Hello everyone! We hope you had a cozy January. We're back with a new update for February 2021!  Our Peddler's Port adventurers come with gifts from a mystical land.
Full Item Previews now Available!
We've set up a thread showcasing all monthly limited shop item previews here. Each month's previews will now be posted here in the beginning of the month.

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 look into what we're currently prioritizing, among other smaller bug and QoL fixes!

WINTER FESTIVITIES
We're working hard on coding, quest writing, art assets, and planning for the winter event to take place some time in February! As a small hint, the winter event mechanics this year revolve around the act of giving and receiving. We'll have more details for you before the event begins!

VAER REEF QUEST UPDATE
We're still working on revisions for the story quests and affection side quests in Vaer Reef, the writing priority has temporarily shifted to the winter event quests but we'll be prioritizing this again once the event quests are complete.

CUSTOM MAKER SUBMISSION
We're still finetuning the adjustments to the system for custom pets and clothing, we want to make sure the process is as smooth as possible for both users and art staff once this feature is launched. Due to the winter event currently taking precedent, we're hoping to launch submission in either February or relatively soon after that in March. Thank you very much for your patience!

ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS CONTENT
We're working on adding additional content to different parts of the game for variety, this includes additional alchemy recolours for existing items, new items and recipes to various parts of the site, new pets, and lots more. The ways to obtain these items and pets will become clear once we start to push them out in the coming months.

With each new permanent clothing item update, we'll also be working on outline adjustments for existing site items to be pushed along with them.

PLANNED BALANCING & ADJUSTMENTS
In the background, we've been working on planning out some extensive adjustments to improve the game's flow and sense of reward, as well as boosting play longevity. This will consist of adjustments to multiple parts of the site such as quests, user experience/interface, content variety, and other mechanic updates.

Once our plans are ready to be announced, we'll update everyone with a roadmap of the series of updates we'll be rolling out. This is something in our priority list that may take some time as it requires very careful planning, we're looking forward to continuously improving the game!

COMMUNICATION ORGANIZATION
Recently, we made a changelog post about communication here. It covers our current policies, areas we've improved on, and areas we'd like to improve on for communication. Going forward, we'll also be taking a look at how to streamline our different channels of communication (news posts, changelogs, status posts) so that the userbase is fully informed more easily.

MAIN STORYLINE CONTINUATION
Along with everything else, we've been working on and planning the next town's content in the background. The release of a new town is still a ways off, but we'll keep you posted on its progress as we work. Since we're in our first year of Dappervolk, there are still some very important core features and gameplay updates we have to do, which is why some content updates were pushed back. Once things begin to iron out more, we'll be able to dedicate more time to content updates like this to move the storyline forward! 

We've updated outlines on the following:
All Nico's Atelier clothing
Vierre, Andromeda, Declan, Moira stall clothing - New Features Only
All Pet Affection Milestone clothing
All Summer Event clothing
All Monthly Seasonal Deity clothing

Next on our outline adjustment list:
Newbie Clothing Items
Early NPC Clothing
Adventuring Clothing
NPC Affection Clothing

Hello everyone! Happy New Year, we hope that everyone will have a wonderful 2021 full of healing and happiness. We're back with a new update for January 2021!  Our intrepid exploring peddlers return from a trip to the ice.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!
UPCOMING UPDATES
Here's a quick look at the updates we're focusing on right now!

LOUISE HILL RIDDLE CONTEST RESULTS
We're still in the process of reviewing each submitted riddle to determine the winners, there were a record number of submissions during the contest which is why it's taken some time. We're hoping to put some more time into finalizing results this month as well as inputting all winning riddles into the Louise Hill adventuring area!

CUSTOM MAKER SUBMISSION
We've almost finished with the backend adjustments we wanted to make to the system so we're in final testing stages now! We'll let everyone know once the queue is ready to be opened officially. The custom maker submission rules will also be announced a week in advance of the queue opening!

NICO'S ATELIER UPDATE
We're currently working on all the new items we had planned for Nico's along with outline updates, we're aiming for an update some time in January!

WINTER FESTIVITIES
We're working on a Winter Festivities event which we're hoping to have take place some time in February, we're excited for everyone to be able to explore more of the seasonal lore! More info will be posted about this as we develop the event details.

HOUSING
We're progressing smoothly with establishing the basic frameworks and mechanics of housing at the moment, as our artists simultaneously work on assets! Eventually, once the feature gets closer to completion we'll be able to show everyone sneak peeks.

AD THEATER

• The Ad Theater feature has arrived! Simply visit the Playground to access it.
• In the Ad Theater, you can watch videos and advertisements to earn potatoes for each video you watch.
• Video and advertisement content depends on your interests and browsing patterns determined by our ad provider. Advertisements will occasionally appear in the middle of videos which will give you extra earnings once watched.
• You can also earn turnips, potatoes, and item rewards if you watch a minimum of 6 videos per day consecutively to complete the multi-day reward streak.
• More info on rewards can be seen on the Theater page.
• Adjustments and bug fixes may be made as we monitor the feature's launch in the coming days.
  

ADVENTURING OPTIMIZATION

• We've reworked the entire backend image calling and processing system for Adventuring.
• This allows for a much smoother and shorter game loading time, and should also moderately reduce cpu usage.
• Due to the image cache, this update may take a few days of refreshing to fully integrate. Feel free to report any bugs you find to the Bug Reports forum!
• We're also working on updating the sprite thumbnails and additional adjustments down the line, since our backend system for npc events and images is more robust now!
  

STAT AFFINITIES

• Stat affinities have been added back in, this means that pet food and quest stat gains are once again affected by either the pet's nature or the player's class.
• If you're an elven class, you can now get +1 bonus charm for quest rewards or if you're getting +1 tenacity, there is a chance you'll get +0 tenacity.
• If your pet is comprehensive nature, it can now gain +1 bonus comprehension or +0 honour if +1 honour is rolled from pet foods .
• Stat affinities for Daily Bonus Stat Tasks have been adjusted so that the stat your strength is in will give you one extra stat task and your weak stat will have one less stat task each day. This has been adjusted so that no effort is wasted and so that there is a limit to stat weakness for tasks.
  

MINIGAME UPDATES

• Vaer Sea Forage's potato reward gain has been increased for better balancing.
• Currently, we're lacking the expertise to fully fix some of the reward and score keeping bugs affecting some users. If you're only experiencing the reward generation issues on mobile, we'd suggest that you try playing on a different device for now. We'll keep at it and give you updates if we manage to fix the issues!
  

PET PROFILE NAVIGATION BUTTONS

• Pet profiles now have NAVIGATE buttons that will scroll through the user's menagerie, allowing for a more convenient user experience.
• The order should go by the saved pet order in each pen, and loop back to the first pen once the last pen's pet is reached.
• There may be some discrepancies for pens with newly obtained pets that haven't had their order manually sorted by the user.
• All new unsorted pets will be ordered by ascending pet ID when navigated through.
  

BLOCK SETTING UPDATES

• Directly linked trades market lots can no longer be viewed by a blocked user of the trade lot's creator.
• Accessory usages can no longer be granted to a user who has been blocked by the accessory's owner, or if the owner is blocked by the recipient of the usage.
  

TICKET STATUS
We're currently keeping on top of new tickets being sent in, and continuing our work on going through the remaining bulk of older tickets. Some tickets with the same query that are currently unanswered are those we're working on a consistent way to address or handle them, and others are situations or contain issues that we need to deliberate over before making a decision. Thank you very much for your patience!

PET ACCESSORY STATUS
We're up to date and keeping up well with all pet accessory design submissions. There is an average wait time of 1-4 days after submitting your accessory for approval. We're working on some visual and text based updates to the rules in order to cover details that are currently not included/up to date. In the meantime, since our ticket queue is manageable, feel free to send in a ticket or PM Admin #1 if you have questions about an accessory submission you're unsure about!

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.