Signs of Life Reference

Looking for a recipe, wondering what an item does, or trying to make a mod? This reference collects the useful details in one place. Item, recipe, creature, structure, tile prefab, and plant pages are updated from the current game whenever the reference is published.

Community guides and history

The long-running Signs of Life Community Wiki on Fandom has player-written guides, screenshots, and history from across the game's life. Some pages cover older versions and may be out of date, so use this reference for current items, recipes, creatures, structures, tile prefabs, plants, and modding details.

Reference

Items

Items are everything you can carry, wear, or use — weapons, armor, tools, materials, food, and more.

• Overview — all items A–Z
• Quick slots — items that fit the two utility slots (Z and X by default)
• Armor
• Weapons
• Ammo
• Tools
• Gadgets
• Throwables
• Consumables
• Materials
• Placeables
• Containers
• Equipment
• Key items
• Other

Recipes, creatures, structures, tile prefabs, and plants

• Recipes — crafting and processing steps that turn ingredients into finished items
• Creatures — animals, xenoids, and other beings you can encounter
• Structures — furniture, doors, stations, and other placeable objects
• Tile prefabs — multi-tile layouts stamped into generated worlds
• Plants — trees, bushes, and other flora

Modding

Guides for making content packs, custom worlds, and Lua scripts.

• Modding overview
• Getting started
• Troubleshooting
• Mod files and folders
• Making a custom world
• Detailed world-building options
• Lua safety and limits
• Lua programming reference

Use search to find a name, an item ID, a modding command, or a few words from a description.