How to use Spray Paint in Lethal Company

A tool to help—or troll—your crewmates.

A deadly scene from Lethal Company with a monster and a player facing off.
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Lethal Company puts plenty of tools at the player’s disposal, and more are added as the game receives updates. One of the newer additions included with Version 45 is the Spray Paint can.

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Here’s how to find and use Spray Paint in Lethal Company.

Where can you get Spray Paint from in Lethal Company?

The main screen of the Terminal in Lethal Company. There's green text on a black screen, listing out the various options to pick from.
At the very bottom of the Terminal screen. Screenshot by Dot Esports

You can purchase Spray Paint from the Store at the Terminal in Lethal Company. It’ll set you back 50 Credits at full price which, in all honestly, feels like a steal already given the wide range of uses the Spray Paint has. Therefore, if you see it at a discount, you should immediately purchase it and get to graffitiing.

Once purchased and shaken up, you’ll be able to graffiti all over surfaces, which can be very handy in marking rooms you’ve entered, leaving tags to find your way out, pointing you and your teammates in the right direction, or just having a laugh by spelling out random words.

How do you use Spray Paint in Lethal Company?

A crewmate holds a purple can of spray paint in the ship in Lethal Company.
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To use the Spray Paint in Lethal Company, simply equip it and hold your attack button, which is left-click by default. You will need to get close to the surface you wish to spray on for the spray to apply.

You’ll notice you won’t get much spray out in one go, so you’ll need to shake the can just like you would in real life. To shake the can, press Q. Once fully shaken, you’ll be able to spray again. Eventually, however, you’ll run out of paint and no matter how much you shake the can, it will no longer work. This is by design, unfortunately—the Spray Paint has many advantages so it would only be fair to limit how much it can be used.

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It’s up to you and your teammates, but agreeing on specific meanings for simple shapes can really bolster the usefulness of the Spray Can. An ‘O’, for example, could mean that everything beyond that point has already been thoroughly looted. An ‘X’ could be used to say that there is a turret, spider, or other danger lying in wait past a certain point as well.

Once the can is out of paint, that’s it—you cannot refill the can. You’ll need to purchase or find another can in order to start tagging again

As cool as the Spray Paint is already in Lethal Company, I cannot wait to see what modders come up with as they get a hold of the tool. From multi-colored spray paints to graffiti tags like we’ve seen in games like Overwatch, VALORANT, and Counter-Strike, the possibilities are endless.

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Nicholas Taifalos
Weekend editor for Dot Esports. Nick, better known as Taffy, began his esports career in commentary, switching to journalism with a focus on Oceanic esports, particularly Counter-Strike and Dota. Email: nicholas@dotesports.com