Welcome to March!
Hello everyone! Welcome to March, we hope you're well rested for the first winds of spring.
Our 33rd month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Curios Clothier!
A twinkle and a chime mark your entrance in time. You've arrived in a pocket of serendipity, and you intend to stay for a spell.
See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!
This month we have some special treats, 2 new pet species have arrived respectively in Pai's Shop of Wonders and Oran's Emporium!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai's Shop of Wonders is stocking these 9 clothing items for 200 turnips each, and 500 turnips for the hatching item.
A chest containing all 10 items is available at 1800 turnips - a discount of 500 turnips!
Curios Clothier ♦ Antlers • Suspender Skirt, Shop • Quilted Vest • Shoes • Hanging Mittens • Braids • Mauve Braids • Blouse • Perfume Bottle
Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 10 shop items for a discounted 1800 Turnips.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's Emporium is stocking these 9 clothing items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin! Additionally, the Curios Clothier Fragrant Wisp hatch shard item is available in his Bonus Prize Claim!
5 Fragrant Wisp can be combined into a hatching item!
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Curios Clothier ♦ Intrigue • Shorts • Fluffy Pigtails • Spectacles • Pompom Earrings • Lips • Midnight Skin • Sunlight Skin • Pup Nose
These monthly shop clothing items will run until March 31st, after which they will be removed to house April's monthly items!
Our 33rd month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Curios Clothier!
A twinkle and a chime mark your entrance in time. You've arrived in a pocket of serendipity, and you intend to stay for a spell.
See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!
This month we have some special treats, 2 new pet species have arrived respectively in Pai's Shop of Wonders and Oran's Emporium!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai's Shop of Wonders is stocking these 9 clothing items for 200 turnips each, and 500 turnips for the hatching item.
A chest containing all 10 items is available at 1800 turnips - a discount of 500 turnips!
Curios Clothier ♦ Antlers • Suspender Skirt, Shop • Quilted Vest • Shoes • Hanging Mittens • Braids • Mauve Braids • Blouse • Perfume Bottle
Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 10 shop items for a discounted 1800 Turnips.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's Emporium is stocking these 9 clothing items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin! Additionally, the Curios Clothier Fragrant Wisp hatch shard item is available in his Bonus Prize Claim!
5 Fragrant Wisp can be combined into a hatching item!
5x
Curios Clothier ♦ Intrigue • Shorts • Fluffy Pigtails • Spectacles • Pompom Earrings • Lips • Midnight Skin • Sunlight Skin • Pup Nose
These monthly shop clothing items will run until March 31st, after which they will be removed to house April's monthly items!
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With the arrival of the Spring season, a new Seasonal Pet has appeared!
- The ingredients to make the hatching item can be found in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shops' Bonus Prize pools.
- The item alchemy recipe is available in your recipe book and shown above.
- This Seasonal Pet will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of May to be replaced by a pet for the next season.
- Seasonal pets are obtainable annually on a rotation! The hatching items can be alchemized at any time of the year.
2022 Spring Shard Pets
The Spring Shards from last year have returned to Pai and Agnes' Shops this spring at a flat rate of 500 turnips, and Oran's Bonus Claim. Alchemize 3 Spring Seed + 1 Spring Soil + a Mixer Potion to create the Spring Fruit hatching item!
2021 Spring Shard Pets
The Spring Shards from last year have returned to Pai and Agnes' Shops this spring at a flat rate of 500 turnips, and Oran's Bonus Claim. Alchemize all 4 Shards + a Mixer Potion to create the Spring Stone hatching item!
KELBI'S MARCH
The one who bestows knowledge flaps into the night, awakening the slumbering shell.
AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!
AD THEATER STREAK REWARD UPDATE
As planned, we've now updated the streak reward pool's permanent rewards to the following items:
MARCH ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMS
This month, the art development stream will take place on...
MARCH 10TH, 3PM DVT
twitch.tv/dappervolk
A status post with a link to the stream will be posted when it begins!
We'll be working on wishes from the Wishing Well thread.
Hope to see you there!
This month, the art development stream will take place on...
MARCH 10TH, 3PM DVT
twitch.tv/dappervolk
A status post with a link to the stream will be posted when it begins!
We'll be working on wishes from the Wishing Well thread.
Hope to see you there!
WINTER EVENT PROGRESS
Our current progress on the upcoming winter event is the following:
Art Assets: 70%
Writing: 45%
Coding: 100%
We'll be announcing a start date some time this month when we're ready! In the meantime some info - this event will create a new seasonal town that will be expanded each year with new activities and rewards. It's planned to be the first of one area for each season that will be available along with new events featuring deities and permanent storyline additions.
STAFF HIRING PLANS
We're in the process of preparing materials and updating our system to be ready to bring new staff on board. We're aiming to post a recruitment announcement later this month or early next month.
KELBI SEASONAL PLANS
Kelbi's season is originally this month, however since the Winter event is planned for this month, we're working on still releasing it this spring some time after the Winter event is over. Currently, we're working on the storyline with our writers and will keep you posted on progress for it! We have 4 deities left to release stories for, and we're looking to achieve this by the end of the year with Vaer's month if all goes well.
CUSTOM QUEUE STATUS
Due to various IRL obstacles last month, we had to push the current batch of custom releases to this month. We're on the way to completing and claiming the next batch before mid month. Thanks for your patience as we worked through priorities!
NEXT PRIORITIES ON THE ROADMAP
Once the winter event and staff recruitment are complete, we're planning to focus on the following as our main priorities:
Pet Accessory Market
Customs Market
Tradesmarket Upgrades
Kelbi Event/Storyline
Aviar Cove Balancing
As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!
Comments
This is really not the way to go about creating a Potato sink if this is indeed what it was meant to be, sinks for currency I feel should be a bit fun, or it at least should contain items that the player finds useful and nice, nobody needs nor probably wants more than one or two sets of a monthly clothing set. It should be enticing allaround for a player to want to sink currency into it. And also 500k Potatoes is just simply too much for the "cheaper" monthly items. To be able to get the Turnip pet for basically HALF the cost is not something that should be. Make them either the same price (so like 250k Potatoes for Oran's, maybe 200k so it's just 2 bonus items) or put Oran's back to how it used to be at only needing one bonus item so it's just 100k Potatoes.
If this is the way monthly Oran pets are gonna go from now on I really think this is going to be the last straw for me. I usually always collect the monthly pets but I'm not paying more for a non-premium currency pet than I could pay for a premium currency pet, nor am I willing to buy so many clothing items that I basically can't do anything with. I'm still holding out hope for a possible change as I always do when new updates come to the site since I love DV and want to enjoy playing it, but I truly think I'm gone if the next Oran pet comes around and this hasn't been addressed and something good and fair done.
I truly hope this doesn't become the norm, you should really think about putting the alchemy stuff in the regular Oran roll pool of 9kp, and maybe the fully alchemized item in the claiming system if you really want to keep them separate. It at least gives people a shot at getting them without having to spend hundreds of thousands.
In my coming up of 3 years playing this game I've never had 500k potatoes in my bank, ever. I've already had some disappointments with Dappervolk recently and been playing less. This definitely takes the cake for what I was worried things would turn into. The monthly system is already pretty inaccessible as is. Really consider what you're doing here. You're already losing players. Making something more accessible (the town and npc daily systems updates) and then turning your cheek and making something else even MORE unaccessible than it already was before is such weird thinking. You had to have known people would dislike you for this.
The new monthly items are cute, just not my cup of tea
look at the user count right now even though there is no event going on to see how many people are "here for it". just my 2c as someone who started recently who is trying to play the game seriously even though i actually feel pretty casual even failing to get all the monthlies some months.