Downtime Complete!
Posted by Owner-Aspen on 11 Mar 2022, 11:52 pm
Hi everyone!
We are back from our scheduled downtime, and have quite a few things to announce! This is gonna' be a long one... better get a snack.
Medicines Now Stack
In preparation for the release of the Clinic later this year, medicines crafted by Doctors have been reworked.
• Any medicines that are crafted or mixed to 100% potency will now be created as a stackable item. This means once a Doctor masters a recipe, their medicines will conveniently stack together!
• Any previously existing medicines of 100% potency have now become “Legacy” medicines. Legacy medicines remain uniquely unstackable.
• If desired, any Legacy medicine can be individually converted to stackable from the inventory. This cannot be undone.
• Medicines of less than 100% potency are still created unstackable.
• If two low-potency medicines are mixed to produce a 100% potency medicine, the resulting medicine will be stackable.
• Quests that ask for medicine will now only take the 100% potency stackable version of medicine.
• When the Clinic is released, any form of a medicine will be accepted by patients regardless of potency and legacy status. Thus, your Legacy and low potency medicine will still have a use. So keep that in mind when you convert and mix medicines.
There is potential for bugs here, so if you notice anything not working as intended, please let Quinn know in the bug report forum.
2022 Plans and Village Festival Pause
I want to take this opportunity be very transparent and let you all in on what our plans are for the remainder of 2022 here in Furvilla. Typically, each village has it's very own festival every year. This year, however, is going to be a bit different.
Currency from festivals will still be good in future years, and the gameplay of festivals are not anticipated to change, unless to be expanded upon.
Why has this decision been made?
When Quinn and I took over Furvilla back in late 2018, we had some big dreams for quality of life improvements and other expansions. While we have been able to realize many of these projects, our need for art assets has intensified beyond our capacity to provide for both these needs on top of festival needs.
Instead of slogging along with site improvements while festivals suck up our time and assets, we've decided to re-prioritize permanent site improvements over temporary festivals.
We have scheduled our current incredible artists to work on tasks other than festival prizes and assets. Behind the scenes, we've already procured quite a bit of amazing work that we will be able to release throughout the year in lieu of festivals.
Here is just a small sampling of the type of content coming over the next few months!
Our first major release will be the re-vamped Doctor Career and Clinic, scheduled to fully release this year.
New Daily
You know that sign over in Town Hall? That one that's been there?
Coming Soon (tm)
We have been hard at work on a new daily which will award a mountain of prizes, as sampled above. I hear it's going to be run by a rarely-seen NPC already from Furvilla... can you guess who?
Battlefield Refresh and Expansion
We have several plans for the Warrior career's battlefields. Our first project will be refreshing and revamping The Abyss. Also in development is a ladder-like battleground that will get more difficult as you progress though the ranks of creatures inside.
Too terrifying to even preview! Eek!
We will also be bringing back some previously released fearsome felines in a permanent battlefield that will challenge the most hardened of Warriors!
The CATS are coming back... and they've brought reinforcements!
Also in development...
While I am always reluctant to give away too much of what we have planned, (unless it is with absolute certainty), here are a few other little snippets of what we have slated to tackle in 2022...
• Construction career clean-up.
• The Clawtooth Bazaar, a traveling fair where you will be able to trade with the citizens of Clawtooth for special and rare goods.
• Paintie Marketplace - An easy, buyer and artist friendly way to buy and sell painties.
• Species addition and expansion.
• Explore event graphics and expansion.
• Additional Quest prizes.
• Many quality of life improvements.
• And more (tm).
That's all I can really share for now.
Daily Wheel Expansion
OH! I almost forgot... As of now, over 50 new items have been added to Daily Wheel boxes. I hope you will enjoy discovering these new prizes!
Thank you so much for playing Furvilla. We hope that you will enjoy everything we have in store for you this year!
- Quinn and Aspen -
I'm here for the minipets breeding so new species of breed able pets are high on my list of wants! Either added to the village pools to discover while collecting, or added to the adorable animal box.
Or a common for purchase in the tournament shop since then I'd have a reason to battle.
Just make it really expensive, haha
*Fingers crossed*
I agree with StrayChowChow about the festivals, especially with regards to limited equipment that becomes super expensive after the festival ends because it’s super powerful. I don’t mind if no new content is added to festivals, but I think they should still happen.
Excited for all this.
Thank you! I adore the Warrior Cats!
The new items look great! I hope we still get some kind of breedable pets from new content at some point. I always liked having the cloud and snow pets to breed. I look forward to seeing the changes.
Even though you can't afford new rewards for events, why not have the event rerelease previous years items as a chance to give people to catch up with their collections?
Honestly I just don't know if people, including myself, will feel like they have a reason to keep playing as regularly without events. This way the events can still happen with appropriate rewards and adds some more of the older items into the active player pool.
Oh this is awesome!
I am really looking forward to all of the improvements and additions, especially the new battlefield with increasing difficulty and the full release of the Clinic! I'm totally fine with skipping events this year if it means we get a bunch of new permanent stuff
Wooo all of this sounds amazing, thanks so much for the hard work as always!!
one day i will stop playing furvilla for good but as long as love and care is still being put into it i am forced to keep coming back