Fort of Chains v1.5 is here! Contributors welcome!

Fort of Chains » Devlog

3 years ago by darkofoc

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Fort of Chains is a completed, free, moddable, open-source, TEXT-ONLY sandbox management NSFW game where you lead and manage a band of slavers in a fantasy world. The game is configurable and can cover all gender orientations: MM, MF, and FF. Be warned that the game contains heavy themes of slavery and non-consensual sex. There are no support for playing as a submissive character. (More information) (Feature / Fetish list)

FoC v1.5 is the largest update to the game by far, adding a silly amount of content in 85 new quests (!!!), 43 new mails, 131 new events, as well as more than 100 new portraits. To compare with this, v1.4 added 21 new quests, 7 mails and 23 events. The amount of content added in v1.5 is more than quadruple the ones added in v1.4. Furthermore, content is not the only things added in this version, and several new smaller features are also added. They are listed at the end of this write-up.

The game engine and feature-set is already complete, and the focus of this game starting from v1.4 has been to support contributors who wants to add content into the game. This does not change with v1.5. You are invited too! See details here.

A summary (but still ridiculously long list) of all the changes in v1.5 are listed at the end, but the biggest changes in v1.5 are:

Gigantic amount of content: 83 new quests, 43 new mails, 131 new events, 1 new duty, 1 new interaction, 14 new traits, 2 new buildings, 16 new items, 9 new equipments, 23 new titles, 5 new lore entries, 6 new sex actions, 167 new portraits, 1 duty
Subraces: Proper support for subrace, as well as four new ones in fairy, angel, lizardkin, and demonkin
Second person: Player character is now properly referred to in second person: "you", "yours", etc, which should help increase immersion
Text polish: A proofreading pass were made for all the 400+ quests, 100+ mails, and 150+ events, fixing a silly amount of bugs, inconsistencies, typos, as well as rewriting some stories to increase the overall writing quality.
Other new features: Party, Resistant slaves, Side-bar

Many thanks to the contributors and people who have helped with this project, including:

Writers: Alberich, Milk Maid Sona, Da_Shem, Blueflame451, Quiver, Innoxia (Lilith's Throne), FCdev, Atacama, Dporentel, Fos, Kyiper, Thavil, Zerutti, anonymouse21212, Anon
Coders: Naraden, alarmedcat, Arkerthan, and sssk
Others: acciabread, RikuAotsuki, AbleCharlie, gorbo1, Anu, nezzanine, ChristianS, bug reporters, as well as Patreon tippers

FoC is always open for more contributors, be it writers, proofreaders, programmers, artists, or even discord moderation help! Unlike most other games, to add content into the game, you do not have to write code at all. This is since the game came shipped with an in-game GUI tool for adding content. More details here.

v1.5 marks five months since the inception of this game. As of this version, around thirty people has helped contribute directly into the game, and I am very grateful for their help. My hope is that one day, the game can be community-led, where I am nothing but a regular contributor for the project.

Full changelog here.

v1.5.0.0 (26 February 2021): Huge amount of content, subraces, Text polish, QoL, Balancing

SAVES MADE ON VERSION OLDER THAN v1.4.4.0 IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS VERSION, NOR IT CAN BE UPGRADED

Special thanks to contributors:
- Writers: Milk Maid Sona, Da_Shem, Blueflame451, Bigal, Innoxia (Lilith's Throne), and FCdev
- Coders: Naraden, alarmedcat, Arkerthan, and sssk
- Others: acciabread, RikuAotsuki, AbleCharlie, gorbo1, bug reporters, as well as Patreon tippers
A gigantic amount of content, more than quadrupling those added in v1.4:
- 85 new quests, 43 new mails, 1 duty, 1 new interaction, 131 new events, 14 new traits, 2 new buildings, 16 new items, 9 new equipments, 23 new titles, 5 new lore entries, 6 new sex actions, 167 new portraits, 1 duty
New feature: Primary race and subrace
- Each unit has a primary race trait and a subrace trait
- The game now has the following races:
  - Primary race: human, wolfkin, catkin, elves, greenskin, lizardkin, demon
    - This is final, no additional primary race is planned to be added
  - Subrace: human (kingdom), human (vale), human (desert), human (sea), angel, werewolf, neko, tigerkin, common elf, fairy, orc, lizardkin, dragonkin, demonkin, demon
    - Four of these are completely new: fairy, lizardkin, demonkin, and angel
    - More may be added in the future
- You can start the game as any of the subraces now, including tigerkins, dragonkins, angel, and fairy.
- These new races come with new quests, portraits, and sometimes new company, new events, and new name pools
New feature: Player character is now referred to in second person for most content in the game
- E.g., "you" and "your" instead of "playername" and "playername's"
- Includes unit descriptions, quests, events, opportunities, and much more
New feature: Party
- Units can be grouped into parties
- Units in parties cannot be dismissed manually or be sold in slave orders or in quests that sell them (e.g., Caged Tomato)
- Permanent teams are removed. All teams are ad-hoc now. All permanent team functionality moved to party
- Team names are now randomized
New feature: a side-bar containing quick information about all your units on larger screens (width at least 1400px)
- Includes basic sorting and filtering
New Feature: Resistant Slaves
- Some slaves are harder than others to break, requiring specialized treatments
- Defiant and Indomitable traits implemented.
- These units are banned from going on content until broken properly.
- Some existing now give out these traits
Existing content rewrites
- A silly amount of text and logic fixes in all content in the game, as a pass were made on all of the (400+ quests, 100+ mails, 150+ events) in the game. These are far too many to list one by one in this changelog (1000+ fixes). There are also many stories that were rewritten to increase the overall writing quality of the game.
- New texts for some slave training quests:
  - Obedience, endurance, masochist, anal, oral (special thanks to FCdev)
- Some new banter variations.
- Added mentions of tail in various texts
Interactive Sex
- Added ambience texts to interactive sex
- All sex locations now have furniture.
- New sex action: Feet licking (from Lilith's Throne and Innoxia)
- New sex action: Nibble neck
- New sex action: Tentacle Spitroast
- Ear pull sex action now doubles as horn pull against demons and demonkin
- Greatly expanded "Do Nothing" interactive sex text, especially on mindbroken units.
- Added some variation to several sex actions:
  - Equip strapon
  - Move to all fours
  - Grope balls
  - Grope breasts
  - Lick balls
  - Blowjob
  - Fondle chests
- You can disable specific sex actions in the classroom now.
- Add submissive sex penetrations to classroom.
- Interactions are now locked behind sex manuals as appropriate.
- Can have sex on the floor of bedchambers now.
Content creator:
- Authors can add URLs now, linking to either the source or their own websites.
- Code editor preview now works for partial results.
- Added loop in content creator. Now you can do things such as: gape all slaves, traumatize all slavers, etc
- Added the ability to explicitly set a cooldown for other quest/event/opportunity, instead of having to use variables
- Makes it possible for a quest outcome to apply the result of another outcome, e.g., critical applying all success results
- Approximate min, max, and median unit values for unit groups and unit pools are now shown.
- New cost/restrictions: AllowLovers, QuestDirect, TraitReplaceExisting, Equipped, OnDuty, XTraits, HomeOrOnLeave, IsCanPhysicallyXXX, ExpUnit
- Injury requirement can set duration now.
- Trait restrictions are simplified now
- Repfull deprecated in favor of yourrep, theslaver, therace to support first person.
- New writing macros
- Refactor many existing quests to use these new modern tools.
Trait
- Trait effects are completely rebalanced to make all skills more even (thanks to acciabread)
- Support for equipments that can give advanced traits like personality / background / magic traits.
- Flight is now a computed trait.
- Ugly / hideous traits family repurposed to scary / frightening traits.
- Weak trait family repurposed to narrow waisted / thin trait family
- Added face_scary and face_hideous to multiple criterias.
- Trait renames: Generous -> lavish, thrifty -> frugal, Deceitful -> sly. honest -> direct
- Renamed wings_feathery to wings_angel
- Frugal, Lavish, Sly trait icons updated.
- Restrained no longer remove flight.
- New adjectives / adverbs for most traits
Images:
- 165 new portraits
Engine
- DOM conversions are all done
- Support for random events that have flavor decisions to be made.
- Unit's "number of weeks have been with your company" is no longer reset to 0 when they leave your company
- Initial skill focus is now lazily generated.
- Add generator quest/opportunity to unit info for future debugging.
- Sorted, added a few crit traits, removed a few disaster traits from roles in quests (thanks to RikuAotsuki)
- All quest inclusion passage updated to new format using tag "quest"
- Implemented semaphore for disabling notification.
- Swap success and disaster modifier weights on auto-assign when maximizing critical
- [TEST EVERYTHING] is now much faster
- Deprecate rear helper costs.
- Auto-Save now only takes one slot.
- Lovers restriction more fine-grained now, allowing gay, lesbian, or same-sex only.
- Replace throw "string" with throw new Error("string").
- FilterAll now has graceful failure.
- LZString compression is back due to memory issues. Various fixes
- Opportunity is now consistent with event/quests in that it will finalize after the texts are rendered instead of before
- Choose macro now show notification results at the end of choosing an option.
Refactoring
- UnitGroup refactored to reuse existing unit group when the pool distribution is the same.
- Unit trait code split to two files and refactored.
- Pet Shopping code is untangled and rewritten
- Serial bodyswapper code is untangled and rewritten
- Refactored raw banter text to a separate folder
- Bodypart adjectives refactored
- Opportunity folder refactored
- Event twee folder refactored refactoring.
- Refactored myadv and theiradv out in favor of a|eagerly in sex actions
- Initializations of equipmentslot and furnitureslot moved to JS
Balancing
- Quest-related
  - Critical results no longer doubles EXP gained.
  - Updated critical and disaster traits for many criterias to be more logical and in line with the rebalance, and sorted them into their proper order. (thanks to RikuAotsuki)
  - Difficulty adjusted slightly to account for the above.
  - Slave training master now require either magic wind master or magic earth master.
  - Basic and advanced slave trainings no longer give out traits on critical.
  - Monetary reward is flattened a bit over difficulties.
  - Neko statue quest can now generate female nekos
  - King of Dragons quest is now repeatable, gives you favor with dragonkins on repeat.
  - Serial bodyswapper now has 250 weeks cooldown.
  - Swap tall/short in houndmastery to playful/serious.
  - Can no longer change height in flesh-shaping
  - Forbidden Fruit orifice tigtening only works on frugal slavers now
  - The Fire Taketh no longer requires mindmend potion.
  - Cold Dish is now banned if you ban maleonly
  - Removed mist apprentice strict slaver requirements.
  - Finding fairy is easier now
  - Tower of roses now regenerate the unit if you ignore the first quest, so you can choose between a prince or a princess by ignoring the quest
  - Bodyswap Experiment is now rare.
  - Unlawfull party title is now unique. It is also buffed. Also make the quest give out a rare furniture on repeat with the unit.
  - CYOA quest line and 7 sins quest lines now have cooldowns
  - CYOA quest line for best ending disturbance limit is increased to 3.
  - Balance adjustments to Milking the Oasis quests
  - Future Sight no longer give quests on outside regions before you build their scout buildings.
  - Future Sight is rarer and unique now
- Trait
  - Magic trait is limited to 3 now, down from 4. Skills are unaffected, e.g., 3 magic 1 skill is ok.
  - Lunatic trait has a money value now.
- Race
  - Race values rebalance, and werewolf race adjustments.
  - Werewolf is slightly more common now
  - Demonkins now appear more often in the desert.
  - Fairy magical preference switched to wind from earth. Lizardkin from light to water
- Buildings
  - New unit/team hard caps (soft cap unaffected): 34 slavers, 120 slaves, 6 teams
  - Lodgings, dungeons, and armory have their max level and costs standardized now (max level 15)
  - Fort upgrade costs adjusted
  - Recreation wing price adjustments
  - Relations office no longer requires veteran hall, and instead becomes a prerequisite for veteran hall
- Others
  - Lower favor requirement for unlocking sex manual from 100 to 80
  - Catch-up training is removed. Instead, Drill Sergeant now passively train low-leveled units when on duty.
  - Increased potion markup from 3x to 5x.
  - Favor decay threshold adjusted to make it easier: 80 now from 75.
  - Allow regenerating starting slavers, but nerf number of starting slavers choices to 10.
  - Increase default event cooldown to 1000 weeks.
QoL
- Criteria traits are now displayed in sorted order.
- Bedchamber without assigned units now show the duties in its description
- Filters for team
- Prevent equipping an incompatible equipment on equipment sets that are currently being used
- Separate sort/filter for slaver/slaves.
- Can sort unit by their duty effectiveness.
- More duty sort options (by success chance, prestige, and default sort)
- Hovering over skill value now also show their additive factor, instead of just multiplicative factor.
- Slave order are filterable, and made into DOM
- Slave orders are now shown in the multi-training page
- Slave order can be (ignore)d now.
- Units that satisfy a slave order requirements except for price are now shown
Misc
- More team adjectives
- Team name is now: "Team xx" name.
- Recommend pastebin to add password
- Added a short "new player guide".
- Some new name variations
- Added help text for defiant slaves
- Unify missing unit text into a macro.
- Marketer capping at 40 is now written in-game.
- Challenge mode is now tagged as "difficulty", and is under (EXPERIMENTAL), and added warning to not turn it on.
- Unsortedskills option (thanks to sssk)
- Can edit friendship / lovers via unit debug menu (thanks to alarmedcat)
- Prestige now hidden until recreation wing is built.
- Bump deck retries from 50 to 200.
- Changelog renamed to changelog.txt from changelog.md for performance reason
- Skill focus clarified: a level up always give 6 skills.
- Traumatize/Boonize added to debug menu.
Documentation
- ucbody and other ucxxx syntaxes added to documentations.
- Add comments warnings on image blob interaction with replace macro.
- Added information about image verification script to documentation.
- Help text for the a|was syntax in content creator gain unit, history and title
- FAQ updated for session storage problems.
- Normalize FCdev crediting.
- In-game link to license
- Innoxia credit updated due to the many new original texts.
- Credits updated.
- FAQ updated with races.
- Earth effect magic on FAQ.
- FAQ for session storage exceeded
- Updated list of fetishes
- Updated documentation with list of fetish and feature
- Updated FAQ
- Content guidelines updated.
- FAQ for compiling problem
- Updated instruction for quest creation.
Depreciation
- Fully deprecate some of the bonus sex texts that have been converted to events.
Bugfixes
- Fix illegible outcome in Your Ransom order
- Many spelling and grammar fixes (thanks to AbleCharlie)
- Fix requirements being costs instead for some unit training buildings
- Remove duplicated names in all units of all races
- Fix typo in ValeContact.
- Fixed scary and hideous trait adjectives.
- Fix Aspect of Experience slave order giving subrace as crit trait
- Fix qc.opportunity that does not use strings
- Fix "was" to "a|was"
- Fix orcish bait text not matching its reward
- Fix mistakes in Submission cure quest
- Fix physical adjectives completely missing.
- Fix the inconsistent traits in Crimson robber quest
- Fix incorrect person referred to in dowry of roses.
- Fix "clotheses" and missing body flavor text in unit description
- Fix "Anal Virgin" to "Virgin" in "Sweet taste of virginity"
- Fix setup.trait.job_slave in setup.qres.Job
- Fix setParent setting parent's surname instead of child's surname
- Fix eternal youth quest failure text.
- Fix mastery of magic missing verb.
- Fix ancient elven prison being generate-able without the sniffer.
- Fix duplicated lore: location_lucgate -> region_city
- Fix missing price to build dungeons / armory
- Various performance fixes on itch.io build
- Fix error when looking at unit history.
- Fix kidnap male specimen victim having vagina in text.
- Fix some more duplicated traits in role restrictions.
- Fix decrease trait not appearing in notification.
- Fix duplicated role traits in 30+ places.
- Fix weird sentence in resistant slave banter.
- Fix filter throwing error when a filter menu name got changed.
- Fix for CYOA questline throwing error when displaying gender.
- Fix errors in opportunity debug menu.
- Fix inconsistent darko and FCdev mention order.
- Fix unit description not twining skill desc properly.
- Fix for wrong pronouns on mouth-neck, sex scene start with lover, and ob training basic
- Fix unit desc on afk onduty unit.
- Fix Enlightenment of the Soul event sometimes not firing.
- Fix Chart the Vale and Raid Werewolf Camp not being present in the game
- Fixed some missing pronoun in Embrace interaction
- Fixed Domestic Shoes being a legwear instead of footwear
- Fixed incorrect "you" in Gift of the Magi quest
- Fix missing equipment set check in unit status page.
- Fix image picker not refreshing
- Fix woodsman background using the same text with seaman.
- Fix incorrect uses of IsMale and IsFemale
- Fix traine -> trainee typo.
- Fix CYOA error message, and opportunity error message.
- Fix incorrect muscle trait skill effects.
- Fix missing space in "if you like it".
- Fix capture the protagonist has an extra paragraph on failure.
- Fix dragonkin mystic portraits unable to use its parents
- Fix the gender of demon of choices from CYOA questline.
- Some Text fixes (thanks to AbleCharlie)
- Fix gained traits hidden on non-mindbroken units.
- Fix for sorting using price in slave orders
- Fix favor description numbers being incorrect.
- Bugfix for tigerkins always generated as female.
- Fix the parent of branching timeline son on switching body.
- Fix bedchamber mouth equipment wrong rep.
- Fix <<per>> instead of <<rep>>
- Fix $g.potter instead of $g.spotter.
- Fix unable to recruit with negative money.
- Fix Content Creator opportunity create from scratch having the wrong name and author
- Fix unable to start out as a fairy.
- Fix some swapped female and male roman imperial names.
- Fix many incorrect uses of IsHasTrait, IsHasTraitExact, and replace them with IsHasRemovableTrait
- Fix missing company favor toggle
- Fix setup.DOM.Util.help disappearing after first click
- Fix infinite loop in be cleansed in fire when a unit has wings.
- Fix removable traits not being checked properly.
- Fix Raiding the Oasis passage name.
- Fix mentions of "normal mouth", "normal eyes", and "normal ears".
- Fix formattings for Oh What a Show quest.
- Fix doubled EXP when using qc.Outcomes
- Fix unit slaver bug in master the dark
- Add parenthesis to skill mod (thanks to sssk)
- Fix unit images resetting after F5.
- Fix "xxx weeks left" for actors in quests that are not assigned to team yet.
- Fix 'cooldown' instaed of 'cooldowns' in backwardscompat (thanks to gorbo1)
- Fix missing veteran hall requirements on Finding Fairy
- Fix title bug taking % into account. Fix sidebars in mobile dipslays.
- Fix multiple filters causing their numbers to get gobbled together
- Fix skill focus wrong modifiers
- Fix not being able to vaginally orgasm when being fucked.
- Fix memory leak in EmptyUnitGroup
- Fix for ritual ruanway again.
- Fix roles for some events not being an array.
- Fix double underscore in generated keys.
- getAnySlaver now takes forbidden slavers
- Fix injured unit being deleted.
- Fix unit history not converted from a|their
- Chivalrous -> Chivalrious typo.
- Fix dick corruption thrown an error on girls.
- Fix wanderer help search for themself.
- Elf clarification for mindmend potion.
- Convert trait texts to use first person properly.
- Fix history of slave order high demon.
- Fix wrong comman in vaginal sex texts.
- Fix kiss using the wrong texts.
- Fix kiss actors being swapped in resist-kiss variations, and reduce redundancy.
- Fix blowjob reaction on giving orals.
- Fix always trigger event error when not having any options.
- Fix on leave units can banter with each other.
- Fix broken ascent human having wings as innate traits.
- Fix "typo" in werewolf camp raid.