u/MightyTywinW

Hey everyone,

Following up on the early preview I posted a month ago. Quite a bit has come together since then, so here's a quick update.

Grandparents are working properly now, and the family tree goes further than that. Your previous character's siblings become your aunts and uncles when you take over as your kid, and their children become your cousins. They each get their own section in the relationships screen with the right labels and their own profile pages, so opening an aunt actually opens an aunt, which was the tricky part. They age, they die, and they carry across saves and generations like the rest of your family. Everyone is pulled from your actual bloodline rather than generated on the spot.

I also fixed something small that always bugged me: giving money to relatives was capped at $10,000 no matter how rich you were. It scales with your balance now.

As a bonus, I've been messing with a gun system on the side, which you can see in the screenshots. The black market arms dealer only sells antiques and melee weapons in the base game, so I added actual firearms to it, and a murder option that depends on owning one. This part is much rougher than the family stuff. The shop menu still doesn't work right and none of the gun art is done, so what you're seeing is placeholder.

A few people asked how to download it or for a tutorial. There's nothing public yet, since things are still changing a lot and I'd rather not hand out something that breaks people's saves. When it's stable enough to share I'll post it properly.

Same as last time, I don't want to promise anything that isn't locked in yet. Cousins in particular are working on my end but I'm still testing them. I'll keep you all updated as things progress.

Feedback and ideas are welcome, and thanks to everyone who left suggestions on the last post. Family fostering, where a grandparent or aunt takes you in instead of the orphanage, is the one I keep thinking about, and it fits well now that the relatives actually exist. What else would you want to see?

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a mod that expands the family system in BitLife, and I wanted to share a quick early look. The goal is to make family deeper than what the base game gives us: more relatives, more relationships to manage, and a bigger family tree to play around with.

Right now I'm focused on getting grandparents (and more family members beyond them) properly showing up and integrated, as you can see in the screenshot. I'm also building it in a way that makes it easy to keep adding new features and content on top of it, so this is just the start.

This is very early stage, a lot is still changing, and I don't want to promise features that aren't locked in yet. I'll keep you all updated as things progress.

Feedback and ideas are welcome. What family features would you want to see?