October SS Reward #2 - Ample Chests 0.3!
While the ghouls and goblins have been playing the streets, we've been deep in the code mines, hacking away at numbers and variables until they made some delicious gaming magic! Or at least a fun way to spend an afternoon.
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UPDATE: New quick fix version 0.3.1 is out - use these files instead of the old links:
Download Links: PC | Mac | Android
One thing that has become clear is that old saves (from version 0.2) can cause issues with the game, so if you're coming from 0.2 we highly recommend starting a new game. (We put in a 'skip the intro' button to help facilitate a faster re-start of the game)
Bug fixes:
Fixed issue with pirates not leaving after being kracked
Fixed problem where crew could not be selected upon leaving port
Fixed problem where system may crash by mistakenly looking for pirates to Max Krack
Fixed missing sfx when pirates leave.
Thanks to everyone who let us know of the existing issues - please let us know if you're still facing issues with the new version!
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A mere one month after the release of Ample Chests 0.2 - we asked you, the patrons what you wanted to see in the next iteration. After some pretty resounding poll results we have crafted the next step in fleshing out this game from the skeleton we constructed last month.
We highly recommend players start a new game to enjoy all the new content that has been added. We included a skip button for the intro to get you into the game proper ASAP for this reason. As always with new release there may be bugs, so let us know any problems you have in the comments, DM or over on Discord.
The new content includes (but is not limited to):
Three new crew! Each with their own staged transformation journey.
Capturable pirates! Now with the right tools, a pirate encounter could lead to more tactics, surprise transformations, or just some cold hard cash.
A new feature - Max Kracked, wherein the crew find themselves caught in a wave of idol magic so powerful they'll grow bigger than ever before with special animations!
Over 80 new animations
Over 500 new lines of dialogue
A new currency, found only by Max Kracking your crew!
New locations - the Den of Depravity, and the Brig!
New interactable character "Mysterious Stranger!"
A new powerup - the net! (How else would you catch pirates?)
A new travel hazard - the storm!
Reworking of the difficulty of the pirate encounters to make plank use more important
Reworking of many of the menu UI elements
New sfx and music tracks
Skip button to avoid the tutorial
And more!
With October coming to a close, I'd like to give a massive thanks to everyone who as a patron this month - and double thanks to everyone who voted in the polls. They gave the us direction that became the basis to what Ample Chests 0.3 ended up becoming!
The current plan for November is a new standalone animation - we'll let you know as the pieces fall into place!
Comments (67)
I could spend hours on it, but it's a shame there isn't a male character who gradually transforms into a woman, like Trevor in Chapter 1.
Do you think we could ever get a compilation video of all the transformations?
We'll likely do it as a secondary reward at some point.
I don't know if it's just me or not, but once I want to go in the final island it says that I need to bring them to the Den of Depravity (even if tey're fully green)... I even tried to max 3 crew members but I still can't go Why?
That should be fixed. Can you check that you have the latest version of the game 0.3.1 and aren't using an old save (sometimes that can bring over old errors).
On the android version, I cant access the building to recruit new crew. It comes up with an error message
Thanks for flagging that Ryan, we'll DM you some details.
Does Simone have a Max Island? I can't find it.
She sure does 😊 so I don't spoil it for others we'll DM you a hint.
So if I may offer a suggestion, can you give us a way to replay the special expansion scenes and please can you create some permanent reprecussions for it like an enlarged uncracked size and a larger cracked size potentially getting back up to that point?
Thanks for the suggestions for AC. We're not currently working on an AC update but I'll put them into the suggestions list for later 😎
i think i found a bug when swapping around crew members a bunch and now one slot is always filled even though it only has two people on my ship's crew. it force me to only use two crew members once the bug happened even though it says there's 3 when leaving the port.
Thanks for flagging that. We'll DM you for a little more detail and then we'll take a look. 💪
I know you're probably not going to have you this, but I have a a idea if you ever come around to this type of game again since you made special animations for the idol to max out the crew. Maybe at some point the pirates that you catch have a special animation where they go on the extreme side if this game ever gets updated again ex : your old crewmate get muscles but to big to move
All ideas from patrons are welcome, can't promise anything but we genuinely do like hearing ideas from this community. There is definitely scope for some interesting things with the pirates.
Another Text mistake I noticed when picking up Mixy from exploring she says "Ah, look who shoed up." unless you meant for her to sound a little drunk I'm pretty sure you're missing a "w". I can understand how it was missed though. I know I've read that dozens of times before I noticed.
Thank you for spotting that, you are right and I have fixed it in the backend. 100% we read these things so many times that we just don't see it. At least this was an easy fix, its so much more annoying when its in a graphic.
Thanks for posting the update - I was suffering from the bug with the crew not being able to be added, so I'm thrilled that this is fixed!
Very pleased to hear that 😊
oh yeah not the *biggest* deal since i wasn't very far, but the game freaked out on me when i tried to continue my save from 0.2. here's the traceback: I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 54, in script call screen button_menu File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute screen button_menu(): File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute screen button_menu(): File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 101, in execute vbox: File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 139, in execute use fancy_button( File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 144, in "Available" if not crew_hired["c3"] else ("Active" if crew_locations["c3"] == "Ship" else "In Port"), ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ KeyError: 'c3' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 54, in script call screen button_menu File "renpy/ast.py", line 2231, in execute self.call("execute") ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/ast.py", line 2195, in call return renpy.statements.call(method, parsed, *args, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/statements.py", line 379, in call return method(parsed, *args, **kwargs) ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 695, in execute_call_screen store._return = renpy.call_screen(name, *args, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/exports/statementexports.py", line 348, in call_screen rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse="screen", type="screen", roll_forward=roll_forward) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/ui.py", line 304, in interact rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2219, in interact repeat, rv = self.interact_core( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ preloads=preloads, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...<4 lines>... **kwargs, ^^^^^^^^^ ) # type: ignore ^ File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2757, in interact_core root_widget.visit_all(lambda d: d.per_interact()) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all d.visit_all(callback, seen) ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all d.visit_all(callback, seen) ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all d.visit_all(callback, seen) ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 503, in visit_all callback(self) ~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2757, in root_widget.visit_all(lambda d: d.per_interact()) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 514, in per_interact self.update() ~~~~~~~~~~~^^ File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 715, in update self.screen.function(**self.scope) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute screen button_menu(): File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute screen button_menu(): File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 101, in execute vbox: File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 139, in execute use fancy_button( File "renpy/parameter.py", line 513, in evaluate value = renpy.python.py_eval(v, locals=scope) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/python.py", line 1292, in py_eval return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "renpy/python.py", line 1285, in py_eval_bytecode return eval(bytecode, globals, locals) ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 144, in "Available" if not crew_hired["c3"] else ("Active" if crew_locations["c3"] == "Ship" else "In Port"), ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^ KeyError: 'c3' Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 AMD64 Ren'Py 8.4.1.25072401 Ample Chests 0.3 Mon Nov 3 23:47:52 2025
Given how much we updated we recommend people don't use saves as they seem to be causing issues. We've added a skip function into the intro to get you into the game proper ASAP for this reason.
looove the update, hoping to see more preg and lactation in the future... and emilie she's great
I'm so pleased to hear you are loving the update, I love it too!
Damn this was quick. Great work!
Thank you, BE Grove worked his tail off to get the fixes out as soon as he could.
Possible future update: Being able to leave a girl to explore an island and then retrieve them at a later time.
Not entirely sure what you're suggesting here - you can currently leave girls on islands and pick them up later - the only limit is that you can't leave them when going to port, which is structural to the game.
I've been enjoying the game but with everything done and trying to go to the final destination, the game says I can't head out without visiting the Den of Depravity. I've got everyone maxed out and all green but I'm softlocked out of the ending 🥲
Good to know, I've got a new version being released shortly, hopefully it'll help with that.
I downloaded it on my phone, it's an Apple app, but it won't open.
Unfortunately our games don't work on iOS devices (though we wish they would Apple don't allow us to).
And I had zero glitches. The game ran perfectly. I have an Alienware Laptop that I play it on if that makes a difference.
Just finished the game. It was fun. I can now definately say that Belle and now Simone, are my two favorite animated characters.
Good for Belle to have some competition 😎 glad you enjoyed the game.
Messing with this and I have to say, storms are just flat out annoying. I get you are trying to justify the planks and ship health mechanic but randomly deleting a chunk of health is not a good solution. This is made worse by storms being active from the start, but you can't buy planks until further in. So your stuck relying on RNG for planks. As a suggestion if you really want to keep the storms. Maybe turn the storms into a minigame so you can avoid the damage? You could even reward players who escape unharmed with an item or something? Or, if you want it to be a hazard, give players a choice. If caught in a storm, players can choose to try and sail through the storm and risk taking damage (just use a random number generator to decide if they make it or not). Or hunker down and wait it out, triggering the idol on whoever is holding it
Yeah because the storms are out of chance without any warning, and I would like to have the chance to continue sailing with having 1 heart left on the ship, especially in the beginning of the game where you don't have any planks and you're trying to progress quickly towards unlocking Angry's Dock. The storms also sometimes hits you concurrently, it just doesn't feel very fair.
I may be one of many in this, but I keep having issues where the crew is going over max capacity, resulting in me being unable to have crew.
I also have that issue too, and I think it's because when we open the port's menu, with the pirates that we captured being part of our brig, it counts as the pirates we captured as being part of our crew.
With all the technical issues people are pointing out I figures I'd share a text one. In one if the conversations between Lyra and Ruby, Lyra says Captain check out this passage to which Ruby responds: No thanks, I prefer t' keep my eyes in the read world, not burried in books. I feel like she mean to say real world, also I'm pretty sure buried only has 1 "r".
Another text error I see is when Mixy is talking about the cows in her order. Ruby asks what she does exactly to witch Mixy replies Lactate, then Ruby follows up with "A norble profession, at least."
[code] I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/story_part_2/ac2_main_map.rpy", line 78, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call [Previous line repeated 9 more times] File "game/story_part_2/ac2_main_map.rpy", line 78, in script call File "game/story_part_2/port_cartography.rpy", line 240, in script call File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 54, in script File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 101, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 139, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 144, in KeyError: 'c3' -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "game/story_part_2/ac2_main_map.rpy", line 78, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call File "game/story_part_2/conversations.rpy", line 85, in script call [Previous line repeated 9 more times] File "game/story_part_2/ac2_main_map.rpy", line 78, in script call File "game/story_part_2/port_cartography.rpy", line 240, in script call File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 54, in script File "renpy/ast.py", line 2231, in execute File "renpy/ast.py", line 2195, in call File "renpy/statements.py", line 379, in call File "renpy/common/000statements.rpy", line 695, in execute_call_screen File "renpy/exports/statementexports.py", line 348, in call_screen File "renpy/ui.py", line 304, in interact File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2219, in interact File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2757, in interact_core File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all File "renpy/display/displayable.py", line 432, in visit_all File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 503, in visit_all File "renpy/display/core.py", line 2757, in File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 514, in per_interact File "renpy/display/screen.py", line 715, in update File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 99, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 101, in execute File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 139, in execute File "renpy/parameter.py", line 513, in evaluate File "renpy/python.py", line 1292, in py_eval File "renpy/python.py", line 1285, in py_eval_bytecode File "game/story_part_2/port_hire.rpy", line 144, in KeyError: 'c3' [/code]
i got the same thing any fixes
Love the game, thank you but on android the bame crashes everytime I go to hire crew. When i get caught by the storms the game also crashes so I can't repair my ship. Haven't had any bugs upto now on previous versions but having to quit the cane or rollback alot more
By any chance are you operating on a old save?
Happy Halloween everyone, and what a treat we have here. A fantastic update to the game and a lot of great animation. Hope Grove and Lady Grove take care of themselves. P.S will next months video be about NNN because if so hooooo-boy I loved the previous comics and vids, if not all good your content never misses.Love ya 😘
I'm really glad you enjoyed the game. We're doing our best to take care of ourselves we promise 🥰
Some Bugs I saw: - Like someone else commented, sometimes when you start exploring as soon as you get on the island it will say completed and you can collect a free treasure. - When I Upgraded Emilie to level four, after she was afflicted 4/4 I could travel to an island and select nar to if someone else should hold it and she would go beyond her level to 5 and even 6/4.
I haven't experienced the Emilie bug since the first time it happened but I figured I would try to break down what happened. Was playing on PC, had two explore able islands and the ship repair island unlocked. - The crew was Emilie 0/4, Minxy 0/3, & Lyra 0/4. Left port with Emilie holding the idol, she grew to 1/4. Explored the first island, the glitch happened where as soon as she was deployed it said complete. Collected my crew and treasure and set said for the second island. Hit a storm then she grew to 2/4. Explored thee next island without the glitch she hits another growth cycle bringing here up to 3/4. Left that island towards Port to unload and refresh the islands, hit another storm, this time the storm video played but the growth did not. After unloading I clicked to travel to the shipwrite island for a repair instead of asking who will hold the idol I got a message showing her affliction level was 4/4 would you like someone else hold the idol? I clicked Nar! After traveling I saw the clip of her growing from level four to level 5 followed by and on deck conversation where she didn't seem distracted at all. I fixed the ship and clicked to travel to the next island when the same message popped up showing she was 4/4 would you like to have someone else carry the idol. Again I clicked Nar! The ship moved I. Was hit by another storm and she grew again to what I believe was level 6 followed by an on deck conversation where she didn't seem super distracted. She had her elbows up and she was talking about visiting her family cause they'd never believe how big she got or something... I then tried to explore the island where I got a message she was Kracked and had to choose someone else.
Love the game and the new characters! Storms randomly happening...not so much. Already had a few times where my ship has got hit by lightning on the way to get my ship fixed, sinking it. I get the last version had no reason to go to the docks to get your ship fixed, but this feels like an over correction. Still enjoying the experience on whole!
I like that you added my suggestion for the storm mechanic, but is there any way to decrease the odds of it hitting? I've lost my ship 3 times before unlocking the island to buy planks, I have seriously gotten stuck in a storm 4/5 times I travel.
I second this. The storm is v annoying 😅
On Android I can't can't see the hiring crew at all. It's just a bunch of messed up texts of code and it's telling me to roll back or quit the game
This happened to me as well but that was on my old save files when I tried to try out the new content without making a new playthrough. Simply starting a new save fixes that specific issue. Annoying to start over but that's the fix I discovered.
Great works guys im just wondering if you you thought about going back to Change Deck that was also always a blast
Always nice to see Change Deck getting some love, its been a while since we've given it much attention.
Sometimes when you play the treasure mini game a glitch occurs that not only makes you instantly fail the game but also constantly makes the sound of the crane moving even after the game is over and it doesn't stop until you do something to trigger another sound (like giving a crew member the idol) sorry about any bad grammar English is my second language
Incredible work as always! The amount of extra progress made is amazing, really great work! Been playing for a couple of hours and i've noticed a couple of bugs, the main ones being... - This was the main one that prompted my comment. When i try to leave port to go exploring again and it asks what 3 crew (out of the 4 i currently have) i'd like to take with me, it will only let me select 2 but it says 3/3. Even with no one selected it says 1/3. I think it's an issue with capturing pirates. because i caught the first one, went to port, left again and the "select crew for this voyage" said 4/3. I kept playing to see if the issue would resolve itself did another round of exploring, was able to capture another pirate, returned to port, went the leave again and this time it says 5/3. So it seems like the captured pirates are being added onto the crew count. - Occasionally when I drop a member of the crew off at an island to go exploring, after doing so it will instantly say "Completed" without be having me to wait or go to another island and come back. To be honest this 'bug' is quite handy but i still thought i'd mention it as I know it's probaly not meant to do this. One last one I'm not sure if it is a bug or not, after catching pirate Penelope and having them hold the idol and doing their transformation they just disappeared from the brig. Not sure if i just missed some blue text on this one and that's supposed to happen. Playing on macbook if that helps. Let me know if you need anymore info :)
Same here. The last one isn't a bug tho, i think it's supposed to work that way: you either get the bounty or use them as idol bearers, one use each.
I don't know if you'll remember my comment from the 0.2 launch but I'm still having issues on my Pixel 6 Pro on android 16 even with 0.3s APK. Even tried another files app to install it and it's installing fine, but then still won't open 😭 really stuck now and was really holding out for 0.3 to see all this new stuff
Oh, did not expect this to come out this quick. You guys really cooked with this one.
Nooooo, I have to be at work for 12 hours!!! (T.T) WHYYYYYYY?!?!?
I know the feeling, I hope the work hours fly by 👍
you have to start a new game, it will show up in the new game
The net in the shop, recruiter agency and ship repair option at the dock all cause errors.
What are the errors you're getting? Did you start a new game or loading from an old save?
when i interract with the new update i keep getting "an exception has occured" is there something i did wrong
What platform are you using?