There are two major changes going into effect for speedrunners. The first and largest is that ALL multiple-player runs that place in the TOP 5 must include ALL POVs for the run to be verified. There will be zero leniency for this rule. (All runs done after 1/10/2023 are subject to this rule change)

The second change is regarding a new way to double jump inside LL, deemed IslandHop. It has been on the community's radar for some weeks now and in short, IslandHop WILL be allowed inside runs with some implications. Firstly, you will NOT be allowed to jump up and grab items through the floors (if there is any interest in doing runs this way, we can look at adding a separate category). You WILL be allowed to use IslandHop for any other scenario as long as it doesn't involve grabbing items through floors, this includes: key drops, jumping on table/desks, and jumping over ledges to fall to a floor beneath. If there are any questions relating to IslandHop feel free to ask. :)

The rules have been updated to reflect this, and I suggest you give them a read.

Hi everyone lots of news. If you haven’t seen yet Lunch Lady version 1.7.0 was just released, and in it includes a lot of changes that relate to speedrunning.

We’ve updated the leaderboards with the new Manic University map, 1.7.0 all maps, and the option to include milliseconds (Note: ANY submission that doesn’t include milliseconds will be moved up 1 second).

The biggest change is the inclusion of milliseconds in the final time. To enable this, go into options —> Language & UI —> Turn on Milliseconds. Runs are becoming increasingly more optimized and with that comes ties, milliseconds will help reduce this. However, with the addition of milliseconds, we are now faced with a challenge on how to handle all the runs currently on the leaderboards. The previous timer would round down to the nearest second, giving runs done on pre 1.7.0 versions an advantage. To make it fair, we’ve decided to add on an extra second to every top 10 SOLO run without milliseconds. We are only changing the solo category because all 2+ player runs have had a change that overcompensates for the time loss due to no milliseconds, which leads me to the next big change.

The black screen walk at the beginning of the game is no more. Multiple player runs now function the same as a solo run where players can run directly to where they want without having to navigate in complete darkness. This change will save tons of time on 2+ player runs, and is also the reason we are not touching any old runs. This also means the “all POVs” rule is no longer in effect (although it’s still encouraged).

The last big change in the update is the addition of a “Restart Map” button in the pause screen. Long gone are the days of quitting then inviting, we now have an extremely efficient way of resetting!

TL;DR New LL map, milliseconds included in the time, all top 10 solo times without millisceonds will have an added second, restart button, and leaderboard categories (Manic University & 1.7.0 all maps) are live.

All multiple-player runs that are top 4 and better must include the perspective of every person in the run. This is due to a recently found software that completely gets rid of the black screen at the start of the run giving a huge advantage to those who use this software. This will be in effect until further notice.