Mail

**DLC related content**

**Mail** is a game feature introduced as per The Isle of BIGsnax. The Journalist receives their own **Mail Box** in which the inhabitants of Snaxburg can approach with additional remarks to completing their Main Quests and Side Quests or request a favor, which is to be considered a type of Quest on its own. Completing Main Quests, Side Quests and Mail Quests are rewarded with an item that can be put in the Journalist's hut.

Where Main Quests are mandatory and Side Quest are optional yet vital - Mail Quests or Mail in general is entirely optional and non-vital. The Journalist can just leave their Mail Box untouched, stacked full of letters and gifts, and it matters none. The content of the letters or the concept of the mail itself is never mentioned outside of the cutscenes tied to the build of The Journalist's Hut, the latter having the same treatment. As DLC, no effort was made to truly incorporate it into the rest of the game and implication of such is simply tacked on without actual weight and/or consequence.

## Mail Quests

There are a total of 13-14 types of Mail Quests/Rewards differentiated in the files. Mail variations are 'hosted' by certain Grumpus groups and, when 'hosted' by Filbo, it will hold as many different Grumpuses as there are letters in that variation.The section names are unofficial

1. **Complete Main Quests**, in the files referred to as **Return to camp**, are letters received after the completion of a Grumpuses' Main Quest.
2. **Complete Side Quests**, in the files referred to as **Sidequest Complete**, are letters received after the completion of a Grumpuses' Side Quest.
3. **Lost Item** are fetch(re)quests, one per Grumpus, where they lost an item somewhere out in the field and the Journalist is to figure out where they lost it from description and/or knowing where the character previously resides; where you met them.
4. **Bug Collector**, in the files referred to as **All bugs from biome**, require you to catch all individual Bugsnax in a certain Biome. If you have already done so prior to this quest, the reward will appear immediately after opening the quest letter and the next letter upon opening the mailbox is the response letter.
5. **(Gramble's) Donation Request**, in the files referred to as **Barn Donation**, are requests from Gramble to receive a specific Bugsnax donation for him to take care of at his barn.
6. **(Shelda's) Donation Request**, in the files referred to as **Shelda Donation**, are requests from Shelda to receive a specific Bugsnax donation to be purged by the mother. This results in Shelda's further snakification.
7. **Filbo's Mail Fail**, in the files referred to as **Hidden Feeds** - Filbo dropped mail he was gathering from the others in the river and now their messages are unreadable. The Journalist must decipher from 3 words who the request comes from and what they want - they all request to be fed a Bugsnak.
8. **Snax Snap**, in the files referred to as **Scan Bugsnax** - Beffica & Triffany request a specified Bugsnak to be captured on camera in a certain situation. The requests are a bit more complex as they require knowledge of Bugsnax behaviourism and their environment to be fulfilled.
9. **Build-a-Grump**, in the files referred to as **Transform Challenges**, are experimental Snakification request by Cromdo, Floofty or Wiggle. They requests any Grumpus (which is coded to include themselves) to be snakified with certain variant or theme of Bugsnax. Cromdo wants to create mascot looks, Floofty wants to do scientific observations and Wiggle would like to create fashion trends.
10. **Safety Check**, in the files referred to as **Physical Challenges**, which seems to be a mix-up with the following mail collection of Chandlo & Snorpy. Eggabell provides the Journalist with safety advice, which they either like to rebel against and/or interpret as a challenge, much to the doctor's concern.
11. **Physical Challenges**, in the files referred to as **Safety Check**, which seems to be a mix-up with the previous mail collection, has Snorpy and Chandlo challenge the Journalist to tasks of higher caliber.
12. **Mailstones**, in the files referred to as **Milestones**, are letters received after the completion of a Story Event.
13. in the files referred to as **Snaxburg Activities**,
14. in the files referred to as **Secret Challenges**,

## List of Mail

* Complete Main Quests
* Complete Side Quests
* Lost Item
* Bug collector
* Donation requests
* Filbo's Mail Fail
* Snax Snap
* Transform challenges
* Eggabell's Interview & Safety Check
* Physical Challenges
* Mailstones
* Snaxburg activities
* Secret challenges

Interview Eggabell pt.2! follows up from Interview Eggabell!. Using the **Mail**, Eggabell send a letter through Filbo, the latter having been acting as a mailman. Like all other Grumpuses, as part of her Main Quest completion, she sends a gratitude/apologetic letter to the Journalist, inviting them to have another Interview, now a proper one. After having received her outro letter, Eggabell starts sending safety advice letters warning the Journalist of certain dangers. The Journalist takes the advice as challenges, much to the doctor's distress.

How did these letters get into your mailbox?

## References & Notes

1. ↑ Mail was added as a way to have more character content without having to record voices. The DLC's character roster is fully based on what Voice Actors were available.
2. ↑ Despite the possibility to Snakify the Grumpus in question, the request itself and description thereof asks for anyone other than the task-giver to be subjected to the "test". The outro letters imply an observance to the subject. With the games' implications to be wary of snakification, it becomes morally warped to fulfill the task, if not subjecting the task-giver themself, and odd the Journalist would help them. In Floofty's case, Grumps have stated to not want to be subjected to Floofty's experiments - hence Floofty decided to test on themself instead.
3. ↑ The Journalist interprets Eggabell's advice as physical challenges, making this mix-up fitting.
4. ↑ Filbo is referring to the described scene in the trailer where he set the town ablaze, again, because he lacked motorics due to Snakfication.
5. ↑ While it states Scorpenyo *OR* Scorpepper, the request will only be fulfilled with a donation of both of them.
6. ↑ The quest will be automatically fullfilled (likely after having caught a Caramel Poptick in general; check needed). The coding seems to assume Wambus has been fed with the Bugsnak before, which is peculiar as he does not require feeding in his main- or side quest nor donation to his garden of this Bugsnak.
7. ↑ While this letter is "signed by Beffica" and even rewards a Beffica-like item, the letter is clearly written by one pretending to be Beffica, putting her word-use in quotations. It all point towards Floofty; the location, mannerism in speech and the subtle patronizing gift of a 'kiddie pool' (Floofty's to-go insult is that of calling someone a child). If the item is stolen from Beffica or if Floofty touched upon it making it more Beffica-like is unknown. It shows Floofty has been observing Beffica and the Journalist's relationship with her. Why Floofty felt the need to resort to trickery seems to point to aspects of them not shown further in their character writing; a need to deceive or to intimidate or desperation for the Journalist's aid.
8. ↑ This Task is listed under "Physical Challenges" in the files but due to its unprompted nature it is more fitting to be put within this section.