Yep. I found that long after I posted the message, because I was working through all the tutorials.
There is a fix for this problem in the latest dev version. Install instructions are in the OP in this thread, you only need to download the code ~40MB. You won't have to start a new game, your existing saves should work fine.
With dev version the farmhand will automatically clean the cow periodically.
I would not expect lactation to harm her endurance.
The combat can be a bit tough I'll grant you... I still have to go back to look up which types of attacks will create what kinds of effects against specific defenses to plan accordingly. That said, it's really not that bad once you've got good gear, stats, and some special techniques in. You can easily be doing 80+ damage with your killing blow if you set it up right which will take down nearly any foe. Bringing potions along to heal you or to remove debuffs and the like can be pretty critical for the tougher fights as well. There are more than 3 enemies in the fogs and so far there are only a few of them I haven't managed to defeat yet. So it's definitely possible to succeed with it but I agree it doesn't ever seem to become trivial no matter how strong you become.
Where is this? I just downloaded the latest patch but don't see any such option from the main screen.
On the main page under the installation instructions, did you make sure you have both of the files it indicated? That sounds like the most likely issue to me.
I'll try to reproduce under different circumstances and see if I can get exact steps for reproduction.
Sounds like you downloaded an older version of the code. Did you get the master branch instead of master-ia?
Found the problem and the solution. turns out I only updated half of my game (media-side) and not the actual dev code where this is already fixed it looks like (my bad!). In the default code, if you perform the Oviparity surgery on a girl, then perform Permanent Lactation surgery on them afterwards, they will decay Endurance permanently. Thanks ImperatorAugustusTertius for the help and patience, and hopefully this helps others.
I got it from the "code" link in the developer version thread. Thought that's where I've been downloading it but maybe I'm wrong. Went through the git to download it this time which resolved it. thanks.
If anything, trait chance for common skills should be a bit higher than before. But it is random, so you might just be unlucky.i downloaded the latest dev build and am now at day 352 on easy custom start.
what I noticed is that the slaves now more often have no trails for commons skills, the farmhand does not wash itself and that I can not make cream. I will now restart again and try me on normal
great game
