0.52.4871 - Mummification

Thank you a lot for your reply! I’m horribly sorry for the delay (I know I promised over a week ago “in a few hours :D). I’ll try to go and reply in detail asap.

Indeed, I’ve also had a freeze with Wrapper during my tests - but I thought it was a known (and extremely rare) freeze that sometimes happens when the character is blindfolded. I’ll try to see ASAP what could have gone wrong there.

Attack from a Wrapper seems to have caused an unrecoverable freeze

As I’ve mentioned I’ll look into it ASAP. There is one thing that can fail there, hopefully I’ll be able to fix it quickly.

I also get random red errors from Wisps, but those aren’t fatal.

Yes, indeed. Those are minor errors in navigation system. However, those are errors (they spawn where they shouldn’t have spawned (inside a wall I presume) or they try to go to Player character but miss and go into a wall) and I must eventually find time and clean those up. But it doesn’t seem like it causes any serious consequences.

Turns out sleeping bags are very common.

I believe it was just a random fluctuation. They are as common as every other item - i.e. finding a sleeping bag chance is exactly the same as finding a kukri knife. Only some items have a lower chance of spawning (amulets, armlets, glasses, etc.).

Note while catsuits indeed also have lower spawn chance - as there are two variants, “any catsuit” spawns almost as often as every other item (40%+40% = 80% weight, while most other items have 100% weight).

but it seems to be so that wearing shoes is now a bad idea in general

Indeed, some boots, especially High Boots are very noisy. So on some levels depending on the monsters composition I send the heroine barefoot to buff stealth. The health drain from wearing no footwear is noticeable, however the health saved by not getting hit is usually larger :)

Now since there is no inventory, I guess you will not really be able to take sleeping bags with you?

You can use roll while in the sleeping bag. It costs double stamina, but eventually can relatively easily move anywhere this way.

And yes, eventually there will be a (limited) way to carry additional things with, including “carry any item in hands”, not only weapon. But this is for a bit later.

Now getting the restraining sleeping bag into my Vinculopedia will probably be a challenge

Yes, I am very worried about this too. The problem is indeed that getting a locked sleeping bag requires a rare combo. I think I’ll just allow more monsters to lock the sleeping bag, I have already an idea how to make that without too big changes to monsters behaviors.

It requires a room to have both a catsuit and living suits

Note that if you want to try things out, it’s perfectly ok to use debug menu to add some things to the game. On Desktop (Windows/Linux) you can open it by pressing F1, on mobile - go to Pause and press 5 times in top-left corner of the screen.

From there you can add some monsters/items like loose_catsuit and living_suit (note that names there differ a bit from what you see in game).

Also note that after playing many times lower levels become too boring, so using GO TO MAP option there is also a valid thing to do. In the final game there will be unlockable ability to start at 10-20-30… level (it will require defeating a boss - but bosses are not ready yet). It also softly relies on one more not implemented mechanics: girls left at the settlement will do some crafting and depending on their skills will be able to make some much better gear. I’m still thinking of making some “quick temporary solution” for both of those mechanics, because this is the way the game is intended to be played. After beating 10 levels, you should be able to start deeper.