Magdalene's seasonal quest is back for the month, along with an event shop containing Ombra's items!

• You can start the quest "Among Fallen Leaves" by going to 3's Forest and clicking on Magdalene.
• There are 3 quests in total: Among Fallen Leaves, Search the Shadowed Path (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Returning to Magdalene's Cottage
• Magdalene's Autumn Bazaar is open again for the month of November!
• Stocked are Ombra's items, with a new item available this year.
• Ombra's seasonal currency "Wild Forage Snacks" can be obtained from Magdalene's repeatable seasonal quest "Search the Shadowed Path" as well as through random encounters, adventuring, and 3's Forest Clean Up.
  

 
TEAM EVENT UPDATE
We're currently working hard on finalizing the start time for the upcoming team event. A news post with details will come out in the next few days and the start date will be in mid November. In the meantime, here are some progress updates and a sneak peek!

Art Assets • We're about 70% finished with all the assets required for the event.
Coding • We're at the final stages of testing for the completed event code and are working on ironing out any bugs we find.
Writing • We're at the proofreading and inputting stage of quest writing.
PIPELINE UPDATE
After working through October, we're still catching up on certain parts of the pipeline after our delays in the previous month, this is why some priorities are either still on the list or had to be pushed back despite our initial goals. We're working hard to catch up and get on top of our plans as soon as we can!

• Besides the event work we're doing, we're looking forward to getting back on track with town balancing, more QoL and bug fixes, new features, and various other updates.
• October's Custom batch will arrive this week, event work as well as other asset work took precedence last month. Thank you for understanding!
• The Roadmap and post-beta Changelog threads are nearing completion, we really wanted to release them in October but our workload didn't allow for that to happen. Thank you for your patience as we get this long awaited item ready!
• The Thalies Event is still planned to go ahead after our upcoming event is over, as writing and work for it was already underway. It will simply not occur on its deity month this year, but we wanted to get the questline released regardless!
  

STAFF RECRUITMENT PLANS
We're working on a recruitment post to bolster our volunteer staff team. We're hoping to recruit both moderators and community managers in order to raise staff presence on the site and help us manage everything more efficiently. While moderators will be responsible for enforcing rules and helping with site moderation - community managers will be helping us by planning mini-events, welcoming new users, interacting with the community, and collecting feedback.

CUSTOM MAKER GIVEAWAY PLANS
As we previously mentioned, as the queue for custom makers dwindles, we'd like to introduce some other ways of obtaining a maker. We'd like to host some giveaway raffle threads with simple prompts and randomly generate winners. In order to not have the only prize be a custom maker, we'll also be introducing some new items to be obtained as participation and runner up rewards. We're looking forward to it!

  

• Speak to Cro in the Grove to begin the seasonal quest "An Unfamiliar Path"
• There are 3 quests in total, to be unlocked in succession.
• The repeatable quest can be completed 5 times a day, allowing for progression and accumulation of currency.
• The Grove Goods Shop is stocked with Pann's items and will be open all month, taking Grove Treasure as currency!
• Other than quests, Grove Treasure can also be obtained through Random Encounters, Adventuring, and Turnip Thief.
• Clue - Take note of who you travel with, what paths you take, and at what time you take them.
  

 
PIPELINE UPDATE
Due to various IRL circumstances last month in our team, some projects in the pipeline didn't go through as quickly as planned. We've regrouped to adjust our pipeline so here are some updates regarding our current workload!

• September's Custom batch will arrive shortly this week, we needed to prioritize some other asset work so there was a slight delay. October's custom batch should proceed on schedule.
• The Roadmap and post-beta Changelog threads are still being worked on, we're hoping to fit them in some time this month in between event and other update preparations.
• The upcoming events (Team Event & Thalies Event) are in preparation stage and we're making good headway despite the difficulties. We're aiming to announce the team event some time this month.
• All other upcoming priorities in last month's update are still our main priorities at this time - check our September news post for details.
  

Thanks for your patience throughout September, we're looking forward to getting back on track as soon as we can!

  

• 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 November 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.
  

 
SUMMER TEAM EVENT
We're hard at work on the team event, and are hoping to launch it some time this month! Currently, we're in the middle of coding, testing, asset creation and writing. We will keep you posted on progress and the launch date. If preparation takes too long for the event to happen this month, we'll be ready with a mid month content update to make up for the low tide!

AUTUMN EVENT
Thalies is our September deity, so traditionally, the Thalies Autumn Event would be taking place this month. However, since the summer team event was postponed to this month, we'll be launching the Thalies Autumn Event at a later date within this season. We have been working on this event's storyline and various content simultaneously, so we're looking forward to sharing it with you!

MODERATOR RECRUITMENT PLANS
We're hoping to expand our team of volunteer based moderators at some point either this month or the next. The aim is to bolster our community management as well as have more hands on deck to help with event contest management and possibly be able to hold additional mini contests or raffles in between major events. We'll have info on this with application forms when we're ready!

BETA CHANGELOG & ROADMAP THREAD
These two items are on our to-do list, and will remain here until they are complete! Currently, we're in the process of layouting our Roadmap thread. We're aiming to release these some time this month in between event preparation.

CUSTOM MAKER RAFFLE THREADS
We're planning to manually run some periodic raffle/contest threads with a custom maker as the main prize, as well as additional participation prizes for all entrants. Winning a custom maker via this method will only be open to users without any customs or custom makers in the hopes of allowing some different avenues for obtaining them. We'll be able to start this in the coming months, as the custom queue has been worked through to a very manageable size now.

The following updates have been applied to all 3's Forest 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 3's Forest 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.
• Affection gained or lost has been increased to be equal to doing 7 quests 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.
• Conecake rewards were increased. Dual-stat NPC's now give out a random assortment of two types of conecakes 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.
• Any 3's Forest daily quests that were in progress have been autocompleted so that users don't get stuck due to the quest changes.
  

A total of 93 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.
• 1-2 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.
  

• Two new pet species have been released with this update!
• One is a quaint pet species which can be obtained from Magdalene's shop's bonus prize pool.
• Another is a fantastical pet species with a brand new recipe available in Officiator's Record Office.
• These two pets were wished for in the Wishing Well by Heli (#17512) and patpatity (#52179)!
  

The following non-general changes and additions have been applied to the NPC's Quests & Item Pools below:

 

• Trout's farming shoe task hand-in pools have been expanded.
  

• Irin's sprite calming task has been changed to equipping an Irin item and giving the sprites a gift. Equipping Magdalene's lamps is not longer a requirement for either the positive or negative tasks.
  

• Magdalene's advertisement task has been adjusted to equipping a lantern and completing a daily errand with any other NPC. The negative affection route for this task has been adjusted to you demanding potatoes from Magdalene.
• Magdalene's potato task requirements have been increased to having 15k potatoes on hand instead of 7k.
• Magdalene's helping irin task's negative route has been adjusted to be completing an errand for Irin by upsetting them.
  

• Barclay's pet totem equipping task has been expanded to larger pools of totems that Barclay either considers heroic or villainous. The task now also requires 2 pet interactions after making sure the right totem is equipped.
• Barclay's hero cape task equipment pools have been expanded.
  

Heroic Training with Barclay Quest Adjustments
This repeatable quest is part of the 3's Forest witches' main storyline, we've made some changes to it to give newbies an easier time getting through this portion of the story and unlock the next town. The following changes have been made:

• The quest can be completed 3 times a day instead of 7 times, with scaled up rewards such as increased potatoes, conecakes, and NPC affection.
• It should now take just 2-3 days to gain enough affection to advance the story quest instead of up to a week.
• 2 Additional tasks were added to boost the variety available: Interact with a pet, Alchemize an item
  

• Mycel's riddle task has been reduced from 5 to 3 riddles.
• Mycel's glowshroom pet task has been adjusted to also require 2 pet interactions.
• Mycel's concoction task ingredient pools have been expanded.
• Mycel's totem task's negative affection route has been changed from requiring pet affection gain to pet interaction.
  

Glamours with Mycel Quest Adjustments
This repeatable quest is part of the 3's Forest witches' main storyline, we've made some changes to it to give newbies an easier time getting through this portion of the story and unlock the next town. The following changes have been made:

• The quest can be completed 3 times a day instead of 7 times, with scaled up rewards such as increased potatoes, conecakes, and NPC affection.
• It should now take just 2-3 days to gain enough affection to advance the story quest instead of up to a week.
• 2 Additional tasks were added to boost the variety available: Alchemize an item, Complete a Daily Bonus Task
  

• Glume's pet showing task has been adjusted to also require 2 pet interactions.
• Glume's clothing task pools have been expanded for both positive and negative routes.
  

Gaining Glume's Favor Quest Adjustments
This repeatable quest is part of the 3's Forest witches' main storyline, we've made some changes to it to give newbies an easier time getting through this portion of the story and unlock the next town. The following changes have been made:

• The quest can be completed 3 times a day instead of 7 times, with scaled up rewards such as increased potatoes, conecakes, and NPC affection.
• It should now take just 2-3 days to gain enough affection to advance the story quest instead of up to a week.
• 2 Additional tasks were added to boost the variety available: Interact with a pet, Create a trade
  

• This is the second installment of daily quest balancing! We are releasing these updates town by town in order to eventually balance all existing 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.
• Coming up next is the Silvie's Mine daily balancing!