Uppie Quests Are Next: The Path to New Uppie Friends

You have been exploring neighborhoods, collecting Troves, and discovering what you can craft. Next comes a new reason to head back out: an Uppie with a request, a quest to complete, and the chance to befriend a new character for your collection.

Troves 1.0 is fully launched, and Uppie Quests are next. Troves players gather will be useful in missions, Friend Request Troves, and opportunities to befriend new Uppies.

Starting now, the Uppie Research Lab and Uppie Research Center will become permanently available as public service structures. These are the future locations for Uppie befriending recipes, giving neighborhood builders a chance to prepare for the next chapter before quests and befriending arrive in a later update.

How Uppie Quests Will Work

As players explore Upland, a quest card above an eligible property will signal that an Uppie has a request. Properties with both Residents and an assigned Uppie are planned to be eligible to offer quests, with Uppies across all levels able to participate. That gives developed properties and neighborhood activity a new reason to matter.

Accept a quest, gather or craft the requested Troves, and fulfill the request. One mission might feature an Uppie looking for breakfast, sending you out to find a croissant and coffee. Other requests can point toward different ingredients, recipes, and parts of the map. Players will be able to keep up to three quests active at once.

Completing a quest will give players a chance to receive a Friend Request Trove. That special Trove can become one ingredient in a befriending recipe at a Research structure. Combine the required inputs, complete the recipe, and a new Uppie can join your collection.

Why You Will Want More Uppies

Uppies bring personality to a collection, but their role is becoming much more practical. Uppies of every level are planned to take part in quests. For Level 1 and Level 2 Uppies, quest participation is planned as their property utility. Level 3 and higher Uppies can also take part while retaining eligible roles such as caring for plants when assigned.

The longer-term vision goes further. In future updates, eligible Uppies are planned to work at Service Structures, automatically collecting and crafting specific Troves. That employment and automation will help players pursue collection, crafting, and progression goals beyond what is practical to handle manually. These systems will arrive in later updates and will not activate when the Research structures enter the store.

Building an Uppie collection can therefore expand more than the characters you own. Over time, it can expand how you manage properties, interact with plants and Service Structures, collect and craft Troves, approach quests, and work toward Upland’s largest progression goals.

One-Day Uppie Research Value Pack

Collectors who want the complete lineup can grab the Uppie Research Value Pack, which includes The Uppie Research Lab and the Uppie Research Center for $12. That is 20% off regular pricing!

The Uppie Research Value Pack will be available in the Daily Store for 24 hours only, from Tuesday, November 10th at 9 AM PT through Wednesday, November 11th at 9 AM PT. Only the bundle is time-limited. After the first 24 hours, both structures will remain permanently available for individual purchase at their regular prices.

Uppie Research Lab

The Uppie Research Lab is a compact public service structure for builders preparing a neighborhood block for the coming befriending loop. When the feature launches, it will be a place to complete recipes that can welcome new Uppies into your collection. (Public Service, 11 Service Units)

Spark Hours: 36,000
Price: $5.00

Uppie Research Center

The Uppie Research Center is a large public service structure that gives developed districts a more substantial home for future befriending recipes. It carries the same planned role as the Lab at a larger structure scale, preparing builders for the moment when collected Troves can help bring new Uppies into their world. (Public Service, 37 Service Units)

Spark Hours: 65,250
Price: $10.00

The Next Adventure Is Taking Shape

The next adventure begins when an Uppie asks for help and sends you back across Upland with a purpose. Each completed request can bring you closer to a new character for your collection and, over time, a more active role for Uppies throughout properties and Service Structures.

Invite a returning friend to see where Troves are going, or bring someone new along for their first discoveries. Soon, players will be searching for quests, fulfilling Uppie requests, chasing Friend Request Troves, and deciding which new Uppie they want to befriend next.