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Vaer Reef Balancing Update!

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Hello everyone, our Vaer Reef Balancing Update is here!
This update includes 7 new quests, rebalanced daily errand quests, 135 new NPC items, 10 new pet species, NPC shop adjustments, and a limited time gifting event!

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EVENT DURATION: January 13th - February 4th 2025
To celebrate our final balancing update, Poe has arrived
with a special Gift Giving Event!

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Contest Duration: January 13th - February 2nd 2025
A new Bauble Contest has also arrived for those who wish to add their designs to the present claim!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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  • 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

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  • Pyrifera's tasks have not changed beyond optimizations.

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

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  • 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.

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


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We've added 8 new clothing items and 1 new pet hatching item to Nico's Boutique. Buttons can be obtained in the Gifting Event as well as the Bauble Contest!
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  • 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!

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We hope you enjoy this update, thank you for supporting and playing Dappervolk! We'll be back with more updates soon.

Comments


  • Villager Mirutanku (#2802) 13 Jan 2025, 7:29 am
    the new items are absolute fire. i am always in dire need of pure red and pure white items and clione and pyrifera's items are sooooooo good
  • Villager tamagon (#68922) 13 Jan 2025, 7:41 am
    GRAHHH RAHHHH
  • Villager StormyN0body (#2553) 13 Jan 2025, 8:06 am
    Perhaps I'm a bit dense but for the new event how exactly do I 'decorate' another player?
  • Villager SeaBanshee (#43811) 13 Jan 2025, 9:24 am
    Absolutely wonderful update!! Thank you staff :D
    Even with just the teaser, I know I'll love every single pets lol
  • Moderator Morphine (#35897) 13 Jan 2025, 9:31 am
    StormyN0body (#2553) (#2553)
    If you go to a players profile there should be a banner on the left side of the screen that says "decorate". If you click that it should send them decor! You can do it once ever 2 minutes.
  • Villager Vio (#8758) 13 Jan 2025, 9:31 am
    Pyrifera Eyes mourning circle, I really loved how that leaked item looked
  • Villager Frogfears (#70526) 13 Jan 2025, 9:35 am
    Thank you for all your hard work! I can't wait to reach Vaer Reef at some point :)
  • Villager MaiLynn (#72259) 13 Jan 2025, 10:35 am
    Congrats!! So excited to see the new pets and get the new clothing~
  • Villager gatorbrush (#37805) 13 Jan 2025, 12:09 pm
    LETS GOOOOOOOOO
  • Moderator Morphine (#35897) 13 Jan 2025, 4:37 pm
    cakes (#19976) (#19976)
    Try restarting the quest, if you already had a quest of his being tracked from prior to the update that could cause issues with quest tracking. If you encounter a similar problem after resetting, then go ahead and let us know over on the bug reports board or in a support ticket and we'll look into it for you.
  • Villager Roshan (#75058) 14 Jan 2025, 7:12 am
    OMG :O :O :O ... I am truly speechless :O :O :O .... those backgrounds <333 ... those knives <333 .... those balloons <333 ... just wow wow wow :O :O :O
  • Villager Vampira (#19457) 14 Jan 2025, 10:03 pm
    i enjoyed wras new quest, he's my favorite so i was happy to learn more about him! i don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but i didn't receive his totem upon completing his quest. i went immediately to equip it to my pet but it's nowhere in my inventory.
  • Villager Vampira (#19457) 14 Jan 2025, 10:07 pm
    ^ nevermind, i found it. it just wasn't listed as a newer item. sorry about that!
  • Villager satyrgatyr (#43977) 16 Jan 2025, 11:31 am
    > new Nico items are worth 170 buttons
    > event gives a max of 65 buttons
    > Nico contests occur like once a season and give 25 buttons

    ?? this balancing is Not it, most players don't even have all the previously released Nico's Boutique items
  • Villager Ashers (#16245) 16 Jan 2025, 11:50 am
    All the new clothing and pets are amazing!
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