Happy Holidays~~

Gameplay Changes

• D25

• Islands are now available all season

• short stories and scary stories have been combined into a single menu (Can you tell me a story?)

• added way to see poems Monika has previously written for you (Can I read one of your poems again?)

• hair ties selector now filters hairties based on the current hairstyle.

• some special greetings will now be shown even if a type-based farewells are used. this is to avoid certain greetings from never being shown if users never use the random goodbyes.

• farewells that trigger a specific greeting may not trigger that greeting anymore if too much time has passed

• new mug art

• gifting the rose may result in a kiss

• limited the yuri glitch greeting to only show once

Topic Changes

Additions

• monika_aurora
• monika_songwriting
• monika_catch22
• monika_snowmen

Changes

• more daydreams in monika_daydream
• monika_mountain, monika_backpacking, monika_outdoors - derandomed during winter

Spritepack Changes

Additions

• Sweater by @Orcaramelo and @moniking
• White and Navy Blue Dress by @Velius94
• Winter Jacket by @Olliesama (finale)

Updates

• Hairstyles by Orcaramelo - removed the twintails prop from the braided ponytail.
• Shell Bikini by Orcaramelo - bikini exprop added

Fixes

• typofixes

• base art fixes

• fixed ear rose clipping over hand in leaning pose

• fixed outstanding issues with the Dark Mode UI

• removed unintended square in extras menu

• MASUndoActionRules can no longer have Nones, which should prevent related crashes

API Changes

• Queued topics that trigger on startup are delayed an idle cycle. (#5052)

• Type-based greetings now respect a timeout option (persistent._mas_greeting_type_timeout) see #5024 for more info

• should_override_type added to MASGreetingRules. This allows a greeting to bypass type checks when being considered for selection on startup. Certain typed greetings will always have higher precedence over greetings that bypass type checks.

• MASPoem class, contains poems as well as metadata about them. (See zz_poems)

• sprite checker validates extend lines now

• mas_clothes_changes accepts additional parameters

• mas_songs.getVolume returns actual_volume instead of context.secondary_volume

• addReaction takes exclusion keys, related to D25 gifting. (See zz_reactions for more info)

globals

• persistent._mas_last_kiss - datetime of the last kiss from Monika

functions

• mas_timePastSince - checks if current time is past a given time and timedetla.
• mas_pastOneDay - like mas_timePastSince but for one day
• mas_is18Over - checks if the player is over 18. uses _mas_player_bday, so it requires the user to select an appropriate calendar date first.
• mas_getPlayerAge - gets player age. uses _mas_player_bday.
• mas_canShowRisque - see the function for more info (definitions)
• mas_lastSeenLastYear - checks if a given eventlabel was last seen last year
• mas_isFirstSeshPast - checks if first session is past given date
• mas_isD25Pre - checks if given date is in d25 season but before d25
• mas_hasUnlockedClothesWithExprop - checks if there are any unlocked selectors for clothes with a given exprop
• mas_getGiftedDates - gets dates that a given gift was gifted on (via gift reaction label)
• mas_lastGiftedInYear - checks if a gift (via gift reaction label) was gifted in a given year

history-related functions (see zz_history)

• mas_HistWasFirstValueIn
• mas_HistGetFirstYearOfValue
• mas_HistVerifyAll_k
• mas_HistVerifyLastYear_k

Special Thanks

• @multimokia - D25
• @Orcaramelo, @Velius94 - various art assets
• @frostcattooo - new poem / d25 topics