• There are two Custom Maker grand prizes, type chosen by the winners.
• One can be won through entering on the site thread and another through sharing on social media.
• There are additional participation and runner up prizes for all entrants!
• Only first time custom maker owners are eligible to win the grand prizes this time, though anyone can participate for the other prizes!
• The winners will be announced on site once the giveaway concludes and winners are drawn.
  

 
They can be obtained in the following ways:

• Anniversary Daily Quest: "The Pearl Gala"
• Agnes' Daily Gift Quest
• Officiator's Official Token Exchange Quest
• Random Events
• Random Alchemy
• Starry Night Minigame
• Adventuring
• Participate in the Pearl Gala Avatar Contest
  

NOTES

• Regardless of voting outcome, we'll be mindful of the pricing on monthly item totals in order to stay consistent with the discounts that have typically been offered.
• Option #3 means the creation of a different chest for just the clothing , with the new chest containing only clothing.
• Feel free to suggest your own ideas if the poll options don't quite cover what you would prefer.
• These three options are compiled from what we've seen most frequently on the Suggestion Forums and are also the options that are most feasible for us!
  

DATABASE UPDATE STATUS
We're still working on fixing bugs related to recent updates as well as proceeding with testing of additional system updates we're working on. We'll be keeping everyone posted if a new update is being pushed to the site with potential new bugs appearing as a result.

DAPPERVOLK 4TH ANNIVERSARY
It's Dappervolk's Anniversary month! We're excited to have some mini festivities for our 4th year with new items, pets, and also returning anniversary items! Thank you for your support all this time, we look forward to many more years here with everyone in our community.

VAER REEF BALANCING UPDATE
Our preparations and work on content for the Vaer Reef Update is still underway! We'll be sharing teasers here and there when we're ready.

UPCOMING NEWS POLLS
Last month, we discovered a fix we wanted to make before starting polls, which was fixed late in the month. We'll be beginning a series of polls with various topics this month!

THE FROG GATHERING EVENT
Event Ends at 11:59PM DVT June 8th, 2024

• This is a gathering event to help boost the community's initial frog coins.
• Gather Tadpole Tokens by finding gatherables around the site.
• Water other users' frog buddies in order to grow their pond plants.
• Alchemize Tadpole Tokens to receive Frog Coins!
  

This has been one of our first potato sink focused updates, so we'd like to share some plans as well as discussions with everyone about it. There have been many ideas posted about different kinds of potato sinks and mechanics we can try to balance the Trades Market, here's a short list of some key types we'll be exploring in future updates.

Additional Incremental Potato Sinks

• These are normally tied to a themed content drop of some kind similar to the Frog update.
• The idea behind this type of sink is that it tackles the max potatoes that can be earned through site mechanics daily and helps stabilize Market prices that way.
• We have several future plans for sinks of this type and are closely monitoring feedback in regards to how it's presented and how it feels in this update so far.
  

Large Sum Potato Sinks

• This includes any items sold in shops for a very high flat potato sale price.
• We don't currently have shop stock of this type anywhere, which is something we're planning to add in the future!
  

Mechanic Tax Potato Sinks

• These are potato fees for using various parts of the site, ranging from more cosmetic things to convenience based mechanics to taxes or fees on different areas of the game. 
• There are a multitude of possibilities with this sink type which we're excited to explore and will be mindfully planning with future feature updates as well as new features.
  

Co-op Donation Potato Sinks
These could help unlock new features such as new content in shops, new NPC's etc and require the community to chip in potatoes until fulfilled. We have some ideas on how to implement this with future content drops!

UPDATE PLANS
Here is an overview of the two parts of this update.

PART ONE

• New Frog Pond Area
• Paulie the Frog's Arrival
• Paulie's Trolley Shop
• "Paulie's Dream" Daily Quest
  

PART TWO - UPCOMING!

• Arrives between May 20th-25th
• Gathering Event for participation trophy and additional frog coins
• Additional clothing items added to Paulie's Shop
• More Pet Species added
  

Between May 20th - May 25th we'll be releasing part two of the frog pond content! We're parcelling it out in part due to some php related bugs and in part to also test out smaller but more frequent content updates. The frog pond will also get new content and stories periodically to replenish the potato sink!

• Speak to the First Mate at the Shipwreck to begin the quest "The Captain Behind the Curtain"
• There are 5 quests in total, to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 quests will be repeatable, allowing for progression and accumulation of currency.
• The Neat Ship Shop is stocked with Aeolin items and will be open all month, taking Sand Dollars as currency!
• Other than quests, Sand Dollars can also be obtained through Random Encounters, Adventuring, and Vaer Sea Forage.
  

FROG UPDATE STATUS
We had a slight delay on our frog undertakings, which is why the froggening will officially begin at the end of this week!

DATABASE UPDATE STATUS
Our codebase updates are progressing steadily, last month we pushed 2 different updates and worked on various fixes for bugs that appeared. We're currently working on the last two upgrades which we're testing internally. We're aiming to do the updates this month, after which we'll be very up to date and have a more secure codebase!

Note that some aspects of the upgrades may require a longer than usual maintenance to go through the whole database. We'll be keeping everyone in the loop on when/if that happens!

UPCOMING NEWS POLLS
Last month, we tried out a different bundling method for pet hatches in the monthly shops. After gathering feedback diligently, we're planning to host a poll about which options are prefered so we can keep it in mind for future monthly shops with pets.

We're also planning on a poll to ask if our community would prefer to not see forum game threads on the latest forum activity box on the front page, as well as other more lore or content related polls!

VAER REEF BALANCING UPDATE
Our artists are getting to work on assets this month for the Vaer Reef balancing update which will include all rebalancing and new content as well as the affection quests and an additional story's end quest. We'll keep everyone posted on our progress!