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I don't know why or how it happened, and it never happened again - but that day, the game wouldn't let me select the next stage and "forced" me to skip it, which is something you're normally not allowed or able to do.
No idea how or why this happened, but it wasn't the first time. I'm on the most recent update, no mods or other programs installed that could mess with the software.
At least it is an easy fix, but still slightly annoying.
The actual "event" that unlocked these decorations has already passed, but if you set the console's internal clock to any day between the 3rd and 17th of February 2024 and boot up your game, you will still find the chest next to your totem. You do not need to separately download anything if you're on the latest patch, and everything is free of charge ;)
Marketed as a "crossover" but it really is just a reskin that you can purchase with in-game currency - no special requirements, but also no extra gameplay content or other gimmicks.
Still a neat little extra for fans of the franchise.
... but apparently the Switch can't handle more than 46. After the 47th joined, the game broke - the gif isn't lagging, this is what the screen itself looked like, weird rumble and all. The lamb was stuck cleaning up the same pile of barf for the rest of the night, and reloading didn't fix the lag so I wasn't able to cull the flock either.
RIP current playthrough.
...on the plus side, the other 2 playthroughs still work just fine, and it was my own fault for breaking the game anyway so I'm not too mad about it.
Added a new weapon - the Blunderbuss! Lamb goes pew pew.
Added 6 new Achievements.
Eggs - Followers can be hatched from eggs! Golden eggs will grant special skins.
New Resources have been added. These include Grapes, Hops, Cotton, Silk Thread, and Yolk.
Extra Resource rooms
New Follower skins - Lemur, Caterpillar, Seal, Snake, Worm.
Extension of the Sozo questline
Sin Doctrine category (4 new choices, 8 new Doctrines)
Auto levelling up followers after sermons and rituals.
Rebuilding structures mini game.
Shop room inside the dungeon with an NPC (Berith) that sells unique clothing.
Re-indoctrination option on the indoctrination podium.
Outfit and necklace assigning option on the indoctrination screen.
Disciple ritual that turns level 10 followers into Disciples.
Followers will now fight with one another, causing injuries and sometimes death.
The Sin System
Followers generate sin which can be used as a new currency! Sin can be generated from specific Sin rituals and buildings. Spend it on upgrading the Temple, removing the cooldown on purgatory, re-indoctrinating followers and building structures.
New Rituals
Rite of Lust - Followers will dance in their birthday suits around the shrine. Choose your favorite Follower to become the Mayflower Leader for half a day! This Follower will generate Sin. Followers will not work for half a day, instead they will prance around naked.
Rite of Wrath - Followers will cause havoc on the base! Choose a follower to become the Wrath Leader. This follower will generate Sin.
Gluttony of Cannibals - Choose a follower to be consumed by others. This will generate Sin.
Sinner’s Pride - Choose a follower to absorb the Sin of all followers.
Discipleship - Choose a level 10 follower to become a Disciple, in your inner circle of true believers.
Buildings
Drinkhouse - Craft drinks at the drinkhouse for your followers. Once a follower consumes their delicious little treat beverage, they will generate Sin. There is also chance to become Befuddled. They may need a little tactical spew to keep the festivities going.
Drinkhouse Level 2 - Queue more drinks.
Mating Tent - You asked for it! When two Followers love each other very much, they may enter the tent, and find an egg afterwards...
Hatchery - Place eggs in the Hatchery to make them hatch. What will come out?
Drum Circle - Play a drum circle mini game for a chosen follower to generate Sin.
Tailor building to craft and assign clothing to followers.
Bigger silo storage buildings for fertilizer and seeds.
Janitor station 2 building.
Seed Storage - Followers will collect seeds from this building and deposit them into Seed Silo’s.
Fertilizer Storage - Followers will collect fertilizer from this building and deposit them into Fertilizer Silo’s.
Disciple Collection Shrine - Allows Disciples to deposit devotion from other buildings into a central building.
Disciple Boost Shrine - Allows Disciples to pray that eventually fills up a shrine to give the Lamb a boost for the next crusade.
Follower States
Befuddled - Followers will stumble around, vomit, fight, chat, laugh, sing, and generally have a merry old time until they are no longer befuddled.
Injured - Followers will limp around feeling sorry for themselves until they are no longer injured.
Chore Levelling Up
When cleaning a poop/vomit/burnt or cleaning out an outhouse, XP will be generated.
Once the chore XP bar reaches full, the Lamb will unlock a new mop. There are as many as 10 (!!!) mops to unlock.
The higher the mop, the faster the Lamb can clean.
Poop variations
Golden Poop - Drops gold when cleaned. Drops gold/gold bars when harvesting a crop fertilized with golden poop.
Glow Poop - Attracts fireflies.
Devotion Poop - Generates devotion when cleaned. Crop fertilized with devotion poop will generate devotion over time.
Massive Poop - Drops multiple poops when cleaned. Followers can get stuck in the massive poop :(
Poop pet - Drops a poop pet when harvested, only when the poop is from a follower with the poop skin.
Rainbow poop - Gives 5 times the chore XP when harvested. Instantly grows a crop when fertilized with rainbow poop.
Lore Tablets
15 Lore Tablets to collect across the game!
Traits
Disciple Trait - Can re-educate Dissenters and use special Shrines.
Jerk Trait - Jeers at the lamb. Chance to steal Lamb’s gold. Will tell the Lamb they suck after a failed crusade.
Hot Tempered Trait - May start a fight with other followers.
Royal Pooper Trait - Only poops golden poops. Say that 5 times fast.
Scared Trait - Runs away from the player. Can be bullied/reassured.
Terrified Trait - Sits in the corner of base and cries. :(
Lustful Trait - Increases odds of mating in the mating tent.
Celibate Trait - Decreases odds of mating in the mating tent.
Fashionable Trait - Generates Devotion 20% faster when wearing a unique outfit.
Hedonist Trait - Decreases productivity by 10% but increases Sin generation by 15%.
Ascetic Trait - Decreases Sin generation by 10% but increases productivity by 15%.
Virtuous Trait - Produces Sin 20% slower.
Unrepentant - Produces Sin 15% faster.
Doctrinal Extremist Cult Trait - Choose to generate Sin from the Confession Booth instead of Loyalty.
Violent Extremist Cult Trait - Chance of Sin appearing as a reward from mini-bosses.
Fertility Cult Trait - Followers hatched in the Cult will be born with some Sin
Allegiance Cult Trait - Followers hatched in the Cult will be born with a high Loyalty level.
Dissented Followers have a chance to show up inside the dungeon and fight the player.
Twitch Integration Update
Added outfits for viewer followers! Viewers can now select a snazzy outfit in the follower builder after they win a follower raffle.
Added mobile support. You can now use all of the integration’s features on your mobile devices as well!
Added additional Help/Hinder outcomes
Changes
Follower level is now capped at 10 - Followers at max level can can still participate in any interactions or Cult events that would normally increase their loyalty, but their loyalty bar will not appear anymore.
Balanced the Enrichment Ritual.
Added prompt to signify that sacrificing followers in certain locations are permanent .
Laplace Dice is now a single use relic.
Paean demon will no longer give hearts whilst wearing the Berseker or Fragile Fortitude Fleeces.
Rebalancing commandment stones from levelling of Followers.
Remove necklace option.
Hide/Show necklace option.
Skip sermons.
Followers level capped at level 10.
Dissenters who have left the cult have a chance to show up in the dungeon and fight the Lamb.
Achievements menu that displays unlocked achievements.
Fixed confusion with end of level bonus items
Bug Fixes
Fixed demons not joining in the final fight.
Fixed certain follower questlines
Fixed lighting issues with blood moon ritual
Fixed Morgue and Crypt issues
Fixed birds displaying above the base in photo mode
Fixed certain weapons not showing on crusades
Sinful DLC Pack
6 tailor unlocked outfits
6 new decorations
5 new Follower skins: Tiger, Llama, Hammerhead, Ladybug, Sphynx
1 player fleece
As an addition : 2 tailor outfits for Heretic pack, and 2 tailor outfits for Cultist pack.
Sozo and his mushrooms - you can't separate those two. But what looks like merely an addiction at first glance, is way, way worse if you know what's really going on here ...
The thing on his head is not a funny red hat - it IS a mushroom. One that is growing directly out of Sozo's brain, mind-controlling him and basically eating him alive from the inside.
Sounds freaky and made-up, right....?
Except there is such a fungus in real life. It is called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis or "Zombie-Ant Fungus" and it takes control of infected ants, forcing them to abandon their colony and seek out a place that's beneficial for the fungus. Once the ant reaches the spot that the fungus finds comfy enough to bloom, the ant bites down into whatever it is standing on to hook itself in place. The fungus then spreads, kills the ant, and releases its spores.
Remember what happens if you finish Sozo's quests...? Once you leave and return, he will be dead, lying on the ground with X-ed out eyes, and the mushroom on his head is split open and surrounded by a lot of smaller mushrooms growing out of his body and backpack ...
It's not exactly a mystery what happened here.
Kudos to the CotL team for researching this stuff and adding it to the game. ;)
In what is either a very blatant marketing strategy or a case of Icarus soaring too close to the sun, the Cult of the Lamb developers at Massive Monster put out a tweet earlier this week saying "we will add sex to the game if we hit 300k followers by the end of the year."
As you can tell, it took less than a week to make the sex update a reality. At the time of writing, the Cult of the Lamb Twitter account has 455,000 followers. Sex quite literally sells. While Massive Monster is already on record as saying that the age rating wouldn't change in a Steam thread, the atmosphere's still about as feral as you'd expect. Here's an excerpt. It's going very well.
(Image credit: Steam Forums)
In a recent interview with Polygon, Massive Monster have clarified as to what games they're looked to to help them bring sex to the cute cult simulator: "We used games like Pokemon and The Sims when it comes to references, but put our own cult-ish spin on things. The age rating will not change."
One would assume this means that any cultish copulation would happen off-screen. Pokemon breeding is a thing, but you typically do it at a distance via menu. Meanwhile the Sims is famous for the very enthusiastic noises its people make while bumping uglies, such as "woohoo" and "plarkam". While some fans might be disappointed by this turn of events, I'm about to be a real party pooper. It's only for a paragraph, I swear.
I'm usually all for a bit of smut, but this is for the best even if it is the expected outcome. Cult of the Lamb is a game about starting and growing a cult, and while the game mostly dances around said subject matter with its cute art style, I should point out that cults do happen in real life and they're horrific. Adding sex to a game where you run one requires a Sims-level disconnect to avoid becoming an absolute nightmare. Alright, now that I've killed the vibe, let's go back to talking about the funny sex update.
One revelation from the interview is that the tweet may not have had much to do with the sex update itself: "We have been working on Sins of the Flesh since we finished the last update earlier this year," gasp. In fairness it's not as if Sins of the Flesh will just be adding sex—it'll be adding new features, stories, and gameplay stuff. It's entirely possible that the "follower fornication" as the team politely puts it is a new addition to the pipeline.
"It was something we workshopped a long time ago and didn’t go with, but now our programmers are working on the update as we speak. Our team is very talented and we have no doubt that it will be ready for release. We always finish on time." There it is: Cult of the Lamb sex real. You'll be able to play the update "very early next year (like, very early!)" according to the team's news update.
Honestly, I thought the guns and nudist update were a joke at first until the creator confirmed that those things will indeed be in the game, but now there will apparently also be .... rainbow poop.
