Hi all! Long time no update.

I’ve been busy with a lot of things IRL, but have been getting a lot of progress on the new version in the past two months. In addition to general new content here and there, assets, QoL, there are a couple major features in 5.3 (current nightly, available on Patreon or Subscribestar) that are being worked on. There’s a lot of interdependent features–for example, the player base (Summit) required reworks of a lot of under the hood code for handling special rooms with different prison rules. I also decided to expand on the doll processing facilities under the Bellows area, as the existing rooms were somewhat disappointing for a late game area. The new ones should be much more exciting and lively, and of course, benefit from the new map handling system to allow guards and NPCs to interact with each other.

Theres a couple minor features that have been added to support the player base where you can store your prisoners:

• Leashing NPCs is now possible (NPCs can also leash each other)
• Interacting with beds, etc is now done using the same interface as closing doors (and soon you’ll be able to lock yourself in them if you want). This is to support locking captured NPCs in them as well.
• The Journal has been reworked (lots of lore rewritten too) and now contains a Facilities tab to manage your player base
• The player base itself is accessible after clearing one elevator hall (i.e. slay a dragon)

I’ve made a little diagram to sort of show the current status of what’s being worked on and what’s planned for the future. Right now I’m working on the facilities so that prisoners and servants have more of a use besides just decoration and dressup.