Insertables

I've now created the code framework for handling insertables such as dildos and butt plugs. Depending on the orifice type (asshole or vagina), the openness and the type of insertable, it has a chance of falling out each turn if there's no underwear keeping it in. Cursed insertables cannot be simply removed and will not just fall out.

If not in combat, you can insert these things yourself. Kicking and kneeing also has a decent chance of forcing the insertable out. As with everything else that can be inside you, while it's there soreness doesn't decay. Soreness and openness may slowly increase depending on the size of the object.

Salve of Concealment

This salve is applied to either your asshole or your vagina if you have one.  It creates a magical layer of concealment around it which somehow tricks living beings into thinking that the orifice is already occupied.  Obviously it can't trick a dildo trap or similar into thinking this.  However the salve makes the area extremely sensitive - any stimulation from any other source is likely to cause orgasm.  Furthermore it doesn't stop the player's mouth being used, obviously.  The cursed version will just make you oversensitive with no protection.  If that happens to you, I hope you can find a body of water and fast!

I haven't finally concluded on the recipe yet, hence why it isn't detailed here.

Fixing how breasts work

Quite a few people have commented on how your tits growing very large doesn't work well with lactation enabled, since the way it worked previously, breast flesh and milk contents were completely separate, and once your jugs hit their maximum size, flesh took priority, leaving sometimes absolutely no room for milk.  This is mainly an issue when trying to get the strength benefits of being the cowgirl.

So this is a solution I've come up with which hopefully will operate quite a bit better.  Breast flesh can now contain milk; one unit of boob flesh can contain one unit of milk.  This milk still contributes to your melons' weight and therefore your total weight, making you fatigue faster and fall over easier and so on.  Once your milky mammaries can no longer contain the milk it's producing, your tits will expand as you produce more milk as before.  At this point, lactation will occur periodically, leaking some or all of this excess milk.  Reaching maximum bust size will cause you to lactate as soon as you produce more milk.

If your breasts fill up with air to maximum size and try to keep going, then the game won't force milk out until you lactate naturally, it'll just discard the extra air.  If your breasts fill up with (spoilers) silicone implants to max breast size, then you will be forced to lactate if there is milk that can be removed to make room.

The only ways to get rid of the milk contained inside your titty flesh are to reduce your flesh volume (so that the milk is now not contained in the flesh) and then lactate, or to use the milking bench.  The milking bench now will only latch on to your bloated udders with its suction cups if their nipples are exposed, which would require you to remove most bras or dresses.  Wearing cursed versions will obviously make that impossible.  The main exception is the maternity bra which has flaps that you get the option to peel back when you rest on the bench.  And obviously the ribbon bra and the cupless bra and so on won't stop you getting milked.

Some balancing may be required, maybe it'll change one day so that your busoms can only hold one unit of milk for each two units of juicy chest flesh.

Unholy Cum Dump's Undergarment

This might look to some like an ordinary pair of slutty crotchless panties, but to the person that crafted them, they know it contains powerful magic for the right human sex toy.  The craft recipe varies depending on what fetishes you have enabled, but it can include eggs, just semen from your ass or a mix of bodily fluids from your ass, and crotchless panties.

These legendary crotchless panties prevent your ass and pussy soreness from ever reaching their maximum values, and so prevent fainting from ass soreness, except for some edge cases, for example you are already on max ass soreness and then get penetrated by a demoness.  They also make your body thirst for anal creampies.  Whenever your asshole receives another serving of semen, your body soreness is healed depending on how large the load was.  But, if your belly is completely empty of semen then you become horny twice as fast as you would otherwise.

Shameful orgasms will still increase sex addiction, so you will slowly become even more of a cum dump.  The cursed and blessed versions don't do anything particularly special, but obviously the cursed version cannot be removed at will.  As with normal crotchless panties, these will allow full access to your lower orifices, and will prevent the wearing of any other panties.

I'll be interested to see how far towards being a total bimbo slut people can go and still go on to win the game, by clever use of this item.  That is once actual proper victory conditions are coded in, which will be coming in release 7...

Landmark

The IF source code just passed the 250 000 word mark (over 24 000 lines).  Wow!  I never thought the project would get this big when I started it a few years ago.  Some of the code is very old and clunky because it's so old and I was still learning the basics of the language, and after this release there's definitely some parts that need to be rewritten.  But anyway, I'm finished with my recoding of body parts and I'm very happy with the outcome; it's going to make further coding such a lot easier.  It also allowed me to inadvertently identify and eliminate a lot of bugs and inconsistencies in the existing code.

Anyway, onwards and upwards!  Back to the alchemy updates for about a week or so.

Oh, and if you send me a donation with a request in it please please please discuss it with me first, or at the very least either email me as well or put your contact details in the donation notes, or I'll have no way to reply to you.

Slight delay

Brief testing made me realise that I really have to do some recoding that's way overdue. At the moment whenever something is trying to enter an orifice it goes through several checks and balances to find out if there's something already there to stop it, and then respond accordingly. Adding a new type of thing that can fill an orifice is a pain in the ass, pun intended.

Therefore I'm spending a decent amount of time optimising the code by making it more modular and homogenous throughout all the different types of things that can be in your butt (and pussy). I'm about halfway done.

At this point I think it's worth saying that there might not end up being a release before the end of the month. But if not it shouldn't be too long after that.

Living Belt of Sturdiness

This legendary item is created from a silver drink (a new drink colour), a metal disc and the living vine you get from the vine boss, so not only is it only possible to obtain it once but you can't ever have both this and the whip in the same game.

This belt gives a huge benefit in combat and in general throughout the game - you can't be forced to your knees by anything that trips you.  Orgasms, going into labour, fatigue & body soreness and voluntary kneeling all still will make you go down but monsters, trip wires etc will not be able to.

Unfortunately there is a cost.  When you are upright, the belt fully comes to life, penetrating your orifice(s) with tentacles and keeping them open.  This will protect you from dildo traps and the like but also keep you full of any liquids currently inside you.  If you become horny they will start fucking you and climax with you, resulting in a healthy creampie and a turn lost for you as you orgasm.  Kneeling makes the tentacles recede.

The symbiotic relationship you and your belt share is nearly all beneficial, especially for females who don't need to be concerned about the penis size loss from anal orgasms, but you do need to be careful about when and where those orgasms occur.  Also after a few creampies, if you haven't been spending much time on your knees you'll probably need to go and find a safe place to go kneel and wait for the semen to take its natural (or unnatural, really) course.

Oh, and you can't wear underwear over the top of this.  Any existing underwear being worn when penetration occurs will be ripped or destroyed.

Finally, this isn't implemented yet, but I'm considering having the belt wither and die if it doesn't get to feed off of your orgasm for a long period of time.

Salve of Buoyancy

Salves are products of alchemy that you apply to specific body parts.  They remain applied until washed off by you entering a body of water, or by fainting.

The salve of buoyancy is created from a clear liquid and the pink rubber drop from the sex doll.  The salve can be applied to your breast and your butt at the moment, and probably your belly as well when I get round to coding it.  Once applied, that part of your body will become lighter (but not change in size).  If inflation fetish is enabled, it is possible for a body part to become lighter than air through this method.  A blessed salve makes the area extra light, and a cursed salve instead makes the body part heavier.

The BUC of a salve cannot be changed once it has been applied - you are stuck like that until you wash it off.  A body part must be exposed for you to apply a salve to it.  G-strings and thongs count as exposing your butt cheeks.

EDIT: Today I improved the code to allow for your belly to be a valid working target for salves as well.

Elixir of Invigoration

This elixir is created from some acquired semen and the pink hair drop from the fairy.  Drinking it has quite a simple effect, it makes your ass and pussy heal themselves by the amount of semen that enters them for the next 20-25 rounds.  You should probably save it until you can tell you're about to lose to a monster and you're already quite sore.  Make sure it's a monster that ejaculates semen, though.

The blessed version will continue for 5 more turns, and the cursed one will continue for 19 less turns.  The only way you know whether the effect has expired is by whether you get the text saying that your asshole/pussy has magically healed when you get creampied.  Furthermore the cursed version will increase your cum addiction.

Sex Addiction vs Cum Addiction

Interrupting the alchemy updates briefly as this is important to note before the next elixir I discuss.

Until now, these have been the same statistic that increases as you ingest semen and as you orgasm.  However I have now separated these into two different stats that are completely independent.

Cum addiction is now purely to do with semen; it increases by ingesting semen and adds to your bimbo meter and after a few ranks it allows you to request / accept drinks of semen from NPC's like the guard who can do so.  High levels of cum addiction cause you to automatically drop to your knees against some enemies who you know can fill you with semen.  When you have maximum cum addiction, further increases cause your sex addiction meter to increase instead - the thought and smell of semen now uncontrollably arouses you!

Sex addiction is now purely to do with submissive sex and orgasms.  Every time you orgasm shamefully and some of the time you orgasm from masturbating, you gain sex addiction.  Low ranks in sex addiction doesn't mean you don't like sex, it means you like being "on top" during sex, i.e. not any of the sex you'll encounter from NPC's in trap quest.  Medium ranks in sex addiction makes you periodically become horny, which requires you to masturbate to remove.  Your intelligence is slightly lowered when horny.  Higher ranks in sex addiction allow you to become very horny, which happens after being horny for a while.  This results in an even greater amount of intelligence loss.  Even higher ranks in sex addiction allow you to become extremely horny.  When extremely horny, your intelligence has a maximum value of 3; you really can't think of anything but finding a way to orgasm right now.  When extremely horny, any vaginal or anal soreness increase causes an instant shameful orgasm.

Higher sex addiction means that you become horny again faster, and also that you might drop automatically in front of dominant NPCs.  At maximum sex addiction, any further increases causes you to lose intelligence.  At 1 intelligence, any further increase causes instant game loss.

Also remember that masturbating has a chance of increasing sex addiction (this chance gets lower and lower the more sex addiction you already have).  So when horny, you have to weigh up the intelligence penalty issue with the issue of frequent masturbation increasing your sex addiction even further.  Also the sooner you masturbate after your previous masturbation session, the more likely you are to cause a chastity cage to spawn.  And then you'll have no way to deal with your horniness at all except, getting things to fuck you in the ass.

Queen of Hearts Heels

These legendary heels are created from any normal stiletto heeled heels, a black liquid and a pack of playing cards. The pack of playing cards is obtainable once from the poker room. This means you can only ever create these heels once.

The heels get critical hits twice as often as normal heels if not cursed. They also allow you to strut even if you haven't learned the skill. However, whilst wearing them you do not gain heel experience from just walking around. You still get experience from kneeing and kicking monsters.

The heels are created at a height which makes them challenging to walk in. Therefore you may have to continue to wear your other heels for a while until you gain another couple of levels in heel skill.  Or with a bit of luck, maybe you have some potions of balance stocked up.

Spike Bra

Some of you may have previously obtained this from the vine boss. From now on you'll instead be able to get it through crafting. Crafting this requires a bra, a blue liquid and either two medium eggs or a stiletto heel depending on fetish selections.

The spike bra is the 2nd best bra in terms of the support it provides, after exercise bras. It also damages some enemies when they attack you, specifically those that slap or punch you in the breasts. Sex dolls pop immediately.

The bra will be created one size larger than your current breast size.

Stethoscope

The stethoscope that lots of you will know and love is now only available through crafting. Created by combining a metal disc (dropped by a gladiator) with an energy drink, it raises intelligence and increases your competence at checking for traps when worn.

Potion of the Womb

This potion requires a pink liquid and pink hair to create. It interacts with pregnancy in some interesting ways. If you are not pregnant, it makes you pregnant. If you are pregnant, it pauses the growth of the pregnancy. If you have a paused pregnancy, it is unpaused. This could be ideal if you manage to pause a pregnancy in the early stages; faeries would still protect you and the weight wouldn't be a big deal. But a pregnancy paused at full term could get you stuck with a giant belly.

And yes, there may be a monster soon who forces you to drink one of these potions as a possible attack.

Potion of Balance

A potion is a product of alchemy which adds a permanent, or long term, effect.

The potion of balance, made from a potion of weight loss and a wasp wing / pink hair depending on fetish choices.

The potion shifts lots of weight from your breasts to your hips and ass or vice versa in order to bring the two to near equal values.

If uncursed, the potion jumps your heel skill to the next level. However your experience remains the same so you won't reach the next level until you would normally. It's therefore most optimal to drink this potion just after going up a level, and it's also better to wait until you've gone up the first few levels since these levels are gained more quickly.

Tincture of Acceleration

The tincture of acceleration is crafted from a potion of speed and a wasp wing (drop from a giant wasp) if egg laying fetish is enabled and pink hair (drop from fairy) if not.

This tincture gives you a massive dexterity boost for a few rounds, as long as it's not cursed. Its side effect is that internal bodily effects are massively accelerated; you will very quickly get very thirsty (but not bring you quite to fainting levels) so it's a good idea to have a drink on your person or accessible nearby. If watersports is enabled, this will cause your bladder to fill very quickly which could cause a missed turn in whatever battle you're in as you wet yourself.

If enabled, pregnancy and milk production will speed along at crazy rates as well. If the tincture is not cursed, exercise will count for a huge amount of calories burned. Blessing the vial will cause the effects to last a few extra rounds.

Whip of Domination

The Whip of Domination is crafted from a severed vine (only one available, dropped by the vine boss) and a potion of virility. It is equip-able / wieldable which works just like clothing. If it is cursed you will not be able to remove it from your hand.

The whip modifies your slap damage based on its BUC and magic modifier. It also gives a damage bonus / reduction based on your submissive sex addiction, the more dominant you are the higher the bonus, the more submissive you are the more the reduction. The whip also gives a bit of bonus damage if you are currently very horny (but being horny lowers dexterity so this might not be desirable overall in some fights).

Wielding the whip makes you able to become horny even if your sex addiction is currently low. Attacking with the whip will arouse you if you are not yet fully horny. You cannot perform a normal slapping attack whilst wielding the whip and damage modifiers such as the reduction from having very large breasts will still apply.

Killing a monster with the whip lowers sex addiction and humiliation.

Elixir of Magnetism

The elixir of a magnetism is created from a purple liquid and an infernal gem (a new item dropped by the demoness).  When drunk, if uncursed, it intimidates all unfriendly monsters currently attacking you but not yet fucking you. They will run away from you rather than attack for the duration of the effect. Whilst active, all other monsters who are not intimidated will notice you from one room away. The blessed version lasts a few rounds longer.

Good timing on drinking this might make it much more feasible to perform a full heist of the dungeon shop and/or use the woods altar without paying the witch. But if it turns out to be cursed, you might end up in a bit of trouble.

Elixir of Life

Elixirs are small flasks full of a strong concoction that will give you a significant bonus for 20-30 turns.

The elixir of life is created from a green liquid and a fae mushroom (a new item found in the woods).  When drunk it changes you to a woman instantly if appropriate and impregnates you. Whilst active, if uncursed, it heals some soreness every couple of rounds, but if there is nothing to heal, it speeds up your pregnancy. The blessed version lasts a few rounds longer.

Drinking this elixir when already pregnant has potentially severe consequences. It increases your pregnancy rate (chance of conception and speed at which it grows) and is currently the only way to increase your pregnancy rate past the current limit. If you abuse these elixirs you could be churning out children so fast that you haven't even left the region with the father in it yet. Which would obviously hinder your ability to progress through the game.

Incidentally, pregnancy now happens a lot faster than it used to; it would take about a third of the game time to complete in the old version and that's been changed to about an eighth.  And that's without any increases to the rate.

FAQ

I've added a little FAQ to the blog, accessible through the side link.

Condom of Kings

Some craftable items will not be liquids but legendary clothing and equipment. Of course you won't be able to obtain each one every game or even necessarily want to, but when you do find the recipe it will be up to you to decide if it's worth obtaining.

The Condom of Kings is created from a container full of another's semen (recall that the only way to currently capture this is during ass expulsion), a piece of pink rubber (a new sex doll drop) and a royal sigil (a new guard drop). Whilst worn it slowly increases penis size. The larger your penis already is, the lower chance and therefore longer average time until the next increase. Orgasming and ejaculating inside the condom curses it, so try to predict this and remove it beforehand. But once removed the condom is impossible to get back on and discarded. The cursed version slowly reduces your penis size. The blessed version increases your penis size slightly faster.

Tincture of strength

Spoiler warning: you may find it more fun to discover / try and work out what alchemy items do as and when you craft them. I know I would. If so I suggest not reading the blog posts for the next couple of weeks.

Tinctures are small vials full of a powerful concoction that will give you a massive bonus for 10-15 turns.

The tincture of strength is created from a potion of might and a mechanical joint (a new mannequin drop). Whilst active it gives you a massive superhuman strength boost (boss battle anyone?), but when the time runs out, all that extra strength turns into body size increase & weight gain. The cursed version reduces the duration of the strength gain to just a couple of rounds. The blessed version lasts a few rounds longer.

Alchemy

So I'm adding crafting mechanics to the game in the hope that Microsoft notices me and buys me up for $2.5bn.

You will start to find recipes in some treasure chests. Recipes can be carried around or memorised. The limit of how many you can commit to memory is based on your intelligence. If you leave a recipe unattended, monsters may pick them up as they wander.

Recipes contain the name of the item that can be created and the items required. Usually one of these items will be a liquid. If the item is a bodily fluid then this will likely require the "brewing" of this liquid inside your belly followed by capture in an open topped vessel during expulsion.

To successfully create the item, go to the apothecary with the items required and use the craft verb. A player with low intelligence has a chance of accidentally and unknowingly creating a cursed version of the item.

Many monsters will now sometimes drop items which have no purpose other than crafting and possibly some trading in the future.

I'm going to try and make some small but frequent posts about the items that can be created as I add them to the game. They've already (mostly) been designed but have yet to be coded.