DATABASE UPDATE STATUS
We're still working on fixing bugs related to recent updates as well as proceeding with testing of additional system updates we're working on. We'll be keeping everyone posted if a new update is being pushed to the site with potential new bugs appearing as a result.

DAPPERVOLK 4TH ANNIVERSARY
It's Dappervolk's Anniversary month! We're excited to have some mini festivities for our 4th year with new items, pets, and also returning anniversary items! Thank you for your support all this time, we look forward to many more years here with everyone in our community.

VAER REEF BALANCING UPDATE
Our preparations and work on content for the Vaer Reef Update is still underway! We'll be sharing teasers here and there when we're ready.

UPCOMING NEWS POLLS
Last month, we discovered a fix we wanted to make before starting polls, which was fixed late in the month. We'll be beginning a series of polls with various topics this month!

THE FROG GATHERING EVENT
Event Ends at 11:59PM DVT June 8th, 2024

• This is a gathering event to help boost the community's initial frog coins.
• Gather Tadpole Tokens by finding gatherables around the site.
• Water other users' frog buddies in order to grow their pond plants.
• Alchemize Tadpole Tokens to receive Frog Coins!
  

This has been one of our first potato sink focused updates, so we'd like to share some plans as well as discussions with everyone about it. There have been many ideas posted about different kinds of potato sinks and mechanics we can try to balance the Trades Market, here's a short list of some key types we'll be exploring in future updates.

Additional Incremental Potato Sinks

• These are normally tied to a themed content drop of some kind similar to the Frog update.
• The idea behind this type of sink is that it tackles the max potatoes that can be earned through site mechanics daily and helps stabilize Market prices that way.
• We have several future plans for sinks of this type and are closely monitoring feedback in regards to how it's presented and how it feels in this update so far.
  

Large Sum Potato Sinks

• This includes any items sold in shops for a very high flat potato sale price.
• We don't currently have shop stock of this type anywhere, which is something we're planning to add in the future!
  

Mechanic Tax Potato Sinks

• These are potato fees for using various parts of the site, ranging from more cosmetic things to convenience based mechanics to taxes or fees on different areas of the game. 
• There are a multitude of possibilities with this sink type which we're excited to explore and will be mindfully planning with future feature updates as well as new features.
  

Co-op Donation Potato Sinks
These could help unlock new features such as new content in shops, new NPC's etc and require the community to chip in potatoes until fulfilled. We have some ideas on how to implement this with future content drops!

UPDATE PLANS
Here is an overview of the two parts of this update.

PART ONE

• New Frog Pond Area
• Paulie the Frog's Arrival
• Paulie's Trolley Shop
• "Paulie's Dream" Daily Quest
  

PART TWO - UPCOMING!

• Arrives between May 20th-25th
• Gathering Event for participation trophy and additional frog coins
• Additional clothing items added to Paulie's Shop
• More Pet Species added
  

Between May 20th - May 25th we'll be releasing part two of the frog pond content! We're parcelling it out in part due to some php related bugs and in part to also test out smaller but more frequent content updates. The frog pond will also get new content and stories periodically to replenish the potato sink!

• Speak to the First Mate at the Shipwreck to begin the quest "The Captain Behind the Curtain"
• There are 5 quests in total, to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 quests will be repeatable, allowing for progression and accumulation of currency.
• The Neat Ship Shop is stocked with Aeolin items and will be open all month, taking Sand Dollars as currency!
• Other than quests, Sand Dollars can also be obtained through Random Encounters, Adventuring, and Vaer Sea Forage.
  

FROG UPDATE STATUS
We had a slight delay on our frog undertakings, which is why the froggening will officially begin at the end of this week!

DATABASE UPDATE STATUS
Our codebase updates are progressing steadily, last month we pushed 2 different updates and worked on various fixes for bugs that appeared. We're currently working on the last two upgrades which we're testing internally. We're aiming to do the updates this month, after which we'll be very up to date and have a more secure codebase!

Note that some aspects of the upgrades may require a longer than usual maintenance to go through the whole database. We'll be keeping everyone in the loop on when/if that happens!

UPCOMING NEWS POLLS
Last month, we tried out a different bundling method for pet hatches in the monthly shops. After gathering feedback diligently, we're planning to host a poll about which options are prefered so we can keep it in mind for future monthly shops with pets.

We're also planning on a poll to ask if our community would prefer to not see forum game threads on the latest forum activity box on the front page, as well as other more lore or content related polls!

VAER REEF BALANCING UPDATE
Our artists are getting to work on assets this month for the Vaer Reef balancing update which will include all rebalancing and new content as well as the affection quests and an additional story's end quest. We'll keep everyone posted on our progress!

• Speak to Lian at the Lotus Pavilion to begin the seasonal quest "A Drop in the Lake"
• There are 3 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• "The Lotus Festival" is a daily repeatable quest which can be completed 4 times per day.
• Lian's Temple Stall is open again for the month of April!
• Stocked are Signi's items, with 1 new item available!
• Signi's seasonal currency "Ceramic Scale" can be obtained from seasonal quests in the Lotus Pavilion as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

FROG UPDATE STATUS
The ribbiting will occur later this month, are you ready?

MAJOR CODEBASE VERSION UPDATES
Along with our amphibian wonders, we'll be busy this month with updating several aspects of the codebase to keep up to date with security and compatibility. We may experience some downtime here and there along with potential bugs and areas of the site temporarily not working. We'll be keeping a close eye on everything and working to update and fix things as smoothly as possible. Status posts will be shared if we're anticipating down time or maintenance. Thank you for your cooperation!

UPCOMING NICO AVATAR CONTEST
We'll be having another Nico's Avatar Contest later this month, run by our kindly community managers. More info will be shared when we're closer to the start time!

CUSTOM QUEUE STATUS
We're a little behind on the current batch of customs due to our workload last month, but should be getting caught up relatively early this month. Thank you for your patience!

ROADMAP UPDATES
With the introduction of new features in our latest changelog post such as the previewing system as well as content updates like the Aviar Cove balancing, we've been chipping away at our current priorities list in the Roadmap.

Our most recent QoL and new feature updates have been in preparation for our major marketplace updates that we're working on. We may be releasing more partial updates like this as long as they can stand alone on our road to completing the overhaul of the trades market as well as the new pet accessory and customs markets. Our Roadmap thread will be updated accordingly when we're ready!