Welcome back! The 1.6 update is finally just around the corner, so I am going to give a quick update regarding the state of HypnoValley as it is right now. Since I am finishing my break and returning to uni tomorrow, I am unsure when everything will be finished, but it will hopefully be soon.

Before the long string of text, please be aware that old items from the 1.5 versions of the mod WILL NOT load after updating to 1.6, instead appearing as error items. As well, some persistent triggers (such as the level 4 love trigger, which set a marriage) may not expire properly and some unlocked triggers may show as other triggers after updating. I highly recommend planning on updating on a new save. Trust levels will carry over if you really want to keep the save, but any items will either have to be reacquired or cheated back in.


What's done?

I am mostly done porting the asset loading from C# to Content Patcher. I still have some dialogue to put together and I still have to move the maps over, but otherwise everything is there, including most of the assets for the items I've been working on adding since the last update.

I've started rewritting the code for the new version, but without being able to see if it actually works I've not gotten far so testing doesn't get too confusing. Most of what's remaining as code will be very quick to add, but the menus might slow things down as I rewrite them.

What's new?

• Content Patcher will be a requirement to run the mod
• A pendulum as the new base tool. The coin will be an upgrade from the pendulum now.
• Kris's lessons are now consumable books. There's no reason to buy more than one of each lesson now, but there will be later.
• Kris will now show up in most festivals (any that appeared in 1.5)
• Kris will have a new outfit outside of the saloon and in winter
• There's one new saloon show for people who don't want to have their farmer be hypnotized before unlocking the shop
• The saloon show is now triggered by talking to Kris instead of triggering automatically to reduce confusion on how to trigger the show
• The trance sprites now load as a separate outfit so they won't conflict with other portrait mods (hopefully)
• Kris's house is moved slightly to a new location accessible from above the Joja mart so it doesn't replace the statue in SVE
• 3 new triggers (Pet (level 1/2), Puppet (level 1), Devotion (level 2))
• Framework for adding custom effects if the farmer eats any hypnotic crops (Effects may show up but will do nothing for now)
  
  

• Trance minigame and new trance menu
• Amnesia level 4 (Seasonal outfits will be the end of me)
• Kris in the 3 new festivals
• Hypnotized expressions using the currently worn clothes instead of the default. (Beach and winter clothes)
• Anything else related to the new content that we don't know about
• New personalities and quests
• The new demon-esque character (I never finished her maps)
• Allowing all social villagers to be hypnotized, rather than just bachelor(ette)s
• Functionality on all the new items I made sprites for and put into the mod (The ones that aren't usable will only be available with cheats)
• The actual custom effects
  

• The hypnosis menu (The one when you press 'H'. It will be back once I figure out how I'm going to handle mobile and add in the thing and that was supposed to use it)
• Hypnosis levels (Bet you didn't even know they were there. I want to make a level up screen and actual benefits to leveling up. Experience will still be gained so once it's added back in you'll be placed at the appropriate level)
• Stardew Valley Expanded compatibility (The new bachelor(ette)s will no longer be hypnotizable, but you can still play with both installed. It broke the last 1.5 build I was working on and I want to really make sure it won't this time)
• The pocket watch (Not really you can still cheat it in but it does nothing different than before)
• Love level 3/4, Amnesia level 3, and modifiers (Anything level 3+ will be unlocked later. Trance levels in general will be different from now now that there's 5+ tools to hypnotize villagers with. Modifiers are being made easier to apply in the new menu and will be separated from the main triggers.)
• The ability to play without Content Patcher (This is permanent but I don't think many people were to begin with)