March 2023 Update

New update for March 2023!

Thank you to all our contributors; if you are interested in hearing about updates as soon as possible or reporting bugs related to the new update, please join our discord. 

New Features:

- New white patches: MAO, CHESTSPECK, PAINTED, WINGS, and BLACKSTAR.
- Skin color now affects the inside of cats' ears.
- New nylon collars - plus indigo and white variants of all color types. 
- You can now delete saved clans on the Switch Clan Screen.
- New camp background: Grotto
- New fading effect. Previously, cats became more transparent as they got closer to fading. This has been replaced with a three-stage "unraveling" effect.
- Added many new kittypet and loner names.
- Grief system has been expanded to give more unique death reactions based on the trait and mate status of the living cat. 
- New backstories! - "Bee sting", "headache", and "severe headache" are now potential injuries. "Persistent headaches" have been added as a permanent condition.
- Lost cats can now return to the clan via moon events!
- Lost cats can now die randomly, rather than just from old age.
- New background for the Unknown Residence Screen.
- Kittypets, loners, and rogues have a chance to appear in the "Cats outside the Clan" tab. These cats have a chance to join the clan during patrols.
- Returning to the main menu or closing the game will now cause a pop-up window to appear, which will ask if you want to save your clan before proceeding.
- Lots of new patrol art!
- Added a setting to control the display of gore in patrol art. Gore is turned off by default.
- New patrols!
- Added a handful of new mediator moon events.
- If there are no warriors that have trained apprentices in the clan, a random warrior will be selected to be deputy. A special event text will be displayed for this situation.
- New scar system for patrols on Classic Mode.

Bugfixes:

- Previously, a bug was preventing patrol outcomes that rely on traits or skills. This bug has been fixed. This doubles the amount of accessible patrol outcomes!
- Allow more variety in tortie base colors, including ginger-on-ginger torties.
- Many new ceremonies, including special ceremonies for dead mentors and parents.
- The code for moon events has been rewritten to allow for more flexibility and utility.
- The limit on mediating has been reworked. Each mediator may mediate once per moon, rather than a global "one mediate per moon" limit. However, a single pair of cats can only be mediated between once per moon.
- Murder events are now affected by relationship values.
- Moon events regarding other clans now trigger based on your relation with the other clan.
- A variety of game-chances have been moved game_config.json, in the resources folder. This will allow players to more easily edit chances, if they desire.
- Star is no longer a possible prefix for clanborn cats.
- When a kittypet that has a multi-word name joins the clan, there is a chance for them to pick only one word from their previous name to use as their prefix.
- Cats who cannot work are no longer eligible mentors for new apprentices.
- Male tortie chance has been significantly lowered- they now occur at a similar rate to shinies in pokemon games.
- Affairs now work!
- Mediate will now correctly affect trust, romantic like, and platonic like.
- Mediators and mediator apprentices will no longer retire due to permanent conditions.
- Clicking on a cat on the family page will now take you to that cat's family page, allowing for easier scanning through family lines. You can still access their profile by shift-clicking.
- Reduced age at which cats fade to 202 moons.
- Chance to develop "Lasting Grief" has been reduced.
- And many other bugfixes!