This update brings with it a pretty major overhaul of the existing game content- changing how some existing things work while fleshing out and improving other things.

• RE-WORKED MAIN STORY FLOW: We moved around the timing of certain events and sequences in order to trim off some of the fat. We're attempting to enforce a clear distinction between the linear story sequences and the free roam sequences, as well as better present the changes in the day/night cycle. We recommend resetting your save data to check out the new story flow, but don't worry- we've built a cheat code system to let you recover your gallery unlocks! See further below in the patch notes. Additionally, the main story now continues until the end of Day 6!
  
  
• BITS & BANTER: During each of the various free roam segments during the story, each tavern guest will have various things to say outside of their usual relationship building hangout sequence. Some of these are additional lore snippets, while others are tongue-and-cheek Easter Eggs. Additionally, you can now talk to characters that previously couldn't be interacted with, the Minotaur and the Bar Keeper. They don't have their own relationship levels, but they do have a bunch of things to say!
  
  
• LEWD HAPPENINGS: A smattering of lewd events/animations have been added to some of the free roam sections in the main story. Should spice up those interactions!
  
  
• COMPLETED CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS: You can now get up to the maximum rank in all of the character relationship building levels! Previously this was capped at 3, but now all 5 are available. Some existing ones have also been re-worked. At level 3 and level 5 you can choose to initiate a sex scene (which use existing animations.) Ra'yan is an exception, he's a unique case for reasons you will discover in the story's conclusion. Speaking of story conclusions, the characters you max out your relationship with will have an impacting on the conclusion of the story when that is ready in the 1.0 update. Pick your friends wisely.

• 2 NEW SEX ANIMATIONS - 2 Inge poses with 3 variants of guy each!
  
  
• NEW ANIMATED CG- The sex scene you get with Serania after the attic has been unlocked now has it's own CG! It's not animated yet, but we will be pushing up a hotfix when the animation is available (sometime this weekend hopefully.) For the time being, the still CG is in, however.

• Cheat Codes are now available- want to skip the grind and unlock everything in the gallery? We've added a handy way to easily unlock all animations- just input seraniaseesall into the cheat code box and have fun!
  
• SKIP & AUTO- two highly requested features have been added, you can now easily skip text and also you can set the text to automatically advance at a comfortable reading pace, for hands free enjoyment!

• Inge, from the Free-to-Play game, Overlewd will visit the tavern on Day 5 of the main story. In Sandbox mode, there is a 50% chance every day that Inge, Kreyton. or Bambi will spawn. What's more, Overlewd will be running a Dungeon Tavern themed event where players can earn various skins and even a sex CG based off of the characters from Dungeon Tavern! It's a lovely game with an art style we adore, go check it out, it's free!
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/2308870/Overlewd/

HOTFIX 0.5a
- Fixed an issue where doors to outside were staying closed on day 3, 4, and 5
- Replaced Serania's CG with it's animated version
- Fixed an issue with characters cloning on Day 1
- Fixed an issue where you could not use character with maxed out relationship to advance the time

HOTFIX 0.5b
- Fixed an issue with cheat code not properly unlocking the gallery

This should be the last update before our 1.0 launch, which will bring with it the conclusion to the main story as well as additional & updated voice acting, among other things. We're putting a lot of effort into this conclusion and have made some unique assets for it, we can't wait to show it off!

However, even once we launch, that won't be the end of Dungeon Tavern. We still plan to bring in a couple of post-launch updates, such we further guest characters, and eventually a new campaign where players can experience the events of Dungeon Tavern's main story from Celeste's point of view! So keep an eye out, we've still got more stuff coming!

To top it off, Dungeon Tavern will be discounted for the next week! If you were on the fence, or wanted to get the game for a friend, now is the time to do it! The other titles in the TinyHat adult games label will also be discounted, so go check those out too!

The usual stuff is planned- more main story content and a new guest character (bringing new animations and interactions also.) However, there's a bunch of stuff coming up that wasn't necessarily on the roadmap too, which will be interesting!

All of the writing for Day 7 and the end of the game is more or less done now, however that will not be ready until the Summer as the implementation will take some time- we're planning on doing something unique for the climax of the game. I don't want to hype it up too much, but we are drafting up art assets and gameplay mechanics that show up and are used only for the ending to help add to the "payoff" of the rest of the game's "build up."

Which means that for now, I've been reviewing the existing content in the game to see how I can make things better. We've been collecting and gathering feedback and I've come up with a bunch of changes that I think you guys are gonna like- for instance, before selecting a character to hang out with during "free time" sections, characters will have dialogue. This means you can check in on characters briefly, even if you don't choose to hang out with them. It also means you'll be able to talk to the bartender and minotaur, so they'll have a little bit more of a presence in the story!

We've also re-worked some of the story flow to try and streamline things better, to give you guys more of a chance to interact more often instead of just constantly getting stuck in forced story bits. We also have updated some of the presentation for existing systems so your decisions end up having a bit more of a clear impact on what's going on! Here's a rough overview of everything coming up-

• Overlewd Crossover- Inge as a Tavern Guest
  
• BDSM (Stockade) Animations
  
• Main Story Day 6
  
• Tavern Interaction Sex
  
• Cheat Codes (Gallery Unlock)

In the meantime it is probably a good idea to announce some changes to how we want to handle the female protag route, where the story is told from Celeste's POV. We will NOT have this ready in time for launch- HOWEVER, I would like to think that we have a good reason why. The more I've been thinking about it, the more I think it makes sense to do Celeste's story as a post-launch free update, as a sort of 1.5 release. Even when the game enters 1.0, I'm sure there will still be some valuable player feedback and some things we can learn and improve from- having content goals to aim for after the game's "completion" will help us be able to further fine tune it as we grow as developers and artists, even after the main story is completed. Plus, it would allow us to focus on making her campaign larger and more fleshed out- think of it as our own "Shadows of the Erd Tree."

Hopefully any of this made sense. On paper it might not sound like the most enticing update, and it's kind of hard to show off how things look in still images- but I think once you guys have it in your hands you'll enjoy how all of the changes come together! I'm very happy with how things have been shaping up in my own playtesting sessions at least, I just hope you guys find it as fun also!