Lilith's Throne: 2023

Monday, 27 November 2023

Still Alive

Hello, I'm just making this post to let you all know that I'm still here and working on Lilith's Throne, but progress hasn't been very good since my last post. I've been feeling very stressed and down recently, which has made it very hard to focus on LT's content. I'll get the release out to you as soon as I possibly can, which really shouldn't be too much longer now.

I'm sorry that I didn't make this post sooner. I feel terribly guilty about not having the update ready for you, and I really will do my best to get it finished as soon as possible. I feel like I really don't deserve your support with how poor my performance has been recently, but I am very grateful for it and will do my best going forwards to make enough content to perhaps be worthy of it.

I really am very sorry once again for the lack of updates and poor communication. I really will try to improve. Thank you for your patience.

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Almost there...

Sorry about how long it's taking me to get this version out, and for not updating you on how things are going sooner! I ended up getting a little stressed after missing the last deadline and so my work efficiently suffered as a result. I'm back on track now, though, and so I should have this next update out very soon. Thank you all for your patience and support, and I'll make another post when I know for sure that I'm only a couple of days away from getting it released.

Monday, 2 October 2023

Next Update

Hello again!

Since the last release, I've been working on adding the final parts of the new doll race (i.e. being able to buy them and for them to have correct slave permissions and such). I'm almost done with that, and so after finishing it and then fixing some bugs, I'll release it as another small public update. I should have it finished by Friday night, so expect a mini release by then.

After that release I'll get the wiki set up (I should probably have done that first, but I really didn't want to leave the doll content in an unfinished state). I'll also have more plans for the next preview update, so I'll share those with you once this next release is out.

Thank you for your support and interest in Lilith's Throne, and I'll see you again very soon!

Edit (Friday night): I just need a couple more days! I should have it ready by the end of the weekend!

Edit (Wednesday night): Sorry! I'll get it released as soon as I can!!!

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Version 0.4.9 Release

Hello again!

I've finally got this version into a state that's ready for release. I didn't manage to get everything finished, but I've delayed it by so much that I couldn't possibly justify pushing the release back any more. I've tested everything a lot, and so there shouldn't be any game-breaking bugs, but as with any release where I'm adding things right up to the last minute, there may be one or two bugs which slipped past me. If there are any serious ones, I'll get a hotfix released asap.

As for what's in this release, I've got the next stage of the main quest content added, as well as a new sex toy shop location in Dominion. I've also added a new 'doll' race, which took a while to implement due to having quite a few unique aspects to them. I'd planned on having these dolls (which will be sold at the new sex toy shop) available for you to buy as a type of slave for this release, but the sex toy shop content took longer to add than I expected, so the doll purchasing will be added for the next version.

There's also new art for Oglix & Golix (the succubus and her elemental in 'The Crossed Blades' tavern in Elis) by FriendlyAlienFriend (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend), and art for Fae & Silvia (the fox-taur sisters in the Farmer's Market in Elis) by Pusspuss (https://twitter.com/PusspussARTZ). There are also some new items, a small extension of Jules's content, and a lot of bug fixes.

For the next version, I'm going to be focusing on finishing the doll purchasing content, adding the side quest for the succubus involved in the new stage of the main quest (which I've mentioned in a previous post, but didn't manage to get added for this release after all...), and adding content for Silence & Shadow. I'm also going to finally be working on fixing the wiki, so progress towards the next version might be a little slow at first while I get that sorted out.

Thank you all again so much for your support, and for your patience during all of these delays. I won't give an estimated release date for the next version, but I will give you an update progress post by the end of this week to let you know how things are going. ^^

DSG's SWORD Poster

As this next stage of the main quest is primarily focused on SWORD Enforcers, and includes lore relating to the Fifth Human Rebellion (which is an important in-game historical event that's shaped society and how the Enforcers are structured), now seemed like a good time to include a poster which DSG created a little while ago (with some artwork by Jam - https://twitter.com/JamDrawers). For those who don't know, DSG is the one who created the vast majority of the Enforcer lore, and has been a super great help in adding Enforcer (and other!) content. This image has a resolution high enough to read all the text, so make sure to open it fully if you want to see all the details. ^^

As always, you can also build these releases yourself from the public github's dev branch (which is always kept up to date with the very latest version):
https://github.com/Innoxia/liliths-throne-public/tree/dev
(There's a build tutorial here.)

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

v0.4.9 Download Links

This is still an alpha, and contains bugs and half-finished content!
Note: If you're on Windows, it's best to use the .exe version (only use the 32-bit exe if you're using 32-bit Windows). The .jar download is so that players on Linux or MacOS can get the game to run, in which case you'll need to make sure that you have java installed on your machine and that you have JavaFX installed too. You can ask in the #tech-support channel on the LT discord for help if it's not working.

.jar:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

.exe:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

32-bit .exe (For 32-bit Windows):

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

v0.4.9 Patch Notes

FriendlyAlienFriend's Artwork (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend):

Added Oglix (with pregnant variations) and Golix artwork.

Pusspuss's Artwork (https://twitter.com/PusspussARTZ):

Added Fae & Silvia artwork (with pregnant and multi-boob variations).

Engine/Modding:

Custom parser targets (i.e. the custom parser ID you assign to an NPC when creating them) are now saved and loaded correctly, meaning that custom NPCs can now be accessed via their custom ID after saving and loading. (More of a bugfix than an addition.)
Added 'IGNORE_HAIR_RESTRICTION' item tag, for use on clothing which should be able to be equipped into the HAIR slot even if the character has no hair.
Added 'WEAPON_FIREARM' item tag, which should be given to any weapon that should be regarded as being a firearm. (Weapons with this tag are affected by the new 'Firearms Mastery' perk which Ghost and Hammer have.)
Added a new 'submitBlocked' element to combat responses, allowing you to disable the option to submit during combat scenes.

Gameplay:

Added the next section of the main quest, where you get the help from the SWORD Enforcers in Elis. (thanks to DSG for assistance with Enforcer lore)
At the nightclub, 'The Watering Hole', if you are a demon you can now skip the queue, and if you've sucked Jules's cock, you now can have sex with him in his office.
Added a new sex toy shop location in Dominion; 'Lovienne's Luxuries'. Sex toys and fetish gear is now sold here instead of by Finch.
Added new 'doll' race. This race only appears in Lovienne's Luxuries at the moment, and dolls will be available to purchase as a type of slave in the next version.

Clothing/Weapons/Tattoos:

Added 'cuff choker necklace' (androgynous, neck slot, sold by Nyan).
Added 'triple cuff choker necklace' (feminine, neck slot, sold by Nyan).
Added 'balaclava' (androgynous, hair slot (so that it can be equipped with hats, eyewear, and mouth items), sold by Nyan). Muggers will now sometimes spawn wearing a balaclava instead of a bandana.
Added 'SWORD dagger' (melee, one-handed, 25 base damage with high variance, all damage types, not sold by anyone as it's a special reward).
Added 'leg warmers' (feminine, calves slot, sold by Nyan).
Added 'arcane slegehammer' (melee, two-handed, 25 base damage with low variance, all damage types, sold by Vicky).
Standardised the angle of two-handed melee weapons' icons (battle axe, sledgehamme, and zweihander) to be opposite to that of one-handed weapons.
Added 'barcode' tattoo.

Other:

Characters now need to be visibly pregnant (i.e. progressed past the 'risk of pregnancy' stage) in order to lay eggs via ovipositor. (Remember that characters can use mother's milk to progress past this stage if you want to impregnate & lay eggs in the same sex scene.)
Added the 'Highly illegal' tag to the arcane revolver.
Friendly occupants now earn experience by working slave jobs (25% chance per hour to earn 5xp).
NPCs' elementals now show in the 'Characters Present' panel on the right of the screen, even when not active.
Catherine (the slime queen) now has barbell nipple piercings and a triple cuff choker necklace, as her artwork depicts.
You can no longer loiter in 'The Crossed Blades' tavern, as doing so could leave you in there during closing hours.
Added 'light purple' as a skin colour.
The default fetish preferences for the 'Bimbo' and 'Cross dressing' fetishes has been lowered. (This won't have any effect unless a new 'properties.xml' file is generated, i.e. only on a completely new game start.)
Changed the masculine/female race names for dobermanns from simply 'dobermann/dobermann' to 'dobermann-boy/dobermann-girl' to make them more consistent with other race names.
Changed the name postfix of ground floor maps from 'GF' to 'F0', and that of first floor maps from '1F' to 'F1'.
Added 'flavourless' as a new fluid flavouring.
Changed default feminine gender names for lacking genitals from 'doll' to 'mannequin'.

Bugs:

Parsing and typo fixes.
The awning poles, green cloth, and embroidered sign are now correctly removed from the player's inventory when completing Eisek's stall quest (these items are also removed from your inventory when loading into this version if you've already completed the quest).
The 'Clean her' option on Nizhoni is now correctly disabled after activating it.
Fixed issue where the next scene after going downstairs in Elis's town hall would be the scene at the top of the stairs instead of the bottom.
Fixed some dialogue bugs in Pix's gym where it would describe you as not being a member of the gym when you were and vice versa.
You will no longer obtain condoms used by NPCs in sex if either the player or the NPC is a spectator of the sex scene and the other one isn't.
The 'Trickster's Mask' is no longer sold by Nyan (the whole set will be added as a quest reward at a different location in a future version).
Fixed issue where Nyan was described as saying goodbye to you when you left her store while she wasn't there.
In double-penetration sex, penises no longer have their race prefix added to their name to prevent illogical parsing (e.g. 'wolf-cocks' was used for when a wolf and a non-wolf were penetrating).
The vagina and anus orifices for characters with a cloaca are now correctly treated as being blocked for the purpose of sex action availability when clothing is equipped into them.
Fixed issue with the 'Apple Pie à la Mode' item sometimes having incorrect colouring.
The 'Balls focus' sex action now requires the performing character to have a real penis (so this action won't be available for strap-ons anymore).
Fixed issue where half-demons could load full demon transformation presets but not half-demon ones.
NPCs which spawn at the bar in 'Lights Out' no longer have their genitals and all other concealed body parts revealed to you right from the start.
Fixed bug where you could get stuck in Desryth's apartment after rejecting him, then returning to meet him and rejecting him again.
Fixed bug where if you reloaded a game which was saved during the day, NPCs which had spawned in Elis's alleyway tiles at night would often despawn and disappear.
Fixed issue in sex actions involving urethral penetration of a penis where a pussy was being incorrectly referenced.
Condoms now correctly block access to the wearer's penile urethra.
The quick load feature should now work correctly for characters with a space in their name.
Fixed bug where if you enchanted an item which had been renamed, the item's name would be reset back to its default name.
Using the 'Quick sex' sex action now correctly increments your sex stats.
Fixed bug where Natalya's TF potion wouldn't work if you were a demonic slime.
Fixed background error being thrown when trying to delete Sterope's sexual partners (which would also leave random NPCs in the stables in the Centaur's Sword tavern - these excess NPCs will be cleaned up upon loading into this version).
Fixed bug where the 'lime green' colour for clothing would be shown twice in the dye menu, with the second instance not being responsive.
Fixed bug where you could knock on the door to Minotallys's office and have a conversation with her while she was asleep in her bedroom.
If you have more 'Quest' rarity items than your inventory tab can normally display, the UI will now display your extra quest items instead of hiding them from you.
Fixed bug where tooltips for perks weren't working in some character view windows.
Fixed bug where setting body coverings would not set the correct covering pattern or modifier.

Monday, 25 September 2023

Just a little more...

I've almost got this version into a state that's ready for release, but I just need to finish a few minor things before I can release it:
1. Finish the writing in the new sex shop location
2. Implement a modified slave permission system for sex doll ownership
3. Test it

I really wanted to get this version released today no matter what state it was in, but as I'm half-way through finishing those points up above, if I were to release it now I'd have to rush to get a hotfix out to deal with all of the inevitable bugs. As such, I thought that it'd be better to just take 24-48 more hours to get it done properly.

It really won't be any longer than 48 hours at the very most until the release! Sorry! Aaaaah!

Monday, 18 September 2023

Final Update Progress Post Before v0.4.9 Release

Hello once again,

I've got all of v0.4.9's main quest content finished, but I really want to try and get the extra content added for this next release, so although I said I'd get it released this weekend, I'm going to try to get everything finished over this next week and put it out next weekend instead. I know that I'm not very good at sticking to release dates, but I really will release this next version by the end of Sunday, 24th September at the absolute latest.

As for what this extra content involves, I'm not sure if it's going to be to everyone's liking, but it's something that I've got in my head and really want to add to the game. Without spoiling the main content behind it, I'm adding a new sex toy shop (so Finch will no longer be the person who sells all sex toy stuff), and the race I said I was adding in a previous post is a 'doll' race (for autonomous sex dolls). It'll work like slimes, in that a doll can appear like any other race and will be identified as such by their body material (rubber). They'll also have some unique properties like slimes do and will have some unique slave permissions and job settings.

Thank you all once again for your support and patience, and even if I don't get the extra content finished in time, the next release will 100% be out by this time next week. (Sorry for all of the delays!)

Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Even More Progress News

Hello again,

Thanks to a very unseasonal heatwave and no air conditioning or any form of cooling, I've had a pretty terrible week. I've managed to get almost all of the writing for the main quest content finished, and I should have it done within the next day or so. After that I'll move on to getting the other content implemented, but if it's looking like it's going to take me more than another week or so then I'll just put out the release with what I've got finished this next weekend. (As it's taken me far too long already to get this version released.)

I'll make another more detailed post once I've got the main quest writing finished. It won't be too much longer now until the release, thank you for your patience and support!

Monday, 4 September 2023

More Progress News

Hello again,

As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been working on getting the redesigned main quest content sorted out this week. I've almost got all of the dialogue, characters, and associated framework finished, and I should have all of the writing and everything done within another couple of days. After that, I'm going to be adding the supporting content, which I've already got all planned out and ready to start adding into the game.

Without giving too many spoilers, I want to let you know what kind of content I'm adding. So this next stage of the main quest is going to involve a short mission with the SWORD Enforcers in Elis. The character you confront in that mission (who was the generic succubus before I removed her) is the one who'll be involved in the supporting content I'm adding. Regarding that content, it's going to involve a new race and a new location in Dominion, and will be partly to do with slave mechanics. The core content for this new location will be available from the start of a new game, but the supporting content I'm adding will be a side-quest to find out more about it.

Sorry if that information seems a little vague (I don't want to give specific details in case my plans change); I'll give more details in my next progress news post, which I'll make before the end of next week. I hope to be very far along with progress by then! Thank you all once again for your support and patience. I'll do my best to make this update a good one!

P.S. Sorry about the wiki still being down. I'll get it fixed as soon as I can, but it'll be a low priority until I can get this update finished.

Saturday, 26 August 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

I'm sorry for missing yet another release date, and for not making a post to let you know what's happening sooner. I just ended up feeling very guilty for not managing to get an update to you on time and felt too ashamed to make a post. As for the reason why I still haven't got the update released, it's because I got stuck in a real rut with the writing. The mini-boss which I'd made for this next stage of the main quest just felt so generic and boring that I couldn't manage to get the writing done for her (she was just a completely standard succubus with some normal fight scenes leading into a sex scene). I decided to just completely delete her scenes and start again from scratch, and while I've got a much more fun idea for how to handle this character, it's requiring a lot more content to be added in support of it. So, basically, I'm adding a large amount of new content which this mini-boss character (who's still a succubus, but not just a generic 'bad guy') is going to be a supporting part of.

As for an estimated release date, I don't think it's wise for me to give one given my track record. I'll make another post during this next week to let you know some specifics about this content and how things are going. I'm sorry again for the delays and the silence; I really don't mean to be rude or to keep you in suspense, I just end up feeling very bad about failing to update the game and struggle to think of what to say.

Finally, thank you all once again for your patience and support. I really do appreciate it, and although I haven't been very good at communicating or updating recently, I don't take your support for granted and I truly am very grateful to each and every one of you. I really am trying to get this update out to you as soon as I can, and I'll do my best to make more frequent posts.

Sunday, 13 August 2023

Another week...

Hello again,

I'm going to need some more time to get this update finished, mainly due to writing taking a while. I'll try to get it out to you this Friday, 18th, although it may be a couple of days longer than that. I'll make another post closer to that date to let you know how things are going. Thank you all once again so much for your patience, and I'll do my best to get the update to you as soon as I can!

Monday, 7 August 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

Sorry about how long it's been since my last post! I've been working on the next version and although I had a bit of an interruption due to moving house, I'm making progress towards the public release of v0.4.9. I'm hoping to have it ready by this next weekend, but I'm not 100% sure that I'll manage to get it finished in time. I'll let you know how things are going in another post at the end of this week.

Thank you all once again for your support and patience! I'll do my very best to get this next version out to you as soon as possible!

Sunday, 16 July 2023

Version 0.4.8.9 Preview Hotfix

Hello again!

I saw a few reports of the 'Unique items' tab in the inventory not working, so I put together this quick hotfix to get that sorted out. I also fixed a few other minor things related to the inventory which I discovered while making this fix, and also made it so that the new 'horseshoes' clothing can be equipped by non-taurs (so long as they have hoofs).

Thank you all so much once again for your patience and support, and my next post will probably be next weekend to let you know how progress is going towards the next public release of v0.4.9, so I'll see you again then!

I package and release these in-between preview builds for backers over on my SubscribeStar, but anyone can play them at any time by building them directly from the public github (which is always kept up to date with the very latest version):
https://github.com/Innoxia/liliths-throne-public/tree/dev
(There's a build tutorial here.)

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

ALSO IMPORTANT: Make sure you build from 'dev' branch.

v0.4.8.9 Patch Notes

Engine/Modding:

The 'imageEquippedName' element in clothing and weapon files now supports parsing, allowing you to change the equipped icon based on who's got it equipped (using 'npc' as the parsing target for the character who's equipping it).

Clothing:

The 'horseshoes' item is no longer limited to taurs, and is instead only restricted to characters with hoofs.

Other:

Added an option to completely reset all virginities and virginity loss information in the debug menu (on the second page of the 'stats' tab).
Added more time options when loitering.

Bugs:

Fixed bug where you couldn't access your key items page in your inventory.
Unique items on the floor or in NPCs' inventories are now correctly placed in their unique items tab instead of being mixed in with all other items.
When clicking on an item in the 'Items Present' section on the right of the UI, the inventory will now open on the correct page for the item that's been clicked on.
Fixed bug where clicking on the item at the very bottom-right of the inventory grid would change the inventory page to the next one.

Friday, 14 July 2023

Version 0.4.8.8 Preview Release

Hello again,

First of all, I'm so sorry for how long it's been since the last update. I've just been completely out of it due to some stressful things happening in my life recently, and while I had time in which to work on Lilith's Throne I found it very difficult to get into the right frame of mind to get much productive work done. I'll do my best to improve the release time of the next version. I really am very sorry about the delay, and I'm very thankful to all of you for your patience and support over the past couple of months.

As for what's in this version, there are two main pieces of content, several new artworks, some new clothing and other minor changes, and a lot of bugfixes. The larger piece of content which has been added is from DSG, and involves meeting a dragon, Eisek, in the market in Elis (there's also some silly mode content for it as well). The other content is a new character, Sterope, who can be found in the Elis Enforcer station and who has some BDSM and feral (horse) sex content.

After this release I'm going to be working on fixing and updating the wiki, as well as finally adding the main quest content which I keep on delaying. I'll also try to add some content for Silence and Shadow while I'm at it. I'll try to get that version released to you within the next few weeks, and will do my best to keep you updated on progress here on my blog and SubscribeStar.

Thank you again so much for your patience and support, and I will do my best to get back on track and put an end to these unacceptable delays.

P.S. I know that it's been a while now since the last public release, but I thought that I'd stick with the usual pattern of alternating public-preview releases. I'll do my very best to get the next public version released to you within a few weeks!

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

ALSO IMPORTANT: Make sure you build from 'dev' branch.

v0.4.8.8 Patch Notes

DSG's Eisek Quest:

Added a new NPC merchant to Elis's Farmer's Market, who also serves to gate early access to the dragon TF behind a quest.
Added three side quests related to this NPC (with one of these quests being exclusive to silly mode).
Ralph no longer sells dragonfruit, as this new NPC is now the one who sells it (provided his quest is completed in the best way).
Added: 5 new clothing items for new NPC outfit; 1 new clothing item for silly mode; 1 new weapon for silly mode; 4 new Items for new NPC to sell; 3 new quests (1 exclusive to silly mode); 4 new quest items (1 exclusive to silly mode).
Full patch notes and details can be seen in the PR here: https://github.com/Innoxia/liliths-throne-public/pull/1718

Pusspuss's Artwork (https://twitter.com/PusspussARTZ):

Added artwork for both Wolfgang and Karl.
Added artwork for Jess, which includes pregnant and multi-boob variations.

Contributors:

Fixed bug where vaginal, lactation, and virginity fetishes had incorrect sorting (based on left-aligned fetishes being active/giving and right-aligned being passive/receiving) in the fetish menu. (by Maxis010)
Changed the Body.setFeral() method to not set the body as feral if the subspecies does not have feral attributes or is null. (PR#1771 by SightglassCat)
Fixed missing background textures in slime and half-demon race icons. (PR#1772 by SightglassCat)
Added 'winged' to NPC lists and tooltips for winged characters of a race that usually does not have wings. (PR#1724 by Stadler76)
Made NPCs react more logically to unexpected genitals being revealed in sex scenes, with genital reveals now based on whether the perceived gender of the subject normally has one. (PR#1741 by NoHornyOnMain)
Enabled tattoo rendering with non-standard colours (e.g. via save editing). (PR#1742 by NoHornyOnMain)
Fixed issue where setting a character's feral subspecies to null wouldn't display the correct behaviour of reverting their feral status. (by Stadler76)
Updated the 'LTSuperGuide' which is included in the game's folder. (by C4MG1RL)

Engine/Modding:

Added 'FITS_MUZZLES_EXCLUSIVE' and 'FITS_BEAKS_EXCLUSIVE' item tags for tagging clothing which can only be equipped on characters with muzzles or beaks.
Added hook to AbstractItemEffectType values via an 'ITEM_EFFECT_TYPE_' parsing prefix.

Gameplay:

Added a new character, 'Sterope' to the Enforcer station in Elis, who has some BDSM and feral sex content.

Clothing:

Added 'Sturdy Steed' clothing set, which provides +5 physique and +25 max health.
Added: 'Bridle' (androgynous, mouth slot, Sturdy Steed set, only fits muzzles).
Added: 'Saddle' (androgynous, leg slot, Sturdy Steed set, only fits quadrupedal bodies).
Added: 'Horseshoes' (androgynous, foot slot, Sturdy Steed set, only fits hoofs, only fits quadrupedal bodies).
Added: 'Tail bandage' (androgynous, tail slot, Sturdy Steed set).

Combat:

The two final upgrades to the Vacuum spell no longer strip clothing from unique NPCs. (As stripping clothing from quest-critical NPCs was resulting in issues with their content.)

Sex:

The 'GenericSexualPartner' NPC class no longer spawns with addictive fluids, so as to prevent issues with their partners getting addicted (which was happening with Jess).
For size-difference characters, the smaller character can now kiss crotch-boobs in the missionary position, and can now kiss breasts instead of kissing mouth in the mating press position.
You can now use the 'GENERIC_ORGASM_CREAMPIE' action in masturbation scenes (which is the same action that provides the 'Handjob Climax' orgasm action).
Added autofellatio and autocunnilingus sex actions, which require the new 'hpermobility' perk to unlock, are limited to non-taurs, and which work in most but not all sex positions.
Added a small speech variation to the creampie sex action.

Other:

Both types of wet wipes now additionally clean all equipped clothing.
You can no longer assign work hours to friendly occupants if they want to sleep during that hour.
Improved method of calculating sleep hours for slaves and friendly occupants so that they prefer to sleep as close to the mid-point of their natural sleep hours as they can.
Jess can now be impregnated, and you can pay her (5000 flames) to take a breeder pill before having sex with her. She also no longer has the barren perk nor a hatred of the pregnancy fetish, and also she now refuses to consume items during sex.
Demons, half-demons, and imps will no longer spawn with demonic horse tails if they're bipedal.
The 'ladykiller' and 'minx' perks are no longer traits which require equipping to work.
Added 'hypermobility' perk in the physical perk tree, which unlocks autofellatio and autocunnilingus sex actions.
Added some dialogue referencing citizens of the Realm travelling over the Endless Sea to new lands (as posters in the nightclub, at the Slavery Administration building, and as a minor piece of dialogue when paying a prostitute's fine to remove them from the game).
Added Hannah pregnancy reactions to her encounter in 'Lights out'.
Added a couple of new talk options to Kheiron (one for Fae & Silvia and one for Sterope, both of which require them to have told you when they visit the tavern to be available), and his talk scenes now correctly grey out when they're active.
Made Fae and Silvia a little taller to better suit their fox-taur form.
Spotted hyena females no longer spawn in with big clits, and Hannah now has a normal sized clit. (I felt like having every spotted-hyena spawn with a huge clit was too much, but I'm planning on adding a tribe of spotted-hyena-girls with clit-dicks later on.)

Bugs:

Typo and parsing fixes.
Fixed game-breaking bug where if you were unable to equip a sex toy which was in your partner's inventory during sex, then clicking on that sex toy would throw background errors and cause the inventory/game to become unresponsive.
Compacted the compatible slot names in the tooltips for piercing items, so that it doesn't run over into another line and cause the tooltip to overflow.
Fixed issue where there'd be no slaves in the stocks nor in any of the shops if you entered Slaver Alley before midnight after starting a new game.
Fixed issue where the Rental Mommy encounter would throw a background (harmless?) error every time it was triggered.
Fixed bug where the slaves in the stocks and shops in Slaver Alley would sometimes not be saved correctly.
Fixed bug where exported transformation presets for Elementals which were not bound to arcane or water would cause the transformation preset menu to break.
Fixed bug where stopping a sex scene in which you were a spectator (such as spying on Rose and Lilaya in Lilaya's lab) would cause the description for that scene to be displayed the next time you used the 'Quick sex' action.
Astrapi is now always considered to be feminine, ignoring your 'androgynous bodies' setting (as it fits her content for her to always be treated as a 'she').
Spell tooltips and predictive text in combat now show their potential damage range instead of a random value from within that range.
Fixed the Vacuum spell's first upgrade downgrading the health shielding debuff from -10 to -5, and also fixed the second and third upgrade tooltips to show their full effects.
Fixed bug in Helena's custom slave menu where you could customise a slave to be an angel by swapping back and forth between the spinneret tab.
Lunette's marauders and raiders in the Foloi Fields now have several of their fetish desires set to 'like' instead of 'love', as the 'love' setting was making it look like they had the associated fetish even though they didn't.
Characters (including the player) can no longer be milked of their cum or girlcum in a milking room if they're wearing any clothing which prevents them from orgasming.
Removed ability to fight Jhortrax after besting him in the 'Tameshigiri' scene, due to numerous inconsistencies with the resulting post-combat scenes.
Fixed background error being thrown when completing an incubation pregnancy of a single egg/offspring.
Fixed bug where transformation presets didn't take into account whether or not the target or preset were of 'short stature', which inadvertently allowed you to transform demons into imps and vice versa by using transformation presets.
Fixed bug where the greyed-out 'load' button for incompatible transformation presets would still work if you clicked on it.
Jess will no longer have random fluid addictions (and all of her fluid addictions will be cleared upon loading into this version).
Fixed bug where if none of the colours defined for an item of clothing within an outfit file were available for that clothing, the clothing would spawn with broken colourings. (This was mostly affecting jewellery on randomly-spawned NPCs.)
Fixed some inconsistent availabilities of 'offer/request orifice' actions in the breeding stall & glory hole positions.
Your demonic offspring will no longer spawn with heavily enchanted weapons which would push them over their enchantment capacity.
Characters in sex who are in the resisting pace and who are involved in finger-anus or finger-vagina sex actions will no longer be described as stimulating their orgasming partner's prostate.
Fixed bug where after taking a shower in the gym, the text was only shown after you moved away from the tile.
Fixed incorrect description for the item 'platinum Bank of Dominion card'.
Fixed bug where you could masturbate in areas in which masturbation/sex was meant to be blocked (such as in the bank).
Fixed issue where the one-night-stand characters spawning 'Lights Out' would almost always be virgins.
Fixed minor UI issue with the inventory, where if you dropped or took all items while not on the first page of that inventory, the rendering would mess up.
Also fixed a related issue where if you took or dropped the last item in an inventory page, the UI would be left on the empty page instead of moving down to the next one.
Resetting your race via the debug menu no longer clears virginity loss information.
Filled in some missing virginity location text.
Fixed issue where use of NPC's hourlyUpdate() method would not handle flag resets correctly, resulting in rare instances of unexpected gameplay behaviour.
Fixed bug where changing a character's leg configuration would regrow their hymen.

Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Update soon

Hello again,

I'm very sorry about the lack of communication recently and the lack of an update. I've been going through quite a stressful time over the past month (this year isn't going very well for me so far), which has been impacting my progress. I'm still working on the next update and will have the preview version released as soon as I possibly can.

Thank you all so much for your support and patience, and I'm sorry again for how slow I've been with updates this year. Hopefully things will change soon.

Sunday, 4 June 2023

Delay

The preview update will be out some time within the next week or so. Sorry for the delay.

Sunday, 28 May 2023

Slight Delay

Hello again,

I've got the big PR merged, but I'm still working on the main quest content, so I'm going to delay the preview release by a couple of days in order to get it finished. I could get something put together for a release tonight, but I thought that it would be better to get this main quest content finished off first. Sorry about leaving this delay post until the last minute; I kept on thinking that I'd be able to get it done in time...

Thank you for your patience, and I'll be back in a couple of days with the preview release!

P.S. I'm aware that the wiki has broken, but I'll only have time to fix it after this release is out.

Edit (Wednesday, 31st): I'm still working as fast as I can on getting this version ready. I'll have it released by the end of the weekend at the absolute latest! Sorry!!!

Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

This is just a very small post to let you know that things are going roughly according to plan, and that I should have the big PR merged and the main quest content finished by the end of this weekend. As such, the preview version of 0.4.8.5 should be out by this Sunday, 28th. I'll make another post before then if it's looking like I'm not going to make that date.

Thank you all once again for your support, and I'll see you again very soon!

Sunday, 21 May 2023

More Progress News

Hello again,

I ended up losing a couple more days than planned over this past week (due to getting some things sorted out in my life), so I'm still a little ways off getting this preview update finished. I've made progress on the main quest content, and should be able to get that finished off over the next few days. I'm also still hoping to get a big pull request merged for this next release, so with that in mind I'll be aiming to get the release out towards the end of this next week. I'll make another post to let you know how things are going on Wednesday.

Thank you all once again for your support, and I'll see you again soon!

Sunday, 14 May 2023

Progress News

Hello again!

This is just a very small post to let you know how things are going towards the next release of v0.4.8.5. So far, I've finished fixing all of the reported bugs, and have also merged more pull requests (PRs) from github. I'm planning on merging a big PR before this next release, so the only things that I've got left to do before the release is ready are:
- Merge the big PR
- Finish the main quest content I was working on

I'll also try to add one of the extra goals that I mentioned in the previous post, but that'll depend on how much time I have left over after competing the two points above. I'm going to be away from my computer for a few days this week, so timing will be a little tight, but I should still be able to get everything done by this time next week.

I'll make another progress news post on Friday to let you know how things are going. Thank you all once again so much for your support, and I'll see you again soon!

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Plan for v0.4.9

Hello again,

I'm feeling a lot less stressed now that I've got v0.4.8 released, and although I'm going to need to take a couple of days both this week and the next in which to get some things sorted out, I should be able to get back to working on LT at a decent pace once again. My plan for this next version is to focus on a few key things, with some extra goals on top to work on if I get time. These goals are as follows:

My key goals are:
- Finish fixing reported bugs
- Merge more PRs (Pull Requests) from github
- Finish the main quest content I was working on

And my extra goals are:
- Add yoga content to Pix's gym
- Add loans to the bank (along with related bounty hunter content)
- Add Shadow & Silence content

I'm going to focus on bug fixes to begin with, and then after that I'll spend a few days sorting out PRs. After that I'll get the main quest content finished. Depending on how long that's taken me, I'll either get a preview version (v0.4.8.5) released at that stage, or move on to getting one or more of the extra goals added. I don't want this preview version to take more than a couple of weeks, and as I'll be losing four or five days over that time to getting some personal matters sorted out, I likely won't have much time in which to get the extra goals added. As such, they'll probably roll over into the full public release of v0.4.9.

That's my plan as it stands at the moment, although things might change. I'll make a progress update post at the end of the week to let you know how things are going.

Once again, thank you all so much for your support, and for sticking with me during the big delays of the past two releases. I hope to not let that happen again, and to get the preview version finished within two weeks. I'll see you again in the next progress post!

Monday, 8 May 2023

v0.4.8.2 Bugged...

Hello again!

There was an annoying bug in v0.4.8.2, where fetishes weren't being recognised as being owned. I've fixed it and I've uploaded a hotfix (to the hotfix...). The download links in the previous post have all been updated to v0.4.8.3, so if you've already downloaded v0.4.8.2, then please re-download v0.4.8.3 and use that instead!

I'm sorry for the inconvenience!

Sunday, 7 May 2023

Version 0.4.8.2 (Hotfix) Release (Updated to v0.4.8.3)

Hello again!

I know that I said that I was going to take a break until Monday, but I saw that there were a few annoying bugs that had made it into v0.4.8, so I thought that I'd better get a hotfix released to address them. I also needed to apply the new 'Image & Character Imports' change to affect the player character images as well, which I forgot to do in the previous release.

There are also several additions from contributors in this hotfix, including two new clothing items from DSG, and bug fixes from TractorsAttic, Cognitive Mist, SightglassCat, and MintyChip.

I'll make another post tomorrow to let you know what my plans are for the next version. Thank you all once again for your patience and support, and I'll see you again in the next post!

EDIT: The download links have been updated to v0.4.8.3, which fixes a bug where fetishes were not being detected as being owned!

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

v0.4.8.3 Download Links

.jar:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

.exe:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

32-bit .exe (For 32-bit Windows):

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

v0.4.8.2 Patch Notes

Contributors:

Fixed issue where player-summoned elementals were not considered part of the player's team for damage calculations, meaning for harder difficulty settings their damage was scaled the same as that of enemies. (by TractorsAttic)
Fixed parsing bug in Natalya's meeting scene during Helena's romance quest, and fixed a potential NullPointerException related to accessing character present IDs. (by Cognitive Mist)
Improved getSubspeciesFromBody() method, which makes loading save files significantly faster, especially for large saves in games with many modded subspecies. (PR#1754 by SightglassCat)
Added 'light red' and changed 'light pink' to 'pink' for salamander scale colours, added missing equip text for the nursing bra, and fixed some inconsistencies in Natayla's new content. (PR#1757 by MintyChip)
Added pattern support to both micro bikini clothing items. (PR#1759 by DSG)
Added two new clothing items; 'fedora' (head slot, androgynous, sold by Nyan); and 'trenchcoat' (over-torso slot, androgynous, sold by Nyan). (PR#1761 by DSG)
Fixed missing IDs and paths for anonymous-classed NPCs. (PR#1762 by SightglassCat)
Fixed incorrect references to horns in the antenna.xml race mod example file. (by MintyChip)

Image & Character Imports:

PLEASE NOTE: All imported images for your player character will no longer work, due to the image folder location being changed.
Custom images for your player character are now stored in the same manner as custom images for non-unique NPCs, that is, in the 'data/images' folder instead of the 'res/images' folder. This allows you to have unique images for your player character in different save game files.

Clothing:

The Butler's Jacket no longer obscures the finger slot.
Updated all of the old formatting for clothing displacement/removal text in clothing files.

Sex:

Moved foot-to-mouth sex actions from the reverse cowgirl position to the cowgirl position.
Using an ovipositor to lay eggs in someone no longer requires the ovipositor-equipped character to have a vagina (this should only affect slimes, as they're the only race that can get pregnant without having a vagina).

Other:

Added text to make it more obvious that a slave is losing 1 affection towards you due to being woken up at the start of interacting with them while they're sleeping.
Elementals are now able to use the save/load transformation menu correctly.
When loading a TF preset the dialogue scene now moves back to the 'core' TF dialogue, so as to give an indication that the TF has been applied.
Made the layout of multi-breast option buttons slightly more logical.
If you've equipped sealed clothing with the 'servitude' enchantment, Lilaya's 'Sealed problem' action will no longer remove all the seals on your clothing, and will instead only remove the 'servitude' enchantments.
Compacted the layout of the 'subspecies knowledge' perks when viewing a character's perk tree.
The 'Dungeon Cell' tiles in Lilaya's basement no longer have an upkeep cost (they used to be 10 flames/day).
In 'Murk's Milker' bad end, the player's tattoos are now removed at the start of the bad end, so as to avoid unexpected transformations occurring during the bad end content.

Bugs:

Typo & parsing fixes and minor dialogue alterations.
Fixed bug where Hannah would not return to the bar after encountering her there for the first time.
Concealed subspecies bonus text no longer inadvertently reveals their race in the tooltip text.
If a character has the 'Serpent-tailed' leg configuration, any change to the length of their tail is now correctly restored when saving & loading games.
Added missing 'MURK_BACK' dialogue node in the pregnancy roulette scenes.
Removed references to the player impregnating Bunny if it was actually Loppy who ended up impregnating her during a threesome.
Fixed numerous instances of scripting errors related to the change of the NPC.hourlyUpdate() method to take in an int argument (showing as 'Scripting parsing error: X.hourlyUpdate()' in the error.log file).
Fixed bug where you could bypass the entry fee for Pix's gym if you talked to her and then simply moved forwards into the gym.
Saving a transformation preset for an elemental will no longer make the save/load transformation menu inaccessible.
Lilaya will now correctly transform her genitalia back to having a pussy and no cock after sex.
Fixed issue in Penelope's 'Posters' dialogue where you'd always tell her that you hadn't visited Pix's gym, even if you had.
Fixed bug where you could assign jobs to guests which were meant to be limited to slaves (which was done by selecting a job category while managing a slave's job, then managing a guest's job and assigning the still-selected job to them).
Natalya's sex scene in the park is no longer treated as being a public sex scene (as you're behind the bushes and so out of sight).
Fixed bug where slaves who had sex while working in the kitchen would generate the 'gardener' sex event description.
When/If you give Scarlett back to Helena, her tattoos are now removed. (This will retroactively apply when loading into this version.)
Astrapi's pregnancy reaction scene now correctly plays when encountering her at the Elis depot.
You can no longer teleport into the Crossed Blades tavern (to prevent the player from entering it outside of opening hours).
Natalya's post-anal-sex dialogue no longer references rimjobs.
Fixed bug where if you had a fetish temporarily granted via enchanted clothing, the fetish would be permanently applied to the wearer after saving & then loading the game.
You can no longer pay to have your 'penis' pierced if you have no penis but are wearing a strapon.

Monday, 1 May 2023

Version 0.4.8 Release

Hello again,

I'm sorry once again for how long it's taken me to get this version released. I've been having quite a bad time since December, with both stress and bouts of low mood making it very difficult to focus on writing lewd content for LT. I'll do my very best to get back on track as soon as I can, and will try to get the next release out to you in a more reasonable time frame.

I've managed to get some new content added for this version, although I've had to cut the main quest content that I was working on as I wasn't able to finish it in time. There's also new art for five characters in this version. FriendlyAlienFriend (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend) has created art for Meraxis's three demon lieutenants; Fyrsia, Hyorlyss, and Jhortrax. Pusspuss (https://twitter.com/PusspussARTZ) has created art for both Shadow and Silence, who will be getting content within the next couple of versions.

Thank you all so much once again for your support and patience. I'm going to take the rest of this week to try and get some things in my life sorted out, but after that I'll be back to working on the next version and will get it out to you as soon as I possibly can. I'll make a post to let you know what my plans are next Monday (8th).

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

v0.4.8 Download Links

.jar:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

.exe:

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

32-bit .exe (For 32-bit Windows):

Pre-zipped: Mega

Pre-zipped: Google Drive

v0.4.8 Patch Notes

FriendlyAlienFriend's Artwork (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend):

Added Fyrsia, Jhortrax, and Hyorlyss artwork.
Added artwork variations for Vanessa/Ms. Cunningham without her shoes on.

Pusspuss's Artwork (https://twitter.com/PusspussARTZ):

Added Silence & Shadow artwork, with variations for multi-boobs and pregnancy.

Contributors:

Added ability to let friendly occupants take on some of the more mundane slave jobs (Maid, Security guard, Librarian, Cook, Lab assistant, Office worker, and Waitress). (PR#1560 by Maxis010)
Removed the need to add content checks to multiple locations when adding new content controlled fetishes. (PR#1600 by Maxis010)
Fixed bug during sex scenes where a background error could be thrown if an NPC who was not involved in the sex scene tried to equip clothing. (by AceXP)
Bugfixes for GuestJobs PR after merge. (PR#1755 by Maxis010)
Added support for separate naming for aquatic subspecies that aren't mer-tailed. (PR#1489 by Stadler76)
Fixed description of height in alpha-imp description ignoring imperial/metric setting. (by AceXP)

Engine/Modding:

Added 'SWIMWEAR' item tag, which is meant to be used on clothing to aid in item generation.
Added a new 'conditional' attribute to the new 'effect' element in items' status effect definition section, allowing you to limit effects to be applied via conditional statement. (See 'res/items/innoxia/pills/fertility.xml' for a commented example.)
Added FOOD_POOR, FOOD_QUALITY, DRINK_POOR, and DRINK_QUALITY as item tags to give finer control over how much of a buff food and drink items should give to the consumer.
Added 'EYE_SHAPE_' parsing command to access EyeShape enum values.

Image & Character Imports:

PLEASE NOTE: All imported images for characters in your game will no longer work, due to a significant restructuring of the folders involved.
Images imported for characters in your game are now located in a folder that's named corresponding to the character's unique ID, instead of their name, so you can now have different images for different characters who share the same name.
Images imported for characters in your game are no longer stored in the 'res/images/characters/generic' folder, and are instead now stored within the 'data/images/game_id' folder. The 'game_id' is unique to each of your ongoing games (and takes the form of a large number). This change means that imported character images are now associated only with the game into which they were imported.
When exporting a character, any custom artwork which they have will be exported into a folder alongside the exported xml file (in 'data/characters').
When importing a character into a game (as a slave, a clubber, or a lodger), if there's a folder in the same directory as the imported character's xml file, which shares the same name as the imported character's xml file, then all images within that folder are automatically imported for that character.

Gameplay:

You can now invite friendly occupants living in Lilaya's mansion to the spa.
Added banks to Dominion and Elis. You can create an account in the Dominion bank, and then use the deposit boxes to store and retrieve items and money, as well as generate interest on money stored there.
After having sex with Vicky three times, she will try to dominate you, and if you submit then it will unlock more content with her.
Added a new internal map for Pix's gym, added a few extra scenes for Pix, and added a new character (a spotted hyena-girl boxer named Hannah) to the gym.
Completing Hannah's boxing training unlocks a new bar map in Nightlife, in which you can have one night stands with randomly generated NPCs.

Items:

Added 'swimming shorts' (masculine, groin slot, sold by Nyan).
Changed the quality levels for dragon, amazon, angel, and imp drinks, and for dragon, rat, and pig food.
Added the 'DRINK' tag to several items which should have had it.
Added 'arcane wet wipes' as an upgraded version of 'wet wipes', which are able to remove the 'marked by musk' effect.

Sex:

Added 'Stroke belly' as a 'loving' sex action, requiring the target to be visibly pregnant and for positioning to allow the performer's hands to reach the target's stomach. (As it's a loving action, NPCs will only use this if they're not sadistic and their affection towards the target is over 50.)
NPCs in glory hole sex no longer have access to deny actions (as it's physically impossible for them to restrain their partners who are on the other side of the stall wall).
Added a 'Rape-play allowed by default' option in the 'Sex & Fetishes' content options, which allows submissive characters in sex who have the 'unwilling fuck-toy' fetish to engage in rape-play without first being given permission to do so. (Off by default.)
Added clit-to-nipple and clit-to-crotch-boob-nipple sex actions for characters with clits large enough to act as pseudo penises.

Other:

Reformatted how status effects to be applied upon consumption are displayed in item tooltips to reduce clutter.
Added a 'musk' content toggle in the 'Sex & Fetishes' page in the content options, allowing you to enable/disable musky cum/girlcum effects. (On by default.)
Musky cum and girlcum will now apply a 'marked by musk' status effect (applies +5 resting lust and -1 lust resistance) to anyone who is covered in it during sex.
Vicky's shop, 'Arcane Arts', is now open from 9:00-17:00 instead of 06:00-22:00.
Added a 'Never' option to the multi-boob content setting, which makes all randomly-generated and most unique NPCs have only one pair of breasts.
Changed the 'martial artist' perk to 'brawler', which now gives +5% unarmed damage and +10% physical damage. The 'martial artist' perk is now a unique perk which can be obtained via completing Hannah's training (in Pix's gym).
Nizhoni's content now has a couple of extra musk-related descriptions (which are only shown if musk content is turned on), and you now also have the option to cast the 'soothing waters' spell (if you know it) to clean her and temporarily remove her musk for the proceeding sex scenes.
The game's default start date is now 2019, instead of the year of your system's time (i.e. 2023). This is so that in-game events remain chronologically feasible, for example older Enforcers having been Enforcers at the time of the fifth human rebellion in 1988. The starting year can still be changed to whatever you want during the character creation process.
Pandas now spawn with vertical pupils.
Elementals can now take on the form of an octopus.

Bugs:

The chest sarashi has been changed back from 'feminine' to 'androgynous'.
Fixed issue where all slaves in Slaver Alley's stocks and shops would be reset every time you loaded a game.
The 'vaginal virginity', 'pregnancy', 'pussy slut', 'impregnation', 'cum stud', 'cock stud', and 'breasts' fetishes are now correctly always given to randomly generated NPCs if your related fetish spawn preference is set to 'always'.
After getting them as slaves, resetting the perks of the four 'Murk's milkers' should now work correctly. (It will also reset their occupation trait from 'kidnapped' to the slave trait.)
Freeing slaves while they're working in a milking room now correctly handles their clothing resets before freeing them. (i.e. removing pumps and replacing their clothing)
You can no longer ask Claire for help with dealing with Vengar after you've already cleared out the Rat Warrens.
NPCs will no longer equip clothing onto spectators during sex.
Fixed issue where Jhortrax didn't have his katana equipped.
Fixed bug at the end of Natalya's filly training where she'd take your neck-equipped clothing and not return it to you when she put on your filly choker.
Fixed vaginal and anal clit tease actions, which were checking availability of the action based on the incorrect character's clit size.
Fixed an issue where characters would sometimes fail to load into a game when saving/loading.

Monday, 24 April 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

This is just a small post to let you know that I'm still working on the update. Progress hasn't been going too well, but if I'm unable to get the update into a version that's ready for release by the end of this weekend, I'll put together whatever I have and release it on Monday.

Sorry again for how long it's taking me to get this version released, and thank you all for your support and patience. I'll see you again in the next post, which will either be over the weekend or by this time next week at the latest.

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

This is just a quick post to let you all know that I'm still working on this next update, and while I've made progress over this past week, I'm still a little ways off getting this next version finished. So far I've added a bank to Dominion and Elis, expanded Vicky's content, added an internal map for Pix's gym and added a new character to it, and added a few other minor things. I'm still working on the main quest content, but once finished it'll have added a new internal map for the Enforcer station in Elis, a couple of new characters, and an area to fight through which involves these characters.

To avoid disappointment, I'm still not going to give a release date for this next version, but I'm doing my best to get it finished as soon as I can. I'll make another progress news post by the end of the weekend, and will also make another artwork poll tomorrow. Thank you all so much for your support and continued interest in Lilith's Throne. I'll do my best to make this version worth the wait!

Sunday, 26 March 2023

Delay...

I'm so sorry, but I still haven't managed to get the release into a state that's ready for release. I typed out a big post to explain, but it just felt like giving excuses, so I'll just say that I'm still doing my best, and that I'll get the next release out to you as soon as I can. I also want to say that I know that these delays are completely unacceptable, and I fully understand if you want to stop supporting me, and please know that I'm extremely grateful for any and all support you've given.

I won't give a release date for this next version again, as I keep on utterly failing to stick to them. I'll get it released as soon as I possibly can, and I'll make weekly progress reports to let you know what's going on. Sorry again for letting you down once again, and at the last minute at that.

Saturday, 18 March 2023

More Progress News (Another delay...)

I know that I said in my previous post that I was very confident that there'd be no more delays, but I ended up getting a little side-tracked (by adding some more content for Vicky and a couple of other things), so as a result of that I'm still a little ways off getting this main content finished. I'm really not going to be able to get it done in time for tomorrow, and considering that I also want to get some more PRs merged before the release I'm going to have to delay it again.

Once again, I'm very tempted to delay it by just a few days, but I know that it's going to end up taking longer than that, so I'm going to say that it'll be another week before release. I hate to keep doing this to you, but I really don't want to put out this version until I've got the main quest content finished, so now please expect the release of v0.4.8 to be the evening of Saturday, 25th March.

Thank you once again so much for your patience and support. I really am doing my best to get this version out to you as soon as possible, and this time I really, really can't see any reason for any more delays...

Saturday, 11 March 2023

Progress news (Delay...)

Hello again,

First of all, the bad news is that I'm going to have to delay v0.4.8's release by another week. I know that I said I was aiming to get the release out tonight, but writing content always takes longer than I expect, and as such I haven't managed to get this version into a state that's ready for release just yet. I've still got quite a lot of writing left to do for the next stage of the main quest, and while I'm tempted to say that I'll delay this version by just a few days, past experience tells me that it will take longer than that, so I'm now aiming to have this version released at around this time next week (evening of Saturday 18th). Sorry for leaving it until the last minute to make this post...

The good news is that I'm very confident that I'll get everything done in time for next week, so there really shouldn't be another delay. I know that I always say that, and maybe I'm being overconfident again, but I really do think that I'll have everything ready for v0.4.8 by then.

Thank you all once again for your support and patience, and I'll do my very best to make sure that there really won't be any further delays!

Sunday, 26 February 2023

Version 0.4.7.5 Preview Release

Hello again,

First of all, I'm sorry about how long it's been since the previous update. As I've previously mentioned, some personal issues which continued through December and January meant that I wasn't able to work on LT as much as I normally do. After that, I got a little swamped by bug reports and it took me a while to work my way through them, which is why this release was delayed over the past couple of weeks. Thankfully that's all over now, so the next updates should be released more regularly.

As for what's in this version, there are a lot of bug fixes and minor additions to the game, but there are no large content additions. I'm going to be focusing on that front for the next few releases, with main quest, side character, and minor place content being the focus.

There's also new art for three characters in this version. FriendlyAlienFriend (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend) has created art for Vanessa/Ms. Cunningham, while Davyn (https://twitter.com/davyndraw) has created art for both Kalahari and Kruger.

Thank you all so much for your patience and support over the past few months, and I promise that I'll do my best to get the next releases out in a more reasonable timeframe. I'm aiming to get the next release (v0.4.8) out within two weeks from now, and will make a progress post next week to let you know how things are going!

P.S. I know that it's been a while now since the last public release, but I thought that I'd stick with the usual pattern of alternating public-preview releases so that the public release of v0.4.8 will be one that has a chunk of new content in it. I'll do my very best to get it done and released to you within two weeks without delay!

IMPORTANT: If you're building through github, you'll now need to place the 'liliths-throne-public/res' folder in the same directory as the exported .jar!

ALSO IMPORTANT: Make sure you build from 'dev' branch.

v0.4.7.5 Patch Notes

FriendlyAlienFriend's Artwork (https://twitter.com/thealienfriend):

Added artwork for Vanessa/Ms. Cunningham, including pregnant variations.

Davyn's Artwork (https://twitter.com/davyndraw):

Added artwork for Kalahari (lion-girl bartender in the nightclub, 'The Watering Hole').
Added artwork for Kruger (lion-boy nightclub owner in 'The Watering Hole').

Contributors:

Fixed issue where mods which accessed the GameCharacter.getAffectionMap() method could cause an error which led to NPCs disappearing after saving/loading. (by CognitiveMist)
Fixed issue in Meraxis's blowjob and cunnilingus sex scenes, where the game was checking for incorrect fetishes to determine when to end the sex scenes. (by Maxis010)
Fixed issue where you couldn't change your hairstyle in your room's 'Hairstyle & Makeup' menu. (by Maxis010)
Fixed bug where certain black-white colouring combinations wouldn't correctly identify someone as a panda-morph. (by CognitiveMist)
Fixed bug where the 'New Game' button would sometimes not work, requiring a game restart to get it working again. (PR#1752 by CognitiveMist)
Fixed issue where characters who were imported into a game would remain related to the player (or other characters by chance) if they were related to them in the save where they were exported. (PR#1743 by Maxis010)

Engine/Modding:

Added 'FertilisationType' enum (game/character/pregnancy/FertilisationType.java) to track fertilisation type of Litters.
Added 'Nocturnality' enum (game/character/race/Nocturnality.java) for assigning nocturnality values to subspecies. For modded subspecies, you can now define the nocturnality of a subspecies within a 'nocturnality' element. Any subspecies missing this value will default to being biurnal.
Added 'FOOD' and 'DRINK' item tags which should from now on be applied to any modded food or drink items (with the idea being that any effects gained from food or drink can then be applied from any item tagged as such).
Added an optional 'statusEffects' element to modded item xml files, allowing you to define status effects to be applied when the item's effects are triggered (for a commented example see 'res/items/innoxia/pills/fertility.xml').
Added a 'rapePlayBannedAtStart' field to sex managers, allowing you to define whether or not NPCs with the 'unwilling fuck-toy' fetish will start sex in the resisting pace (defaults to true, thereby making it so rape-play NPCs no longer start consensual sex scenes in the resisting pace).
Added 'game.startGenericSex(character)' method to allow quick testing of a generic sex scene between the player and an NPC.
Moved all hard-coded chest and nipple clothing out into the res folder.

Gameplay:

You are now able to impregnate Vanessa/Ms. Cunningham by giving her a 'breeder pill' or 'broodmother pill' during sex.
You can now gain entry to Zaranix's house during the related main quest by repeatedly knocking on the door.
Eating or drinking (via items or scenes in which you eat/drink) now confers positive status effects; 'recently eaten' and 'thirst quenched', respectively.
You can now ask Astrapi about being impregnated once her affection towards you is high enough, after which you will be able to get her pregnant.
Added an encounter in Dominion's park tiles to enable you to discover Natalya outside of Helena quest. It will trigger between 9:00-15:00, if the weather is not an 'arcane storm' or 'stormy sky', if you have travelled to all the park tiles, and if you have either completed Natalya's romance quest or not started it.

Lilaya's house/Slave management:

You can now pick roses from Lilaya's garden (limited to 1 per day).
Added two new slave jobs; 'gardener' (4 slaves max., location is central courtyard garden); 'security' (8 slaves max., first security guard will always be posted at the entrance, with the others patrolling the corridors, has 'answer door' and 'entrance priority' job settings).
Added 'dining room' room upgrade, along with another new slave job, 'waiter'. You can choose to order a meal in the dining room, so long as you have slaves working as a cook and waiter.
Added 'slave lounge' room upgrade. Your slaves will go here when not sleeping.
Slaves will now sleep during idle time; the hours in which they sleep will depend on their race's nocturnality, and will be displayed in the job management screen via 'zzZ' next to the idle hour slots in which they'll be sleeping.
Added a new 'Sleeping' permission category, allowing you to specify whether slaves should sleep at night, during the day, or whenever they want (which will be based on their race's nocturnality).
Added description of slaves present/not present in their room description.
Friendly occupants will now sleep at times based on their race's nocturnality.

Items:

The 'breeder pill' and 'broodmother pill' items now disable the effects of menopause while their effects are active.
Reduced rarity of subspecies books from legendary to rare, so they will now disappear from tiles like ordinary items.
The 'ribbon' clothing can now be equipped on a character's penis.
Added 'micro bikini top' and 'micro bikini bottoms'. Both are feminine and sold by Nyan.

Sex:

NPCs with the 'unwilling fuck-toy' fetish no longer start sex in the resisting pace by default, and must be first allowed to perform rape-play before they'll switch into it.
If not satisfied at the end of sex, NPCs now lose 5 affection towards the person who ended the sex scene, instead of towards all dominant participants.
Improved description of size difference oral availability that's appended to the end of the 'standing' and 'against wall' sex position intros.

Combat:

The 'All out strike' move now has a critical requirement of being the only move used, instead of being used 3 times (which was impossible due to AP cost).
Buffed the 'vulnerable' status effect that's applied via 'Hunting call', 'Talon slash', 'scratch', and 'squirrel scratch' from -2 physical shielding to -10 physical shielding and -5 physique.
The 'Talon slash' combat move now deals 120% of the attacker's unarmed damage, instead of a flat 20.

Other:

Clothing and weapons of the same rarity are now sorted in inventories so that they're grouped together.
Added an 'Always' option to the fetish preferences menu, which makes it so that randomly-generated NPCs will always spawn with that fetish.
The subspecies pages in the encyclopedia now display the subspecies' nocturnality, whether or not they're aquatic, their default leg configuration, and whether or not they're short-statured.
Slightly improved dialogue flow after both instances of combat in the slime queen's tower, and made it so the slime encounter rate in Submission's tunnels if 4 times higher than normal if you're at the start of the slime queen quest (to make it easier to progress the quest).
You no longer need to seduce Wolfgang and Karl in the Bounty hunter lodge if you've previously had sex with them (i.e. during the quest in Kay's textiles).
Added a new 'clothing femininity' option (in 'Content Options' -> 'Gameplay'), allowing you to set clothing femininity values to off, masculine-only, feminine-only, or on.
The 'pregnancy' tattoo counter now includes the bearer's ongoing pregnancy (if applicable) in the count of how many times they've been impregnated.
Added 'pregnancy partners' and 'impregnation partners' tattoo counters, which track how many unique partners have impregnated or been impregnated by the bearer, respectively.
The shady dealer encounter in the alleyways of Dominion will no longer trigger during an arcane storm.
If you have the 'object of desire' trait active, then Angel (in Angel's Kiss) will wait until she's satisfied before ending the sex scene, instead of ending it as soon as you were satisfied.
Characters who have large cum expulsion values now spawn with 'stallion' or 'dragon' condoms, so that their condoms don't break in sex.
The cultist chapels which appear during October in Dominion's streets will no longer spawn in adjacent tiles.
Added better indication of whether or not sex with slaves in the bathing scene in the spa will be considered rape.
Eye clothing which blocks eyes (i.e. the blindfold) now correctly conceals the wearer's eyes. (This will only be noticeable if you encounter an NPC who's already wearing a blindfold, as just like genitals & breasts, once you've seen their eyes then they will remain 'known' even if concealed afterwards.)
Lunexis now has minimum affection towards the player, Meraxis, Aurokaris, and Ursa.
Added 'Gangbang' options to sex actions when interacting with a slave so that you can more easily start a sex scene with all slaves who are present.
Added a shaft in the far west of the Bat Caverns which links them to Dominion.

Bugs:

Parsing, typo, and minor dialogue fixes.
Prevented friendly occupants in Lilaya's mansion from being able to get the 'Mushroom forager' job (it was intended as a background only for offspring found in the Bat Caverns).
Fixed issue where Lilaya would reference her growing a cock to get you pregnant even if she impregnated you via the effect of Amazon's Secret.
Fixed bug where slaves could work in the office or milking room while still being stationed in the slavery administration.
Fixed issue where friendly NPCs having moved out into an apartment, as well as offspring in the alleyways of Dominion, would be affected by arcane storms even though the scenes are described as being inside their apartment.
Fixed incorrect dialogue being displayed after sex with Wolfgang and Karl in 'Kay's Textiles' during Nyan's quest.
Fixed background error being thrown when inserting Kay's buttplug.
Nyan now correctly only wears her weekend outfit (skater dress with no shoes) after she's decided to take weekends off work (i.e. after progressing through her romance quest).
Fixed bug where the impregnation counter for tattoos would increment even if the impregnating character failed to get their partner pregnant, then decrement once the pregnancy possibility resulted in no pregnancy.
Tooltips for ongoing sex status effects no longer cut off half-way through displaying information.
Using quick sex in Astrapi's handjob & armpit scenes now only uses the related handjob/armpit actions. Also using quick sex in Rose's dungeon scene no longer allows her to use her pussy and lose her virginity.
Fixed issue where feral characters who were transformed into a slime would bug out and be identified as a human.
Fixed issue where body randomisation for centaurs was not working for all body parts, and would also increase the randomised character's height twice.
Fixed issue where dirty talk wasn't parsing correctly for random Dominion demon attackers, Kate, and Lilaya.
Fixed raccoon-morphs having hyena-morph crotch breasts.
Fixed issue where the transformation menu's buttons for changing urethra elasticity and plasticity would change throat elasticity and plasticity instead.
Clothing worn by slaves who go to work at a milking room will no longer sometimes completely disappear.
Added a missing 'RESIST_TRANSFORMED_NO_RAPE' dialogue node in Submission's slime tunnel encounters.
Fixed bug in the nightclub where if you were a sub and annoyed and then left your partner, the next partner you found would start off at the same level of annoyance as the one you just left.
Dominant partners in the nightclub will now leave you if you keep on annoying them.
The random partners during sex scenes while working as a cow in Evelyx's Dairy will no longer have fetish desires or orientations which result in them disliking sex.
The headless horseman will no longer regain his virginities between encounters.
Fixed issue where the replacement and displacement descriptions for the 'lowback bodysuit' clothing item were reversed.
The visibility of an asshole of an NPC who has a cloaca is now correctly linked to the groin area, instead of the ass.
Fixed bug where all menu buttons, including loading a saved game, would not work during combat.
Fixed UI issue where some elements which were meant to be shown as disabled, such as forbidden spells, would not render the disabled overlay.
Fixed incorrect slave references in the sleeping/waking scenes in your bedroom.
Fixed issue where slaves would be tagged as having orgasmed 24 hours later than intended while working in the milking room (which led to the 'pent up' status effect not activating at the correct time).
Fixed bug where the cunnilingus demos (giving and receiving) at the cafes in Slaver's Alley would sometimes have their scenes at the start of sex swapped.
Corrected the penis & cum related part of the orgasm description for when a futa character performs a 'Thigh squeeze' orgasm due to receiving cunnilingus.
Fixed issue where removing Kay's chastity cage would always display the scene variation for the minimum time of him having been locked up.
When an NPC forces a transformation on you after losing combat, they will no longer reference a 'no race-cock'.
Fixed issue where you were able to move after losing to Meraxis's three demon subordinates in her citadel, which was allowing you to access her treasury room and avoid being thrown out.
Fixed issue where giving yourself 'demonic-owl' eyes as a slime would change your subspecies from slime to owl-morph, thereby preventing you from accessing the self-transformation menu.
The gryphon's 'Hunting Call' combat move now correctly applies a +20 buff to physique and arcane as described, instead of +15.
Fixed bug where if you unsealed and unequipped a sealed item of clothing during sex, after sex the clothing would be cloned, with one clone remaining in your inventory and the other being re-equipped onto you.
If armpit and/or udder content is disabled in your settings, then in the enchanting menu you will no longer see associated fetish or body part options.
Fixed issue where selecting some transformative potions (such as the pre-made 'Brax's surprise' potion) while they're located in a world tile (i.e. not in a character's inventory) would result in an error being displayed instead of the potion's information.)
Fixed issue where feeding a spider-morph a caffeinated food or drink item would always intoxicate the provider of the food/drink (which was usually the player) instead of the targeted spider-morph.
NPCs should no longer be able to equip clothing onto their partners through other clothing during sex (such as equipping a buttplug on their partner if the partner is wearing trousers).
The 'Wolf-tease' action in Brax's office now works if you're an arctic wolf-girl.
Fixed issue during Nyan's first sex scene where she couldn't restart giving you a blowjob if you pulled out during orgasm.
When having submissive sex with a sissified Vengar, her cage is now correctly removed, and she also now correctly continues to wear a slave collar after being sissified.
NPC names which begin with a non-alphabetic character no longer have 'a' or 'the' automatically appended to the start of their name.
Upgrading rooms in the dungeon in Lilaya's mansion now correctly charges you the associated upkeep costs.
Fixed issue with sex action availability between size difference characters in the 'against wall' position (such as when the shorter character was facing the wall they were able to perform oral on the larger character behind them).
Fixed issue where the encounters while wearing a filly collar in Dominion street tiles were triggering far too frequently.
If a clothing item can be equipped during sex, but not in every possible slot, then the inventory will no longer show it as greyed-out.

Sunday, 5 February 2023

Progress News

Hello again,

I really am so sorry about how long this update is taking me to get done. I've been making progress on it, but things have been quite difficult for me recently, so that's why it's been far slower than normal. Anyway, I've decided that I'll get the preview version released to you by this time next week, no matter what state it's in.

Thank you all so, so much for your patience during this time. I've been doing my best to get this version completed, and will continue to do so until the release next Saturday (11th)!

P.S. There's some talk about blogger rolling out some heavy-handed age verification, so if you soon find yourself unable to access this blog, then I post all of the same information on my SubscribeStar (https://subscribestar.adult/innoxia). You can also keep track of what's going on by joining the LT discord.

Edit (Saturday, 11th): I'm almost there, but I still have quite a few bugs to fix and then some PRs to merge, so the release will be tomorrow night (Sunday) instead. Sorry!

Edit (Sunday, 12th): The bugs are taking longer to fix than I expected, due to there being so many of them. I'll have to delay the release again, but it will be out no later than Tuesday (14th)!

Edit (Tuesday, 14th): Aaaah! There are still bugs that I'm working on, but it really won't be much longer now! I'm so, so sorry about all these delays!!!

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

More Progress News

Hello again,

Sorry once again for how long it's taking me to get this update out. I'm still working on it, but things have been going slowly due to complete chaos in my life at the moment. I will definitely have the preview out by the end of this month, and then the full update out a couple of weeks after that. I'll try to get another progress post out next week to hopefully give you more details on what's going to be in this version. Sorry again for the lack of progress recently, and I'll see you again soon.

Monday, 2 January 2023

Progress News

Hello again, and Happy New Year!

Unfortunately, I don't have much progress to report since the last post, as I ended up having a lot more family stuff going on than expected over the Yule period. As such, I'm still a couple of weeks off having this next update finished. Sorry about how long it's taking me to get out, but I'll be back to work on it starting from tomorrow, and will do my best to get the update out to you as soon as I can!

I hope you all had a good time over the festive period, and I'll see you again in the next progress news post (which should be some time towards the end of this week). Thank you all so much for your patience and support!