All 30 Creatures and Where They Spawn in Lethal Company

Lethal Company is a co-op horror game for up to four players. You work for the Company by collecting scrap on abandoned moons and selling it, and the creatures living there make every trip risky. Some hunt by sight or sound, some steal your loot, and others simply wander, so knowing how each one behaves can save your run. Players scan each creature to add it to the ship's Bestiary.

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Indoor

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#1Backwater Gunkfish

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, and Artifice.
Power Level: 0.5
Health / Killability: 5 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It hides indoors, then lunges and sprays slick gunk when it spots or is approached by an employee. The slime clouds the visor and makes the floor slippery, but the creature deals no direct damage.
How to Survive It: Give it room, and avoid sprinting over fresh slime, since the slippery floor can slide you into other dangers.

#2Barber

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Assurance, Vow, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable to ordinary weapons; cannot be killed.
Threat Behavior: It is difficult to see until it is close, advances with drum-and-horn cues, and kills on contact with its scissors.
How to Survive It: Use its sounds to leave its path before it closes; ordinary weapons will not kill it.

#3Bracken

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 3
Health / Killability: 5 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It stalks employees from behind. A brief look can make it retreat, but a prolonged stare or being cornered can provoke an attack.
How to Survive It: Check behind you briefly, warn the crew, then keep moving without cornering or staring it down.

#4Bunker Spider

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: 5 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It spins webs around its territory. Webs slow employees and alert the spider when disturbed, and the spider attacks employees who enter its area.
How to Survive It: Avoid its webs and give the spider space; if fighting, keep a clear retreat path and do not start while slowed in a web.

#5Butler

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Rend, Dine, and Artifice.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: 2 HP solo; 8 HP multiplayer; killable.
Threat Behavior: It usually wanders passively near a group but becomes hostile when it finds an isolated employee. Killing it releases Mask Hornets.
How to Survive It: Pass it with a teammate; if you kill it for its knife, prepare an exit from the hornets it releases.

#6Cadaver Bloom

Where It Spawns: Growths spawn inside; a Bloom can form from an infected employee indoors or outside.
Spawn Moons: Growths: Adamance, Rend, Dine, and Artifice. The Bloom has no natural spawn and can form from an infected employee on any moon.
Power Level: 2 (Growths); 3 (Bloom).
Health / Killability: Growths are invulnerable; the Bloom has 4 HP, with non-instant hits capped at 1 HP.
Threat Behavior: Cadaver Growths spread spores that can infect employees after several seconds of exposure; longer exposure speeds infection once it begins. An infected employee can later become a fast, aggressive Cadaver Bloom.
How to Survive It: Leave spore patches promptly, since longer exposure speeds up infection. Clear growths with Weed Killer and keep an eye on exposed crew, since spraying a teammate also hurts them.

#7Coil-Head

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable to ordinary weapons; cannot be killed.
Threat Behavior: It stops while an employee is looking at it and moves quickly whenever it is unobserved.
How to Survive It: Keep an unobstructed view while backing toward an exit; have a teammate take over before you look away.

#8Ghost Girl

Where It Spawns: Spawns inside; once active, she can follow her target outside and onto the ship.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, and Artifice.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; weapons and stuns cannot remove the haunting.
Threat Behavior: She haunts one employee at a time and can follow that target across the moon and into the ship.
How to Survive It: Warn the crew, avoid approaching or seeking her out, and leave if you run out of room to evade; teleporting does not end the haunting.

#9Hoarding Bug

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 3 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It gathers scrap and defends its stash. Taking its items, crowding it, or attacking it can turn it hostile.
How to Survive It: Leave its collected scrap alone and give it room unless the extra loot is worth a fight.

#10Hygrodere

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; shovel attacks do not damage it.
Threat Behavior: The slow-moving slime damages employees who touch it and can block a narrow route.
How to Survive It: Go around it on a clear route or use a safe raised walkway; keep an exit open if another threat is nearby.

#11Jester

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, and Artifice.
Power Level: 3
Health / Killability: Invulnerable to ordinary weapons; cannot be killed.
Threat Behavior: It winds its crank while stalking employees, then opens and hunts anyone still inside the Facility.
How to Survive It: When the winding starts, coordinate everyone out of the interior and wait outside until the Jester resets.

#12Maneater

Where It Spawns: Spawns inside; an employee can carry it outside before it transforms.
Spawn Moons: Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Dine, and Artifice.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: 5 HP; the baby cannot be killed, and non-instant hits on the adult cap at 1 HP.
Threat Behavior: The baby can be carried and rocked to calm it. If it becomes upset or is taken outside, it transforms into a dangerous adult.
How to Survive It: Keep the baby calm and inside; if it transforms, stay clear of its lunges and take the nearest safe exit.

#13Masked

Where It Spawns: Natural spawns start inside; a Masked can follow employees outside and onto the ship.
Spawn Moons: Natural spawns: Adamance, Rend, Titan, and Artifice. A Comedy or Tragedy mask can create one on other moons.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 4 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It resembles an employee, attacks to convert its victim, and can appear naturally or after a player puts on a Comedy or Tragedy mask.
How to Survive It: Keep away from found masks and identify employees before recalling someone to the ship; a converted employee can bring the threat back.

#14Mask Hornets

Where It Spawns: Inside only; released into the Facility when a Butler dies.
Spawn Moons: No natural spawn; released by a Butler on Rend, Dine, or Artifice.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; they remain until the ship leaves the moon.
Threat Behavior: The swarm attacks nearby employees after a Butler dies and cannot leave the Facility.
How to Survive It: Do not kill a Butler unless the crew has an exit plan; once the swarm appears, leave the interior.

#15Nutcracker

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 5 HP; killable while its eye is exposed.
Threat Behavior: It patrols with a shotgun and scans for movement when its eye opens; its close-range kick is also dangerous.
How to Survive It: Stay still during a scan if it has not detected you, use cover against shots, and attack only during the exposed-eye window.

#16Snare Flea

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility, often hanging from ceilings.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 3 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It drops from above and clings to an employee's head, blocking much of their view, muffling their voice, and making them drop carried items.
How to Survive It: Watch ceilings; have a teammate hit or stun it off, or get outside the Facility to remove it.

#17Spore Lizard

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; no ordinary kill method.
Threat Behavior: It usually retreats, but becomes defensive if crowded and can bite or release an obscuring cloud.
How to Survive It: Give it space and keep a clear route; its cloud can hide other nearby threats.

#18Thumper

Where It Spawns: Inside the Facility.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 3
Health / Killability: 4 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It hunts by sight, not sound, and builds speed while chasing but has difficulty turning sharply.
How to Survive It: Break its line of sight around a tight corner; quiet movement alone will not stop it.

Outdoor

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#19Baboon Hawk

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon.
Spawn Moons: Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, and Artifice.
Power Level: 0.5
Health / Killability: 4 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It is territorial and becomes more dangerous when the hawks outnumber employees or employees crowd their territory or scrap.
How to Survive It: Keep the crew together, give a flock space, and leave room to withdraw instead of letting several hawks surround you.

#20Earth Leviathan

Where It Spawns: Burrows beneath the moon's outdoor surface.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; ordinary weapons cannot kill it.
Threat Behavior: It tunnels under employees and erupts from the ground after rumbling and particle warnings.
How to Survive It: Sprint away as soon as the ground warning begins and change direction away from your current route.

#21Eyeless Dog

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: 12 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It is blind and hunts by sound; carried items, dropped items, and employee voices can draw it toward you.
How to Survive It: Crouch, stop talking, avoid noisy items, and move out of the way if it commits to a lunge; keep the ship door closed when it is nearby.

#22Feiopar

Where It Spawns: Outside, moving through forest cover and climbing trees.
Spawn Moons: Vow and March.
Power Level: 2
Health / Killability: 4 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: The forest cat stalks through cover, climbs trees, and can pounce at close range even when watched.
How to Survive It: Watch the trees, listen for growls or rapid movement, keep distance, and stay near teammates while withdrawing.

#23Forest Keeper

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, Rend, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 3
Health / Killability: 38 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It spots employees visually and tries to grab them; distance, foliage, and terrain can interrupt its sightline.
How to Survive It: Use structures and terrain to break sight; at a distance, crouching, walking, or standing still helps, and a teammate can stun or teleport a grabbed player.

#24Old Bird

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Vow, Offense, Adamance, Dine, Titan, Artifice, and Embrion.
Power Level: 3
Health / Killability: Invulnerable to ordinary weapons; cannot be killed with a shovel.
Threat Behavior: This armed machine attacks with explosives and wakes up when the Apparatus is pulled from its socket; it can also break bridges as it walks.
How to Survive It: Use substantial cover, keep moving away from its attacks, and coordinate the Apparatus pickup with employees still outside.

Daytime

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#25Circuit Bee

Where It Spawns: Outside near its hive; the swarm can roam after the hive is taken.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, March, Adamance, and Artifice.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; cannot be killed.
Threat Behavior: The bees defend a hive that can be sold as scrap. Taking the hive provokes the swarm, which can continue roaming if the hive is lost.
How to Survive It: Leave the hive unless the crew has cleared a return route and enough stamina to carry it back safely.

#26Giant Sapsucker

Where It Spawns: Outside at its nest, which is already in place when the ship lands.
Spawn Moons: Assurance, Vow, and Adamance.
Power Level: 4
Health / Killability: 28 HP; can be killed, but it is difficult to fight safely.
Threat Behavior: It guards its nest and becomes aggressive when employees approach too closely or take one of its eggs; it may pursue an egg carrier to the ship.
How to Survive It: Plan a route and crew roles before taking an egg; dropping the egg can make a pursuing bird prioritize retrieving it.

#27Kidnapper Fox

Where It Spawns: Outside, hiding among groups of Vain Shrouds.
Spawn Moons: Any moon with at least 17 Vain Shrouds present when the ship lands.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 7 HP; can be killed.
Threat Behavior: It waits in Vain Shrouds and uses its tongue to pull isolated employees toward danger; it cannot spawn at the very beginning of the day.
How to Survive It: Avoid dense shrouds alone, clear weeds with Weed Killer, and hit the fox to interrupt its tongue grab.

#28Manticoil

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon, mainly during the day.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, Offense, March, Adamance, and Artifice.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: 2 HP; can be killed, though it does not attack employees.
Threat Behavior: It is a harmless bird that tends to move in flocks and does not attack employees.
How to Survive It: No counter is needed; leave it alone and keep attention on actual threats.

#29Roaming Locust

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon, mainly during the day.
Spawn Moons: Experimentation, Assurance, Vow, March, Adamance, and Artifice.
Power Level: 1
Health / Killability: Invulnerable; it does not attack employees.
Threat Behavior: The harmless swarm disperses when employees approach and cannot be seen on the ship's monitor.
How to Survive It: No counter is needed; let the swarm disperse and keep moving.

#30Tulip Snake

Where It Spawns: Outside on the moon, mainly during the day.
Spawn Moons: Assurance, Vow, March, Adamance, and Artifice.
Power Level: 0.5
Health / Killability: 1 HP; can be killed, but it cannot be stunned.
Threat Behavior: It attaches to employees and can lift one player into the air; multiple snakes can lift a player higher and create fall or ceiling-fan danger.
How to Survive It: Get a teammate to remove attached snakes before entering a dangerous area, especially near ceiling fans or drops.

What Creatures Are in Lethal Company

Creatures are the wildlife and monsters you run into on the moons you visit. They are the main danger in any run, since one bad encounter can cost you your loot or your life. Not all of them are a threat, though, and knowing which ones you can ignore saves a lot of panic.

The creatures are sorted into indoor, outdoor and daytime groups. Where you meet one tells you a lot about how it acts. The groups overlap, since a creature can live outdoors and only show up in daylight.

Indoor, Outdoor and Daytime Creatures

Indoor creatures live inside facilities and dungeons, and many of them move through the ventilation shafts too, so a quiet vent can hide a threat. Some are fast and aggressive, some lurk out of sight, and others mostly want your loot.

The Cadaver Bloom is a different kind of problem. It is a plant that spreads through facilities, and its spores infect employees, who can later turn into Blooms themselves. Standing close to it is toxic, so keep your distance.

Outdoor creatures roam open ground and forests, and many of them come in groups. Eyeless Dogs lunge at you and pull nearby dogs into the chase, and Baboon Hawks hunt as a pack. Forest moons have their own set too, including the Feiopar, which hides among the trees and pounces when you get too close, even if you're watching it. Circuit Bees guard their hives and attack once you come near, so leave the hive alone unless you're ready for a fight.

Not every outdoor creature waits for night. The harmless Manticoil and Roaming Locust are out during the day, and a few others roam in daylight too. The chance of meeting something dangerous rises as the day goes on, so the longer you stay out, the more risk you take on.

How Creatures Notice and Hunt You

Most creatures react to one of three things: what they see, what they hear, or what you carry. Once you know the trigger, you can plan around it instead of just reacting.

Sight matters most with some of the scariest ones. Bracken backs off if you glance at it, but a long stare makes it come for you. Coil-Head only moves while you aren't looking at it, so keep it in the corner of your eye as you back away rather than turning your back on it.

Sound and movement matter too. Eyeless Dogs hunt by sound, so crouching and staying quiet is the first thing to try. Forest Keepers react to movement, and how you move changes how easily they spot you.

Items are the third trigger. Hoarding Bugs haul loot back to their nests, so scrap left lying around can disappear.

How to Survive a Creature Encounter

Most creatures are easier to avoid than to fight, and some of the worst will punish you for starting a fight. Bunker Spiders hit hard and can chase you for a long time, for example. Before you head deeper into a facility, find the nearest exit so you aren't searching for it while something is on your heels.

Pay attention to the layout when you run. Thumpers chase you through long corridors, and making several turns can break their line of sight. Long straight halls give fast chasers a clear run at you, so take a turn when you can.

Gear helps a bit. A shovel can clear small pests like Snare Fleas and Hoarding Bugs in a handful of hits, but most of the big threats are better left alone. If something chases you while you're carrying heavy loot, drop it and run. Losing some scrap is far better than dying.

The Most Dangerous Creatures

Forest Keeper, Coil-Head and Bracken are among the deadliest creatures, since a single mistake around any of them can end a run. That is why they're worth learning first. Coil-Head is the clearest case, because it only moves while you aren't looking at it, so a moment of looking away can put it right behind you.

Jester and Ghost Girl are a different kind of danger, because they keep coming after you. Once Jester starts chasing, you can't outrun it, so you need to be clear of it before it starts. Ghost Girl can follow you anywhere on the moon, including outside and onto the ship.

How to Collect Every Creature in the Bestiary

Your collection lives in the Bestiary, which you open from the ship's terminal by typing "Bestiary." A creature gets its entry once you scan it with the scanner, and each entry explains how that creature behaves and how to handle it. You can't fill the list by reading about creatures alone, so you need to meet them and scan them.

The Feiopar is native to the forest moons, so a trip there helps you finish the list. The Backwater Gunkfish roams the Factory and Mineshaft, so search those spots when you're working toward it.

FAQ

Is the Kidnapper Fox in Lethal Company?

Yes. It hides inside Vain Shrouds and drags isolated players with its tongue. It can't appear at the very start of a day.

Is Vain Shroud a creature?

No. It's treated as a hazard rather than a creature, but it matters because the Kidnapper Fox lives inside Vain Shrouds.