Does your waifu bite?

Cause I'm bringing you a couple this time, and they definitely do!

New action: drop

This action should have been added long ago - without it, the only way to remove an item was to "equip another item in the same slot". And it was impossible to get rid of unnecessary junk from the inventory at all! Well, now both of these problems are solved! Just press "D" and choose which item you want to throw away. You can drop items that you're wearing, as well as items that you're just carrying around with you. The thrown item will appear on the ground near you and can be picked up by you or someone else! Just be careful not to drop the item in the water or it will sink.

New encounter: Aquatic Creatures

Starting this month, I'll be working on adding more random encounters. There are currently ten planned; they will vary in difficulty and depth, so I expect a single encounter to take me between 2 and 4 weeks to implement. We have a long and exciting adventure ahead of us!

As for the first encounter specifically. The action takes place on the coast of a tropical island. Here are a couple of examples of what the map looks like:

You can even get in the water and swim - just don't get further than the shelf, it's too deep! But you're not here to swim and sunbathe, right? A bit farther you see a couple of the inhabitants of the sea depths, namely the Shark girls...

Isn't she a cutie? But as always in the NetShag world, don't relax: her teeth are pretty damn sharp, and she can put them to good use.

The fact that the sharks swim so close to shore is for a reason; perhaps the ocean pollution makes it harder for them to hunt, so they're looking for food here? If so, a good way to make friends with one of them would be to, you know, feed it! But remember - it's a wild specimen, so it's best to put the food on the ground and slowly cower. How convenient that there's a special action for that, isn't it?

For this encounter, the map and the gameplay are done, but not the story - there are placeholders are in its place right now.

New encounter: Hide and Seek

Everyone knows that Vampires can't come into your house unless they are invited. But can YOU walk into their house without being asked? You find yourself in a mansion - it looks abandoned now, though it must have once been exquisite. But what are those bones and stains of blood on the floor? And not just blood, by the way... It looks like the owners of the house had visitors not too long ago, but there's no way to ask them what's going on here (not anymore). You have only one chance not to repeat the fate of all these poor blokes - use your raging libido and quick wit!

Only the map is ready for this encaunter so far.

Save game erasure

I try to fix bugs as soon as I find out about them, but unfortunately I can't always quickly figure out what the cause of a particular bug is. So if you're stuck and don't want to wait for me to roll out a hotfix, you have a backup option - reset your current progress and start a new run. It's kind of like the "Abandon run" button in other games - only here, I hope it's only a temporary solution. You can take advantage of this feature in the "Options" menu.

In conclusion

The new encounters (Aquatic Creatures, Hide and Seek) are not yet polished to the point where I'm ready to show them to the public - so they are hidden in this build (you can't stumble across them randomly in your playthrough). The encounter includes not only the gameplay part, but also the story and visuals - I won't always be able to prepare all of that in time, as I'm relying on other people in this. However, I still want to still stick to my "one build + devlog per month" schedule, so I'm posting the available progress. There's much more to come, so please bear with me!