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You Asked, We Listened: VEND Machine Update

September 21, 2022 at 7:10 PM

The VEND Machine Updated

The VEND Machine has been updated to where you can purchase a creature directly with your quest tokens, as opposed to having to purchase a randomized pool where the outcome is not guaranteed. The VEND Machine now guarantees the creature you're purchasing, leaving nothing to chance when you're questing and collecting.

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More Creatures Than Ever

There are now 94 creatures currently available at The VEND Machine. The creatures that were originally available in a prize pool are now available as individual creatures. Previously retired VEND Machine creatures have also come back!

Creatures that are currently available at The VEND Machine will have "Available at The VEND Machine" listed as their availability status in the Archives as opposed to something less helpful like "Retired."

Creatures that you can purchase with your on-hand tokens right now are highlighted in green at The VEND Machine.

Creatures Brand New to The VEND Machine

There are 17 creatures that are newcomers to The VEND Machine. They've never been available before at The VEND Machine. They're mostly Cave monthlies from 2013 and 2014, with two from January of 2015. They are: Kinka, Zubflug, Nilby, Heims, Pami, Vulpselle, Lotty, Barthug, Borro, Curcull, Candit, Harpis, Jelal, Mystic, Sweesh, Eftsala, and Grandinum.

















Tokens Cost Update

Token costs have been updated for all creatures at The VEND Machine. All token costs target the same range of approximately 50 to 100 tokens per creature—the same as before this update—split up among the different types of questing tokens.

This means that token costs have neither risen or fallen on average, but have simply been reshuffled for each creature. Since this was a transition from pools to purchasing individual creatures, please understand that it was impossible for us to keep the requested token types the same for whatever creature you may have been working on collecting.

What do you think?

Let us know what you think of this update in the comments section! Do you think you'll begin questing again, if you had stopped?

Comments: 71

Ian • 21 Sep 2022, 7:11 PM

omg 👀

Orderedchaos • 21 Sep 2022, 7:13 PM

Love this update ❤️

twilightshine • 21 Sep 2022, 7:17 PM

yay! Thank you so much ❤️

thedarkarcher • 21 Sep 2022, 7:18 PM

This is really cool! Thanks eggcave team

frankenstein • 21 Sep 2022, 7:19 PM

I'm thrilled. I finally got a Foo, thanks EC Team!

frankenstein • 21 Sep 2022, 7:22 PM

AND I can try for a Hallowolf? Woooow, it's not even my birthday, but what a gift ❤️

lexicon • 21 Sep 2022, 7:22 PM

brb- heading to quest immediately thanks for the awesome update❤️

raindrops • 21 Sep 2022, 7:23 PM

Oh My Goodness!! Finally. Ty @Ian & EC Team for the update. Excellent update. 😊

Ian • 21 Sep 2022, 7:24 PM

@lexicon @raindrops yaaaay 😸

Ian • 21 Sep 2022, 7:25 PM

@frankenstein just in time for October, right?

pwuffy • 21 Sep 2022, 7:27 PM

waitt this is super exciting 😃 not sure which creature to go for first lol! great update, thanks guys 😊

frankenstein • 21 Sep 2022, 7:31 PM

@Ian heck yeah! I've just got to do the Global Quest, oh... 60 more times, lol.

heatherm19 • 21 Sep 2022, 7:38 PM

EEEEKKKKKKK!!!!! *dances* *flails* THANK YOU thank you!! There were some 'prize pools' where I wanted one but very much didn't want to spend all that effort and then get the other one. SO EXCITED!!! And the new creatures there... OMG I see 5 right away that I want!

heatherm19 • 21 Sep 2022, 7:41 PM

Wait wait, I just looked at the Vend page and HALLOWOLF?? That seems to be on so many people's wishlists, that's awesome. I love the layout too, very simple to see what is required for what creature. (I swear there are more new ones than listed in this post, so many!!)

heatherm19 • 21 Sep 2022, 7:43 PM

..... And now I'm going to spend all my time in Quests instead of feeding, renaming, organizing, etc. Dang. Seriously can't even express how excited I am!! (hate the character limit on these comments, lol)

brookie • 21 Sep 2022, 7:54 PM

I wish I waited for this update 😃

sonny • 21 Sep 2022, 7:56 PM

this is a really great update. its awesome that you can now pick which creature you want, however i still think its pretty hard to do questing in general and i think the prices of the creatures in quest tokens should be lower. otherwise really productive update

wonder404exe • 21 Sep 2022, 8:03 PM

EggTEAM?! What the eggcave are you DOING?!?! my DrEaMiE?!?

cranberrycat1 • 21 Sep 2022, 8:07 PM

Yay so exited

sky • 21 Sep 2022, 8:25 PM

Wonderful and exciting update! Thank you EC team! ❤️

spell • 21 Sep 2022, 8:26 PM

Wooo will be buying travels to get a Hallowolf ^-^

iia • 21 Sep 2022, 8:27 PM

Wow, this is great! I've been really inactive lately and I miss it. This is a good motivator to spend some time here 😊

snowywinter • 21 Sep 2022, 8:48 PM

OMG.... LOVE it ALLLLLL ! ! ! ❤️ Love, Love, LOVE it! Guaranteed success, soooo many creatures to choose from. DEFINITELY need to start questing MOAR! - SO many formally IMPOSSIBLE to acquire creatures in reach. ❤️ (Said as someone who rarely ever quested. 3 X in 1.5 yr)

snowywinter • 21 Sep 2022, 8:52 PM

lol... I just looked on the no egg page and i was not surprised at all. Can tell when this was announced, almost the whole upper half of the page is Foos. < 3

distorted • 21 Sep 2022, 9:08 PM

TYSM EC!! best update ever!! now im actually interested in doing quests

myriadium • 21 Sep 2022, 9:42 PM

INCREDIBLE! this is exactly what i need to get back into questing!

pipkitten • 21 Sep 2022, 9:55 PM

I don't use the vend machine, but this is a fantastic update for those who do! 😃

kleineprinz • 21 Sep 2022, 11:05 PM

Oh!

chapus • 21 Sep 2022, 11:11 PM

WOW what an awesome update!!! so many new creatures to get yessss ToT

snowywinter • 21 Sep 2022, 11:24 PM

This should be a great time to remind people to use the Quest Items Swapping thread. ...and hopefully help each other out.

dragrawr • 21 Sep 2022, 11:45 PM

OMG OMG OMG @Ian and staff I AM SO ELATED NOW I WANNA DO QUESTS MORE….

galactic_pigeon • 21 Sep 2022, 11:50 PM

Oh nice! As for another suggestion, maybe you could see whether or not you already obtained the creature before?

dragiigy • 22 Sep 2022, 12:37 AM

Yessssssss, @ian, thank youu. Foo and Tawny. YESSSSSS

lothar • 22 Sep 2022, 12:42 AM

Aaaaaaaaaa finally I have a chance to get a Hallowolf!!!And a lot of my love creatures come back,thank you thank you thank you

pet_cemetery • 22 Sep 2022, 1:14 AM

Finally got a Foo. Now to get my Hallowolf. Only need to do 100 more quests.

ida92 • 22 Sep 2022, 4:06 AM

I LOVE how the tokens work now! I will definitely start collecting more that I have been before! I want to buy the Foo. 😃

fainne_24 • 22 Sep 2022, 4:08 AM

This is an amazing update, thank you!! ❤️

sparklefox • 22 Sep 2022, 5:24 AM

Really nice update. Maybe it's time to actually do quests for once...

suzanab • 22 Sep 2022, 5:34 AM

Nice update, but quests are still impossible to do, probably more so now...meh...I'll live 😃 Thanks anyway ❤️

jenlou • 22 Sep 2022, 6:16 AM

Very neat update thank you !

isathebelle • 22 Sep 2022, 6:22 AM

OMG 😊 I love this ♥ Thank you sooooooooooooo muchhhhh 😊

mairbear • 22 Sep 2022, 7:36 AM

This is a huge update to the VEND o: I stopped questing a while ago but now seems like a good time to restart haha xD

snowywinter • 22 Sep 2022, 7:42 AM

@suzanab Yeah, for the past month I've been trying to stockpile in preparation for quests and it was hard enough to buy things in Shops before they got snatched up. Now hoo boy; bet it's going to be hard for a while.

scorch_cloud222 • 22 Sep 2022, 8:35 AM

Oh thank goodness! I've been wanting a Hallowolf forever, and it was just so much work and I never got one

xxcouchxx • 22 Sep 2022, 11:11 AM

Now I know why my shop has more sales 😊 Thanks ECT!

asbe • 22 Sep 2022, 11:41 AM

Amazing update. I'll start doing quests again ^^

mr-blue-bones • 22 Sep 2022, 3:20 PM

I'm screaming, I'm so excited!! Thank you egg cave team!! I'll get right to work on quests 😃

Ian • 22 Sep 2022, 3:38 PM

@mr-blue-bones 😱 screaming

heatherm19 • 22 Sep 2022, 4:19 PM

@suzanab @snowywinter Everything is definitely going faster at the moment since so many people are questing or stocking up, but I'm also seeing a lot more restocking in user shops (and a lot more buying, some stuff in my shop for weeks was bought). Hopefully it will all even out.

seraph • 22 Sep 2022, 4:58 PM

"getting spoiled" is not a strong enough of an expression

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