DD#166 Ah, Fresh Meat! - Part 1 news - [Neolithic]To the End

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Modern science and the development of weaponry have made it much easier for humans to defeat many once-feared monsters. Dragons once terrorized villages may now be slayed not by brave knights, but by artillery strikes. Zombies and orcs that once may overwhelm the defense of human forces with their number may now be blown up by bombs dropped from drones. Even some self-claimed gods can be taken down by nukes. The table has turned. Many predators become prey. If the world behind the veil is known to the public, maybe it will be a fashionable sport among the rich to hunt mystic creatures for fun.

Oh, well. Maybe they cannot. But you can. It certainly involves some animal cruelty, both to normal animals and supernatural animals. But, I am not here to judge. Happy hunting out there! Well, it will not be a good hunt if you cannot take some sort of trophy. Thus, I added loot tables on almost all animals this week. But, what can be on this table? Some may have furs, some may have parts that can be used for alchemy. But, most commonly, they all have meats.

Thus, a lot of different types of meats have been added to the game to replace the previous generic meat. Previously, we only have two types of meat, they are "meat" and "strange meat." Let's not discuss too much about the "strange meat" for the sake of everyone's sanity while the "meat" was just a generic turn to all other "normal" meats. Now, we shall get down to more details. Almost all kind of enemies now have their own meats. To be specific, we now have 22 more different types of meats from different animals ranging from the meat of gigantic mammoths to the meat of small rats. Certainly, you can easily expect mammoth meats shall allow you to recover more HP than rat meats in "normal" circumstances. (But, again, we are living in a highly free supernatural world, many things can happen.) That shall also bring more satisfaction to big-game hunters.

With the change to the meat, two more systems are immediately affected.
The first one is the cooking system.
The result is very obvious and direct, as the meat you use to cook a dish can directly affect the HP recovery rate on the final products. Even if your cooking skill is low, you may use good meat ingredients to make up the effort. A pork soup may be delicious enough to recover a good amount of HP after battles. But, a mammoth soup cooked by a skilled cook may even turn the tide during a battle. That means the meat dishes may now have bigger impacts on your life quality and war efforts.
The second one is the butchery.
Although sending your own pets to be butchered to get meat is highly detested by many animal-loving organizations, it's still a choice in the game. With the variations of meat added to the game, it can also become a more useful system. The HP recovery effect of the meat you will get is now scaled based on the animal you sacrifice. You can now level up the pets you intended to butcher later to get better meats and thus be able to make better meat dishes. The butcher, Zhao Sandao has been upgraded to using our new system to give you specific meats based on the pet you give him.
Actually, he is now an NPC with a relationship entrance.

You can improve your relationship with him by providing him with more animals to butcher.

That basically concludes the majority of this week's update. But, the title says "Part 1." What does that mean?
Well, there is much more to explore on this topic.
Before the development of the new content and picking the topic of meat, much research has been done. In addition to being a food source, different meats also have significant places in many different cultures and religions. That's quite natural as humans have been taking meats from other creatures and eating them since prehistory eras. Some believe God created certain animals for humans to eat, it's our birthright to consume. Some believe eating certain animals is taboo and must be avoided at all costs. In some nations, certain animals were consumed as traditional dishes in history while now such consumption is forbidden by laws as a result of social evolution. The meaty content update of this week opens up more possible content updates in our faith system and cooking system, and there may even be related quests.

And, there is also something darker. Both "fresh" and "meat" can mean something about sex usually in a depravity manner. Strangely, it's common in many cultures and languages. There is one place in the game that shall serve such content. Some art assets have been made to fulfill such dark desires and pleasures deeply coded in everyone's DNA.

Meanwhile, just some random other content:
We now have chickens in the game.

They can lay eggs. They can be slaughtered for meat. I don't see why not to have them.

That's for this week.
Maybe humanity shall not fear monsters. Monsters shall fear us. Because humanity is more than capable of doing things more horrible than monsters.
Bon appétit.


This week's full update log:
20240330
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[Pet]New Pet/Animal: Chicken
[Passive Resource System]Female Chickens can generate eggs periodically when in your group.
[Chicken]Added a sound effect that plays when you pet a chicken or when you peacefully convince a chicken to join your group.
[The Church on the Hill]Some chickens will now appear in a specific location in this area.
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Fixed a bug that caused Dorabis eggs to be incorrectly tagged as Turkey eggs.


20240331
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[Character Customization]Added a new male character appearance.
[Food]Increased the base HP recovery rate of all kinds of meat.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Random dungeons with "Cute Animals" may now spawn chickens.
[Skill]"Summon Cuties" may now spawn chickens and turkeys. In case it spawns chickens, a sound effect will play.
[Food]Added a new tag to all meat and food that contains meat. (It does not affect existing food cooked before this update. But those old foods will phase out eventually.)


20240401
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[DLC]"All Fear Comes from the Lack of Firepower" is released!
[Food]Pork Mooncakes now correctly have the tag that indicates they contain meat.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Chicken Meat. (Procedurally generated, HP recover rate scales with the Max HP of the chicken you kill.)
[Loot]Chickens now have an item drop list.
[Cooking]For now, Chicken Meat can be used like normal meat. But as their attribution can vary, so do the dishes made with them.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Mammoth Meat. (Procedurally generated, HP recovery rate scales with the Max HP of the Mammoth you kill.)
[Loot]Mammoths now have an item drop list.
[Cooking]Mammoth Meat can be used like normal meat. They can likely make the dishes you make recover a lot fo HP.


20240402
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[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Wolf Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Bear Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Hyena Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Bat Meat. (Procedurally generated with some COVID-19 reference.)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Camel Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Sandworm Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Pork. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Siberia Wolves.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Bears.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Hyenas.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Bats.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Camels.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Sandworms.
[Loot]Ancient Sandworms now drop Sandworm Meats instead of normal meats.
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Pigs.
[Cooking]All meat above can be used for cooking.


20240403
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[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Crab Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Crabs.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Sheep Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for sheep.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Rabbit Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Bunnys.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Rat Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Rats.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Cat Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Cats.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Dog Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Dogs.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Turkey Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Turkeys.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Kameren Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Kamerens.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Dorabis Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added Dorabis Meat to the item drop list of Dorabis.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Crocodile Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for crocodiles.
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The game will now automatically output a list of default enemies and their IDs to the SP folder to make it a bit easier when modding.


20240404
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[Character Customization]Added a new playable female character variation.
[Butcher]Zhao Sandao will now give you newly-added specific meat based on the animal you give him to butcher instead of old generic meat.
[Butcher]The HP recovery power of the meat is scaled based on the animal's Max HP you give to him. Thus, you may get better meat after making those animals a bit fatter first.
[Butcher]The butchery towards slimes and zombies does not change.
[Butcher]Meat Cubes can now be butchered to give strange meats.
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Added a singleton class that manages all the butchery data.
Made a large part of the butchery script more reusable.
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Fixed a bug that when Zhao butchers an animal, a flash effect was missing.


20240405
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[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Snake Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Naja Desertus.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Spider Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Spiders.
[Food]New Food/Cooking Ingredient: Scorpion Meat. (Procedurally generated)
[Loot]Added an item drop list for Black Scorpions.
[Relationship]Zhao Sandao now appears on your relationship list after you meet him.
[Relationship]Give Zhao creatures to butcher can improve your relationship with him.