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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!
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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.

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See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!

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This month we have some special treats, 2 new pet species have arrived respectively in Pai's Shop of Wonders and Oran's Emporium!

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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 MittensBraids Mauve Braids • Blouse • Perfume Bottle

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Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 10 shop items for a discounted 1800 Turnips.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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:
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MARCH ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMS
This month, the art development stream will take place on...

MARCH 10TH, 3PM DVT
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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

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As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!

Comments


  • Villager BlackRose (#9895) 2 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm
    Hrm, this set isn't really my cup of tea (still cute! I just don't like lots of pink xD) but even if it was one I absolutely loved I'm really not happy about having to get 50 bajillion extras that I likely won't be able to sell at all, not even for a fraction of the price I paid, because everyone else is going to have 50 bajillion extra to try to sell too, just to get one of the monthly pets. Pai's monthly pet is literally being sold (400k-450k) by players cheaper than Oran's pet, even doing a rough conversion of Turnips to Potatoes seeing as Pai's items are being sold for around 100k Potatoes right now, Oran's pet is worth 1,000 Turnips. You can obviously just buy Pai's for 500 Turnips. Like what? :|

    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.
  • Villager Totalanimefan (#23751) 2 Mar 2023, 1:47 pm
    The new items are very cute! But I agree 500kp for a pet is just too much.
  • Villager Mirutanku (#2802) 2 Mar 2023, 1:48 pm
    brooooo this set is gorgeous and i love the pets. this is the first set in a while where i'm like man i need this in a million colors
  • Villager lapi (#42685) 2 Mar 2023, 1:53 pm
    Yeah I'm with everyone here on the value of the pet. Holy cow. Thats completely insane especially since its a limited monthly? Hardly anyone is going to be able to get them at all. I already have basically given up on the idea that I'll ever obtain seasonal seed pets, this is even worse than that because of the time limit.

    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.
  • Villager Aranea (#6971) 2 Mar 2023, 1:57 pm
    kind of disappointing that all 3 new pets are going to be real expensive to get. i adore the new set, but my excitement is heavily dampened by the fact that it's going to be a slog if i want to try to get them all, even with the dailies optimization :( i'd much rather we at LEAST be able to gacha for the alchemizable hatchable pieces, or do away with the pieces altogether.
  • Villager Kokichi (#2460) 2 Mar 2023, 4:00 pm
    I really love the calf. but I doubt I'd be able to get it. looking at the price needed.
  • Villager Halc (#9570) 2 Mar 2023, 4:08 pm
    I'm glad that I'm not a DV pet collector :)))))))

    The new monthly items are cute, just not my cup of tea
  • Villager okien (#67850) 2 Mar 2023, 4:11 pm
    strange to see people who say they are hardcore players just up in arms that there is this extra trophy item. since some of the items are totally gated to new users there are users who can never play in completionist style which is exactly the users this site well has to still have appeal to. this gesture is actually pretty nice for those users who still do want some kind of trophy for their playstyle. it's clearly in addition to the regular monthlies so this is also strange since its the first time i've seen people on here up in arms when there is /additional/ content in the midst of all the content released lately. there's no lack of content within the past month in fact i feel overwhelmed on the site as of late.

    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.
  • Villager Kelion (#17310) 2 Mar 2023, 4:30 pm
    Yeah nah. I love the cow pet but this months set is not worth what it's asking to get everything.
  • Villager Eden (#1510) 2 Mar 2023, 4:36 pm
    I am so disappointed because I got a couple face items from Oran, plus the antlers... But really all I want from this is the calf pet. I have been too busy to be able to get much potatoes, or turnips... And the Oran pet is all I want this month and it is so very very expensive. I have only had so many potatoes once. Just two of those Oran pets was what I paid to get my Kickstarter angel wings. This price is outrageous, and it's such a shame because this is my favorite site pet in a long time.
  • Villager Sev (#3394) 2 Mar 2023, 4:48 pm
    so each person who wants the oran pet is going to end up with potentially 5 full sets of the monthly set, only 1 of which they can do anything with? feels a bit pointless. if there's going to be a potato sink i think it needs to be a bit more thought out than this, probably a new mechanic over trying to modify existing ones that weren't designed for it.
  • Villager Sev (#3394) 2 Mar 2023, 4:50 pm
    not to mention, is the oran hatchable a totem too? i like to try and get 2 of each of the limited hatchables to give them a matching totem, definitely out of question this month. yeesh.
  • Villager okien (#67850) 2 Mar 2023, 4:52 pm
    you know they should just have generators that let you get turnips for potatoes even totally agree that would help sustain the site immensely
  • Villager Eden (#1510) 2 Mar 2023, 4:55 pm
    Wanted to add that I'm okay with a pet that can cost 500kp, but not one that's only available for one month. That's not enough time.
  • Villager Dakkokki (#23525) 2 Mar 2023, 5:42 pm
    I get that there needs to be a potato sink, but 500+kp for a pet from Oran isn't the way to go. It's just gonna clutter up everyone's inventory and make the set basically worthless.
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