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Red Days

Red Days
Players will now have a menstrual cycle and need to find and stockpile feminine care products

Current Features:

The basic menstrual cycle including the following phases:
- Menstrual
- Follicular
- Ovulation
- Luteal
Character generates discharge outside of the menstrual cycle.

Debuff effects during the Menstrual Phase:
- Reduced Endurance
- Increased Fatigue
- Groin bleeding and muscle strain (to simulate cramps)
- Lower torso muscle strain (to simulate cramps and increase pain level so the moodle shows up)
- Increased discomfort levels
- Painkillers negates debuffs (6 ingame hours default)

Feminine Hygiene products:
- Boxes of Sanitary Pads
- Boxes of Tampons
- Boxes of Panty Liners
- Bandages will work as a quick stop gap if regular feminine hygiene products are not available.

Sandbox Customization options:
- Hygiene product spawn rates
- Option to enable MS for male characters (For FTM roleplay)
- painkiller effect time
- Upperbound and Lowerbound durations for cycle phases

Custom 3D models for Hygiene Products
- Special thanks to "sudodski" who stepped up and created the 3D models for this mod. Thank you very much! We appreciate you :)

- Craftable cycle tracker calendar:
- If tracker book is in equipped bag or inventory and page 14 ID matches character ID
- Everytime player unequips or replaces a sanitary item, it as assumed the player
inspected the item and results are automatically logged in the book.
- If data isn't being written, delete all contents on page 14 or craft a new book.
- IDK how to make a custom UI and I have 0 artistic talent so a text based calendar is the best I've got.
- The inspirational quote changes everytime you unequip/replace a sanitary pad item.
Let me know if there are any you'd like to add. Just make sure the quote and the author credit would fit in the
character limits. Refer to existing quotes as a guideline.
- Writing tools aren't needed for now, but will be made necessary later.
- If you are on a new character and delayed phase is enabled, no data will be recorded until your first period occurs.
After that however, everything should work normally.


Planned features:

Feminine Hygiene products:
- Craftable re-usable cloth pads
- Menstrual cups

Pre-Menstrual Symptoms
- PMS symptoms leading up to the menstrual phase

Not wearing hyginene items increases "dirtiness/bloodiness" for certain clothing locations
- Potential for interaction with other mods that have dirt/blood attracts zombies

Traits:
- Hygiene product consumption and stat decrement rates vary by cycle trait:
- Light, Normal, Heavy Cycle Traits
- Right now player starts on red day, but eventually a different start date could be a trait
- Endometriosis by popular request
- Health affects menstrual cycle
- Severe underweight/malnutrition can stop the cycle
- Severe stress can alter the cycle

Debuffs for insufficient hygienic care:
- TSS or other sickness and debuffs

Fixed Reported Bugs and minor feature change notes:
- Incompatibility issue - mod conflicts with: 'organizedCategories: Core' - FIXED
- Fixed 2025-7-11: User reporting incompatibility issue
The mod seems to just rename the category from Feminine Hygiene -> Clothing - Protective. Which I assume is correct behavior.
- Fixed 2025-7-26: While the above is correct behavior for the organizer mod, by changing the category, red days no longer reconizes a feminine hygiene items because it relies on searching equipped items by category. I've updated the way this is handled so this shouldn't affect category organiziers in the future.

- Equipping a sanitary item causes the character avatar to fail to render in the character info menu.
- Fixed 2025-7-11: Updated clothingItems xml files to render an invisible model to address some warnings and null exceptions

- Random cycle start dates for new characters
- 2025-26-07 Added feature to start on random dates and added respective sandbox options

- 2025-26-07 Items will now spawn on zombies
- 2025-8-1: NOTE: Future updates will be in mod update notes instead of description.

FAQ:
- Groin bleeding time is set to 0 and should not kill you. However upon some testing, if bleeding and if you speed up time, it might decrement some HP so be careful if low HP.

- Only female characters will experience the menstrual cycle by default, but you can enable for all genders in sandbox options

- This should be safe to add mid save, however feminine hygiene items won't spawn in places you've already looted, but can spawn on corpses.

- The follicular, ovulation and luteal phase doesn't have any other effect besides generating discharge, which is completely a visual thing with no status effects that requires a 1-2 times a day change of panty liners.

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NOTICE 2025-07-07: Regarding Controversy in the Comments

I am completely OK with criticism of the mod, it helps me figure out what to do better. I understand the subject matter is a little uncomfortable for some people to engage with and I'm OK with a little gamer talk in that regard. I created this mod with respectful intent and to be as accurate as I can and with what I know and within the limitations of the game.

Nearly 50% of our population have no choice but to deal with this completely natural biological cycle and it shouldn't be a weird taboo subject. Women do exist, and they do not have cooties, grow up please.

What I'm NOT OK with is sexism and or misogyny. I will keep all comments critical of me and the mod, but going forward, I'll be deleting comments I deem to be sexist, misogynist or otherwise excessively immature.

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Mod ID: 3516166810