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New Dom Activities

This update adds new transformation activities that doms in the Dynamic Doms system can use.  This lets them enhance your body to their horny preferences.

Each of the dynamic doms now have new randomly generated kinks available, which will cause certain actions when you have accepted a dom as your owner.  The kinks are:

• Female Transformation – Dom will apply a gender transformation powder to your crotch, causing you to slowly become female.  (Or if wearing a cock ring, you will become a herm.)
• Weight Gain (Light) – Dom will feed you snacks to fatten you up and tease you about your weight.
• Weight Gain (Heavy/Immobilizing) – As above, but she won’t stop until you’re stuck :3
• Large Breasts – Dom will rub breast cream on you to grow your tits up to D-cup.
• Very Large Breasts – As above, but up to H-cup.
• Large Vagina Size – Dom will apply vaginagro to make your pussy larger.
• Monstrously Large Vaginas – As above, but even bigger!
• Shortstacks – Dom will make you shorter / head pats.

You can see what kinks a dom is interested in via their dom profile button — they usually will like multiple kinks.

(Doms that support the Dynamic Dom / NPC kink system are currently:  AlphaSlug, Dragon Disciple, Dragon Servant, and Foxgirl)

A Foxy Mistress

The fox doms have been converted to the dynamic dom system as well, so you can now have a foxgirl owner.  After you beat Chapter 4 (or chapter skip past it), the foxes will suggest they become your permanent Mistress.

They don’t have any new unique scenes, but use the existing ownership scenes from the other dynamic doms.  They are also capable of all the above kinks.  They are not overly particular about your species, so unlike the other doms, you can be whatever species you like.  (They will still try to transform you before becoming your owner, but you can change to something else afterward and they won’t mind).

Your fox dom will enjoy following you around, sneaking some of the above enhancements onto you if she has the matching kinks.  Like the dragon temple doms, she will also periodically get horny and seek you out to blow off some steam.

Preset a Permanent Species

During character setup, if you are enabling permanent (overall) transformation, you can now optionally pre-set a species you will be permanently transformed to.

Bug Fixes & Misc.

• Fix bug where titslug TF from human male via regular slug enemy didn’t ever finish because it was requiring full female TG, even though player had become shemale slug.
• Fix dragon servant not showing dom profile button.
• Fix parse tester not correctly testing dynamic doms without speech.
• New text variables.
• Limit how many random kinks a dynamic dom will do on the same game tick instead of doing all of them at once.
• Small text fix for Nova having wrong pronouns in two of her texts.
• Misc backend improvements/updates to the website.

New release with various bug fixes and small improvements:

• You can now delete any old unwanted saves.  To do so, use the ‘Delete a Save’ button in the settings menu.
• Added a treadmill to the break room in the strip club to prevent situation where you could get stuck in there due to weight gain (#123).
• Fix for #138: Player can sneak a humanify syringe to immediately de-cow krista, breaking progression.
• Not really used by anything, but map files and mod code can now spawn Humanify Syringe.
• Website now informs you if your email is bouncing on the password reset / forgot account page.
• Farm:
  • Fix for #145: Old save files using chapter skips had an inconsistent farm state.
  • Re-lock the farm dorm when entering, in case it’s been a long time (ex: old save from before farm dorm relocking on exit).
  • The procedural dungeon door in farm will now correctly show up when loading old saves prior to extended farm (#130).
  • Sasha now recognizes permanent TF and correctly blocks player from reverting back to human if in that game mode.

A new optional game setting has been added:  Permanent Transformation.  With the permanent TF mode enabled, the items and events that would normally turn you back to human cease to work.  For instance, Doc Nalf can’t change you back to human anymore and Krista’s humanify syringe fails.  Slugs can’t get their legs back just by losing to a fox.  You’re as stuck in your new form as most of the NPCs in The Underworld are.

Be warned, the new mode makes the story content largely unbeatable.  This mode is not intended for your first playthrough or for new players (and thus defaults off unless you specifically enable it during character setup in chapter skip).  Rather it is a “playable bad end” mode where you are guaranteed to get stuck in a particular form.  (Not to be confused with hard bad ends / game overs — these do not stop you from playing, only advancing.)  This mode is for when you want to go into one of the dungeons and become a permanent resident with the other denizens there 😉

Permanent TF Options

When creating your character (in Chapter Skip), you can choose one of the following options for transformation permanence:

• Normal – After initial transformation, you can transform to another species or back to human.
• Nonhuman Only – After initial transformation, you can transform to another species but NOT back to human.
• Permanent (Pure) – The first transformation you receive locks you to that kind of transformation for all body parts.  (My personal favorite and probably the best integrated, recommended to try this one)
• Permanent (Chimera) – Each body part is permanently stuck, but they can be mixed. This allows for hybrid forms like dracows, etc.

Pure permanent mode has a bonus suboption:  Redirect Blocked Transformations.  With this mode turned on, any blocked transformations will be converted to transformations of your destined form, making it harder to avoid your inevitable furry fate.  For instance, if you’ve started becoming a panda, eating catnip will make you even more of a panda instead of a catgirl.

New Defeat Logic + Scenes

Under the hood, a number of core game systems have been reworked to support permanent TF.  Best of all, this has improved regular mode playthroughs as well.  No longer will enemies try to transform you if you’re already transformed — now they’ll do a regular sex scene instead.

To support this, there’s three new basic defeat scenes available:  submissive sex with generic dicked NPC dom, submissive sex with generic NPC dom with vagina, and sex with mermaid swarm.  These should cover all the cases of enemies that can now skip trying to transform you if appropriate.  (More varieties and custom versions may be added later, too).

There’s also some brief scenes to handle you being stuck in permanent form: Sasha being unable to change you back in the farm, Krista being unable to change you back after the dragon temple, Doc Nalf unable to change you back at the hospital.

All of the above are fairly short, but add some nice flavor for your new permanent predicament.  All of the game’s included enemies and chapters / extended chapters have been updated to recognize when the player is in permanent TF / otherwise untransformable and should react accordingly.  So, for instance, if you’ve become a cow permanently and wander into the sewers, the titslugs & frogs should understand that and rather than try to change your species, will just do a regular sex instead.  Alpha Slugs won’t try to change your species if you’re already stuck as something else (even a non-sewer species), but will still offer to become your dom and try to make you into a breeder variant of your preexisting species.

Updated Mods

New methods are available to the modding system (technical details).  In terms of existing mods interacting with permanent TF:

• For transformation mods, I’ve gone ahead and taken the liberty of adding support to all publicly available transformation/species mods to support the new system (mod authors may want to see the above link to see what I did). I fixed up a few things while I was in there too, like adding support for Pig TF to add weight gain to the player as was previously referenced in the flavor text, fixing exceptions where I found them, etc.
• Simple monsters already support the system with no changes required.
• Advanced monsters (primarily just the wyverns) have not yet been updated to add a new player defeat scene to support losing to an untransformable opponent, but feel free to request it if you want it.

Misc

• Guards now recognize exposed udders as something they can grab.
• New text variable for grabbables.
• Fixed some tiny text spacing bugs.
• More automated tests, especially around all the permutations of permanent TF & always feminize mode.  This revealed a few previously unknown bugs, which have been fixed:
• Fixed bug where if you did a horse tf, then a something else tf, then returning back to horse tf, it will now correctly re-grow horse dick again (if not female).
• When player resetting back to starting characteristics (mostly only happens after hydra tf), your belly fat weight will be reset correctly as well.
• Fixed a bug with spider TF, where text referenced spider teeth TF, but actually it gave player spider ears (which aren’t a thing for spider, at least as originally written).