Here are our Staff Team's favourites! All of these submissions are so fun and creative in their own ways, we had a great time picking them out! Click on each thumbnail to see the full submission.

Hello everyone! We hope you all had a kind and healthy November. We're back with a new update for December 2020! As winter winds rise, we delve deep into the earth.What are Monthly Shops?

• Every month, Pai and Oran from Peddler's Port will have different sets of 8 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!
WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a quick look at the updates we're focusing on right now!

Adventuring Optimization
Our adventuring optimization is going through its final stage of testing now! If no new issues are found, we'll be able to reflect the new update onto the site with our next push.

Ad Theater
The Ad Theater is also nearly complete and going through its final testing and adjustments. More info on both of these updates in a new post once they're ready!

Nico's Atelier Item Update
We're planning to create some new items for Nico's Atelier as well as do outline adjustments on some of the existing items.
The types of items we're planning to add include:

• Simple eyes & mouths (Smiles, closed eyes, etc)
• Basic shoes
• Patches & sparkles - To take the place of skin decor items that were previously able to be layered on top of clothing.
• Glasses/Monocles
• Earrings
• Plain Skins
  

Custom Maker Queue
While finalizing the queue system, we've discovered a potential issue with our custom item system that we'd like to look over in order to safeguard our database for the future, we thank everyone for their patience as this gets resolved.

Vaer Reef Quest Update
We're working on final revisions, inputting, and testing the Vaer Reef Quest adjustments as well as Affection Milestone Side Quests. More info on this as we make progress!

The autumn festivities will run from:
November 12th 1:30AM to November 30th 11:59PM, 2020!
UPDATE: Event Shop and Currency gain has been extended to December 8th 12AM DVT!
Creativity Prompts still hold the submission deadline of November 30th.
The end of event news post and prompt prize winners will go up after December 8th!


Speak to Magdalene in the 3's Forest to begin your event quest:
"Among Fallen Leaves" - This series of quests will require a few days to complete and allow you to accumulate event currency and other items!


The event currency is Wild Forage Snacks!
You can obtain the event currency through the following ways:

• Magdalene's Seasonal Quests - Among the Fallen Leaves, Search the Shadowed Path, Returning to Magdalene's Cottage
• Daily Errands in 3's Forest
• Adventuring in 3's Forest Path
• 3's Forest Cleanup Minigame
• Random Item Alchemy
• Random Events on site!
• Creativity Prompts, Social Media Giveaways, and Surprise Trivia/Riddles in the Event Thread.
  

The Event Shop is now open from November 20th to December 8th 12AM DVT, 2020!

• You can visit Magdalene's Autumn Bazaar by clicking on Magdalene's marker in 3's Forest to access the event shop.
• The shop will take Wild Forage Snacks as its currency! The shop type will be permanent stock with differing prices for each seasonal item.
• Once the event ends, the shop will close until a new Autumn event appears next year.
  

You can participate in our social media based activities and giveaways during the event to win event items and other prizes!
Links will be updated in our Event Thread as posts are made!

Hello everyone! We hope you all had a safe, spooky, and lovely October. We're back with a new update for November 2020!What are Monthly Shops?

• Every month, Pai and Oran from Peddler's Port will have different sets of 8 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!
WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON
Here's a quick look at how we're progressing and some things that we're prioritizing right now!

• Many ways throughout the site's gameplay to collect an item that can be used as currency in an event shop open later in the event!
• A big staff-run event thread with creativity prompts and surprise trivia based around Dappervolk's lore. Prizes will include raffled, staff picked, and participation rewards!
• A series of autumn quests revealing more of Dappervolk's November deity and autumn lore.
• Small social media giveaways and activities throughout the month!
  

Since we won't have a big event feature ready for this season, we're going to do our best to have fun with everyone with lots of different smaller activities! We'll tease an event start date via a Status update when we're ready with a concrete date!

Guild Fixed & Adjustments
For the last few days after Guilds were released, we've been hard at work making fixes to new bugs and small adjustments to balance and improve the feature. We've been updating a Changelog post with all changes that are being made as we make them.

Adventuring Optimization, Custom Queue & Ad Theater
These are the features we'll be working on in between getting the event ready. We'll need to coordinate the timing of releases with our event and overall schedule. More info on each update will be released as we get to finalizing release dates!

Smaller Bug Fixes & QoL Adjustments
Here's a non-exhaustive list of some smaller updates we'll be working on rolling out in between our larger updates.

• Adding Stat Affinity/Weaknesses back in with the adjustments we have planned for the stat bonus task system.
• Investigating some pet milestone related bugs in which a traded pet's milestones are missing.
• Birthday letter bugs - We've addressed most of the wrong birthdate tickets, but we've discovered some new birthday related bugs that we're currently investigating before we do manual letter reimbursements.
• Some minor pet accessory system UI fixes and adjustments to streamline the experience.
• Some pet system related bug fixes that will improve the experience.
• Text editor improvements, we're looking into updating our plugins related to our text parser which should make text editing and our bbcode more consistent.
  

What are Guilds?
A Guild on Dappervolk is a player created community hub complete with a guild-only forum, live chat, leveling system, and upgrades to improve the Guild's perks. A Guild's community will work together and level the Guild as well as complete upgrades by doing various activities onsite.

How can I join a Guild?
You can look for a Guild to join in the Guild Subforum or via the Guild Directory! Some Guilds will opt to have open applications while others will be invite only. Each Guild has limited member space that will depend on the upgrades that they have completed.

How can I Create a Guild?
There are certain requirements that a Guild founder will need to meet in order to create a Guild. Once you meet the requirements, you can speak to the Guild Officiator at Peddler's Port to obtain a Guild license.

• You will need to have a minimum of 4500 collective affection in the town that you'd like to establish your Guild in.
• You will need to pay a one-time fee of 100,000 Potatoes to create your Guild.
• Lastly, 4 other users will be required to commit to joining your Guild as founders in order to get started. An invitation will be sent to them which must be accepted before the Guild can be fully created.
  

While the userbase gets settled into this new feature, we will be keeping a close eye on Guilds for bugs and issues that may only appear when hundreds of users start playing. Please bear with us as we tackle any bugs that arise! We are looking forward to all of the different guilds our community will be coming up with and customizing. We hope everyone has fun!
UPCOMING FEATURES, FIXES, & EVENTS
Lately things have been a bit quieter in terms of smaller news updates, as we've been quite busy behind the scenes working on the preparations for bigger updates! Below is a brief overview of some of the major upcoming things to look forward to that we've been working on recently. Each section will be covered in further detail in future updates!

Adventuring Optimization
Now that our Guilds feature is ready for release, we'll be focusing more development efforts on Adventuring optimization. Our current backend rework plans should reduce loading speed by a good deal as well as help out with CPU usage moderately. As a heads up, there will likely be up to a week of no site fixes being pushed to allow our coding developers to prepare the optimization in full before committing a live update.

Custom Creator Queue
This feature is next on our list of updates to put out, along with Adventuring Optimization. The two will likely be released together! We will make sure to give everyone a heads up before releasing this feature.

Fall Event
Our backend developer is also hard at work on new event types that will be different from the first major summer event that we had during August! However, due to the scale of effect that major events have on the entire site, we are not currently sure if we'll have time to fully implement and test a new major event type in time for a fall celebration. Nevertheless, we are actively planning festivities for the month of November regardless of whether or not the site is ready to host our next major event type!

Vaer Reef Quest Adjustments & Affection Quests
Currently, our writers have been working on adjustments to the Vaer Reef story quests and reworking the resulting Affection Milestone quests to better fit these changes. More info on this will be made available once all of the writing has been finalized and the adjustments are ready for implementation!