Save, then export your save somewhere else for safe-keeping. Yes, there is one more step then normal but we are talking about a free game. Just like in the bad days of having a 486 and having to use boot-disks for Wing Commander (and pretty much every other game I had).
Yeah, the issue with Twine is it stores save data in your browser storage, which disappears when you clear your cache. So just save it off as a file and you should be good.
Why is this browser based? every time I clear my history I loose my game ffs.
It's a trade-off, there are some issues due to being browser based, but also as a result, many people can play it who wouldn't otherwise want to download and run a separate app.
I need to learn to code too so i can create new image packs. That or i'm gonna canibalize one of the existing one
You wouldn't even need to learn to code! The modding process is very very easy, and you could start just by replacing pictures in the game and creating a mod pack based on that. A lot of the game is written in very plain text which is quite easy to change. Feel free to join the modders in the Discord, they are starting to become bigger experts than me on the game, and can provide a lot of pointers.
Can the female npcs get pregnant or is that content reserved for the main character?
For now it's reserved for the main character.
the actual npc generator is done in javascript, i looked at it briefly and it seemed quite simple. the PITA seems to be working with the .twee files, harlowe seems to be a mix between a markup language and a pseudo-programming language in where everything is baked together.
you should ask in the official discord wheter someone is doing something or planning to do something with the npcs.
This is good advice, the Discord has dedicated modding channels and myself and the other modders are willing to help newbies out.
The "language" is very easy to pick up, designed for writers and non-coders rather than techie types, so if you're afraid of coding, this might be a good first thing to dip your toe into.
any compressed version? 5gb is a bit much
Hoping
CRAZY X WIZARD does one at some point

but it's a lot of files to process.
These are the settings he used to do the compression, if anyone wants to try it out:
For your game, I used
UAGC by
megalol, the settings were Q80%img - Q50%vid - Audio Bitrate 45 KB/s and I left other settings on default.
It's a windows utility and I've only got a Mac, sadly.