Welcome to April!
Hello everyone! Welcome to April, we're wishing you good health and fun all around.
Our 34th month of limited shops has arrived:
April's theme is the Wasteland Nomad!
The sands of time billow across a wide expanse, rendering all to ruin
and decay with a slow and unwavering certainty. Sunlight splashes
onto a watery surface, dreamlike in its tranquility.
See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai's Shop of Wonders is stocking these 10 clothing items for 200 turnips each. A chest containing all 10 items is available at 1700 turnips - a discount of 300 turnips!
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Flare Gun • Horned Goggles • Gas Mask • Tattered Mantle • Nomad Trousers • Half-Blouse • Half-Skirt • Silver Braids • Midnight Braids • Dunes
Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 10 shop items for a discounted 1700 Turnips.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's Emporium is stocking these 8 clothing items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin!
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Hawk Mask • Pouches • Brunette Ponytail • Lips • Golden Ferocity • Sand Skin • Ombre Skin • Boots
Additionally, Oran will be offering 6 rarer colour variations in his Oran's Fine Goods Exchange quest for a trade of 3 Oran items each!
This quest will be available for the month on April 2nd at 12AM DVT.
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Silver Ponytail • Fiery Braids • Emerald Ferocity • Clay Skin • Flint Skin • Lapis Skin
These monthly shop clothing items will run until April 30th, after which they will be removed to house May's monthly items!
Our 34th month of limited shops has arrived:
April's theme is the Wasteland Nomad!
The sands of time billow across a wide expanse, rendering all to ruin
and decay with a slow and unwavering certainty. Sunlight splashes
onto a watery surface, dreamlike in its tranquility.
See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!
Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai's Shop of Wonders is stocking these 10 clothing items for 200 turnips each. A chest containing all 10 items is available at 1700 turnips - a discount of 300 turnips!
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Flare Gun • Horned Goggles • Gas Mask • Tattered Mantle • Nomad Trousers • Half-Blouse • Half-Skirt • Silver Braids • Midnight Braids • Dunes
Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 10 shop items for a discounted 1700 Turnips.
Oran's Emporium
Oran's Emporium is stocking these 8 clothing items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin!
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Hawk Mask • Pouches • Brunette Ponytail • Lips • Golden Ferocity • Sand Skin • Ombre Skin • Boots
Additionally, Oran will be offering 6 rarer colour variations in his Oran's Fine Goods Exchange quest for a trade of 3 Oran items each!
This quest will be available for the month on April 2nd at 12AM DVT.
Wasteland Nomad ♦ Silver Ponytail • Fiery Braids • Emerald Ferocity • Clay Skin • Flint Skin • Lapis Skin
These monthly shop clothing items will run until April 30th, after which they will be removed to house May's monthly items!
AGNES' CELLAR OF LOST THINGS
Pai, Oran and yourself peer nervously into the cellar door in a familiar port, it looks like Agnes has been taken in by her mysterious endeavors once again. There is a new object there in exchange for the cosmos shards she covets.
The mysterious shop closes APRIL 7TH, 11:59PM DVT
How to Obtain Cosmos Shards: Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring, Agnes' Daily Gift Quest
SIGNI'S LOTUS FESTIVAL
A fragrant breeze creates ripples across the serenity of clear spring waters. Lanterns and lotus blooms alike twinkle in the light of day or the timidness of night.
- 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 2 new items 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.
AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!
APRIL ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMS
This month, the art development stream will take place on...
APRIL 13TH, 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...
APRIL 13TH, 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!
EVENT PROGRESS
We're working steadily on both the Winter and the Kelbi event, some more detailed progress was outlined in our previous news post. Our plan is to aim to start the Winter Event some time mid April, so we'll have more news for you on that as soon as we're ready. The Kelbi event will follow relatively soon after the Winter event ends!
Though our event progress is late, we're confident that the stories and lore will not feel out of place, and we're excitedly hoping to finish creating storylines for all 12 of our deities by early 2024. Dappervolk's world and lore is intrinsically tied to the deities and how NPCs view them, which is why so much emphasis is placed on them currently. Creating stories for the Deities with events does a vital job of expanding the world lore.
STAFF HIRING PLANS
We'll be releasing our staff recruitment post some time during the coming event when we have an activity boost!
QOL UPDATES
We're working on some more QoL Updates and bug fixes which we'll be releasing in changelogs through the month.
As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!
Comments
We need potato sinks, yes, but ones that aren't limited.
Last month was justified, this is absolutely not. The vast majority of your player hate this especially 2 months in a row, so don't do that again, please.
You need to retain your current players but also be attractive to future players. This poor decision do the opposite.
Again, yes a potato sink is good, but a permanent one. Not limited.
Last month was justified, as it was a complete tragedy, but why now?
I NEVER have much more than maybe an extra item or two after the month is over because I spin once, ONCE. And then trade my duplicates with others for the few items I still need. This is not making me want to spin more, it's making me want to leave the site (is that actually your plan DV? push people off the site so their potatoes stay out of the market and they can't generate more so it solves your potato sink need?). Maybe if it was a 1:1 trade I could perhaps be a bit more enticed to spin more to trade, but 1:3 is still absolutely awful.
To me, these limited-time expensive potato sinks only cater to one audience. Popular custom creators who sell copies. It's not fair. And while it is of no fault of the custom creators, this really makes me envious of them, angry, and sad, feeling that I'm left out and even being pushed out because I'm a casual player and can't afford these changes. Sure, you get potatoes out of the market from them and I know that's what you want, DV, but I feel it ostracizes a big portion of the player base who are casual players and don't make as many potatoes, and that's not good.
So PLEASE, stop it with these dumb limited-time potato sinks. Last month it was ok, it was a quick bandaid for the mess that happened last month, better than nothing. But no more. Want to make a permanent, year-round potato sink? Go ahead and I'd happily accept it and gladly partake in it because I'd actually have time to get enough potatoes to sink. As it is now these sinks just make me feel like I'm missing out on a part of the game I enjoyed (collecting set items/pets) and they don't take any more potatoes out of my hands, because I can't really afford them anymore. Do something better and they may actually work on me (and other casual players).
On a much more positive note. I absolutely LOVE this month's set! Doesn't take first place in my favorites, but it is really up there. xD We really don't get enough dark/muted colored sets. The theme of this set is really awesome too! Thank you for this!
this is only going to increase inflation because now they HAVE to buy more random spins to have a chance for more random draws.... these should be alchemy items at least... at least you are only charging 3... oh wait... that 30k per item, in b4 they end up on mp for 90+
thanks inflation faeries! >.>
(im still holding out hope this will be a poorly done joke since you cant get them til tomorrow...)
at this point the events will never be 'on time', why not just skip a year and start them next winter when they are supposed to happen?
i feel like fixing the content you already have is more important than stuffing new things in under a certain date...
When you roll out an update, are you first considering whether the update will be a fun and positive change for the playerbase? Does it make the game more fun to play?
To me, it's obvious many of the updates over the last month or two have focused on mitigating potato inflation, but in chasing this inflation concept, you forgot that the overarching goal is to make a better gameplay experience.
Fixing the inflation problem doesn't fix anything if the community is still disgruntled and frustrated. I think you are creating new problems by trying to fix other problems, and a step back here and big picture evaluation here would be best. Are your updates making Dappervolk more fun? Based on the majority of comments on the last two monthly update news posts, the answer is no. I'm pointing this out with only good intent, as I truly want DV to succeed in the future.