Cave Dwellers, Sunflower Land's Chapter 16: dates, the Duende Cap ticket, 4 mutants and the three little pigs

We now know the name of the chapter that brings the Cave and the pigs: Cave Dwellers. The game's code already has its dates, its ticket, its mutants and its first decorations with final art. Here is what is coming and what is still unknown.

The ticket: Duende Cap

Every chapter has its ticket, the one you earn from deliveries, chores and rewards to spend in the chapter store. In Cave Dwellers it is the Duende Cap (before launch it was called Beetle Wing), and it replaces Ascension Age's Shiny Feather. The raffle ticket and the chapter banner, which will hang in the plaza, arrive too.

Duende Cap

Cave Dwellers Raffle Ticket

Cave Dwellers Banner

The 4 new mutants

Mutants are rare animals and flowers that can only drop while their chapter is live. From November 2, collecting from your chickens, cows and sheep, or harvesting flowers, can give you one of these four. They follow the cave theme: mushrooms, ladybugs and beetles.

Mushroom Chicken

Ladybug Cow

Beetle Sheep

Cyclops Bloom

Since October 26 the code has their boosts:

• Mushroom Chicken: +0.5 Crimstone on every fifth mine of a Crimstone rock.
• Ladybug Cow: +1 Oil per drill.
• Beetle Sheep: your sheep sleep 7.5% less. Cows are not affected.
• Cyclops Bloom: the Fish Market takes 20% less time per job.

Macropinna

A monument and a new bed

The Duende Monument is a staged monument, like the earlier ones: your neighbours cheer it on with 1,000 cheers and it grows through 3 stages. It takes 3×3. The Spooky Bed (called Miner's Bed before launch) is a new bed that opens the slot for your 14th farmhand; like the Cloud Bed, it is not crafted: it comes from the rewards pass, at level 40 of the VIP row.

Duende Monument

Spooky Bed

The three little pigs (and the wolf)

The decorations tell a well-known tale: the three little pigs' houses of straw, sticks and bricks, the big bad wolf and two pig plushies. A giant truffle, a mining drill and a piggy bank join them, matching the chapter's pigs and Cave.

Straw House

Stick House

Brick House

Big Bad Wolf

Pig Doll

Pig Plush

Giant Truffle

Mining Drill

Piggy Bank

The chapter's outfits

A first set of outfit pieces arrives: the full Duende outfit (hat, shirt, pants and shoes), a Hercules beetle hat and a pig onesie. Plus the Beetle Goggles that Gloomwick, the Cave merchant, wears. All of them will be tradable.

Duende Hat

Duende Shirt

Duende Pants

Duende Shoes

Hercules Beetle Hat

Pig Onesie

Beetle Goggles

What was missing, and is now in

A week before launch, the code was still missing several pieces. With the chapter under way, this is what it brought:

• The desert artefact is the Clover Coin: 250 of them buy the Pot of Luck in the chapter store.
• The chapter store: the Duende outfit, seven hourglasses you can buy all chapter long (100 to 400 Duende Cap), the Duende Hat and the Straw House (9,000 Duende Cap each) and the Duende Monument (4,000).
• The outfit that adds tickets: Duende Shoes, Duende Pants and Duende Shirt.

Where all this comes from

Sunflower Land's code is public: before reaching the game, every change is proposed and reviewed on GitHub. These are the 4 changes this article is based on; they are now in the game.