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Egg Cave Quests are a brand-new way for players to use their items and, ultimately, exchange them up for extremely rare and limited edition creatures at The VEND Machine.
Egg Cave Quests have been in beta for the last several weeks. After getting feedback and data from hundreds of testers, we're ready for the public to enjoy this game-changing feature.
The VEND Machine is controlled by Team Egg Cave. Reward pools will only be available for a limited time and can change at any moment. There is no "schedule" when it comes to reward pools (like monthlies). Reward pools at The VEND Machine, of course, will be up for long enough for the average user to work toward their goal but know that they won't be there for forever!
The goal is to accumulate Quest Tokens over time to redeem a reward pool. Get started!
Quest NPCs will be asking for items from all around Ark â not just items that you own or have in your Strongroom already. To find items you need for quests, you'll need to use:
Older players who have gigantic Strongroom stockpiles will begin with an obvious advantage with quests but this will decrease over time as they use their items. Don't hate on players who have lots of items already. They earned it.
Additionally, you should not expect to be able to successfully complete all quests taken. This is a part of the game! We have done our best to design an enjoyable questing system but your success rates will not be 100%.
Questing is Team Egg Cave's attempt to improve user access to rare creatures from past years. Egg Cave is enjoying an influx of brand-new, enthusiastic players and nothing is more frustrating than signing up for a web site only to discover that you can physically obtain less than 50% of all of the creatures ever created. Egg Cave was never meant to become a game where species literally go extinct or are impossibly priced.
Team Egg Cave plans to be actively engaged with the community to see what creatures might be in demand for a possible VEND Machine appearance. Know that we're listening to you and paying attention to your comments and the creatures you want.
Please know that, at the moment, we have no plans to re-release Egg Cave species that were CaveCash-only creatures at the The VEND Machine. Other site features are being explored for this. Cave monthlies and event creatures from years past are the most likely to become available at The VEND Machine in coming months.
Do not visit Quest NPCs from your side accounts. This is a main accounts-only activity.
There is going to be increased demand for items from the main shops. It will become more profitable to begin reselling items in your shops (mostly to questers). Now is the time to begin selling!
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 12:00 AM
Welcome to the fun!!! đ
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 12:01 AM
Have fun everyone!
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 12:02 AM
I bet the most hoped for creatures for the VEND Machine in the future will be the Pixgog (My hope) and Tine, as both where available at the cave according to the archives. đ đ
scorch_cloud222 • 7 Oct 2018, 12:06 AM
Yay, release!
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 12:06 AM
@prairie Pixgog is my hope too /dies/ Also welcome to the quests everyone c:
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 12:08 AM
@prairie Pixgog was a CSP exclusive from 2011's CRW. It was never available in the Cave.
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 12:09 AM
https://eggcave.com/blog/and-later-that-day
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 12:10 AM
@Orderedchaos Oh drat. đą I could have sworn I saw the archives show it as a cave pet in the archives last week. đą But no longer the case. đ (Sorry for the mix up!!) But I can wait longer to see what you guys come up with for possibilities on CSP pets. đ â¤ī¸
icymuffin • 7 Oct 2018, 12:11 AM
Again, thanks Egg Cave staff! I appreciate your efforts to reintroduce older creatures to newer users in a fair way :>
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 12:13 AM
Well crap. I thought it was a CC only too, but I just checked when prairie said that and thought it said cave also. I guess I imagined it. Or did y'all change it to make it right?
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 12:14 AM
@immortalraven I double checked the blog posts to confirm and fixed the archives.
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 12:15 AM
Well I hope eventually CCs will be added in somehow since the vend machine shows CC critters in it's image đ
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 12:16 AM
@immortalraven, sorry for getting your hopes up. âšī¸ I might've come across a mistake or something. đ Guess I'll just be stocking up a lot of tokens for when a pet I like comes out. đą
leafmelody • 7 Oct 2018, 12:16 AM
oh. my. gosh. that's so cool (:
smartie2742 • 7 Oct 2018, 12:17 AM
Here's hoping more people will stock their stores. I've had to give up on a lot of quests because no user shops had the items I needed.
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 12:17 AM
Yeah, when the beta came out, I was a bit excited to see CSP eggs in the machine, but I do agree with immortalraven that it is a bit misleading. đą
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 12:22 AM
@prairie You did see that it said cave. Ordered just changed it after double checking that it wasn't ever in the cave. So you hadn't made the mistake x3 Hopefully I find some that come out that I like in the meantime. I need one more Abet to have each stage. Maybe after if I get
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 12:23 AM
it. I'll try for more to get more Hallowolves since I like em, but I've got 4 now so yeah >.> Not enough cove space to actually collect much these days cause it costs me so much to expand lol. So will probably just hoard items
bingo • 7 Oct 2018, 12:33 AM
This is a great idea, kudos to the people who came up with it! đ Looking forward to trying it out!
bunnywabbit • 7 Oct 2018, 2:39 AM
Wait a minute? You're telling me I'm supposed to chase for stuff for hours and hours even though there is a chance of not being able to complete? Err...time too valuable for that.
veritaspunk • 7 Oct 2018, 3:17 AM
i was hoping quests here would be structured less like neopets and more like the "defeat the Pareteorsite Queen event". đ @immortalraven I was thinking CC options for expanding your cove would make sense... even shops too đ.
sybil_howlett • 7 Oct 2018, 5:57 AM
it's too time consuming for me even if i would like some of the creatures âšī¸ but I hope you have a great time and don't overwork yourself with searching for the right items â¤ī¸
caylith • 7 Oct 2018, 6:57 AM
Well, the library is empty in the matter of minute after restocking. Anyone is willing to trade with me an item "How to train your Eereek"? Can't find it anywhere:/
icecloud101 • 7 Oct 2018, 7:14 AM
@Ian and @ eeryone who was testing tysm â¤ī¸
the_mushroom_nacho • 7 Oct 2018, 8:27 AM
"Egg Cave was never meant to become a game where species literally go extinct or are impossibly priced." Are you sure about that? With the way it seems right now, it might as well have been that way tbh. LOL. xD
the_mushroom_nacho • 7 Oct 2018, 8:29 AM
Other than that, it's nice to be able to get some older creatures now. đ
idol • 7 Oct 2018, 9:43 AM
i love this idea! ^^ I love the quest and I think the system is fair for those willing to try to aim for the prizes. I do also think somehow older pets like CSP should be allowed as well somehow. I still have a TON of dead old CSP creatures that could be revived if somehow we
idol • 7 Oct 2018, 9:45 AM
were able to backup our account data by another month or two. I had a dead tine, clous, foo and many more. They died just a month or two too early. Though I had an idea about releasing old CSP's in a 2.0 form so that way old creatures stay "valueable" but new and current
idol • 7 Oct 2018, 9:46 AM
players can still basically obtain the same creature =)
idol • 7 Oct 2018, 9:47 AM
Also I think there should be an item trade center and a creature trade center. If you are looking for creatures in the TC but only find people trading items it is a tad annoying.
idol • 7 Oct 2018, 9:48 AM
Same if you are only looking for items probably and can't find any in the TC because there are only creatures. Sorry I had to break up my post so much. It won't let me post with a character limit of even 279.. Anyway thank you eggcave team ^^
carcharhiniformes • 7 Oct 2018, 10:45 AM
I love the Quests so far! My question is will we be notified about creature selection rotations? Like when the current selection goes away will there be a new blog post about the new rotation?
anarchy • 7 Oct 2018, 11:38 AM
Woooo it's finally here đą
anarchy • 7 Oct 2018, 11:55 AM
Also any chance someone has a Green Globear Teddy Bear or How To Train Your Tray on hand? Maybe a Quests Megathread on the forums might be helpful...
prairie • 7 Oct 2018, 11:58 AM
WOW, General food store, Library, and *almost* Toy shop are all out of stock. đ
foxbit • 7 Oct 2018, 12:20 PM
Yay!! Are you guys planning on re-releasing endangered creatures too?
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 12:24 PM
@foxbit Endangered creatures can be found in the Oasis. They've already been re-released. đ
foxbit • 7 Oct 2018, 12:25 PM
@Orderedchaos Oh, alright then. đ Thanks for the quick reply! (also, love the character art, it's gorgeous!)
promise • 7 Oct 2018, 12:27 PM
Nice đ
raccoon • 7 Oct 2018, 1:19 PM
Ahhh I'm so excited to try for those old halloween creatures!
caylith • 7 Oct 2018, 1:20 PM
Help! I've gathered requested books, and when I try to finish the quest the red box appears saying I do not have the items in the inventory. What to do!?
caylith • 7 Oct 2018, 1:26 PM
Ok, there was a misspelling problem;) Apparently we have Spuearth and Squearth book. I bought the wrong one. NVM the previous one, it is all ok now.
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 2:10 PM
@bluebunny2018 You need to collect all of the token for a specific pool. For example For the first Spooky pool you would need 50 of each of the speed reading and toybox tokens.
Orderedchaos • 7 Oct 2018, 2:12 PM
@bluebunny2018 You can either wait to see if the item becomes available in an NPC or user shop or just cancle the quest. You won't be able to complete every quest, as stated in the blog post.
newlife • 7 Oct 2018, 6:41 PM
Yeah I agree with @idol. There needs to be a separate trading center for items (only items) and for creatures, and then creatures and items or something of the like.. makes it easier to look for stuff
immortalraven • 7 Oct 2018, 7:03 PM
@veritaspunk I was hoping for that too on the questing x'D But this is ok and slightly fun too x'D // I suggested CC option thing in forums for cove expanding already xD
spell • 7 Oct 2018, 7:55 PM
@newlife I think there were two before and they were merged for some reason đą
newlife • 7 Oct 2018, 8:37 PM
@spell They merged so that creature/item combos could be created in V3.. or I think you couldn't do items in trades before..? I just know that for sure, it wasn't creature&items together in the same trade center
rosewolf09 • 7 Oct 2018, 10:51 PM
Ooooooooo
saturna • 7 Oct 2018, 11:33 PM
Yes! Finally!
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