RECIPE BALANCING
Our artist team is working hard on completing all the assets for recipe balancing! We have a number of things left to do such as final assets, item sink quest planning, rearranging item pools, and shop planning, which we'll be focusing on this month along with event preparation. We're hoping to release the recipe rebalance some time this month before the spring event, wish us luck!

SPRING EVENT PREPARATION
We're currently working hard on the event overhaul coding, artwork, and storyline for the Spring event! Depending on how things progress, we will hold the event either near the end of April or in early May if we need the extra time. We'll keep you updated and post an announcement news post when we're ready to announce the event start date. We're excited to share the new event with everyone!

QUEST BALANCING
Our artist team's workload after the recipe rebalancing assets is the quest balancing new Louise Hill shop items, everything is progressing at a fair pace currently. We're also working on updating and testing rebalanced dailies for the town to make sure they work well and are well balanced.

BETA CHANGELOG & ROADMAP THREAD
These two items are on our to-do list, and will remain here until they are complete! Our aim currently is to get these items done once event preparation and some items above are in order.

  

• The ingredients to make the hatching item can be found in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shops' Bonus Prize pools.
• Alchemize 4 Spring Seeds + 1 Spring Soil to get the Spring Fruit hatching item!
• The item alchemy recipe is available by default in your recipe book.
• This Seasonal Pet will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of May 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.
  

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a look into what we're prioritizing this month!

MARCH ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMA 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!

QOL UPDATES
A few QoL updates are ready to be pushed to the site some time this week, including bulk alchemy, a front page latest updates link bar, and various other fixes!

SPRING EVENT PREPARATION
We're planning an overhaul to our Spring Co-op style event to make it feel more truly co-op based. Along with changes to the existing system we're also planning on adding new mechanics to the event for some extra fun. The upcoming Spring event will arrive some time in April, with plenty of new content in store for everyone!

RECIPE BALANCING
We're continuing our work on this update this month, to ideally be ready with it some time in April if everything goes well! For those who didn't see our plans for this update, check the "Item Reward Pool Expansions" section in this news post for more info!

QUEST BALANCING
We're working on balancing the dailies in Louise Hill, and are hoping to launch it after April! The update won't just consist of daily errand rebalancing, but will also include new items in every NPC shop within the town. Our plan is to roll out a rebalancing & additional shop stock update for each town in succession.

BETA CHANGELOG & ROADMAP THREAD
These two items are on our to-do list, and will remain here until they are complete!

Here are some plans for improvements for future events like this that we've accumulated from hosting this event!

• We'll be adding more areas to obtain embellishments such as more daily quest rewards, other site mechanics, etc! This way, users will have an easier time getting embellishments and wrapping up more presents for the pool.
• We'll also be looking into some additional daily reward claims to add to the tree.
• Mostly after introducing the reroll button near the end of this event and the improvements listed above, we just need to work on balancing improvements for next year!
  

Our next event is going to be a Spring Event some time in April with revamped co-op style mechanics! We'll be back with other updates in the meantime.

CUSTOM RULES UPDATE ♦ A section has been added at the bottom that outlines what a custom clothing/pet is on Dappervolk.
CUSTOM FAQ UPDATE ♦ The FAQ has been separated into 3 different posts for better clarity, info on Custom Distribution has been added to cover questions asked about this process.
CUSTOM PET ARCHIVE UPDATE ♦ New info about Custom Distribution and Custom Site Limit have been added.
CUSTOM CLOTHING ARCHIVE UPDATE ♦ New info about Custom Distribution and Custom Site Limit have been added.

Reasons for adding the Site Wide Custom Maker limit:

• We can control the drop rate of Custom Makers to keep the queue manageable for our artists while also not making the drop rate extremely low.
• It allows a better chance for the average user to obtain a custom maker due to the higher drop rate.
• We can ideally control deflation by putting a limit on custom maker obtainment and stopping users from endlessly sinking potatoes into machines.
  

• 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.
  

• You can start the quest "A Search for the Unknown" by going to Peddler's Port and clicking on Pai.
• There are 3 quests in total: A Search for the Unknown, Perusing the Constellation Library (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Secrets of the Tomes (Unlocks after a number of days completing the previous quest.
• Agnes' Winter Boutique is open again for the month of February!
• Stocked are Ravan's items, with a couple of additional items preparing to arrive a week into February!
• Ravan's seasonal currency "Scrap of Knowledge" can be obtained from Pai's repeatable seasonal quest "Perusing the Constellation Library" as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a look into what we're prioritizing this month!

FEBRUARY ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMA status post with a link to the stream will be posted when it begins!
We'll be working on Ravan items as well as wishes from the Wishing Well thread. Hope to see you there!

CUSTOM LIMIT
We're nearly ready to launch the sitewide custom maker limits! We'll be raising the drop rate as well as adding some info about custom distribution to the archive pages along with this upcoming update.

RECIPE BALANCING
Our art team is diligently at work on the large recipe pool rebalancing update, we still have a ways to go but will be aiming to have all of the artwork done some time in April.

QOL & OTHER UPDATES
Our coders are working on several different updates along with some more basic fixes and QoL changes this month. These updates will include bulk item alchemy, a latest updates link bar with convenient links on the front page, event fixes, and other optimizations.

QUEST BALANCING
Along with our previously outlined update plans to help balance daily errands and reduce clicks, we're looking into a way to allow a reroll of a task in each errand. This should help with avoiding tasks you can't do as well as keep the balance of different tasks intact.

BETA CHANGELOG & ROADMAP THREAD
These two items are on our to-do list, and will remain here until they are complete!