Welcome to March - Dappervolk

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Dappervolk’ welcome to March news post is now available.


Welcome to March!​

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Hello everyone! Welcome to March, we hope you're doing well and marching along!

Our 45th month of limited shops has arrived:
March's theme is the Ophidian Envoy!
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A still forest encapsulates a lake and its circular stone temple, not a leaf out of place. Muted rain falls on the steps.

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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's Shop of Wonders
is stocking these 8 clothing items for 200 turnips each.

A chest containing all 8 items is available at 1500 turnips - a discount of 100 turnips!

Ophidian Envoy ♦ Arm Guard, Helm, Shoulder Guards, Ponytail, Rags, Sabatons, Stone Circle, Sword

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

Ophidian Envoy ♦ Bob, Ferocity, Hip Guards, Lips, Sash, Side Guards, Skin, Smoke Tattoos

These monthly shop clothing items will run until March 31st, after which they will be removed to house April's monthly items!
  • 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.
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KELBI'S FESTIVAL RETURNS
  • Speak to Lula at the Spiralwood to begin the seasonal quest "Into the Spiralwood"
  • There are 3 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
  • "Festival of the Slumbering Snail" is a daily repeatable quest which can be completed 4 times per day.
  • Winding Shells are the currency for Lula's Festival Booth, obtained through seasonal event quests in the Spiralwood, Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Starry Night Minigame, Adventuring Rewards
  • A couple of new items will arrive in the next few days.
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AD THEATER STREAK REWARD
Visit the Theater and click on the "CHECK REWARDS" button to see the new rewards!

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The Carnival has shuttered its gates until next winter, thank you for attending!
MARCH ART DEVELOPMENT STREAMS
This month, the art development stream will take place on...

MARCH 18TH, 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!
AVIAR COVE BALANCING UPDATE
We're just doing final testing now for the Aviar Cove update, and are looking forward to releasing it around the first week of this month! Here is a small pet teaser to tide everyone over until then.
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UPCOMING CHANGELOG UPDATE
We're looking at releasing a changelog update some time this month with a variety of QoL and UI updates. This includes but is not limited to new forum markup tagsallowing the easy posting of items and pets for trading or display purposes, the exciting addition of News Post Polls, a UI update to the login and register pages, and more!

COMMUNITY MANAGER PROJECTS
We hope everyone's been having fun with the first Community Manager run forum contest! We're planning to run different types of contests in the future including brand new ones. If you have feedback of any kind, we're interested in hearing it! Our CM's and new Moderators have been helping us a great deal with running the site as well as generating new ideas. We're looking forward to many things in the future!

UPCOMING UPDATES
After the Aviar Update, the next major content update is the time of the Frog. We'll also have more news on updates to our Roadmap and what else we're working on in an upcoming news post.

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What do you think about Dappervolk’s latest welcome to march news post? Are you looking forward to their upcoming feature Updates?
 
If the Aviar Cove balancing update gets released in the next seven days I'll eat my shoes. Not to be pessimistic but they've delayed this update for years now! Not even this update post went up the day it was supposed to.
 
If the Aviar Cove balancing update gets released in the next seven days I'll eat my shoes. Not to be pessimistic but they've delayed this update for years now! Not even this update post went up the day it was supposed to.
Is there a reason why they delayed the Aviar core update for so long or was an explantion never announced? Do they have less staff than they did before?
 
Is there a reason why they delayed the Aviar core update for so long or was an explantion never announced? Do they have less staff than they did before?
Short answer: the general explanation given is that there's technical problems with coding and their artists are spread thin with other site updates. The monthly updates will say stuff like "Story = 80% complete" like that means anything in specific? So players have doubted this for months now.

Long answer: they've probably lost a lot of staff, and general staff distribution leans more on moderation/artists and less on back-end support. I checked their roadmap from March 2023 (a year ago now) and they had that Aviar Cove update on there, that pet preview is the only update we've gotten about it since then. For a bit more context: DV has towns that house the various shop NPCs, with each town being themed. Very Neopets-like, and it's a system that people have their own gripes with but regardless, patches and updates to the towns have come every once in a while and they've gotten through 3/5 of the main story towns. Aviar Cove and Vaer Reef are the only ones left. So the vast majority of regular updates to the site is through premium currency, namely that monthly set seen above and the new seasonal pet that wasn't included in your first post are all rlc cosmetics. So pessimistic players are saying that they're only producing paid content on a regular schedule :/

Now to be fair, they just held their anniversary event so there really shouldn't be any pressure on the team to make more content in the near future! So it's confusing to me that they want to focus on the Aviar Cove update right now instead of other more important site cleanup that they've been promising. Like, they think it's ok to ignore the abandoned guild system instead.