• A series of community milestone prizes will be unlockable by the community's collective efforts.
• Milestone prizes can be claimed by all participants regardless of contribution level once the prize is unlocked.
• There will also be individual prize tiers for dedicated participants.
• A randomized daily reward has been added for participants donating or interacting with pets a certain amount of times.
• The community milestones can be reached by collective donation of a certain currency item which will be rewarded through event mechanics.
• All tasks in the event will be tracked passively after visiting the event page for the first time, garnering donation currency as well as points towards individual prizes.
• There will be a pet interaction mechanic which generates rewards and evolving images on participating pets.
• Since the last iteration of this event type, we've taken into account feedback and made some adjustments to the UI to make it easier to understand and navigate.
  

SEASONAL MAP ♦ NEW NPC ♦ QUEST STORYLINE ♦ EVENT SHOP

• There will be a new seasonal mini town available to be visited during the event!
• A new seasonal NPC also inhabits this area, with a set of event quests which can be completed for seasonal currency.
• The new seasonal town along with its NPC will disappear once the event ends, to return annually as a seasonal quest.
• An event shop will become accessible on the second day of the event on September 20th at 12AM DVT, stocked with all seasonal items for Kelbi and spring.
• Event currency will be earned through the Co-op Event, Seasonal Event Quests, and various site mechanics.
  

There will be an Avatar Contest and a Creativity Prompt Contest held during the event!

We'll also be holding another Custom Giveaway throughout the event!

• The ingredients to make the hatching item can be found in Pai, Agnes, and Oran's shops' Bonus Prize pools.
• The item alchemy recipe is available in your recipe book and shown above.
• This Seasonal Pet will remain in the shops for 3 months and rotate out at the end of November 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.
  

KELBI EVENT STATUS
The Kelbi event announcement is coming within the next few days, stay tuned!

STAFF HIRING STATUS
We're planning to send out email responses to promising applicants within the next week or two in order to begin the onboarding process. Thank you for your patience!

AVIAR COVE BALANCING UPDATE
The planned Aviar Cove balancing update will come with an additional sizeable potato sink content drop as well to help offset inflation! Here is our current progress on it:
Art Assets: 50%
Quest Adjustments: 25%
Inputting/Testing: 10%

FUTURE CONTENT/EVENT PLANS
We've taken a look at our current set of goals and after a good deal of discussion, here are our plans in regards to upcoming events and content drops!

For the next few months, we're going to focus more on upcoming permanent content updates such as balancing updates, potato sinks, and new permanent content in order to bring the base game to the state that we want it to be.

We realized that over time, large scale events had become more and more elaborate as our ambition for the creative side of things grew, thus requiring more assets, writing, and overall time spent preparing each event. While it was a great deal of fun and we're proud of our community and progress, we've realized that the time spent preparing events consumes too much of our work schedule and we want to rework how we approach future events.

The remaining deity events will still happen at some point, but first we're going to spend some efforts to update the game with more permanent content. We'd also eventually like to hold some more large scale events that introduce new permanent content like we did with the Witches' War previously. Thanks for reading our thoughts and decisions on this aspect of Dappervolk's development!

TRADES MARKET UPDATES
We're now working on designing the Trades Market revamp, Pet Accessory market, and Customs market with focus on player feedback and ease of use. We're working on all three at the same time since all three will use a similar trades market system.

This will take some time to launch but we think it will improve the game experience greatly as well as make it much easier for users to get into things like pet accessories and customs trading. The trades market revamp will allow for much easier trade listing as well as system adjustments that fit our community's needs better.

KELBI EVENT STATUS
While our overall progress was delayed due to some IRL weather events impacting part of our team during July, we did still make some background progress on our upcoming updates. Our current progress on the Kelbi event is the following: 
Art Assets: 80%
Writing: 95%
Coding: 100%
We'll be working hard towards announcing this event's start date some time this month, thank you for understanding!

STAFF HIRING STATUS
We're currently in the process of going through all applications and making our selections. No replies have been sent out yet as we'd like to send them out all at once in order to keep our new recruits on the same page.

AVIAR COVE BALANCING PLANS
Our team is working hard on the upcoming Aviar Cove balancing update as well, which we'll have more info on once we're ready. We have also been preparing content to be added to an upcoming potato sink to be released with future balancing updates to help offset inflation.

JUNIOR MODERATOR DUTIES

• Helping and guiding users on the forums (answering questions in the help forum, bug forums etc)
• Keeping the site clean and organized
• Keep track of bug reports for admins
• Helping to discover and address misconduct
• Handle general forum and query related user tickets
  

IDEAL SKILL SET

• Detail oriented
• Available for a few hours each week according to your availability/timezone
  

COMMUNITY MANAGER DUTIES

• Actively engaging the community on the forums (welcoming newbies, helping in the help forum, responding to user made threads)
• Help plan, organize, maintain, and moderate official event threads 
• Help judge official contest entries
• Keeping track of and responding to user suggestions and other threads
  

IDEAL SKILL SET

• Active and positive presence on forums
• Able to commit to responsibilities surrounding staff run contests
• Experience with Google Sheets
• Experience with graphics making (Photoshop etc) is a plus
  

KELBI EVENT PROGRESS
Here's a peek at our current progress on the upcoming Kelbi event: 
Art Assets: 75%
Writing: 80%
Coding: 100%
News on this event's launch is coming after mid month!

STAFF RECRUITMENT PLANS
We're doing final preparations and will be posting our staff recruitment information early this month! We had originally planned to post it later in June, but shuffled things around to allow for smooth event updates.

AVIAR COVE BALANCING
We'll be embarking on artwork and quest updates for Aviar Cove balancing this month, and are aiming to release it in the next month or two. We're also going to plan out some potato sink content drops in order to combat the inflation that will be caused by additional town balancing.

ROADMAP UPDATES
After our current event plans and other priorities are complete, we'll be updating our Roadmap thread and moving certain plans up in priority to focus on them next!