• 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.
  

STAFF HIRING
We'll be posting our recruitment post for community and event managers as well as new moderators during the event this month. We're excited to welcome some new faces into our team and grateful to our staff for keeping Dappervolk going!

KELBI PLANS
Our preparations for the Kelbi storyline are going smoothly alongside the upcoming event! We're aiming to launch the Kelbi event relatively quickly after the upcoming event concludes.

AVIAR COVE BALANCING
The update to Aviar Cove will commence preparations once we finish working on the upcoming events!

• 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 2 new items 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.
  

EVENT PROGRESS
We're working steadily on both the Winter and the Kelbi event, some more detailed progress was outlined in our previous news post. Our plan is to aim to start the Winter Event some time mid April, so we'll have more news for you on that as soon as we're ready. The Kelbi event will follow relatively soon after the Winter event ends!

Though our event progress is late, we're confident that the stories and lore will not feel out of place, and we're excitedly hoping to finish creating storylines for all 12 of our deities by early 2024. Dappervolk's world and lore is intrinsically tied to the deities and how NPCs view them, which is why so much emphasis is placed on them currently. Creating stories for the Deities with events does a vital job of expanding the world lore.

STAFF HIRING PLANS
We'll be releasing our staff recruitment post some time during the coming event when we have an activity boost!

QOL UPDATES
We're working on some more QoL Updates and bug fixes which we'll be releasing in changelogs through the month.

AFTERWORD
We're currently hard at work on both the Winter Event as well as Kelbi's storyline. Here is their current progress!

Winter Event
Art Assets: 80%
Writing: 65%
Coding: 100%

Kelbi Event
Art Assets: 20%
Writing: 40%
Coding: 70%

We're hoping to have a definitive start date as well as teasers either late this month or early next month! Thanks for your patience and we hope you enjoy this content in the meantime.

• 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 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.
  

WINTER EVENT PROGRESS
Our current progress on the upcoming winter event is the following: 
Art Assets: 70%
Writing: 45%
Coding: 100%
We'll be announcing a start date some time this month when we're ready! In the meantime some info - this event will create a new seasonal town that will be expanded each year with new activities and rewards. It's planned to be the first of one area for each season that will be available along with new events featuring deities and permanent storyline additions.

STAFF HIRING PLANS
We're in the process of preparing materials and updating our system to be ready to bring new staff on board. We're aiming to post a recruitment announcement later this month or early next month.

KELBI SEASONAL PLANS
Kelbi's season is originally this month, however since the Winter event is planned for this month, we're working on still releasing it this spring some time after the Winter event is over. Currently, we're working on the storyline with our writers and will keep you posted on progress for it! We have 4 deities left to release stories for, and we're looking to achieve this by the end of the year with Vaer's month if all goes well.

CUSTOM QUEUE STATUS
Due to various IRL obstacles last month, we had to push the current batch of custom releases to this month. We're on the way to completing and claiming the next batch before mid month. Thanks for your patience as we worked through priorities!

NEXT PRIORITIES ON THE ROADMAP
Once the winter event and staff recruitment are complete, we're planning to focus on the following as our main priorities:
Pet Accessory Market
Customs Market
Tradesmarket Upgrades
Kelbi Event/Storyline
Aviar Cove Balancing

The following updates have been applied to all Silvie's Mine Daily Errands.

• A reroll option with the player choice text "Can I help you with something else instead?" has been added to the beginning of each task.
  
  • This option can be used once per quest completion to generate a new task different from the initial one.
    
  
  
• Daily Errands in Silvie's Mine can now be completed 3 times/day instead of 7.
• Positive quest ending potato rewards were boosted, increasing daily potato gains from each errand by about 2400 potatoes in total per NPC.
• Affection gained or lost has been increased to be equal to doing 7 quests/day previously.
• Tasks have been adjusted according to the reduced number of dailies each day. Some higher effort tasks such as adventuring have stayed the same or been reduced for better balancing.
• Conecake rewards were increased. Dual-stat NPC's now give out a random assortment of two types of conecakes instead of one.
• Dialogue has been compressed to fewer total text boxes to lessen clicks.
• Transitions and redirects have been updated to be more streamlined and give users more freedom.
  

A total of 96 new items have been released!
New items have arrived in each NPC's chance shop, the following shop stock adjustments have been made:

• A Bonus Prize pool with claims costing an equivalent of 10 spins has been added to each NPC's shop.
• Totems, Pen Expansions, and Wardrobe Expansions, have been moved to each NPC's Bonus Prize pool in their shop instead of being in the chance pool.
• 2+ newly drawn items have been added to each NPC's clothing set, each item with colourations matching that of the existing sets.
• An additional 4th set colour has been added for each NPC, and can be found in their chance shop stock as well as bonus prizes.
• Pet Hatching items and NPC food have been added to the bonus prize pool as well while keeping them in the chance pool.
  

• Two new pet species have been released with this update!
• The first is a quaint pet whose shards are found in Visindy's Shop Bonus Prizes.
• The other is also a quaint pet with shards found in Idra's Shop Bonus Prizes.
  

The following non-general changes and additions have been applied to the NPC's Quests & Item Pools below:

• Nigel's negative route clothing hand in pool has been expanded.
• Nigel's negative route of giving him potatoes has been increased to 500 instead of 300.
  

• Cairn's negative route of giving them potatoes has been increased to 500 instead of 300.
• Cairn's totem task has been adjusted to equipping a totem and playing with pets twice.
  

• Pascal's pet affection gain task has been changed to interacting with a pet 3 times instead.
• Pascal's shiny item collection task's hand in pool has been expanded.
• Pascal's negative forum post task has been expanded to also accept pet/user profile comments.
• Pascal's comment on a pet profile task has been given an alternate option to feed a pet 3 times instead.
  

• Marvel's negative clothing hand in task has had its pool expanded.
  

• Visindy's interesting item task hand in pools have been expanded.
• Visindy's show a 3's Forest pet task has been adjusted to also require 2 pet interactions but now also accepts all fantastical/legendary pets as well as quaints.
  

• Idra's present for Visindy task hand in pool has been expanded.
• Idra's comprehensive totem task has been adjusted to include having a pet with at least 5 raw comprehension as your active pet, equipping a totem, and playing with any pet twice.
• Idra's day and night decor task now requires only 1 item to be handed in. The hand in pools have also been expanded.
• Idra's day and night decor task now tracks the day/night time correctly.
  

• This is the third installment of daily quest balancing! We are releasing these updates town by town in order to eventually balance all existing towns.
• With the addition of new items as well as bonus prize pools for NPC shops, we're aiming to make it so that certain items are obtained by choice rather than by chance. For example, the pen expansions were being dropped too often and filling up inventories without any purpose, now they can be picked up only if the user wants one.
• The bonus prize and shop stock updates have opened up the possibility of adding new items more easily to NPC shops in the future within smaller content updates.
• Coming up next is the Aviar Cove daily balancing!
  

POTATO SINK PLANS
With the progression of rebalancing, dailies have become easier to complete and therefore generating more potatoes for more users across the site. This is causing some inflation which we will be addressing in the following ways:

• Increase the frequency of the custom limit 10 day reset to 7 days instead to encourage potato spending to happen more often. This will happen with our next changelog later this month.
• Work on adding new seasonal, permanent, and limited content that costs potatoes.
  

Note: Pinot's second Affection Milestone quest is now available to complete once unlocked. Previously it was stuck behind this balancing update.