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Weekly saturday update for 2026-04-11

First of all, weekly updates are being posted here in the forums now. Previously, these were posted only in the alpha playtester Discord, but I want to make this information available to the rest of the community as well.

There are a couple days left in the april fools event. I was hoping to make a couple tweaks before then (like being able to disable event themes), but I haven't found time. However, I did fix a couple things: weather was supposed to impact summoning, but it hadn't been; and there were supposed to be some special socialization messages that referenced things like the pet's texture or elemental alignment and those weren't showing up either. (Currently, there is a scaling factor applied to summoning that matches the current weather, so if you put in 50 fire and 50 water, but it's raining, it will behave as if you put in 50 fire and 75 water.)

Anyway, the most pressing priority right now is getting ready for the april/may registration window, which is tentatively scheduled to be from april 25 to may 9. After that, I can start catching up on some art that was supposed to be in the grooming update (mostly stamps for the new species), and then I'm going to take a break from active work on Dopcom for a couple months so I can work on some smaller projects. Development will resume in june or july, starting with the calendar system.

Weekly saturday update for 2026-05-09 don't worry about it i definitely didn't miss any[/small][/small]

Registration has been open for the past two weeks and we've gotten 86 new signups! It will be probably closing at end of day (server time) sunday.

There hasn't been any active work on art or programming lately, which is fine because I needed a break anyway, but I've been unexpectedly productive on starting to nail down how I want some of the future exploration mechanics work! If all goes as planned, starting this fall it will be possible to take your pets to explore The Crossroads, and after that, there will eventually be other explorations allowing you to venture out of the crossroads to explore three further realms, each with its own shops and features.