Work has begun on numerous of the Contributor characters that have been submitted and vigorously drafted and vetted with help from the folks behind them, and I'm very happy with how they're turning out. With v0.5, they will be amazing sources of valuable items and equippables while also having their own unique TF scenes which are also shaping up to be very good.
The Cattle Ranch is set on arriving in v0.5 as well, with all the scenes and endings that it entails. Work will be done to add more RPG elements and rewards to the interactions outside of just wandering in and getting hit with a bimbo cow wife game over. You'll have to work for your smut this time.
While working on the Contributor characters is fun and it's awesome to interact with the community, it can also become overwhelming if a lot of folks keep filing submissions mid-update. Right now, this is a non-issue, but I'm putting a hard deadline for the day after next week's devlog (February 7th) for submissions for this update. Any characters submitted after that date will be pushed to v0.6.
Along with this, after v0.5 I will be doing a comprehensive overhaul of the Contributor tier and likely adding a fourth, higher tier to give the character reward to. This change will only apply to new joiners, and anyone who is a member before the change rolls around will still be able to submit a full character + quest. And of course this may get scrapped on the design floor, nothing is set in stone at this moment.