• 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.
  

DAPPERVOLK 5TH ANNIVERSARY
Our 5th Anniversary is coming up next month! We're excitedly preparing for this with new content and event fun times. Get ready for a sweet treat!

NEW CONTENT: PEDDLERS
We're steadily chugging along with progress on new content, particularly with our upcoming merchant town, which will alleviate some of the pressure on Nico's shop stocks as well as introducing new shops and reward pools to the game!

STAFF STATUS
Over the last while, some of our staff have been inundated with IRL circumstances which has preoccupied them, this has caused our presence on site to be a bit lacking. We're aware of this and while we regroup, are also working quietly in the background on our various work loads. We're hoping to kick things back into full gear as soon as we're able. Thank you very much for your understanding in the meantime!

• Speak to Lian at the Lotus Pavilion to begin the seasonal quest "A Drop in the Lake"
• There are 3 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• "The Lotus Festival" is a daily repeatable quest which can be completed 4 times per day.
• Lian's Temple Stall is open again for the month of April!
• Stocked are Signi's items, with 1 new item available!
• Signi's seasonal currency "Ceramic Scale" can be obtained from seasonal quests in the Lotus Pavilion as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

TRADESMARKET UPDATE STATUS
We're in final testing for the search engine update and are currently working on a new lot type, which will be followed by the custom and pet accessory markets.

FUTURE CONTENT
Our writing and art teams are hard at work on several new updates. These are being worked on concurrently at the moment, but we're not sure what will be finished for release first. Here are a few planned content updates we're currently working on!

• A new merchant's town with various new peddler NPC's
• Story and content updates to the Frog Pond
• Seasonal Deity Content for the remaining Deities that don't have questlines yet
• New Main Storyline planning
  

• Speak to Lula at the Spiralwood to begin the seasonal quest "Into the Spiralwood"
• There are 3 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• "Festival of the Slumbering Snail" is a daily repeatable quest which can be completed 4 times per day.
• Winding Shells are the currency for Lula's Festival Booth, obtained through seasonal event quests in the Spiralwood, Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Starry Night Minigame, Adventuring Rewards
  

TRADESMARKET UPDATE STATUS
We're currently in the process of testing search filter revamps, which is in the internal testing stage at the moment and will likely be pushed to the site before other aspects of the major revamps.

DISCORD UPDATES
Our progress on these updates has expanded to a look at some policies on site as well as rule updates on the Discord in order to bring both the site and the server more in line with eachother.

We're also planning some fun features to be added alongside moderation tools such as auto role assignments (pronouns, dv character class, etc) and utilization of some of Discord's server features for new members.

• You can start the quest "A Search for the Unknown" by going to Peddler's Port and clicking on Pai.
• There are 3 quests in total: A Search for the Unknown, Perusing the Constellation Library (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Secrets of the Tomes (Unlocks after a number of days completing the previous quest)
• Agnes' Winter Boutique is open again for the month of February!
• Stocked are Ravan's items, with a new item available!
• Ravan's seasonal currency "Scrap of Knowledge" can be obtained from Pai's repeatable seasonal quest "Perusing the Constellation Library" as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

YEAR END REVIEW
We're currently working on a post to summarize everything we accomplished in 2024 as well as outline our goals for 2025!

DISCORD UPDATES
We're planning to bring some moderation and utility functions into the Official Dappervolk Discord Server in order to bring it more in line with our on site's rules and overall community atmosphere.

You might see some channels and roles getting shuffled around during this time as the server gets reworked and we welcome community feedback during this process!

We're also discussing user feedback around the Discord Server's management and how we want to move forward with it as a part of our official community and how we can update the rules to reflect that. More info on this will appear when we've made the relevant decisions.

UPCOMING CONTENT UPDATES
Our art and writing teams are working on various future updates right now, including but not limited to new seasonal content, new permanent shops and npcs, future permanent and seasonal storylines. We're looking forward to getting to a point in which we can post teasers and status updates on each update!

UPCOMING CODING UPDATES
We're working on our Trades Market revamp, Pet Accessory Market, and Customs Market coding now. Along the way, we're also taking care of various fixes and other updates as they come up!

The Vaer Reef NPC Affection milestone quests have been released along with a main quest that ties in at the end of the original Vaer Reef main story. If you've completed the "Poe's Conclusions" quest, you'll have access to it!

A Reef's Hopeful Philosophies • Some time after the events of the great festival, you decide to visit Vaer Reef again and see what's changed.
A Study of Origins • In the process of a trade, Olievar makes a discovery that brings up old memories.
A Tumultuous Romance • Clione wants your help with a momentous occasion.
A Wave of Uncertainty • Pyrifera's troubled and fearful when you visit her, you're prepared to help.
Poe's Great Escape • Poe has an important idea to embark on, will you help her?
The Dastardly Legend • Wras asks you to find him, but is acting squirrelish about what he wants.
A Reflective Shrine Visit • Xarion wants to converse with you about your vision of Vaer.


The following updates have been applied to all Vaer Reef Daily Errands.

• A reroll option with the player choice text "Can I help you with something else instead?" has been added to the beginning of each task.
  
  • This option can be used once per quest completion to generate a new task different from the initial one.
    
  
  
• Daily Errands in Vaer Reef can now be completed 3 times/day instead of 7.
• Positive quest ending potato rewards were boosted, increasing daily potato gains from each errand by about 2400 potatoes in total per NPC.
• Affection gained or lost has been increased to be equal to doing 7 quests/day previously.
• Tasks have been adjusted according to the reduced number of dailies each day. Some higher effort tasks such as adventuring have stayed the same or been reduced for better balancing.
• Candied Shell rewards were increased. Dual-stat NPC's now give out a random assortment of two types of Shells instead of one.
• Dialogue has been compressed to fewer total text boxes to lessen clicks.
• Transitions and redirects have been updated to be more streamlined and give users more freedom.
• Quest item hand-in pools have been expanded and updated across the board, this is applicable to all quests on site using these pools.
  

A total of 135 new items have been released!
New items have arrived in each NPC's chance shop, the following shop stock adjustments have been made:

• A Bonus Prize pool with claims costing an equivalent of 10 spins has been added to each NPC's shop.
• Totems, Pen Expansions, and Wardrobe Expansions, have been moved to each NPC's Bonus Prize pool in their shop instead of being in the chance pool.
• 2+ newly drawn items have been added to each NPC's clothing set, each item with colourations matching that of the existing sets.
• An additional 4th set colour has been added for each NPC, and can be found in their chance shop stock as well as bonus prizes.
• Pet Hatching items and NPC food have been added to the bonus prize pool as well while keeping them in the chance pool.
  

• 10 new pet species have been released with this update!
• The first 5 are quaint pets whose hatching items are found in Olievar, Clione, and Pyrifera's Shops.
• The other 5 are fantastical pets with certain recipes found in Officiator's Record Office.
  

The following non-general changes and additions have been applied to the NPC's Quests & Item Pools below. Some of the new shop stock is also displayed! Check out the Clothing Diary for full previews.

• Olievar's Pet Totem task has been changed from equipping a totem to handing in any totem.
  

• Clione's Pet Affection task's negative affection route now requires only answering riddles and does not require them to be answered correctly.
• Clione's Spin Pyrifera's Shop task now has an additional hidden result for spinning thrice
  

• Pyrifera's tasks have not changed beyond optimizations.
  

• Poe's Adventuring task now only requires answering riddles rather than answering them correctly.
  

• Wras' Adventuring Riddle task now only requires answering riddles rather than answering correctly.
• Wras' Chance Machine task now has an additional hidden result for spinning thrice.
• Wras' Chance Machine task's negative affection route now requires the player have 20+ clothing equipped instead of equipping a totem.
• Wras no longer awards potatoes for spinning his shop, as he desires wealth.
  

• Xarion's Trading task's negative affection route now no longer requires correct riddle answers.
  

• With the Vaer Balancing Update complete, we have now balanced and updated all of our existing main towns!
• With the addition of new items as well as bonus prize pools for NPC shops, we're aiming to make it so that certain items are obtained by choice rather than by chance. For example, the pen expansions were being dropped too often and filling up inventories without any purpose, now they can be picked up only if the user wants one.
• The bonus prize and shop stock updates have opened up the possibility of adding new items more easily to NPC shops in the future within smaller content updates.
• We'll now be fully focused on the Trades Market, Pet Accessory Market, and Custom Market updates, and also working on new content with the rest of our team.
• We're excited for what the future brings and proud of what we've achieved so far!
  

• Speak to Pellumi at Soll's Ruins to begin the seasonal quest "The Winter Sands"
• There are 4 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 of 4 quests are repeatable quests. "The Great Labyrinth" can be completed once a day while "A Moment's Respite" can be completed 3 times.
• Pellumi's Antique Nook is open again for the month of January!
• Stocked are Soll's items, with a new few new items available this year.
• This shop takes Ruin Lights which are obtainable through the Seasonal quests in Soll's Ruins, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring Rewards, and the Starry Night Minigame
  

DECEMBER DELAYS
During December, between the holidays and some difficult life changes for members of staff we were unable to meet some of our original projections.

We'd like to apologize for the additional and unexpected delays especially around the holidays during December that caused a general delay in our work queue. We are regrouping and getting back on track for the new year!

VAER BALANCING STATUS
CUSTOM QUEUE STATUS
Due to our holiday delays during the month of December, we needed to pause our work on the custom queue to focus on our site-wide task list instead. We're looking to be back on track this month with finishing the current and taking on the next batch!

UPCOMING PLANS
Once the Vaer Balancing update is out, we'll be looking at updating our current priorities and working fully towards the Marketplace updates. More info on this as we progress!

VAER REEF BALANCING UPDATE
We're working hard to release the Vaer Reef balancing update later this month! Look forward to some status update teasers as we get closer to release!
Item & Pet Assets • 95%
Quest Adjustments • 70%
Misc Tasks • 70%
We'll be preparing a gifting event to go with the update launch as well to celebrate the season!

2025 NEW YEAR ROLLOVER
This month's end of month rollover will take place a bit later than usual on January 2nd to make time for the holiday season, we'll be posting up a look back at 2024 as well as our plans for 2025 early in the new year!

SEASONAL SHARD PET ARCHIVE
We've added a new thread where we'll be posting all past seasonal shard pet recipes, items, and full pet previews going forward!