This release brings an entirely new screen: the Building screen. You can add housing and traps to your lair. You now start out with space for 6 minions, and have to build structures to house more than that. Traps thin out the ranks of any intruders in your lair.

Other changes:

• The mana production of a concubine and beast pair is now limited to 60 per day at maximum. This is a stopgap fix for astronomical mana production in the end-game, until I figure out a classier way to approach the problem.
• You have a chance to find tomes after you’ve successfully recruited a minion. I had the stupid idea that tomes might make a nice consolation prize (and close the gap between the most and least successful players), but it just means that people who really have the game figured out never get to see any variety because they never lose. So I’ve corrected that.

Bug fixes:

• Moved a cock enlargement transformation into the default tome so that when beginners recruit a male concubine, and they don’t have any scavenged tomes, there are options that aren’t all feminising.

Bug fixes:

• Changing breast size now no longer causes lactation to vanish.
• Players with multiple save slots now have the option to delete games.
• Put a note on the infestation tome that it’s incomplete.
• Hermaphrodite tome no longer offers you genitalia that you already have.

Next release:

• Lair upgrades.

This one’s mostly just bug fixes for account-related issues that are causing people grief:

• Your e-mail address is now case insensitive. Log in with any capitalisation you like, it doesn’t matter. E-mail me (jack@youcanguess.com) if you see any account related weirdness as a result of this.
• Activation links now work even if you accidentally leave the ‘~’ off the end.
• Oh, I’ve pushed lair invasions slightly later into the game so people don’t get crushed before they can build up. I’m planning to revise how the invasions actually work later on when things are less hectic.
• Further server performance tweaks.

Next update:

• Fix vanishing lactating nipples.
• Fix tome of hermaphrodites offering you genitalia that you already have.

Just a handful of minor fixes this time.

Fixes:

• Trial accounts are now limited by the number of game turns rather than a time limit.
• Updated list of testers in credits.
• Fixed a nasty bug in browser version detection.

Fixes:

• Fixed lots of layout problems at low screen resolutions. Should be playable on phones now.
• Some fixes for race conditions that cropped up when I pointed the blitz.io load tester at the server.
• Better e-mail address validation.

For the week of 3 December only:

I need to see how Fleshcult copes under load, so I’m doing a little public beta ahead of the actual public release/crowdfunding launch. Fleshcult is wide-open to you and your friends, so get in there and deflower it!

Play!

The new release has background paintings, though they’re not final yet. I also set up a CDN, so hopefully the images should download nice and fast.

Progress will be slow for a wee bit while I put together my crowdfunding pitch.

Tweaks:

• Nerfed lust bonus. Now it only affects the body part that it’s on.
• Waxed poetic about breasts.
• The title page now checks for browsers that are too old and scolds accordingly.