Hi everyone! Happy New Year and hope that everyone had a good holiday season! To start off the year we have some updates for everyone! 

Survey Results Updates

Thanks to everyone for filling out our 2023 Puppillars survey! We always really appriciate all the feedback, and here are the changes we will be making based on the survey results:

• Snailcat MYOs are now available at the Nuggie Shack, for those who are interested in buying with nuggies!
• Magic Potions of all types will continue to be available in both Chance's Gacha Shop and Petey's Arcane Emporium
• People seemed very interested in having more Discord activites going forward, which we will plan on doing this year! Reminder that you can join our Discord Server Here!
• People seemed very interested in having an art/design exchange, so we will plan on having one in the next few months!
• We will work on adding more reference info for Magic in the Puppillars world and Magic traits soon
• Small change: The Heading "Puppillar Basics" in our info section has been renamed "World Basics" for clarity!

New Adventuring Areas Updates

Earlier this year we announced that we were working on some new adventuring areas, and I am happy to announce that one of those areas is now live, Plateau Mountain! This is our first Level 3 Adventuring area, so you can only adventure there if you have at least 3 Adventuring Levels! Our next adventuring area, Arcane Cave, is still in the works and will be coming soon!

As another small change, the rarity has been tweaked slightly on all adventuring rolls, with the rare item pool being weighted slightly more!

Holiday Shop and Holidays

We have a brand new shop, the Holiday Shop! This shop features festive items, which are purchaseable with Holiday Tickets! Holiday Tickets can be obtained by participating in Holiday Prompts, which will be recurring prompts every year based on the Holidays of Arcanis! Each holiday prompt will award a goodie bag with some exclusive holiday goodies, and 10 Holiday Tickets, which can be used at the shop!

With the addition of this new shop, some items have moved from the seasonal shops to this new Holiday shop. To give folks a chance to snag some of these items, I have opened all four seasonal shops, and they will remain open until January 9th, in case you wanna snag any items that have moved with treats before they are removed from the seasonal shops.

Our first holiday of the year will be The Festival of the New Moon, which will be active from January 15th to February 15th!

Our new holiday shop still needs a shopkeeper, so we are extending the NPC Design Contest until January 31st, and I will be reposting the contest details in a separate news post!

Ko-Fi Memberships closing

After a trial run last year, I am closing down the Membership option on the Puppillars Ko-fi, we are a smaller community right now, and the amount of effort put in didn't wind up lining up with the level of interest. Going forward we will continue to use our Ko-fi for one off support like purchasing Nuggies, and we may have special YCHs like when we did our Pride Fundraiser last year. We always appriciate any support, and as something to celebrate, we are about halfway to our funding goal to pay for the site's hosting (which is billed in may), so we have been doing fine so far, even without something like a membership program!

Phew! That was a lot, but a lot of good updates! Keep an eye out for more new updates, as we have lots of fun stuff planned for this year!