Awoo!

Despite Alon's best efforts at delaying you with extra polls, the first part of his tragic barkstory is here for you to witness!

The new content includes:

• over 15.000 words of new script
• introduction of the PATHS section in the Gallery, which is the dynamic, interactive, and pretty cool-looking flowchart that tracks and visually displays your progress in the story. It will make it much easier for you to see what options you still have left available to discover! It's a WiP feature and the public builds will include Early Morning and Late Morning time periods covered. I'll be adding more sections to the tree in the upcoming Patreon builds over time, and the full flowchart will also be available to everyone in the complete Shelter game. 
• a bunch of new shadowy sprites for Alon's barkstory section
• a bunch of new barkgrounds with variations and addons
• a new music piece from Hughhh
• fixed bugs and typos
• new bugs and typos

...aaaand because of a bunch of extra technical work I've done during development of Patreon build v42, you also get this already, ahead of time:

• brand new custom made quick menu with new icons and stuff!
• updated music gallery
• cut the build size by a hecking half by converting all of my visual files to webp format. I tested and readjusted everything as best as I could, but if you still encounter a crash or bug somewhere, please let me know on our Discord #bug-reports
• enabled scrolling through the PATHS with keyboard arrow keys, and added clickable arrows for android users. Also, started work on visual indicators of what choices you've made in the ongoing playthrough (wip unfinished feature)

In case you haven't played build v40, this is how you get to the new content:

• finish all three routes (Burry, Rune and Max)
• witness Rune's Mana Balls (don't whack him in the Early Morning)
• everything afterwards has to be done in the same playthrough. You should have a new conversation with Alon in the Early Morning. When you progress to Noon, he will appear again when you talk to Rune. Choose "Don't object". Progress all the way to the Evening and witness the scenes there. Choose to be passive.

Please keep all conversations about the new content to #patreon-spoilers-v41 on discord

Report bugs and typos on #patreon-bugs-typos

Enjoy!

Awoo,

Raus Vuffski

EDIT: If you're experiencing an error where character dialogues lack textbox background art when you load old saves, you may want to start the game from scratch and skip to those parts instead, on a fresh playthrough. I cut Shelter's size from half a GB to a quarter by changing png and jpg files to webp, and some old variables in old saves don't agree with that. It's an issue that concerns only old saves, and new players shouldn't experience anything like that at all.