Hey everybody, Thaum here with some more perverted goodness. We set up a big release with lots of new stuff. The idea was to focus on this release more, and less on the January release, because it's always a clusterfuck with everything going on--and now a bigger team means bonus fuckery, lol

The whyf went and picked up some COVID last week, and she really likes to share--especially with family, children, and the elderly. Despite my best efforts, it hit me Wednesday night, but luckily there was enough momentum for me to get this out, and it's a pretty solid release.

I won't blabber on too much because I feel like shit, there are reasons, experiments, and whatnot as usual, but I'll let the list of changes speak for itself.

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• Added a new popup that occurs when the AW tab regains focus, explaining background tab throttling and such, and providing minimal instructions to change browser settings.
• New seXBox content because it’s fun.
• Bred Dead Distension custom art poster in read-something
• seXBox 69 system ad “turn your dreams into reality”
• New encyclopedia entry on the seXBox, including origins, different systems, competitors like Zony, and the cultural impact in AW.
• New encyclopedia entry on Gloryhole Culture
• Origins and popularity, cultural factors, and the rise of “Gloryhole Etiquette" and basic rules, gender-specific aspects, and more.
• Includes an entry on modern restroom design w/ example floorplan.
• New movie poster ”The Voice Through the Hole” in read-something
• New encyclopedia entry on bulk semen products including technology, general quality categories, culture, and market influences.
• Improved/expanded Encyclopedia entry on Oppaido and Shokushu Kendo martial arts.
• Improved Encyclopedia entry on kinks, making them make more sense and be generally easier to understand, along with their general effects.
• Fixes to the wasting time on your phone “Read Something” activity available at home.
• Expanded street cafe in SW Downtown.
• New/expanded initial scene.
• New image for the barista. New images of coffee, women, with some more interesting stuff there.
• New drink available for purchase on the second visit, the “cummiato” which is basically a flat white with fresh cum instead of steamed milk.
• New scene for getting a cummiato from the futa barista.
• Features an AI video with editing and whatnot to turn it into a scene of the barista making the new cummiato drink.
• As AI becomes more and more capable, I wanted to test using it to make vids/gifs for AW. It lets us add things that just aren’t possible normally, such as a futa barista cumming into a coffee. I like making art personally, and editing gifs and photoshopping and doing all the things to give AW media the quality it has… but this is another way to approach it. Let us know what you think.
• Recreation area pool expansion/reworks. 
• I felt like the existing area was too simplistic and didn’t properly represent the actual purpose and feeling of the area. This fixes that, and will hopefully add a little more to the list of “rewards” for exploration.
• Pool and Pool Showers separated into two locations. Showers can be visited by first heading to the pool.
• New scene featuring Hitomi Sensei (of Oppaido fame) and two of her students, who are relaxing at the pool.
• Initiated at the pool showers.
• Contains some lore/background information on the area naturally sprinkled into spicy dialog.
• An opportunity to ask about Hitomi and learn some about her past, including escaping the Collapse of Japan, tentacles, martial arts, and some such.
• Scene ends in some sex for the trio, yay!
• New Shower Area at the pool:
• Unique location images, description, etc. as with other game locations.
• New “quick change” button to let you strip or get redressed for the pool w/o doing that manually garment by garment in the menu.
• New watch/relax activity where you sit at a nice little table in the grass w/ a parasol and observe the happenings. 
• Passes a small amount of time and provides some stress recovery.
• Includes 15 new mini-scenes of varying length from a paragraph to a whole sex scene.
• Scenes happen in sequence before repeating, and are numbered. A small amount of time must pass before the next scene will show
• Each scene includes custom ‘shopped sexy images to match the theme and scene contents.
• You can now shower at the pool showers!
• Performs minor cleaning functions similar to a shower, to remove fluids and such from the skin. No shaving or more advanced functions like enemas. 
• Various things can happen as part of the hoped-for results of taking a shower in public.
• Most common: a fairly uneventful but refreshing shower complete with some nice imagery.
• A woman helps you wash up, which is nice but not quite satisfying…
• A passing neighborhood man is interested, resulting in a sex scene. Three choices leading to different scenes/gifs/results.
• Quick Change functionality added to hucow pond swimming area, involves some new utility functions in the clothing system. 
• Expanded Pool Activity:
• Location text and such updated.
• Swimming activities remain the same.
• New “Relax At The Pool” activity, since that is a common thing that people do outside of actually just swimming.
• Passes some time and gives some stress relief.
• Includes 15 new mini-scenes of varying length from paragraph to sex scene.
• Scenes happen in sequence before repeating, numbered for your convenience. A small amount of time must pass before viewing the next scene.
• Includes sexy photoshopped images to match for each.
• Minor adjustment to the creampie status process–status effect is shorter with more frequent simulation calls and a little tweaking there. Just improves realism a bit.
• Character Creation Improvements! Just to improve your QoL and increase clarity.
• “Can Change” and “Limited Change” icons redone to be much friendlier to people with varying levels of colorblindness.
• New “No Change” Icon added for items that either can’t be changed after character creation or are very difficult/rare to change.
• All elements in character creation now have these icons to indicate how mutable they are during play.
• New “Help Popup” entries for several character creation choices, and some revision/clarification in more entries.
• TOTAL REWORK of kink selection descriptive text. Now includes information on game effects, as well as effects to character creation itself such as bonuses to starting skills and minimum libido at character creation when the kink is chosen.
• The three custom portrait options have been placed into the same selection box, to reduce the display fuckery there.
• A new pseudo kink “Breeder” has been added.
• This kink doesn’t actually do anything directly, but is useful for indicating to players the enhanced impacts from having both the Risky Sex and Pregnancy kinks at the same time.
• This has been the general functionality forever, because there is a strong synergy there, but now hopefully it’ll make a little more sense that it’s happening.
• Obtaining happens automatically when prereqs are both gained.
• New educational TV program can now be seen when watching TV. It can appear at any time of day, but as usual odds vary depending on the time slot. 
• Includes 5 custom images.
• Has a good amount of text, as one of the larger TV programs, broken up by imaged show segments.
• Is actually a little educational, like many things in the game.
• While we include a large amount of scientifically and generally accurate information into the game, this also gets blended in with sci-fi shenanigans and alternate history/culture stuff and that isn’t always obvious. If something piques your interest, we highly recommend doing your own investigation into the topic!
• Or visit the Discord server… big crazy discussions happen pretty regularly, and I (Thaum) am usually pretty happy to point people in the direction of actual research/educational material. (Or just explain which parts are real and which are made up, lol)
• Major Clothing Update starting with hucows.
• The hucow elements of this have been planned for a while, and are a notable focus, but it was a good opportunity to tweak and improve things in various areas too. The results are good for everyone; hucows and normal characters alike!
• There is a new “hucow” category of clothing for tops and bras, similar to other categories such as “swimwear” and “kinky”.
• Hucow-friendly clothing does not cause any negative impacts to hucow characters, and does not cause a dress code violation.
• Hucows never cover their udders, but sometimes they wear something for fashion reasons or cooler weather. The most common choice is still totally nude up top, of course.
• Has its own “H” icon similar to existing category icons.
• New type of bra: pasties
• Can be painted on (acrylic or gloss), or a more traditional material.
• Always hucow-friendly to wear.
• Also available for purchase in normal clothing stores, of course!
• Open-Cup Bra changes.
• Is now considered hucow-friendly.
• Is no longer considered “kinky”
• Widespread adjustments and tweaks to clothing generation.
• Tweaks to individual stats based on various styles, substyles, etc.
• A lot of adjustment to the probability of various styles being generated, and the potential substyle chosen based on base style. (e.g. probability of a tank-top being generated for Cucci, and the probability that a tank-top has the “cropped” substyle.)
• Results in notable shifts in the inventories at various stores.
• In particular, specialty stores like Thot Topic will see better clothing selection and sexier undergarments instead of using more baseline/prudish styles.
• Substyles fit better than before, and overall choices are better and more world-realistic.
• Four new tops!
• All are hucow-friendly, as they are designed specifically to never cover the breasts.
• Many or even most tops in AW reveal breasts to some extent, but these always have them uncovered–important for sensitive skin!
• All have clothing icons and paper doll images
• These tops are more prevalent in the more fashionable stores.
• Tops include:
• Arm Sleeves: two sleeves of varying length connected by a section of shirt covering the upper back.
• Underboob Shirt: a more extreme version of the existing underboob style, this one is just cropped above the breasts.
• Belly Top: Basically your typical spaghetti string top, except that the front of the shirt only covers the belly.
• Corset: Actually just a corset, and not a corset-top.
• New Panties Substyle: Crotchless
• Now most styles of panties can be crotchless, excluding the most conservative styles.
• The previous “Crotchless Panties” style has been adjusted to be “Split Crotch Panties”, which is a fairly popular crotchless style nowadays.
• Icon and paper doll images for these have been updated.
• Now you can wear your G-String and have it crotchless too!
• All Tincow panties are crotchless for obvious reasons, but the crotchless style can be found in stores all over. (More common in stores with fancier clothing.)
• New Pants Substyle: Crotchless
• As crotchless pants of various varieties become more common in the real world–particularly in yoga pants–it feels silly that it isn’t an option in AW of all places.
• Take a look below the change log for an example of some nice crotchless pants being worn in a park outside Berlin (because of course it’s Germans, lol).
• Actual crotchless yoga pants and sweat pants seem to be poking at the boundary between fetishwear and an actual option for various reasons. Maybe partly because it’s thrilling but generally not noticeable in many cases–like wearing a skirt w/o panties. Crotch gussets in yoga pants are also a thing now it seems, they don’t reveal anything but can be opened for easy access, a lot like men’s briefs.
• Most pants can now have the crotchless substyle. (not most shorts styles, however, as they go a different direction)
• Likelihood of the substyle depends on the store. It’s universal in Tincow for hucows, and otherwise is more likely in the more fashionable stores.
• Substyle is most common in the “leggings” style.
• Wording describing the exposure of clothing has been totally redone to be more appropriate.
• Updated some clothing icons to match better, added some missing icons.
• In particular, new icons for bras that had been using the bandeau style icon for like 3 different styles for some reason.
• Hospital sweatpants/shirt now have icons too, but only if given to you in a new game. Existing saves still won’t have icons.
• Hucow Clothes Updates
• Tincow store has been expanded to include tops and bras specifically tailored to hucows.
• New “cow-print” color has been added, and occurs primarily on clothing at Tincow.
• Clothes for hucows are now generated based on new odds presets for all clothing items, so that Tincow clothes are always appropriate.
• Effects of upper-body clothing on udders and pleasurable breasts mutations are now split by mutation.
• Effects have been adjusted and better balanced, looking toward non-hucow characters with one or both of these mutations.
• New “chaffing” popup now always happens when wearing an inappropriate bra or top. 
• Occurs the first time negative effects happen.
• Will only occur once per day.
• New scene for tops, and improved scene for bras–scene shown depends on the offending garment.
• Paper Doll Updates
• Teats mutation is now represented on the paper doll. Breast size will remain the same, because that’s a fuckton of work.
• New paper doll images for the four new shirt styles and new pasties bra.
• Some adjustments to when sexy vs standard styles are shown for paper doll clothing items.
• New sexy version image of jeans “super low-rise”. 
• Whole new clothing item “slacks” to be used for some pants styles.
• Also has a sexy version which is crotchless.
• Used for the different styles that aren’t actually jean material and had previously been using the leggings image.
• New sexy version of leggings: “crotchless”.
• New sexy versions of multiple shorts styles cutoffs, hotpants, and short-shorts.
• Note that because the standard versions of these for futas are already showing genitals, there aren't new sexy versions for futas.
• Fixed how sex was being determined for babies, ratio is now more realistic.
• New event with Raven at the pond.
• Raven will be at the pond if you visit the area after already completing the cow crowd event.
• She’s drawing and generally being cute.
• Includes art of bashful Raven.
• Several bugs and general issues fixed of course.
• Hucow Milking display issues (rogue p and nan quota) fixed
• Random strangers won’t hit you up at the coop and drag you downtown.
• Milk buttons won’t appear so insistently for hucow characters with suppressed milk production
• When gaining a new womb after having undergone the tentacle transformation of your organs, new wombs will default to being tentacle wombs instead of human. 
• Others I can’t remember
• Friendly Note: The Fertility Goddess and Fertility Storm mutations can be lost naturally overnight if you no longer meet the requirements! This isn’t a bug. If you lose one or both, check your character to make sure you still meet the requirements, as you probably no longer meet them for one of a hundred reasons. Check the guide on aw-wiki for exact requirements.

• A whole expansion thing of Abigail... that it seems like went awry somewhere cause I left it up to the cat.
• Supposed to be an expansion of punishment texts and progression in Abigail's story... seems like we have some events with her around the coop instead... I'm unsure about what's going on with all this.

• Damn, the barn is on fire! Oh noes!
• A new chain of event, one of the buildings catched fire. Was it an arson? The poor hucows are stuck inside, not to say that the bar is going to burn!
• Will be expanded further next releases as we work as a team writing it and aim to interweave the stories of different NPCs of the COOP together with such overarching stories.
• For now it have Evangeline and Muffin options. And it will be ultimately tied to another NPC you have probably met earlier (if you have a keen eye).
• Don't forget to go back to investigate the building.
• 12000 chars so far.

• Muffin interactions
• The dumbest (and the biggest) hucow of the COOP can now provide you one specific invaluable service.
• Similar to the emergency mental unfuck treatment you can get at the medical district but this is more about getting big mommy's attention.
• Can be done once per week only, so use wisely.
• 5000 chars

• A short random scene featuring Begonia, my current favorite dramatic NPC.
• The goth hucow has problems with discipline and following the orders.
• Will probably cause her big issues later.
• 3000 chars

• A big random scene with a bull, who got overly interested in the futanari hucow character.
• A number of possible outcomes: futa-on-male, male-on-futa, male-on-futa-in-chastity, evading the suspicion and whatnot.
• The results are determined mostly by the character's cock size, heh.
• By the way, it's the first futa-on-male scene in the game it seems.
• 20 000 chars.

• Bugs were fixed, bugs were added.
• Some weren't fixed, we have a little local pandemic at the moment of the release so our last-minutes-efforts are limited.
• Thaum probably already ranted about it somewhere at the start of this change log already.

• Besty ate a nice salad today.