September 2025 beta registration window! Also, shop search!

Tonight marks the beginning of our third open registration window! Welcome in, everybody!

Be sure to check the getting started guide and the rest of the information section; there's a lot of good information there to help you get started. If you encounter any bugs or have any other feedback on the site, don't hesitate to email creechers@dopcom.net.

Additionally, tonight a feature is being added that many users have been asking for since the initial release of the site: you can now search for user shops selling a specific item! The search is text-based, and you can look for trades based on the item being requested or being sold. In theory, trades that are out of stock should not show up in results, but some shops that have been out of stock for a sufficiently long time may not be properly marked as such.

There's also a few minor bugfixes in this update, and a rebalance to summoning that should result in players getting more eggs from medium-size summonings on average.

Looking ahead: the collectable stamp system is effectively done, although I need to draw a lot more art for it, so you should hopefully see that some time in october. The Halloween event is also coming up, though, and that will likewise require a lot of art, but hopefully I'll be able to get all that done in time. After Halloween and stamps, some of the next few features you can look forward to are:

• Three new species of pets (yes, I know that I've been promising these for a while—they're almost here! One of them is fully drawn, but new species require a lot of artwork, and so they're competing for development time against things like the stamp system.)
• An overhaul to how pets drop items
• Forums

Weather, private trades, and scrapbook tweaks

There's a bunch of things in this update, so I'll break this into sections.

1. Private trades

This is a feature that's been promised since january, but it kept getting postponed and delayed for various reasons. But it's finally here!

So how does it work? Like most things in Dopcom, private trades are tied to a specific room. On the edit trades page for item rooms, there's now a new section where you can configure whether you want to receive private trades in each room. By default, all item rooms are set so that only people on your friends list can send private trades, but you can also remove this restriction and let anyone send trades, or you can disable private trades entirely.

When you send a private trade, the items that you offer will be "locked" in the trade until it is finalized. If the recipient accepts the trade, they will get those items and you will get the items you requested from the room, but if they decline it (or if you cancel the offer) the items will go back to you. You can view all of your outstanding trades in the trades page that has been newly added to the site header, or from your user profile.

2. Weather

It's raining! Or maybe it's snowing. Or maybe it's some other weather—I didn't check what the weather was going to be on the day this newspost went up. But the weather system has been implemented!

Currently, the daily weather affects gardening, summoning, pets, and random events. Every weather type has an associated aspect; all summons will include a little bit of that aspect even if you don't add any, and all pets will gain a tiny amount of affinity to that aspect each day. (If you don't want this affinity gain on your pets, you can equip them with an Umbrella Charm, which is an uncommon item that can be found from Air-aligned summons.) The effect on gardens is similar to the effects of existing gardening artifacts: sun makes crops grow faster, and rain or storms make them produce more. However, if it's foggy, snowy, or storming, crops will also grow slower. There's also a new summonable artifact that has a chance of producing essence associated with the weather every day. Each weather condition also has exclusive random events.

3. Scrapbook tweaks

Scrapbook pets can now have editable descriptions just like rooms can. Additionally, there was a bug preventing scrapbooks from being viewed while logged out, which has now been fixed, and there is also a new "showcase" tab on the scrapbook for your favorite pets. Released pet pages now have a button to add or remove that pet from the showcase, so that you can show off your favorite pets more easily.

4. New recipes

There are new recipes that use the tier 4 elemental ingredients that rarely grow from normal seeds! Each ingredient is used in one meal that provides a large amount of the assoicated aspect, and some are used in another meal that does something more unusual... (All four were supposed to have two recipes, but some of the recipes are still being worked on and I didn't want to delay the update any further just because of them.)

5. Quality of life improvements

• Trades can be reorganized within a room, something that all of my alpha testers have been pestering me to add for months
• A "return all items to inventory starting at this one" button has been added so that you can now clean your pet rooms and harvest your gardens more easily
• You can plant an entire garden with one button rather than having to plant a seed in each slot separately
• Room descriptions and user bios can be previewed
• Trades that are out of stock are hidden from the global trades list
• The user profile has a new "reminders" section, which lists daily events that might be otherwise forgotten (such as summoning omens from random events, or whether the Wishing Well has been used)
• There is now a News Archive section linked on the front page, to make older newsposts available
• Friends list and scrapbook are now linked directly on the page header
• Embed codes for empty rooms now point to a placeholder image rather than breaking

What's next

Summer is ending, meaning that I have to go back to my teaching job, which may impact the pace of the next few updates. But the current plan is that the next update will happen in early october and will add collectable stamps hidden around the site that you can decorate your user profile with, three new species of pet, and a new and improved halloween event.

After the october update, I will need a break from drawing things for a while, so I'm tentatively planning to focus on adding some (extremely simplified) forums this winter. Other major updates that are a little further out include the in-game calendar system, and modifications to how pets drop items.

The next registration window will be in september, once any bugs introduced by all of this update's many changes are fixed.

June 2025 beta registration window

The second beta registration window for Dopcom Creechers opens tonight! To everyone joining the site, welcome in and I hope you enjoy your time here!

Be sure to check the getting started guide and the rest of the information section; there's a lot of good information there to help you get started. If you encounter any bugs or have any other feedback on the site, don't hesitate to email creechers@dopcom.net.

To ensure that Dopcom Creechers stays a safe and friendly place for everyone, all user bios and room descriptions made by users who have joined in the past 7 days are held for moderation. Our moderation team aims to review posts in a timely manner, but please allow up to twelve hours for posts to become visible.

The site is still under development. Some features that you can expect to see in the next few updates are:

• Private trades between users
• Calendar and weather system
• Three new species of pets
• Modifications to how creatures drop items

Surprise update: Bios and room descriptions!

This feature was planned to be part of the next major update, probably in mid to late july. However, it turned out to be significantly easier to get working than I expected, so I figured I would tack it on as a belated part of the scrapbook and Curio Shop update.

You can now write a bio on your userpage, and a description for each of your rooms! There is limited support for formatting with BBCode; a list of all available formatting options can be found on the edit page. Note that this also means that the terms of service have been updated; please take a look at the new section on user content before writing your bios.

Scrapbook & Curio Shop

Releasing pets into the wild is, for many Dopcom users, a bittersweet occasion. On the one hand, your pet gets a new life and you get some resources, but on the other hand you don't get to see them again. But it doesn't have to be bittersweet, because now there's a way to visit the pets you've released! The scrapbook lists every pet that you've released and has links to pages where you can visit them and see them in their natural habitats. And this includes pets dating back to the initial alpha release, not just going forward! And, for the completionists, the scrapbook lets you sort your released pets by species and see how many forms you've discovered of each one.

Along with the scrapbook system, there is a new system of embed codes. Every pet room page now has two sets of embed codes: one that corresponds to the room more generally, and one that corresponds to the current pet. The room codes can be used to embed whatever pet is currently in the room on another site, whereas the pet codes will embed the specific pet and will keep working even after the pet is released (at which point the link will redirect to the pet's scrapbook page).

There's a second big feature in this update: the Curio Shop, where you can exchange your excess furniture. Got a massive pile of shelf items but can't seem to find that specific one you're looking for? The Curio Shop has you covered. You can trade in most furniture items to the shop in exchange for tickets, and then use those tickets to buy the furniture you want. The shop has a rotating stock, with five random items available every day, but every item in the shop's catalog is guaranteed to appear at least once every 30 days. Any of the tier-5 furniture items that can be obtained from the summoning circle can be found at the Curio Shop for four tickets, and there are many new furniture items that are exclusive to the shop that can be purchased for three.

As always, there are plenty of minor tweaks, bugfixes, and quality-of-life improvements:

• The Town Kitchen now features a "cook this again" button so that you can make multiple of the same meal without reloading the page
• Item descriptions appear when selecting from dropdowns
• The General Store now buys Decorative Gourds for 12 dopcoins
• The inventory page can be filtered by item type
• The Clarity Charm has been reworked: the affinity meter that previously appeared on pets wearing a Clarity Charm is now visible on all pets; equipping a Clarity Charm instead increases the level of detail on this meter and adds a second meter for estimating a pet's progress towards the next growth stage
• Pets now get one fewer socialization if they did not eat during the previous day, in order to ensure that users' socialization clicks are going to pets owned by active players; this change is experimental and may be reverted in the future if it proves unpopular

The next priorities on the development agenda after this are:

• Direct trade requests between players
• Customizable user bios
• In-game calendar and weather system

The three new species promised in past newsposts are still coming; they've just been sidelined a little bit until more of the core systems are built out. And speaking of core systems, with summer starting there's going to be far more available development time, meaning that the Realms and Exploration system can get underway...