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Welcome to March!

Hello everyone! Welcome to March, we're excited to bring you something a little different this month in both the monthly shops and other parts of the game. This is an introduction to the newly updated content as well as information about additional content updates we'll be doing in the coming months!

Our ninth month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Cosmic Mage!
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Look to the skies with your keen eyesight, what do you see?
Listen with a discerning ear, what do you hear? Stray stars in the night,
and a cat's musical cry. Visions surround you, brought about by
those who take flight.

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See Full Item Previews here!

What are Monthly Shops?

  • Every month, Pai and Oran from Peddler's Port will have different sets of items in their shops that will retire at the end of the month to be replaced by new stock.
  • These items are obtained from far away lands and follow the theme of the land they visited each month.
  • All retired items from Monthly Shops will eventually be able to be obtained very rarely from Grandma Agnes later on.

How can I get to Peddler's Port?
Peddler's Port is a seaside location that you can unlock by going through the main storyline in Louise Hill. Once unlocked, you can visit Peddler's Port any time without using up a town hop!

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Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai will host these 8 items in their infinite stock shop this month for 200 turnips each. If you spend 2000 turnips, you will be able to choose a free item of your choice! Free item claims will expire 3 months after obtaining them.

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Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 8 shop items for 1500 Turnips, ideal for collectors who want a full set at a small discount. Starting this month, Agnes now also has a Bonus Prize function in her shop. This means that for every 2000 turnips you spend in her shop from now on, you'll be able to claim from her Bonus Prize pool, which will fluctuate and grow with time.

What are Turnips?
Turnips are the untradeable premium currency of Dappervolk. You can purchase them with real life currency here, as well as obtain them occasionally through gameplay.

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Oran's Emporium
Oran's chance shop will be stocked with these six items for 9,000 potatoes per spin! Starting this month, each time you spend 100k potatoes in Oran's shop, you'll be able to pick one free item from his Bonus Prize claim. Bonus Prize items may change or grow as time goes on.

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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AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
This month, a new deity slowly comes into view. Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!
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We'll be making a number of updates for new permanently available pets in the coming months.

For now, one small prismatic pal has appeared for those who are adept at item alchemy. The recipe to create this quaint pet's hatching item is now obtainable on site. Happy hunting!

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Each season, we'll be releasing a special Seasonal Quaint Pet whose hatching item can only be obtained by piecing together a certain collection of new items through item alchemy.

  • The recipe for this seasonal pet's hatching item is now obtainable on site, the ingredients are in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shop Bonus Prize pools.
  • Oran and Agnes have joined Pai in having a Bonus Prize with their shop stock. They now have unique prize pools, separate from Pai.
  • There will be exclusive bonus prize only items available to be chosen, unavailable in their regular shop stock.
  • Currently, ingredients for the Spring Seasonal pet are being stocked, with additional updates to be made later on.
  • These Seasonal Pets will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of each season (Ie. Spring is March, April, and May.) to be replaced by new pets.
  • Seasonal pets like this will likely return in some form in the following years, though the way to obtain them may change!

UPCOMING CONTENT
Here's a look at the additional content we're working on rolling out as time goes on to continue with our permanent and seasonal updates.
  • Additional permanently obtainable pets - Fantasticals, Secret Recipes, Referral Shop
  • More seasonal pets - Monthly Deity pets & Season based pets
  • Additional Peddler's Port content - Clothing, Miscellaneous items, Pets
  • New items with special functions - Wardrobe Outfit Save Slot Expansion, Maximum Menagerie Pen Expansion, Pet Nature Refresher, Maximum Trade Lots Expansion

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a look into what we're currently prioritizing, among other smaller bug and QoL fixes!

UPCOMING WINTER FESTIVITIES
Our first winter event is coming soon on March 4th! Check out the Teaser News Post here.
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CUSTOM MAKER SUBMISSION
We've nearly finished preparation for our custom maker submission, thank you for your patience! We'll be announcing at least a week prior to the opening time so everyone is prepared. Read our FAQ and Submission Rules here.

VAER REEF QUEST UPDATE
After we finalize preparations and work on the winter event quests, we'll be continuing forward with remaining adjustments and the affection milestone side quests for Vaer Reef!

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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 HELP (#614) 3 Mar 2021, 6:29 am
    WOW! I'm very satisified with this news post. Thank you guys for the lovely updates, please don't become discouraged. Keep pushing, it'll be worth while.
  • Villager bubblegum (#265) 3 Mar 2021, 6:29 am
    I'm absolutely disappointed that all those bonus shards are locked behind more premium currency shops. The way of getting them isn't even logical. If I spend all my turnips in Agnes' to get the bundle, then I get none in Pai's to get the other two shards. What am I supposed to do, get the same set twice just so that I can get all the shards? Wait until next month in hopes that I don't want all the items, else I'll be turning to Agnes again and forfeit credits for Pai?

    I'm all for encouraging this site, spending IRL money to help development and having new features. But it seems like the crazy amount of money you're locking those monthly items under is just used to fund next month's monthly items and nothing else. There is nothing else to look forward to except for monthly items that will cost an arm and a leg (oh and the bonuses expire too, after 3 months. Better be quick).
  • Villager rosvlinds (#54313) 3 Mar 2021, 6:37 am
    Thanks for the update, the items look amazing 😍
  • Villager Ferinsy (#30206) 3 Mar 2021, 6:54 am
    bubblegum (#265) EXACTLY! I also feel like they're just barely keeping the site, just using previously coded stuff and changing a bit, the artists are just keeping stuff as well, the most they did was that 40+ items in Declan shop but that took a lot of time, other than that we get 18 new items every month (16 from the set + 2 deities), and 8 of them are paid, and that's it. While other sites are used to have over 50 new items monthly, with around 10 or less of them being cash items (Everskies, Subeta...). And when users online go down for real (like from 2k to 200), they use the same event they had at beta just with different items and a different banner
  • Villager Promare (#26308) 3 Mar 2021, 7:15 am
    I had been becoming more optimistic about DV from recent updates, but the seasonal pet fiasco pretty much ruined that for me. :\ In the beginning I had been regularly buying turnips. I'm happy to support games and sites I enjoy. Then I stopped buying due to the immsense grind and poor staff communication. But, I was willing to resume buying turnips if things improved enough. I thought we were going down that path. But then this blatant cash grab happens?

    Like, I don't even care for pets on this site. I wouldn't have minded a $5 or $10 pet, though I'm mainly here to play dressup and enjoy the story/characters. But I know a lot of users are here for the pet aspect. It costs so much if you only want the pet, and then you're forced to buy clothes to get to the pet. Why isn't it a reasonably priced direct purchase? It just boggles the mind how this decision was made. It only makes sense if it's a scummy cash grab based on FOMO and enticing people to spend more than they want to. Again, I'm happy to support something I enjoy. But I just can't support a $60 pet. It's like one step forward, ten steps back. It's going to be a long time before DV sees any cash from me again, if ever. And that's a shame because I WANT to be happy here.
  • Villager ashmee (#354) 3 Mar 2021, 7:33 am
    i'm here processing the rest of the update now that i've slept. just going to reiterate the sentiment that a lot of other users already have. the shards are a really cool concept, but better suited to a scavenger hunt across the site in standard gameplay. locking them behind absurd amounts of potato and turnip payments is an unfathomably bad idea. if you're trying to look for a way to incentivize the spending of potatoes and turnips, this really isn't it.
  • Villager Archenitesky (#10659) 3 Mar 2021, 7:39 am
    Being a pet sim veteran of over 4 years I can safely say the situation with the seasonal pet is a terrible way to encourage people to spend turnips, let alone stay on the site. Nobody should have to spend roughly $60 for a pet during normal pet sim gameplay (especially since unless you are diligent you are not getting turnips very quickly through other means). While yes I originally was disappointed that seasonal pets wasn't a thing from the beginning I originally expected if they did appear it would be a single purchase from one of the seasonal shops and not...this *gestures at the news post*. If staff want the site to not end up like Aywas in terms of daily activity in one tenth of the time (Aywas is over 10 years old) they really should consider how turnips are used in this game because they are getting very close to that possibility.
  • Villager emil (#101) 3 Mar 2021, 7:50 am
    i desperately want to play this site but yall keep pushing me away ' _ '
  • Villager Killian (#17642) 3 Mar 2021, 7:54 am
    ...i think im out
  • Villager SeaBanshee (#43811) 3 Mar 2021, 8:06 am
    Amazing how 1 pet is more expensive than 1 Kickstarter tier, which gave way more than 1 pet.
    How is that even considered okay ?
  • Villager Mystik (#6014) 3 Mar 2021, 8:09 am
    oh wow, I just now get what you need for the seasonal pets, what a mean trick, wow.
    I guess I can live without them then :(
  • Villager Blaukitten (#28666) 3 Mar 2021, 8:15 am
    Ooo. I love this month's items!
  • Villager Diznits (#11420) 3 Mar 2021, 8:19 am
    me thinks that, perhaps, y'all might wanna hire game designers to help you guys get your bearings on how to make a petsim not feel like going to the dentist
  • Villager Mars (#1113) 3 Mar 2021, 8:27 am
    Love the new clothing set, and the coming updates look good, but I'm in agreement with everyone else about the new seasonal pet. It being a little premium is fine, but THAT expensive?? That is very unfair to most of the userbase here. I don't understand how you can see so many people leaving because of the grind and think that making a pet behind a huge paywall would help (and, heck, I'd rather just give you $5 - $10 straight up instead of all this weird turnip bonus shop nonsense).
  • Villager Killian (#17642) 3 Mar 2021, 8:33 am
    I CAN´T BELIEVE DV TOOK THAT GORGEOUS DINO PET AWAY FROM ME BY MAKING IT CRAZY EXPENSIVE!
    I DREAMED ABOUT A DINO PET ON DV FOR A LOOOOOONG TIME AND FINALLY, WHEN YOU GUYS DID SOMETHING ALIKE...ITS GATEKEEPED BY HUGE AMOUNTS OF CASH GRAB. IM SO SAD!.
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