The day is finally here! We're finished with the Milking Cerise update and are opening the barn doors! If you own Milking Mira, then you'll immediately have access to the DLC. You can verify that you're on the correct version if you see v1.1.0 on the main menu, as well as an arrow to toggle characters next to Mira.
This update includes some pretty significant changes to the base game. Here's what's new!
New Content
Implemented New Hucow - Cerise:
- Cerise can now be selected on the main menu by using the arrow on the right side of the screen. This arrow will not show up if the game doesn’t detect the DLC.
Implemented Character Intro Cutscenes: These play when selecting a character and starting the game.
- Each cutscene is unique for each character.
- Cutscenes can be auto-skipped by toggling it in the settings menu.
- We may add a cutscene viewer in a future update if we end up doing more of them.
Added Gold Mechanic / Pity System: Players can now earn gold for every milk jar that gets filled.
- This gold can in turn be used to unlock items pre-emptively as a way to bypass the RNG roll on rank up.
- Gold is displayed beneath the milk jar counter on the bottom right of the screen.
- Items will remain hidden until the player has enough gold to afford them. When the player has collected enough gold, the question mark on the item will begin to glow white. Mousing over the item while the question mark is glowing will reveal the price, buy button, and give a small glimpse at what the item is.
Milk Master 9000 is no longer auto-awarded when collecting 50 bottles. Instead, it can just be purchased whenever the player has enough gold, or randomly obtained from the reward pool.
- Some special items such as the Thermostat and Golden Party Time cannot be purchased and must be obtained through the reward pool, or via their unique unlock condition.
Reworked Stat System and Rank System: Various changes have been made to the core game mechanics.
- Ranking up no longer grants stats directly but instead gives the player a point to assign to their stat of choice.
- Points can be assigned using a new UI menu that can be opened by clicking on the character’s portrait in the top right corner.
- A small star-shaped icon will pulsate in the corner of the portrait to indicate that there are unassigned stat points available.
- Players can now mouse over an individual stat within this menu to view its base and gear-adjusted total. The base stat is calculated from the character’s unique values + whatever stat points the player has assigned.
- Stat points are 1:1 ratio for stats except for capacity, which goes up by 10 for each point assigned.
- Hucows are now individually ranked, so they must be maxed out individually.
- Mousing over a stat will also display a brief explanation of what the stat does.
- Mousing over corner portrait no longer displays the old tooltip with abbreviated stats.
- With the addition of new items, ranks are no longer 1:1 linked to unlockables. This means that you can reach max rank for a hucow and may end up missing an item or two. Players should be able to obtain any missing items through the gold pity system. (I didn’t feel like extending the game’s ranks just to fit more items and if we add even more things, it would mean even more ranks to track.)
- Ranking up a hucow without any items left to unlock will instead allow players to obtain gold bags of various sizes.
10 New Items Added: All new items are backward compatible with Mira.
- Witch Hat: New hat that’s part of the witch set.
- Witch Earrings: Small earrings that emit magic particles and slightly increase all states.
- Rope Top: A makeshift top made of rope wound around your hucow’s breasts. This item changes the shape of your hucow’s breasts and increases Milk Pressure, causing milk to shoot out in a wider spray when used. Keeping this item on for too long will cause purpling on the breasts that go away when removed.
- Crotch Rope: New bottom that’s part of the rope set.
- Barbell Piercings: These are part of a new item category for nipple items.
- Hoop Piercings: Same as the item above but with a hoop shape.
- Nose Ring: A special face item that can be stacked with gags and eye items.
- Harness Ring Gag: A full-face, open-mouth gag that causes excessive drooling.
- Discipline Cane: A handheld cane used to discipline your hucow. Click to strike the hucow’s breasts and increase milk production. Hucows have a hidden pain tolerance value that if reached, will stop producing milk until they are given a break or massage. Pain will be visually indicated by red skin irritation that gradually shows up when the toy is used. Be sure to pay attention to it since it indicates that you are getting closer to hitting the pain tolerance. The redness from the irritation will fade away over time. Reaching the hucow’s pain limit through repeated caning will leave marks that will not go away until exiting the session.
- Witching Hour: This is Cerise’s equivalent of the Golden Party Time item. Activating this will cause a ritual to start that involves activating 6 candles in a specific order. Good luck and be sure to look closely at the candles!
Items Unlocks Have Been Recategorized: Some items such as the Golden Set are only unlockable by playing with Mira, while others are from Cerise. This will be indicated by the color of the “?” on the item slot. Items are not exclusive to the character after unlocking them though as you can take them to the other cow pen. You can also just purchase another character’s items with enough gold, with the exception of their final unique unlockable obtained through maxing their rank.
The Golden Set now grants a gold bonus when completing a milk bottle.
Implemented Breeding Cutscenes: Using the insemination toy will now play a cutscene of your hucow being bred.
2 New Secrets Added: One is related to the new Witching Hour item, and the other is part of the Harness Ring Gag.
Cerise comes with her own version of the Succubus Horns and Tail that are unlocked by having save data from Project Cappuccino.
New BGM added to the Jukebox: Farm Life, originally from our scrapped project “Crystal Road”.
7 New Achievements Added.
Polish
Adjusted engine physics settings for smoother jiggle physics: There will be a slightly higher performance cost with this change but we needed to do it for Cerise’s jiggle physics to look smooth. Her boobs use higher gravity and drag values, which required more precise calculations.
Added Missing Hair Tips and Legs to Mira: Her ponytail and hair would cut off below the knee since we didn’t need it at the time. The Thigh Strapped Vibrator has also had the missing part of its cable added.
Changed How Mouse Detection Works for Handheld Items: Handheld items are now able to detect multiple hitboxes in one click. This was done due to the new cane toy being added since it has a long hitbox that can overlap both boobs. Without this, it looked strange to strike and only have one boob move. Only applies to the cane at the moment but it’s ready if we add other handhelds in the future.
Characters can now change expressions due to animation states: The restrained state for example will cause the character to emote based on the animation.
Fixed clipped wall sprite on main menu
Bug Fixes
Added Missing VFX and Localization to some of Mira’s Dialogue: A few of her lines such as the ones from the thermostat item weren’t localized and were silent for her.
Fixed issue with VFX not playing while UI disabled: Voice audio source was attached to the Bark System. Hiding the bubbles with the UI was accidentally preventing VFX from playing.
Fixed Audio Settings Bug: Audio settings were not being loaded properly despite showing the sliders in the right place. This was due to a unity bug with audio mixers that required a work around.
Fixed one of Mira’s Boobs being larger than the other when using the Mega Milker’s item.
Fixed issue with sweat remaining on a character even after disabling the thermostat.
Fixed some of Mira’s sweat beads being parented to the wrong bone, causing them to float off in a random direction.
Known Issues
Golden Party Time and The Witching Hour items stack and can get a bit overwhelming visually. If its too much, we can make those items exclusive in a future patch.
I’m tired boss.
From here on until late April, we're going to be in the middle of a big move IRL, so apologies in advance if we aren't able to respond to things quickly.
Enjoy and thanks for milking!
-Vanis & Doku