This page contains the style and editing guide for the Lethal Company Wiki.
General Guidelines
When adding information to the wiki, consider the following.
- Is the information speculative?
- Is it a unique interpretation?
- Does it lack a reliable source?
- Is the information related to a modification?
- Is the addition unverified or untested?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then the content does NOT belong here. Speculation and non-canon interpretations presented on a wiki can easily be taken as fact and are ultimately more harmful than good.
Perspective and Vocabulary
Articles should be written as if the wiki was a handbook for employees, meaning the reader should be referred to as “employee”. The term “player” should not be used, unless there's a compelling reason to do so.
Media Guidelines
- Images should depict the main focus of their page.
- Example: An image in the Thumper Gallery should have a Thumper in frame and not a long hallway that a Thumper could run in.
- The focus of the image should be fully in frame and not partially off-screen
- Unrelated objects such as a different entity should ideally not be part of the image's composition.
- Images should exclusively represent vanilla mechanics.
- Example: An image containing two Brackens is not allowed, as only one bracken can spawn at a time in vanilla.
- Images can contain visualizations or overlays indicating a point of interest, examples being visible hitboxes or pathfinding.
- Images should not be blurry from the Fear mechanic, as this makes the image less clear.
- Removing the HUD especially the in-game chat is preferable but not required, as this is usually unrelated to the focus of the image, and removing the in-game chat protects the privacy of users involved in the image.
Modded Content
The wiki exclusively contains information and data about the vanilla game, without any mods installed. For this reason, noting down information gathered from public lobbies, where mods might be present, is strongly discouraged. Especially in public lobbies, where it's impossible to tell if anyone has a content modifying mod that might alter your game experience.
Debugging Tools
The following mods are recommended when testing and verifying game mechanics and functionalities for the wiki.
- Imperium: Adds freecam, object inspection, object spawning, entity prediction, visual overlays, god mode, and much more.
- Unity Explorer: Very powerful Unity debugging tool to inspect objects, modify values, execute code at runtime, etc.
Other useful tools to look into the game's source code and game files.
- AssetRipper: A tool for extracting assets and code from serialized Unity files and converting them into readable files.
- AssetStudioMod: Used to extract assets and directly examine them, meshes can be imported from the game and into Blender to make renders with.
- DnSpy / DotPeek: Tools to disassemble the game's code back into readable source code files.
Citations
When citations are necessary, avoid citing the following.
Circular Sources
Mainly IGN's guides among others these often use wikis like Fandom for their information, as a result this falls under user-generated content making it unreliable.
Paywalled Sources
A lot of information on Lethal Company's development is locked behind Zeekerss' Patreon. If possible, try avoiding citing locked posts and opt for free and easy to access sources on the same topic. Locked posts on the Patreon are usually made available to the public, two weeks after being posted.
Linking sources that bypass any paywalls is not allowed.
AI-generated content
Typically, AI-generated contains a lot of nonsense that tries to make itself seem knowledgeable, but in reality it is very unreliable. Subsequently, Fandom's controversial Quick Answers should be reviewed as soon as they are implemented.
Other Wikis
Citing other wikis that cover the same topic is not allowed for multiple reasons. On one hand, it's never for certain if the information from other wikis is reliable [1]. On the other hand, Fandom does not allow any kind of links to other wikis.
Social Media
When citing a social media post, it should be archived using the Wayback Machine. This is to make sure that the post is not being deleted or removed, which would make it impossible to retrieve the original source or proof for information on the wiki.
While discouraged, if citing a discord post is necessary (e.g., a developer's statement), you can use an image hosting site like Pasteboard to upload a screenshot of the relevant conversation or message. Ideally, the screenshot should not be modified in any way.
Opening Blurb
The opening blurb of a page should always have the first instance of the page's name bolded. All other instances should lack any formatting unless it's to add emphasis, other names such as internal names or commonly used names among the community may be included.
Unofficial names are discouraged, but it is generally accepted to use names that are very common within the player base as an alias for an entity or another object. An example for this would be the alias "Yippee Bug" for the Hoarding Bug.
- The Old Bird, or RadMech is an entity in Lethal Company.