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Welcome to March!

Hello everyone! Welcome to March, we hope you're doing alright and staying healthy!

Our 21st month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Chrysalis Painter!
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An inquisitive bemusement looks over your presence. Crackling lanterns
and soft plush chairs creak as the rickety shelves precariously hold a
thousand books, soft moth eaten carpets lie beneath your feet.


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See Full Item Previews here.
What are Turnips & Monthly Shops? Click here for information!
  
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Pai's Shop of Wonders
Pai is stocking these 8 items this month for 200 turnips each.

Chrysalis Painter's Flock ♦ Chrysalis Painter Robes
Chrysalis Painter Floral Fishbraid ♦ Chrysalis Painter's Library
Chrysalis Painter's Companion ♦ Chrysalis Painter Coat
Chrysalis Painter Winged Cloak ♦ Chrysalis Painter's Brushes


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Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' Perpetual Shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 8 shop items for a discounted 1500 Turnips.

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Oran's Emporium
Oran is stocking these 8 items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin!

Chrysalis Painter Mask ♦ Chrysalis Painter Winged Headpiece
 Chrysalis Painter Trousers ♦ Chrysalis Painter Dyed Bob
Chrysalis Painter's Sight ♦ Chrysalis Painter Hood
Chrysalis Painter Shoes ♦ Chrysalis Painter Skin

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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With the arrival of the Spring season as well as the new year, a new type of Seasonal Pet has appeared!

  • 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.


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2021 Spring Shard Pet
The Spring Shards from last spring have returned to Pai and Agnes' Shops this spring at a flat rate of 500 turnips, and Oran's Bonus Claim. Alchemize all 4 shards + a mixer potion to create the Spring Stone hatching item!

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AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
This month, the deity of the spiral shell awakens. Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!
 
WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a look into what we're prioritizing this month!

MARCH ART DEVELOPMENT STREAM

This month, the art development stream will take place on...
MARCH 4TH, 4PM DVT
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A 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!

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As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!

Winter Festivities Conclusions

Hello everyone, thank you so much for participating in our
Winter Festivities! We hope you had a great time exploring
Soll's Ruins and adventuring with Astra and Pellumi.
What was your favourite moment with them?

Here are some end of event stats you might be interested in!
In total, 1974 users wrapped up 66732 gifts in Pellumi's Sun Festival!

70 users made 259 submissions in the Bauble Decoration Contest!
55 users made 160 submissions in the Creativity Prompt Contest!
189 users made 485 submissions in the Avatar Contest Thread!

We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated in our contests! We had such a fun time looking at and reading entries to the creativity contest and bauble contest, and the wide range of interpretations of the "Tale of Opposites" theme made for an exciting avatar contest to judge.

Here are the different winners we rolled or picked for each contest!

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STAFF PICKS WINNERS
Here are our Staff Team's favourites! All of the submissions were amazing to go through and so difficult to narrow down, we had a great time picking them out! Click on each thumbnail to see the full submission.

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Akilsa (#15714)  • Celetara (#12726) • Aremisu (#25941)
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Ciphers (#5049) • Clifford (#12105) • ChaosArceus (#38112)
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CloudyCatte (#12062) • CopperSunset (#7396) • Doku (#14706)
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Notos (#40719) • Hummingbelle (#48417)  • Hopepunk (#64616)
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Incognito (#62073) • itsminos (#50835) • Johannabelle (#31826)
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Leonine (#7013)  •  LotusMoon (#9931) • Kanada (#2634)
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McVee (#56009) • Melial (#61736) • MistyGold (#20588)
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Noetsie (#18534)  • R000P (#13367) •  DrowntheFrowns (#30795)
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Rosre (#16323) • Roxy_Lalonde (#34545) • Rylaigh (#5465)
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tapirus (#22206) • Teamfailboat (#23909) • toe (#7335)


RAFFLE PRIZE WINNERS
Visit the thread here to see all Raffle Prize Winners!

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All Pellumi's Pick winner submissions were added to the Sun Festival Tree as bauble wrapping selections! Visit the thread here to see all Pellumi's Pick Prize Winners!

RAFFLE PRIZE WINNERS
Visit the thread here to see all Raffle Prize Winners!

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FINAL WINNERS
Here are the outfits that won each round of preliminary voting!
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Akilsa (#15714) ♦ Celiane (#1661) ♦ abel (#142)
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Susurrous (#12590) ♦ larkspur (#2071)

PRELIMINARY WINNERS
Here are the preliminary winners and their outfits selected for each round of voting!
VOTING ROUND #1 ♦ VOTING ROUND #2 ♦ VOTING ROUND #3
VOTING ROUND #4 ♦ VOTING ROUND #5


RAFFLE PRIZE WINNERS
Visit the thread here to see all Raffle Prize Winners!
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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.

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As you take one last look at Soll's Ruins with Astra, you can see a
small twinkling light at one of the stone peaks. It expands into several
blossoms - Pellumi is sending you off with some farewell fireworks.
You wave, hoping he can see as the morning sun slowly meanders
over the horizon, and the Ruins disappear without a trace.

Custom Site Limit & Ravan Update!

Hello everyone, we hope everyone had a relaxing weekend and are enjoying the various festivities!

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CUSTOM MAKER SITEWIDE LIMIT
We've added a system that puts a limit on how many Custom Makers can be spun on site within each time cycle.

Current Custom Maker Roll Limits
1 Custom Maker can be dropped across the site every 10 days.
1 User can spin a maximum of 1 Custom Maker every 30 days.

Note: Either type of Custom Maker counts.

We've raised the drop rate of Custom Makers across the board in all chance machines! These rates will be monitored closely and adjusted if the balancing can be improved.

Custom Roll Limits and cooldowns can be viewed on the front page under Newest Customs.
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Or on each Custom Archive page!

Custom Maker Info Updates

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.

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NEW RAVAN ITEMS
As promised, we worked on and completed 3 new Ravan Deity items that are now stocked in Agnes' Winter Boutique!

You can obtain the currency - Scrap of Knowledge - to purchase these items by completing Pai's Seasonal Quests:
A Search for the Unknown
Perusing the Constellation Library
Secrets of the Tomes


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Thank you for playing and supporting Dappervolk, we'll be back soon with more updates!

Welcome to February!

Hello everyone! Welcome to February 2022, happy Lunar New Year! Hope you're having a lovely moonlit season.

Our twentieth month of limited shops has arrived:
February's theme is the Aurelian Soiree!
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A tangle of lights denotes the loveliness of the evening.
The sun casts a wrinkle of pink hues over clinking cutlery,
a flurry of dancing and laughter unites.


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See Full Item Previews here!

This month's limited rewards are a little different from usual,
we're releasing a pet along with some totems and food alongside
the clothing set. We won't be doing this every month, but it
might be fun to change things up once in a while!

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The Aurelian Carousel is available in Pai's Shop of Wonders and hatches into the Aurelian Piglet!

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 7 items in their shop this month for varying turnip prices. A chest containing a set of Pai's items is now also available in their shop in addition to Agnes' Shop, to allow for more freedom in purchase making. If you spend 2000 turnips, you will be able to choose a free item of your choice! Free item claims will expire 6 months after obtaining them.

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Agnes' Perpetual Shop
Agnes' shop stocks a chest that contains a set of Pai's 7 shop items for 1500 Turnips, ideal for collectors who want a full set at a small discount. Agnes also has a Bonus Prize function in her shop. 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 8 items this month for 9,000 potatoes per spin! 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 February 28th, after which they will be removed to house March's monthly items!

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AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
This month, the seeker of knowledge surveys the landscape. Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!

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RAVAN ♦ FEBRUARY SEASONAL CONTENT
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Pai's seasonal quests about the deity of February are back for the month, along with an event shop containing Ravan's items!

  • 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 STREAM

This month, the art development stream will take place on...
FEBRUARY 7TH, 4PM DVT
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A 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!

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As always, thank you so much for playing and supporting
Dappervolk. We'll be back with more updates soon!

Winter Festivities 2022!

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Thick snow pristinely blankets a vast sandy expanse. The night sky
is illuminated by pinpricks of light, dwarfed by the moon's face.
You search at length for a sign of company.


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The festivities will be fully active for 3 weeks from:
JANUARY 24TH 12AM DVT to
FEBRUARY 15TH 11:59PM DVT

The Event Quests, Shop and non-gifting mechanics will remain until February 22nd, 11:59PM DVT

Welcome to Dappervolk's 2022 Winter Festivities!
We're so excited for everyone to have fun with the gifting event and experience Soll's storyline!

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PELLUMI'S SUN FESTIVAL
  • This is an anonymous present donation and claim tree run by Pellumi!
  • Roll tasks to wrap presents and donate them to the tree.
  • You can donate an unlimited number of gifts and claim up to 3 per day, 1 for each donation you make that day.
  • Gift donation and claiming will be sorted by rarity, meaning that generally you will get a similar rarity item to what you tend to donate!
  • Additional prizes can be claimed as you hit total donation milestones, they will give out special event prizes not within the user created pool!
  • After the event ends, there will be 7 days of free present claiming on an individual cooldown timer for the left over present pool.
  • This will go on for 7 days or until the pool is depleted.

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To access the event quest, visit the new seasonal area - Soll's Ruins! Go to the World Map and find it south of Silvie's Mine.

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  • Speak to Pellumi at Soll's Ruins to begin the seasonal quest "The Winter Sands"
  • There are 4 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
  • 2 of 4 quests are repeatable quests. "The Great Labyrinth" can be completed once a day while "A Moment's Respite" can be completed 3 times.

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  • Pellumi's Antique Nook shop will open on the second day of the event on January 25th 12AM DVT
  • The shop will be open until February 22nd, 11:59PM DVT
  • Shop stock will include all January Deity clothing, seasonal winter clothing, 2 new pet hatchables, totems, and more!
  • All shop items should be affordable if you complete the Sun Festival gifting event and complete all 4 winter quests in Soll's Ruins.

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HOW TO OBTAIN RUIN LIGHTS
Ruin Lights are the currency for the Winter Event Shop and are obtainable in the following ways:
  • Doing the seasonal event quests in Soll's Ruins
  • Completing gift milestones and claiming prizes at the Sun Festival
  • Random Encounters
  • Random Item Alchemy
  • Adventuring Rewards

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HOW TO GET EMBELLISHMENTS
Embellishments
are required for present wrapping tasks in the Sun Festival and can be obtained by:
  • Completing the "Exploring the Labyrinth" repeatable quest in Soll's Ruins.
  • Receiving them from other users through Embellishment gifting on user profiles.
  • You can post in this thread to give and receive embellishments!

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There is an Avatar Dress Up Contest, Creativity Prompt Contest, and a Bauble Decoration Contest open throughout the event! Click on the buttons below to visit them.

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All contest submissions close on February 8th 11:59PM DVT to allow time for judging, and prizes will be distributed in time for all currency to be spent.

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We hope you enjoy your time this cozy winter season, thank you for playing and supporting Dappervolk as always!
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