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!
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.
See Full Item Previews here!
Our ninth month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Cosmic Mage!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!
Comments
Besides, the monthly shop items getting less and less interesting as time goes by + pets locked by paywall gives me greedy vibes (yeah, the exact same one that big companies give)
It's time to be more humble, swallow your ego and pride, or people are gonna keep abandoning the game.
6k turnips is way too much and I'd imagine a few people are only picking up the set for the raptor. Please change how its implemented and refund the users who spent turnips on this already (or at least refund their bonuses).
please dont make dappervolk pay to win...
That we are paying for art is very true, but the way it's set up is dumb (forcing us to buy things we don't want), just let us buy the hatchable directly, it'd be far more normal.
I do understand that we're paying for work and art, for a game, but again, this pet isn't meant to be an adopt (and with your argument it's actually customs pets and clothes that should be paid with RLC and yet it's only obtainable via fake currency, both systems are just weird)
But I don't think the system in place for the seasonal pets is right for seasonal items. It could be a reasonable system for a permanent, year-round pet. This would still reward players for spending turnips without making them feel pressured into it! As it stands, even someone who buys full sets every month will not qualify for all the shards without spending more turnips. And whether or not the same shards return next spring, what happens to unused shards when the season is up? Do they disintegrate? If not, will they still be usable? Would someone be able to finish collecting them the rest of the year and then combine them, or will the recipe be deactivated?
You could honestly post some of these updates in smaller announcements rather than making these extremely large posts outright. It's /a lot/ and some of these little updates could just be put elsewhere or on the sidebar.
On topic:
Not jazzed about another purple set, or how outrageous it is to expect a dwindling userbase to care about an overly expensive way to get the newly released content, but cheers for new poses and content in general.
Yes, it's decently expensive if you want one *right now*. If you're impatient, you pay a premium. A game needs to balance how it monetizes itself, if everything can be immediately grabbed at minimal effort then... why would anybody feel it's worth it to spend cash? If nobody spends cash, the game can't stay open, it's not a charity project. There needs to be a balance.
If you're willing to spend smaller amounts across the season, you'll end up with the pet in pretty quick time. As an example, if I buy the Chest+ Full Equip Set (+2 extras, if I'm not subbed) each month, I will get the seasonal pet after just 2 months of a season. The season is three months, so I will end up with an extra bonuses through being consistent in my purchases, which I can sell to completely f2p community for their potatoes/trade for the potato reward shard. It all circulates, this way.
There is also the fact that seasonal pets do not retire, so it's not a case of FOMO. It's just delayed gratification. DV is one of the more fair petsites in this regard, which is why I've come back to it and not other sites I've given up on. I'm happy and able to pay to support the dev team, so it's nice to see there's a bonus to reward me for spending as consistently as I do.
I guess in more a more positive comment, I love the cats for the monthly set. They're too cute ;3;