The First Gods [Ongoing] - Version: 0.1.8

What's New in The First Gods Version - 0.1.8?

Highlights

• Major relationship expansion: added Camp Follower Relationships, including family and social relationships, with new events and interactions built around them.
• New difficulty system: added God, Godling, and Mortal difficulty levels, allowing the overall challenge and balance of a run to be adjusted.
• Power and Aspect expansion: added Third Eye: Lingering Echoes, Third Eye: Foresight, Heartwood Flesh, Blood Link, Call the Worthy, toggleable powers, and additional effects for certain Aspect levels.
• Two new Traditions: added Shape of Order and Seat of the Sacred, alongside new events and content tied to both axes.
• Save, settings, and UI overhaul: Settings and Save/Load now have dedicated interfaces, Autosave was added, the number of save slots was increased, and the Help section received a new visual identity.
• New quests and events: added several new major events, repeatable quests, Season Plan quests, Tomaso the friendly trader, new Concubine content, and more.
• Balance, performance, and polish: reworked population growth and military scaling, improved performance on weaker hardware, reduced redundant game files, fixed Linux image compatibility issues, and cleaned up several long-standing bugs.

Full changelog
Relationships, Followers & Camp Life

• [SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS] Added Camp Follower Relationships.
• [SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS] Added Family Relationships.
• [SYSTEM/RELATIONSHIPS] Added Social Relationships.
• [RECRUITMENT] Tweaked how Recruit works.
• [TRAIT] Added the new trait Eye for Talent.
• [SYSTEM/CAMP] Added the Second camp position.
• [SYSTEM/CAMP] Stability now affects Camp Follower Obedience.
• [SYSTEM/CAMP] Obedience, and to a lesser extent Love/Trust, now affect Enlighten success chance.
• [SYSTEM/NPC] Added a framework for Special Traits for important NPCs.
• [NPC] Kael now starts with the Right Hand trait.
• [NPC/BALANCE] Tweaked some important NPC stats.
• [NPC/BALANCE] Capped Love and Obedience for important followers.
• [BUGFIX/NPC] Fixed Subjugator and Dread-Bearing traits not applying correctly to important NPCs.
• [BUGFIX/NPC] Fixed the Nymphomaniac NPC trait.
• [EVENT/CAMP] Added the Warm Furs Concubine event.
• [EVENT] Added a new option to A Place in the Camp when the requesting NPC is female.

Powers, Aspects & Rituals

• [POWER] Added the new power Call the Worthy.
• [POWER] Added Third Eye: Lingering Echoes.
• [POWER] Added Third Eye: Foresight.
• [POWER] Added Heartwood Flesh.
• [POWER] Added Blood Link.
• [POWER/SYSTEM] Added functionality for toggleable powers.
• [ASPECTS] Added extra effects to certain Aspect levels.
• [RITUAL] Added the Bless Bonds ritual.
• [RITUAL] Added the Free Love ritual.
• [PRISONER/POWER] Added the ability to use Third Eye: Lingering Echoes on foreign prisoners.

Traditions

• [TRADITION] Added the new Tradition Shape of Order.
• [TRADITION] Added the new Tradition Seat of the Sacred.
• [EVENT/TRADITION] Added extra major events tied to the Seat of the Sacred and Shape of Order axes.
• [BUGFIX/TRADITION] Fixed gendered camp positions stopping their drift when reaching the Shared Voice Tradition level.

Difficulty, Saves & Settings

• [SYSTEM/DIFFICULTY] Added God, Godling, and Mortal difficulty levels.
• [DIFFICULTY/BALANCE] Removed the defensive raid Mercy cap from Godling difficulty and moved it to God difficulty.
• [UI/SETTINGS] Settings now has a dedicated menu instead of using the default SugarCube interface.
• [SAVE SYSTEM] Increased the number of save slots.
• [SAVE SYSTEM] Added Autosave.
• [UI/SAVE SYSTEM] Save/Load now has a dedicated screen instead of using the default SugarCube interface.
• [UI] Gave the Help section a new visual identity.

Prisoners

• [PRISONERS] Added the ability to release prisoners.
• [BUGFIX/PRISONERS] Prisoner escape attempts now place their normal event at the front of the queue, so the escape result is shown promptly.

Quests, Events & Encounters

• [EVENT] Added the Blunder major event.
• [EVENT] Added the Breaking Point major event.
• [EVENT] Added A Quiet Death major event.
• [EVENT] Added A New Pairing major event.
• [QUEST] Added the What We Leave Behind quest. (Try gathering resources after a couple of seasons have passed…)
• [QUEST] Added a quest tied to the Hunt Game Season Plan.
• [QUEST] Added a quest tied to Scout the Wilds. (Requires being on a mountain tile.)
• [QUEST] Added the repeatable Broken Chains quest.
• [TRADER] Added Tomaso, the friendly trader.
• [EVENT/SYSTEM] Increased the likelihood of random events and quests firing.
• [BUGFIX/QUEST] Moving Mountain should no longer be resurrected or re-marked by map repair logic after its final completion.

Crafting, Items & Economy

• [CRAFTING] Most terrain-locked goods can now be crafted in any terrain, but receive a discount when crafted in their appropriate terrain.
• [ITEM] Added a new unique weapon.
• [ECONOMY/BALANCE] Resource stockpile contribution to Military Strength now scales relative to tribe population.
• [BALANCE] Nerfed population growth.

Federation, Map & World Interaction

• [FEDERATION] Great Binding now allows the victory federation to expand to the required tribe count instead of being hard-capped at 3 members.
• [MAP/SYSTEM] Improved the connection between actual camp visibility on the map and which interactions are available.
• [MAP/FEDERATION] Federation members are included as an exception to normal camp visibility requirements.

Sex Framework & Adult Content

• [SEX FRAMEWORK] Added new flavour lines based on body types, body features, and other character details.
• [ART] Added 6 new DAZ variants for the Tribute action.
• [ART] Replaced the Wildling artwork and added several new variants.

Art & Character Content

• [NPC] Tweaked Halona’s stats.
• [NPC/TRAIT] Added a special trait to Halona, obtainable after completing Heart to Heart with her staying.

UI, Reports, Performance & Optimization

• [UI] Streamlined the Report Screen. Again.
• [PERFORMANCE] Made performance improvements that should be especially noticeable on weaker hardware.
• [OPTIMIZATION] Reduced overall file size by removing old UI backgrounds, redundant Federation images, and other unnecessary files.
• [BUGFIX/UI] Fixed an annoying cursor bug where the game would revert to the native cursor on borders and certain buttons.
• [BUGFIX/COMPATIBILITY] Fixed most case-sensitive naming inconsistencies, which should resolve missing image issues for Linux users.