsters off the crew, the Medic revives, the Hacker opens secure doors from across the room.
• Level up as you work. Bring scrap home, survive, kill monsters and meet the quota for XP. Every level is a funny new job title and a point to spend.
• Use your skills with one key. Tap Q to ping anything for the crew, hold Q for your class skill, hold X for a Mayday. Your crew sees and hears every skill you use.
• Draw cards at every quota. A reward card opens a new moon, a mystery card curses the run for good. The run gets harder the longer you survive.
• Made for groups and for solo. Balanced for 1 to 10 players, with a ready check, crew list and a quarterly review that grades everyone.
• Everyone in the lobby needs this pack.

Screenshots

Pick a class: 8 departments, each with its own skills

Level up and get promoted after every day

The crew, with everyone's class, level and profile

Quota cards: a new moon and a bonus, or a curse

Mystery card: one is Normal, one Cursed, one Doomed, and the crew picks blind

Your last photos, shared with the crew

Every setting a click away, with performance options for other mods

How a run works

1. Do the job. Scrap you carry onto the ship, coming back alive, kills, bodies brought back and the quota all give XP. About a third is the crew's and two thirds are yours.
2. Get promoted. You start with 3 points. Every level is a new job title, from Probationary Intern up, and one more point. Levels have no top.
3. Spend points. After each day the career screen opens in orbit (or press K): Lategame Upgrades' personal upgrades, for you alone, and your department's passives and specialty. Click one to see it, and hold it down to buy it.
4. Ready up. With two or more players the lever waits until everyone clicks I'M READY. The host can hold the lever for 3 seconds to go anyway.
5. Meet the quota, draw cards. Take a reward card (a new moon and a bonus), then pick a mystery card blind (a debuff for the rest of the run). The host picks while everyone watches, or the whole crew votes.
6. Getting fired ends the run. Levels, moons and debuffs start over. Achievements and unlocked departments stay on your PC.

Hold P for the crew list, press R in orbit to ready up, and M opens your settings. Every key can be changed in the game's keybinds.

Classes

You can transfer after each quota is met, and the points you spent come back. In a big lobby the host can give each department one or two slots, and players left over are Unemployed.

Random draft: the host can make a save a random draft instead. Everyone gets a random department for the whole run as they join, with 3 start cards to pick, and each level-up deals three more cards to take one from: an upgrade level, a passive, a specialty level or a perk. Perks only add what Lategame Upgrades doesn't have, and some are cursed, with a catch. Picking your own, every fifth level deals a hand of perks too. Every department also has X key skills, and everyone gets Callout and Mayday. Details in BaconRPG.

Quota cards

• Reward cards, face up, roll Common (55%), Rare (28%), Epic (14%) or Legendary (3%, two bonuses). Bonuses: credits, a store sale, a free delivery, more scrap value on the new moon, a free crew upgrade, or more XP.
• Mystery cards, face down: one Normal, one Cursed and one Doomed. Prices, traps, monsters, scrap, fines, the quota and the weather can all get worse, and each debuff stacks up to 3 times.
• New monsters and weathers stay away until a card brings them in: Peepers, Mimics, Lockers, the Immortal Snail, harsh elements (Heatwave, Blizzard, Toxic Smog and more), wild weather (Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Minefields, Forsaken and Hallowed), and Blood and Majora Moons.
• Your bonuses and debuffs sit under your health on the HUD, and the Escape menu lists them all. Details in BaconCards.

Moons

You start with the six free moons. Each quota's reward card opens one more, tier by tier. Every moon keeps its own trip price.

Interiors: Scarlet Devil Mansion on Rend, Dine and Titan (on its vanilla-sized preset), Melanie's Museum more often on harder moons (its Mausoleum is turned off), the Recording Studio on early and mid moons, and the Tomb on EGypt.

Your rules

BaconGameRules adds Game Rules to the host screen. Each save file gets a difficulty (Normal by default) and Scaled for, the crew size the save is balanced for (4 by default, up to 10):

• Fewer players: scrap is worth more, and there are fewer monsters and traps.
• More players: more scrap, and a few more monsters and traps.
• It never changes the quota, the days or how long a day lasts.

The same window holds BaconRPG's and BaconCards' rules: the career mode (pick your own or a random draft), department slots, a late joiner's starting level, a level ceiling, the XP speed, and whether the host or the crew picks the quota cards. SEED in the terminal shows each landing's map seed, and the host can land on a seed again.

Playing together

• Lobbies hold up to 10 players. Hosting a public lobby fills in the lobby tag careers1, and the server list searches it, so you find other Careers lobbies.
• Join in orbit. A player who joins a running save starts at the host's late joiner level, and someone who leaves and comes back keeps their file.
• The host's game keeps everyone's levels, so nobody can join with an edited save. The pack turns on LobbyImprovements' Validate Steam Sessions once, so nobody can take someone else's file.

Performance and first launch

The first start takes longer: BaconMemory makes lighter copies of the moons' sound files, and later starts are quicker and use less RAM. The pack carries the fixes and performance mods of The Company Adventures, without its biggest content.

The Bacon mods

	Mod	What it does
	BaconRPG	XP, promotions, the points tree or a random draft, departments, achievements, the ready check
	BaconCards	Quota cards picked by the host or by vote, moon tiers, run debuffs, shotgun shells in the store
	BaconGameRules	Game Rules per save, crew size scaling, map seeds
	BaconTerminal	A sharper terminal with themes and tables
	BaconMemory	Less RAM for moon sounds
	BaconFixer	Fixes that work in any pack

Credits

Thanks to every author whose mod is in this pack.

Feedback

Found a bug, or a balance that feels off? Message me on Discord: bac_kun.

AI disclosure

BaconRPG, BaconCards and this README were made with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. The author directed the work and tested the pack in game.

1.7.0

• 1.6.1 was never uploaded: its changes, below, come with this version.
• BaconRPG 1.4.0, the skill tablet: hold Q past a tap and a see-through tablet comes up in your hand. It locks on to what your skills work on; left click uses a skill, right click pings, the mouse wheel picks one, and each tab shows the seconds until it's ready. Your crew's pings show only through it, and your crew sees you holding it.
• Its signal breaks up when the facility's power goes out (the apparatus pulled, the breaker off), outside in storms, fog, rain or an eclipse, far from the ship, near monsters and at low health. While it's up, the game's health, stamina, tips, clock and hotbar step aside.
• The Operator's Ops Console fills the screen, with a bar of every action and its wait: Remote Override, Taser Uplink and Turret Hijack are new upgrades for it. The Hacker's tablet shows the codes of doors and traps through walls, with new upgrades Trap Codes, Spoof and Map Download.
• Every skill wait counts down in seconds, the Mayday's too, and skills are quicker to use: Field Medic and Pry Off on the nearest teammate who needs it, and shorter holds.
• Ghost Signal jams a monster: for a few seconds it can't see or hurt you, with a crossed-out eye over it, up to 8 seconds with its new levels, and at level 3 it can't hurt anyone.
• The tablet has its own item slot at the bottom left, opposite the reserved flashlight slot; the tablet in it lights up when there's something to show: orange for Danger Sense, red for a crewmate's Mayday, green after a ping. Mayday is red, works from the ship too, and shows on the Ops Console, which can also beam a teammate up with the teleporter (middle click). Each department's first shift gets a short guide, and the new Tablet Refit upgrade makes the tablet's picture clearer, with a bronze, silver and gold tablet.
• New skills: Sonar Sweep (Scout) shows the monsters and crewmates around you through walls, Loot Sense (Hauler) marks the most valuable scrap nearby, Mark Target (Security) makes a monster take more damage from everyone, and Vital Signs (Medic) shows hurt teammates' health through walls. Saves pay 30 to 50 XP: a Lifeline save, a Revive, a critical heal, a Pry Off, a beam-up out of danger, or killing, stunning or taunting away a monster that was going for a teammate.
• New interiors: Lead Interiors, with the Lead Factory, Lantern Manor, the Goldstay Hotel, the Belleville Appartements, the Crimson Keep and the Treatement Amenity. It needs DungeonGenerationPlus again, plus WaterAssetRestorer (with its MaterialAssetRestorerCore and LethalNetworkAPI), Beanie_Lib and SpectreLib.
• Pings reach 30 m (50, 70 and 90 m with Signal Booster), and Pathfinder shows the way out within 50 m (100 and 150 m with its new levels).
• Interiors get wilder with each moon tier: the game's own Facility, Mansion and Mineshaft and their expanded versions come up less on each tier up and not at all on tier 4, and rare interiors come up about as often as the rest. The free moons keep every interior at its mods' own chance.
• Expanded Facility and Expanded Mineshaft replace the game's own Facility and Mineshaft on every moon: BaconCards' Expanded interiors rule is Replace by default now. A save that already has a choice keeps it, and the host can change it in the Game Rules window.
• Lategame Upgrades' terminal store sells nothing for now: upgrades come from your career and the quota cards.
• Quota cards: mystery cards go from Doomed to Miracle in 8 tiers (new: Hexed, Jinxed, Lucky and Miracle), one card from the bad end, one from the middle and one from the good end, and Doomed hits harder. New reward bonuses: Free XP, a Skill point, Cleanse, Overtime, Extra pick and Lucky charm. Hazard pay has no cap now: past 50% each debuff counts half.
• BaconGameRules 1.3.0: a longer day no longer makes the monsters come later. On Easy's 20% longer day the monsters inside come at the game's own pace, and the ones outside only about 9% later, so the night ones still come with the dark.
• BaconFixer 2.3.0: rain no longer fills the log with Sub-emitters may not use stop actions warnings, thousands a landing with Wesley's Weathers' Hurricane and Forsaken or in the Sub Systems interior.

1.6.1

• itolib is back: the moons Acheron and Kanie need it, and 1.6.0's notice told you to uninstall it. If you did, this update puts it back.
• BaconRPG 1.3.0: Bigger Lungs costs at least 2 points a level after the first. The Employee of the Day plaque is a printed poster, lit by the ship's lights instead of glowing like a screen, and it hangs higher, clear of the item charger. The Scout's Lure works when you look past its reach: the footsteps start at the reach, on the floor along your look, instead of TOO FAR. Every class is open from the start: the Medic and the Engineer no longer need an achievement first.
• The Masked talk more, as with Mirage: every Masked can talk (each moon used to let only a random half to all of them), each tries a line every 10 to 30 seconds and speaks 80% of the time (it was 25 to 80 seconds and 65%), and with BaconAudio 1.1.0 a Masked tries one as soon as it comes within 15 m of a player. The host's settings decide.
• BaconCards 1.6.0: once the moons run out, a reward card without one brings a Blessed buff instead, so every card still holds something new. Players who aren't the host no longer see such a card as a blank new moon.
• BaconAudio 1.1.0: Loudest voice goes up to 600% and starts at 300%, and the log shows what the boost does for each crewmate. It helps most with quiet and far-away crewmates.

1.6.0

• The Masked speak with your crew's voices again, through LethalMimics in place of Mirage. As with Mirage, what you say in voice chat becomes their lines (BaconAudio's Auto clips): whole sentences and a word or two, mostly from the moon you're on. Recording by key is off. Only the Masked do it, as with Mirage, and no voice is ever shared with a host's AI add-on.
• Biodiversity: the Aloe, the Ogopogo with its Vermin, and Boom birds wait for a new Cursed card, Wildlife (BaconCards 1.5.0). Its harmless critters, Coil Crabs, Leaf boys, Prototax and Rocks, roam the moons from the start, and it adds rubber duck scrap.
• New: BaconAudio. Crewmates' volume sliders go up to twice the game's loudest, and each crewmate's volume is remembered by Steam account. Your mic gets the voice chat's AI noise removal (Medium) and a Mic boost setting. With MoreCompany every slider started at the top; now crewmates start just below it, as loud as before, with room to turn them up.
• Surfaced is gone, with SolidLib, which only it used. Wildlife takes its place: Surfaced's settings reset at every launch unless forced, it needed several fixes to get along with other mods, and its Nemo threw errors once it walked off the ground monsters can walk on. If you update, the main menu lists it among the mods to delete.

1.5.0

• Moons closer to the game's own. New: Baykal, Makron, Calypso, Mazon, Praetor and Ultimatum by DemonMae, Thallasic, Reign and Veld by Beaniebe, Acheron and Kanie by TheWildSkelaah, Triskelion by AudioKnight and Harloth by Tolian. Gone: Nightmare Moons, Wesley's Gratar, Oldred and Empra, Gorgonzola, EGypt, Maritopia, Nyx, Zenit, 42 Kiri and Tauralis. 29 moons instead of 34, in new tiers (BaconCards 1.4.0).
• New interiors: DemonMae's Dungeons Ultimately Lacking Liveliness, seven interiors made to fit the game's own look (Gray Apartments, the Recording Studio, Sub Systems, Raven Manor, Spelunker's Caverns, the ACF and the Abandoned Foundry), each at its author's chance for every moon. Scarlet Devil Mansion, Play Zone and the Tomb are gone.
• About 260 MB less to download and load.
• Gone with them: an outdated second copy of LethalLevelLoader that the game skipped with a warning at every start, and the libraries only the dropped mods used: DungeonGenerationPlus, CustomStoryLogs and LethalNetworkAPI.
• If you update, the main menu lists the mods you can delete, in text that shrinks to fit a long list (BaconRPG 1.2.1).

1.4.0

• Smoother landings: LethalSponge no longer simplifies the 3D model of every scrap item and tool as it spawns. That froze the game for about a second when a moon's scrap spawned, and stuttered when new items spawned during the day.
• Smoother first landings on moons with terrain, such as Adamance and most of Wesley's moons: UniversalRadar no longer turns their ground into a mesh to draw contour lines on the radar, which froze the game for 2 to 3 seconds. Those moons show no contour lines on the radar; the others keep theirs.
• CullFactory 2.1.0: lights just outside an interior's rooms no longer vanish, and working out which items and lights to draw costs less.
• Expanded Facility and Expanded Mineshaft get half of each moon's Facility and Mineshaft days early in a run and fewer later. Expanded interiors in Game Rules can make them replace the plain versions completely (BaconCards 1.3.0).
• Surfaced's sea mines and Big Bertha wait for the Sea Creatures card, and then come less often: about 1 sea mine a moon instead of 3 or 4, and at most one Big Bertha, on about 2 days in 5, instead of up to two on 3 days in 5.
• Peepers wait for their card again; they could show up every hour before.
• The terminal lists the moons by tier, open moons first (BaconTerminal 1.3.0). Shutter, Nightmare Moons' second Company building, is left out.
• BaconFixer 2.2.1: a blown-apart crewmate's head goes into a hotbar slot instead of the utility slot, where it seemed to vanish, and the ship teleporter beams it up like a body. Outside music plays again: SolidLib, which Surfaced needs, stopped it on every moon. Hitting a monster with no eye, such as Surfaced's Urchin, no longer throws errors from ImmersiveVisor.
• The bailout (BaconCards 1.3.0): the first time a run misses the deadline, the crew picks BAILOUT, a full quota period more for the same quota with one Doomed debuff, or GET FIRED. Once a run.
• BaconRPG 1.2.0: transfer any time in orbit, RESET POINTS to buy again from scratch, and a veteran bonus: after a firing, up to 4 more start points for the best level you reached.
• Joining: the server list shows a lobby on another pack version as incompatible and names both versions, where the join used to fail without a reason. The main menu lists the mods the pack dropped that you still have at every start, not once (BaconRPG 1.2.0).

1.3.1

• Fixed: on a fresh install the ship could stay black after hosting, with no way to move. Mirage crashed while the ship loaded once its voice library was installed, so Mirage is out of the pack, with MirageCore, NAudio, OpusDotNet, Concentus and LethalSettings. NoMaskMaskeds stays, so the Masked still look like a crewmate. If you updated, the main menu lists the mods you can delete.

1.3.0

• BaconCards 1.2.0: reward cards open 1 to 3 moons, mystery cards can hold more than one debuff, a Blessed mystery card brings a buff now and then, and Game Rules can turn mystery cards off. Nine free moons at the start.
• New moons, locked in the card tiers: Nightmare Moons (Occipitas, Vigilance, Flicker, Lament, Cabal, Abaddon, Pareidolia, Whisper), 42 Kiri, Rockwell, Nyx, Calt Prime, Gratar, Oldred and Empra.
• New interiors: Play Zone, Expanded Facility and Expanded Mineshaft.
• Surfaced: sea creatures, brought in by a Cursed mystery card.

1.2.0

• Mirage: the Masked copy the voices of your crew, recorded on each player's own game and played back by the monster. Players can turn their own recording off in Mirage's settings.
• NoMaskMaskeds: the Masked don't wear their mask, so they look just like a crewmate.
• BaconRPG 1.1.3: a ping on a Masked looks like a ping on the crewmate it copies, so pinging no longer gives one away. Heave aimed too far throws as far as it can.

1.1.2

• BaconRPG 1.1.2: Crunch Time is gone. Heave throws where you look, up to 30 m with its 4 levels, and falls into holes and down cliffs. Express Delivery, Cover, Overwatch, Field Medic, Reprogram, Lockdown and Fill In have 3 levels. Settings have arrows and typed numbers, keys can be rebound from the menu with a second key, and the wheel scrolls a step at a time. A new Always ready setting, the Employee of the Day plaque above the item charger, and spectator bets that explain themselves.
• Lights no longer lose their patterns when many are on screen: LethalPerformance's cookie atlas is 2048.
• Coroner and a few other mods no longer fill the log with debug lines, hundreds of thousands in a long session.
• The pack page shows screenshots.

1.1.1

• BaconRPG 1.1.1: tap Q to ping (every 3 seconds at most) and hold Q for your skill. Hold X for a Mayday, which now recharges after 30 seconds. Lure, Taunt and Heave work while crouched. Pings reach 100 m (garbled past 40 m, less with the new Signal Booster upgrade) and box monsters through walls, and Danger Sense pings for the crew. A new class, the Hacker. M opens a settings tab, R readies you up, crewmates' profiles open from the CREW tab, and photos can be shared with the crew. Scrap XP has no daily cap, finders and kill helpers get assists, and tougher monsters give more kill XP.
• BaconCards 1.1.1: custom interiors start rare and reach their full chance by the sixth quota, so early days feel like the base game. A host rule keeps them at full chance from the start.
• The Mausoleum interior is turned off.
• On the main menu, the game tells you if WeatherTweaks (dropped from the pack) is still installed: remove it in your mod manager, or lobbies may say incompatible. Everyone in a lobby needs the same pack version.

1.1.0

• BaconRPG 1.1.0 "Field Manual": an X key skill set for every department, Callout and Mayday for everyone, 16 new perks, a quarterly review with grades, Employee of the Day, spectator bets, commendations, a ship log, career records, and a reworked career screen and HUD with a subtle terminal flicker. Crewmates see and hear the skills you use, and the ready check shows everyone's Steam picture. The XP balance was reworked, and old saves move over with refunds.
• BaconCards 1.1.0: hazard pay XP for each debuff, sounds for every card, a Wild Weather card for Wesley's Weathers, and a HUD list that announces changes and shows only on the ship.
• Immersive Visor Fork: your helmet visor cracks, fogs up and catches rain, blood and snow. Every effect can be turned off in its config.

1.0.0

• First release: BaconRPG careers (pick your own department or a random draft), BaconCards quota cards (picked by the host or by vote) and moon tiers, crew size scaling from BaconGameRules 1.2.0, 8 new moons, 4 new interiors, and monsters and weathers that the cards bring in.