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Note: This mod is still in development so there may be minor bugs. Please report any you find so I can fix them!
HuMilk Co lets you run female colonists (and prisoners or slaves) as a milk herd. Milk lactating pawns for food, gather different types of milk based on xenotype, and breed docile "hucows" that happily give more.
Milking
- Any pawn with an Animals skill of 3 or higher can milk a lactating humanlike. It shows up as its own task under the Handling work type, so you can assign it just like any other colony job.
- A milker walks up to the target, spends a moment working, and collects the milk on the floor.
- Milk refills on its own over roughly six in-game hours, so a herd can be milked repeatedly through the day.
- Bigger breasts hold more milk, and anything that boosts a pawn's milk production rate increases both how much they hold and how fast they refill.
Milk as a resource
- All milk is a real, stackable item you can eat, cook with, sell, or store. It rots like other food.
- Meals cooked with milk carry its effect, so a good cook can turn your herd's output into buffs for the whole colony.
- Each xenotype produces a unique milk with its own effects worth different amounts.
Xenotype milk effects
Drinking milk from a xenotype grants a temporary effect tied to that xenotype:
| Milk | Effect |
|---|---|
| Human | Plain, cheap, nutritious. |
| Genie | Faster work and research, but you feel pain more sharply. |
| Highmate | Lifts mood, improves social impact, less likely to start fights. |
| Hussar | Faster movement and melee dodging, but a ravenous appetite. |
| Neanderthal | Faster immunity, reduced bleeding. |
| Pigskin | Cheap and filling, slightly sour. |
| Dirtmole | Faster mining and drilling, sluggish in bright daylight. |
| Impid (Spicy) | Faster movement, fire resistance, warmth. |
| Waster (Toxic) | Comforting to wasters; toxic and mood-draining to everyone else. |
| Yttakin | Better animal handling and cold tolerance. |
| Sanguophage (Blood) |
Restores hemogen for sanguophages; unsettling to normal humans. |
Custom Xenotypes (Optional Mods)
| Milk | Effect |
|---|---|
| Molong | Calms the drinker and can snap them out of a mental break. |
| Geist | Faster reflexes and melee, but much weaker to EMP. |
| Half-Foot | Faster crafting and movement, worse in social and combat. |
| Bogleg | Faster healing and immunity, better haggling, foul taste and mood hit. |
| Stoneborn | Faster construction and mining, mood boost, slow and heavy. |
Aphrolactone
- A new research project unlocks aphrolactone, a lactation-inducing drug, which is crafted at a drug lab from human milk and neutroamine.
- Injecting it starts lactation in anyone, doubles milk production, and sharply raises sex drive so the sex need drains far faster.
- It is addictive. While an addict is satisfied, they produce extra milk; once their need runs dry they suffer withdrawal and may force themselves on a nearby pawn, repeating about once a day until they recover.
- Long-term use builds tolerance, requiring more drug to keep the effect going.
The Hucow trait
Give a pawn the Hucow trait and they become livestock:
- +50% milk production, and they are willing to be milked with no restraints.
- They can't do most work — only hauling, cleaning, and childcare.
- Their recreation need is effectively removed: they are content as long as they are looked after.
- They must be milked at least once a day or they suffer Sore Udders.
Willing and unwilling milking
- A pawn is willing if they are a Hucow, are on Aphrolactone, or have the Milking quirk.
- Unwilling pawns can only be milked if they are bound — restrained with RJW or onahole bondage gear, downed, anesthetized, or otherwise rendered helpless.
- Force-milking an unwilling pawn costs you: they resent the milker and take a mood hit.
Mood and thoughts
Milking comes with its own feelings — Freshly Milked Hucows get a big mood boost, while sore, unmilked udders, leaking milk, and being forced all drag mood down. Pawns on Aphrolactone get a pleasure mood boost from being milked.
Ideology precept
With Ideology active, colonies gain a Human Milk Consumption precept with five options — Abhorred, Disliked, Don't Care, Desired, and Essential. Colonists react to drinking milk accordingly, and an "Essential" colony suffers if it goes a week without any.
Settings
In the mod options you can tune:
- Milk units per litre of breast volume.
- Minimum milk required before milking is allowed.
- Required Animals skill.
- How long a milking session takes.