This month's public release contains the second boss dungeon, a new tutorial system, and the start of the gear rework.

Weapon Extension and Rebalance

Equipment was a bit of a mess. The bonuses are inconsistent, completely independent of rarity, and make some items completely useless and others overpowered. Of course, some cursed items are completely useless, but it goes further than that. Earrings of protection give a chance of a magblock token, while horse ears give +1 inventory size and 10% reflex save. These are not comparable.

The core idea behind the rebalance is that all items are on average equally good, but higher rarity items have more complexity. The higher complexity allows for larger bonuses, balanced by drawbacks. Cursed items follow the same pattern, except that they are overspecialized. They may boost your adventurer's healing tremendously, but force her to apologize profusely when attacking an enemy.

Anyway, doing everything all at once isn't possible, so I started with the balance of the weapons of the non-cursed classes. The idea was to get 10 weapons per non-cursed class (3 very common, 2 common, 2 uncommon, 1 rare, 1 very rare, 1 legendary). Each of them is now unique with more power and more drawbacks the rarer they are.

I've also added some other gear:

For more info, see: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/700945/progress-rework-gear-updat...

Tutorials

The problem with the old tutorial popups was that nobody read them. It is known that tutorials are hard, getting people to spend time reading and remembering when they just want to play the game. So the new tutorials are small quests that guide you through the early game. Unlike tutorial popups, you want to read them since there's a reward. They are also available until you learned the specific lesson, so they will always be available at the correct time for the player.

For more info, see: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/697081/public-release-beta-100 

Latex Dungeon

The gimmick behind the second dungeon is latex. Parts of the dungeon are covered in sticky latex which slows down your adventurers and can turn into cursed latex gear. As in the previous boss dungeon, there's a straightforward dangerous path, and a safe longer path. Don't be a coward, take the plunge.

For more info, see: https://madodev.itch.io/lewdest-dungeon/devlog/692879/progress-report-custom-dun...

Graphics Update + Gear
(Patreon/Subscribestar only for now)

Thanks to your support I've been able to find an artist to update the boob and pregnant belly images. 

While this may seem like a simple change, this also means all outfits had to be redrawn (well the chest part at least). Additionally, I made sure that a pregnant variant was also added. This makes it so that incubate tokens no longer require the outfit to be removed first. Doing all this while keeping the game playable isn't easy and is the reason why the public version is Beta 1.03 and not this version. There are probably some cases where the issues are still wonky. But it should mostly just work:

Previous devlog I talked about extra gear for the prisoner, maid and bunny class. Now it's time for the other classes to get to their allotted 20 pieces of equipment. I'm just going to add some screenshots here to make sure I don't spoil the fun of discovering the items and their effects yourself.

Horse

Cow

Pet

What's Next

There's still some work to do with the current graphics. I primarily want to get accessories to work on the kneeling puppet, as well as updating everything else for it. I'd like for the kneeling puppet to have the same textures as the standing one so I can get rid of the arbitrary "pet" tag.

As you may have noticed I've been slowly overhauling the UI, this also needs to be finished.

Then follows the full gear update. Instead of 270 items left, there are now only 150 to go. This won't take as long as you might think. Some of these are reserved for boss specific items, and the game now also supports easy recoloring of item parts. So it should get done relatively smoothly.

So the end of the gear rework is in sight. As such I'll be adding a poll shortly regarding which of the remaining 6 bosses will be prioritized, which will also decide the order in which other stuff gets added.

Changelogs:

Beta 1.03

Major:

• Second custom boss dungeon.
• A new tutorial system.
• Updated swamp music and new guild and overworld music.
  
• All main classes now have 10 unique weapons, each with fun and balanced effects.
• 20 other new pieces of gear have been added as well.

QoL:

• Filtering of gear in the guild has been spruced up and reworked.
• Filtering of girls in the guild has been spruced up and reworked.
• Girls only start barking when you haven't done any inputs in a while.
• Corruption advancements on kidnapped pops are now added to the log.
• Tokens are now shown in the top panel of the Adventurer Overview.
• The game now shows when and by which mod gear has been added.
• When assigning girls, the game now remembers where in the list you were.
• The quest button in the guild is now color-coded and always available.
• You can now favorite adventurers, marking them and making them always show on top of the guild list.
• Team party icons have been improved.
• The unequip all button has been improved.
• Quest rewards are always identified.
• You can move provisions in stacks by pressing shift.
• If items are hidden by equipment filters, you get a warning.
• You can change the positions of accessories in the guild.
• Tooltips will show which parts of conditions are applicable to the current adventurer.
• If you try to teleport into walls, the game will show you and then teleport you back automatically.
  

Minor:

• Some new preset parties, thanks Keyarl.
  
• The internal data for Quirks, Wearables, and EquipGroups has changed, mods from previous versions will break.
• Some translations are now added to the game internally, so they always work on export (e.g. on Android).
• Russian translation, thanks Himir!
• Underlying equipment texture changes.
• Added a create_encounter console command.
• Latex gear has been rebalanced.
• More modding scripts.
• Desire textures are now moddable.
• Reworked the ratkin prison in forest rescue missions.
• Provisions have been rebalanced.
• Dungeons can now pick from multiple equip groups.
• Modding improvements (sets are recognized, new error system, headers are automatically fixed).

Bugfixes:

• Loot was being saved incorrectly, causing crashes if you save-loaded into a combat, but only sometimes.
• Safety measures against those very hard to detect save corruption crashes.
• Forevix quirk was partially broken.
• One doll was missing, and two were missing from the dollmaker curio.
• Orc magecarrier targetted enemies instead of allies.
• Effects changing all_stats would also increase saves twice.
• If you had more than the maximum amount of set items, you didn't get any set bonusses.
• Saving and reloading in combat would reapply dots.
• Random gained items can only be lootable/rewardable items.
• Some tooltips went off screen.
• Rolls visual in stagecoach was incorrect.
• Anti-cowtits censor didn't work.
• Heal command healed negatively to 0.
• Overencumbered label wasn't centered.
• Fixed the white square bug for the rubberpuppy tail.
• Fixed some minimap icons in Boss1 dungeon.
• Some room curio didn't show reinforcements correctly.
• Hovering over a curio quest would duplicate curio counts.
• Stronghold curio was hidden.
• You can no longer capture stuff that was guarding a capturable human.
• Custom background would persist after combat.
• Hatchlings weren't weak to fire. 
• Parasite censorship wouldn't replace parasites in encounter.
•  Fixed incorrect hatchling and parasite censorship. 
• Outfits didn't show the exhibitionist friendly text.
• Goals and crests changed in combat wouldn't update UI.
• Quitting out just before a curio combat would invalidate the encounter making you win by default.
• You can no longer access the equipment and classes of kidnapped or recruitable girls.
• If an adventurer got captured in the same dungeon she got rescued or recruited from, she wouldn't get her own rescue dungeon.
• Very very rarely curio girls would disappear upon save-loading.
• Incorrect slime fighter texture.
• Missing pasties and dildo pants texture for kneeling puppet.
• Cursed adventurers custom game rule didn't work.
• Provision points could be fractional.
• You could sneakily unequip cursed accessories in the guild.
  
• Confirmed quests could get deleted randomly. 
• Hotkeys in Android could brick the game.
• Tyria didn't get her special crest and quirk locks.
• Clarified Have Veteran Whatever quest. 
•  Technician suit was counted as exhibitionist. 
•  Some prisoner items weren't part of the prisoner set. 
• Displayed favor didn't update on guild repeatables. 
•  Equipment Groups didn't work correctly with the hidden equipment marker. 
•  Removed a duplicate bracket in durability sorting. 
• Visual issue with Ratkin Prison.
• Incorrect Slime Throw name for breeder slime.
• Milk increase from quest didn't work. 
• Mechacanines had fleshcanine overworld sprite. 
• Untyped accessories didn't get sorted when using typesort. 
• You could detect cursed gear by using rarity or durability sorting. 
• Bosses for quests weren't described correctly. 
• Parasites grown through a nursery were incorrectly listed as natural.
• Incorrect riposts for latex paladin and cleric in Boss2.
• Sorting in the equipmentpanel didn't get saved.
• Some hairs of slimesprites were missing.

Beta 1.05 (Patreon/Subscribestar only for now):

Content:

• Incubate tokens (and pregnancy in general) no longer requires the outfit to be destroyed. Thanks Arasutaru!
• The graphics for boobs have been fully changed, as did gear to accommodate this. Thanks Arasutaru!
• The previous two changes will break mods visually!
• New Gear:
  • Horse:
    • Horse Bindings
    • Bit Gag
    • Equine Brand
    • Storage Cart
    • Horse Chastity Belt
    • Corset Suit
    • Equine Hood
    • Hooves
    • Collar of Burdens
    • Horse Tail
    • Saddle
    • Shock Harness
      
    • Drinking Gag
  • Pet:
    • Bitchsuit
    • Cat Collar
    • Cat Ears
    • Fish Gag
    • Cat Bindings
    • Cat Tail
    • Pet Contacts
    • Muzzle
    • Puppysuit
  • Cow:
    • Bull Bikini
    • Bull Harness
    • Cow Bell
    • Cowsuit
    • Milk Tapper
    • Pig Bikini
    • Pig Boots
    • Pig Mask
    • Rubber Pig Suit
    • Pig Tail
    • Mecha Milker
• All other cow/horse/pet gear has also had its effects changed, as did the gear that gets equipped during dungeons.
• Some more UI stuff.
• Added missing development goals related to ruins discovery, greenskin killing, suggestibility gaining, and parasite carrying.
• Lowered training cost scaling.
• REC is now capped at -75% (though you can't get there currently), healREC is capped at -100% (so you can't kill yourself by healing).

Bugfixes:

• Some quest dungeons could start you off in the incorrect position.
• Crest of Lust gave negative lust recoil.
• Some new uncurse goals weren't implemented correctly.
• Morale Effects couldn't be modded.
• Goals didn't show correctly in the guild.
• Beads buff wasn't a swift action.
• Eating a carrot in combat consumed food instead of carrot.
• The game would crash if you right-clicked an enemy in the Bestiary while in the Guild.
• You could reroll boss dungeon rewards.
• Tutorials would pop up again in combat when disabled.
• Ensorced could apply permanent gear.
• Fixed a softlock in boss dungeon 1.

If you want early access to these changes (and maybe a debug console to easily get the new items), support me here:

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