And we are back!
Posted by Owner-Aspen on 13 Oct 2019, 2:19 pm
Hello everyone! Welcome back from the downtime!
We have added several new features to the site, so please let me tell you all about them.
Villager Profile Changes
Our biggest change today is the expansion of villager profiles! All villagers can now hold up to 6 keepsakes and wear 6 outfits each. You may have 6 of the same item, or mix and match! There is no charge to expand your slots for these items - this feature is available to you right now.
We apologize for any impact profile re-arrangement may have on custom user CSS. The mod team has informed me that should your current CSS break any site rules due to these modifications, you have a grace period of 1 month to make needed changes.
If you don't currently use custom CSS, you need do nothing.
Wearable & Keepsake Buffs
Some Wearables & Keepsakes will now give your villager a small buff! Buffs are now displayed on your villager's profile in a color-coded way, which will inform you of your buff when hovered over.
Green icons are costume related buffs. Green also represents buffs acquired from Dragonsmaw Pies. Purple represents pet buffs, for example the Sweetiecorn cooking buff. Orange icons represent buffs given from outfits, and blue represents keepsake buffs.
We will be retroactively adding buffs to some keepsakes and outfits over time, as well as adding buffs to select items in the future. Please note! If your villager is already wearing or holding an older item that receives a buff, you may need to take that item off and re-attach it to your villager.
You may use the Item Museum to see all items that are now buffed!
For the sake of gameplay balance, we have added a rule to custom item orders which disallow buffs to be added to custom items. Staff may add buffs at their own discretion.
Questing Changes & New Prizes!
We have made a few changes to Quests which should help ease your burden and help you to yield more rewards
Quests now ask for less items overall and award more shards when completed based on your level. We have also added several new recipes to the quest shard shop, which create the following new outfits and keepsakes. Each of these new items will carry a small buff.
Tailors and Crafters will be busy!
Also available in the Quest Shop now are 4 new battle pets!
Winter came and went... :(
More Plush Have Arrived!
We have added more Shiftie plush! Magical Galactic Shifty Plush and Magical Primordial Shifty Plush have been added to the Fur Dollar Emporium. Their non-magical counterparts are also now available in the Quest Shop.
We are also regularly adding new plush to Plush Collector. Bees and Cows have been added recently, with more critters on the way!
Squishy!
Battleground Updates!
Battlegrounds now display backgrounds while you are fighting! Huzzah!
Most villagers should now automatically face the monsters they are fighting while in a battleground. The direction your villager faces during battle may be toggled on their profile under villager info - edit. You have full control over which direction they face!
Dragonsmaw Manor Harvest Carnival News
We will be having another scheduled downtime on either October 18th or 19th to test features for the upcoming Dragonsmaw Manor festival. This downtime will be announced at least 24 hours in advance.
RECAP!
- Villager Profiles have been slightly re-arranged
- Villagers may now wear/hold 6 outfits/keepsakes each
- There is a grace period to adjust CSS on your villager profiles
- Quests have been tweaked and prizes have been added
- Backgrounds are now in the battlegrounds
- The direction a villager faces in battle can now be toggled while editing their profile.
- Downtime for DMM festival testing will be announced for either the 18th or 19th of October
That's another big news post, whew! I do hope you enjoy these features, and stay tuned for more!
- Aspen -
YES! Thank you so much for allowing us to have multiple keepsakes & outfits now! There are so many pretty items that go with my characters' personalities, it was hard picking just one thing for each of them, haha.
And I also really like the new villager profile coding for the keepsake/outfit sections! I would love it if something like this could eventually be done to user profiles with trophies (having them in a nice, horizontal row underneath your personal info, instead of off to the side, where they stretch the page).
Not sure if its happening to anyone else, but my warrior image does not flip even though I saved the flip image setting to Yes. He is a Primordial Shifty with a Paintie, if that could be the problem. I'm not bothered or anything like that but I wanted to let you know.
Much of your updates are pretty cool ^=^ I like the icon changes for the costume and pet buffs.
Is there any way to toggle OFF the backgrounds for the warriors in battle? While they are pretty, the backgrounds are massively distracting and it's harder for me to see my opponent's HP levels.
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Outfit and keepsake buffs. Ohh man this is so neat! I'm very excited about these. Also, those warrior backgrounds are fantastic! I love what you guys did for the HP bars, too.
We have a grace period for rule-breaking CSS but what does that even involve...? I don't see anything new on the rules page. And will our CSS come back or do we need to totally redo it?
Ah, I guess this explains what happened to the CSS profiles. Oof. Besides that, this is a really nice update tho!
love the updates!
i have no idea how to fix the CSS profiles or what to do about it now though so i guess ill just leave them alone lol
Awesomeness! :D can't wait to see all the backgrounds.
Will backgrounds during battle be a permanent feature or will there be a way to turn them off if we find them too busy?