Sins of the Flesh
Sins of The Flesh is an update for Cult of the Lamb released on January 16th, 2024 as Version 1.3.0. It revamped the follower system and added the new Sin mechanic, along with additional Rituals, Buildings, Follower Traits, and more.
Full Patch Notes
New Features
Doctrines on the newly included "Sin" section. All followers can only hold a certain number of points leading to a sin through rituals or some building interaction, after which they must be absolved to earn one Sin (you will know if they suddenly starts to float with their eyes black with red cross and a blackened face, much like the bishops and their followers). Failing to absolve them in time will result in you being forced to kill them off during a crusade with no way of resurrecting them.
There are a few new ritual such as cannibal ritual and nudist ritual (which all your followers get naked (with a leaf covering their crotch) and begin running around the Shrine. This counts as both an appointment for a mayflower leader, and a temporary vacation).
The Sins System
- Followers generate sin which can be used as a new currency! Sin can be generated from specific Sin rituals and buildings. Spend it on upgrading the Temple, removing the cooldown on purgatory, re-indoctrinating followers and building structures.
A new feature called "Sins" is added to all followers after you get the first Doctrine on the newly included "Sin" section. All followers can only have a certain number of points leading to a sin through rituals or some building interaction, after which they must be absolved to earn one Sin (you will know if they suddenly starts to float with their eyes black with red cross and a blackened face, much like the bishops and their followers). Failing to absolve them in time result in you being forced to kill them off during a crusade.
New Rituals
- Rite of Lust - Followers will dance in their birthday suits around the shrine. Choose your favorite Follower to become the Mayflower Leader for half a day! This Follower will generate Sin. Followers will not work for half a day, instead they will prance around naked.
- Rite of Wrath - Followers will cause havoc on the base! Choose a follower to become the Wrath Leader. This follower will generate Sin.
- Gluttony of Cannibals - Choose a follower to be consumed by others. This will generate Sin.
- Sinner’s Pride - Choose a follower to absorb the Sin of all followers.
- Discipleship - Choose a level 10 follower to become a Disciple, in your inner circle of true believers.
Buildings
- Drinkhouse - Craft drinks at the drinkhouse for your followers. Once a follower consumes their delicious little treat beverage, they will generate Sin. There is also chance to become Befuddled. They may need a little tactical spew to keep the festivities going.
- Drinkhouse Level 2 - Queue more drinks.
- Mating Tent - You asked for it! When two Followers love each other very much, they may enter the tent, and find an egg afterwards...
- Hatchery - Place eggs in the Hatchery to make them hatch. What will come out?
- Drum Circle - Play a drum circle mini game for a chosen follower to generate Sin.
- Tailor building to craft and assign clothing to followers.
- Bigger silo storage buildings for fertilizer and seeds.
- Janitor station 2 building.
- Seed Storage - Followers will collect seeds from this building and deposit them into Seed Silo’s.
- Fertilizer Storage - Followers will collect fertilizer from this building and deposit them into Fertilizer Silo’s.
- Disciple Collection Shrine - Allows Disciples to deposit devotion from other buildings into a central building.
- Disciple Boost Shrine - Allows Disciples to pray that eventually fills up a shrine to give the Lamb a boost for the next crusade.
Chore Levelling Up
- When cleaning a poop/vomit/burnt or cleaning out an outhouse, XP will be generated.
- Once the chore XP bar reaches full, the Lamb will unlock a new mop. There are as many as 10 (!!!) mops to unlock.
- The higher level the mop, the faster the Lamb can clean.
Poop variations
- Golden Poop - Drops gold when cleaned. Drops gold/gold bars when harvesting a crop fertilized with golden poop.
- Glow Poop - Attracts fireflies at night.
- Devotion Poop - Generates devotion when cleaned. Crop fertilized with devotion poop will generate devotion over time.
- Massive Poop - Drops multiple poops when cleaned. Followers can get stuck in the massive poop
- Poop pet - Drops a poop pet when harvested, only when the poop is from a follower with the poop skin.
- Rainbow poop - Gives 5 times the chore XP when harvested. Instantly grows a crop when fertilized with rainbow poop.
Lore Tablets
- 15 Lore Tablets to collect across the game!
- Hover for locations of Tablets: 10 are located in a special dungeon room. 2 are located in a dungeon graveyard. 3 are located in special NPC encounter rooms.
Traits
- Disciple Trait - Can re-educate Dissenters and use special Shrines.
- Jerk Trait - Jeers at the lamb. Chance to steal Lamb’s gold. Will tell the Lamb they suck after a failed crusade.
- Hot Tempered Trait - May start a fight with other followers.
- Royal Pooper Trait - Only poops golden poops. Say that 5 times fast.
- Scared Trait - Runs away from the player. Can be bullied/reassured.
- Terrified Trait - Sits in the corner of base and cries.
- Lustful Trait - Increases odds of mating in the mating tent.
- Celibate Trait - Decreases odds of mating in the mating tent.
- Fashionable Trait - Generates Devotion 20% faster when wearing a unique outfit.
- Hedonist Trait - Decreases productivity by 10% but increases Sin generation by 15%.
- Ascetic Trait - Decreases Sin generation by 10% but increases productivity by 15%.
- Virtuous Trait - Produces Sin 20% slower.
- Unrepentant - Produces Sin 15% faster.
- Doctrinal Extremist Cult Trait - Choose to generate Sin from the Confession Booth instead of Loyalty.
- Violent Extremist Cult Trait - Chance of Sin appearing as a reward from mini-bosses.
- Fertility Cult Trait - Followers hatched in the Cult will be born with some Sin
- Allegiance Cult Trait - Followers hatched in the Cult will be born with a high Loyalty level.
- Dissented Followers have a chance to show up inside the dungeon and fight the player.
Twitch Integration Update
- Added outfits for viewer followers! Viewers can now select a snazzy outfit in the follower builder after they win a follower raffle.
- Added mobile support. You can now use all of the integration’s features on your mobile devices as well!
- Added additional Help/Hinder outcomes
Changes
- Follower level is now capped at 10 - Followers at max level can can still participate in any interactions or Cult events that would normally increase their loyalty, but their loyalty bar will not appear anymore.
- Balanced the Enrichment Ritual.
- Added prompt to signify that sacrificing followers in certain locations are permanent .
- Laplace Dice is now a single use relic.
- Paean demon will no longer give hearts whilst wearing the Berseker or Fragile Fortitude Fleeces.
- Rebalancing commandment stones from levelling of Followers.
- Remove necklace option.
- Hide/Show necklace option.
- Skip sermons.
- Followers level capped at level 10.
- Dissenters who have left the cult have a chance to show up in the dungeon and fight the Lamb.
- Achievements menu that displays unlocked achievements.
- Fixed confusion with end of level bonus items
- Leader tent now available in all game modes
Bug Fixes
- Fixed demons not joining in the final fight.
- Fixed certain follower questlines
- Fixed lighting issues with blood moon ritual
- Fixed Morgue and Crypt issues
- Fixed birds displaying above the base in photo mode
- Fixed certain weapons not showing on crusades
Sinful DLC Pack
- 6 tailor unlocked outfits
- 6 new decorations
- 5 new Follower skins: Tiger, Llama, Hammerhead, Ladybug, Sphynx
- 1 player fleece
- As an addition : 2 tailor outfits for Heretic pack, and 2 tailor outfits for Cultist pack.
Other Features Not Included in Patch Notes
Lamb Headquarters:
The size of the base was increased by 4 diagonal tiles.
Drinkhouse:
A type of building called "Drinkhouse" is added in this update. You can make various type of alcohol for the followers to drink when the bell is rang, adding some progress to sin. Certain alcohol requires unique farm items which is included in this update, and some of them will affect the follower once they drank it, with a 75% chance of becoming befuddled (inebriated) for a while (they may try to break the items nearby or are more likely to start fights).
Mating Tents and Offspring:
A new building called "Mating Tent" can be built to have 2 follower entering and returning with an egg. With the right compatibility and at the cost of a sin, you can select up to two traits from the followers to pass onto the egg. There is a low chance of the egg being golden, which allows up to 4 traits instead.
Be careful and quickly bring the egg to the the hatchery though, as they will crack if not placed at the hatchery.
Disciples:
You can also appoint a follower to become your disciple through a sin ritual, whom can bolster your overall strength during your crusade with the Shrine of Deception. Goes well with Golden Skull Necklace.
Blunderbuss:
A new weapon type called "Blunderbuss" will be added to the arsenal of Weapon with 3-shell bullet system. It periodically reloads any spent bullet, dealing a spread attack with piercing range.
New Knowledge:
During crusades, there is a chance of running into a hidden tunnel leading to a giant blood altar. These drops a unique Ancient Tablet upon sacrificing of a heart of any kind which unlocks new knowledges. There are also notes that can be found in resource rooms during crusades.
Follower Clothing Customization
A new building called "Tailor" allows you to customize and create clothing for your followers to wear. There are normal clothing (which all followers can wear), and there are unique clothing (which only one follower can wear at a time). Aym, Baal and Sozo, all of whom are unique, cannot wear these clothing however.
Some DLC also includes unique clothing.
You can also re-customize the followers with a Sin on the indoctrination area.
More follower animation:
Followers have more animation when they are idle or interacting with other followers. They might fight (which you will be notified), which you may choose to stop as there's a chance of a follower dying to it.
Temple Customization:
Temple's layout can be upgraded cosmetically with Sins, such as within the coloured glass window at the preaching stand there is a depiction of seemingly the 2 angel like beings who float beside ??? in post game.
(As well there is another temple interior shown within the steam trailer which depicts a temple with skull and bone decorations, large red crown skulls lining the walls as well; this may hint at 2 possible upgrades to the temple.)
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Confirmed New Follower Forms
Obtainable
- Badger
- Ladybug - DLC exclusive
- Llama - DLC exclusive
- Tiger - DLC exclusive
- ?? (Grub)
- Lemur
- Sphynx Cat - DLC exclusive
- Hammerhead Shark - DLC exclusive
- Schnauzer
Special
- Mushroomo
- Sozo
- ?? (Black Worm)
lamb splitting up fight between ladybug and badger
Hammerhead follower (befuddled) with new seal follower
new tiger follower, encountered in crusade after being damned.
Sozo follower shown bottom left, sphynx cat top right, llama bot left, badger bot right, ladybug bot right
Mushroomo follower encnountered during the new sozo questline.
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