Direction
This week, Direction focused on an internal Staff-Invigoration Project and processing Staff Applications, Complaints, and Meritocracy paperwork. However, we also did this new format for Changelogs! If you’ve feedback on what information you’d want to see highlighted in these, let us know down below! As always, Staff is actively recruiting in most departments, so if you are interested in joining Tech, Quest, PR, Game, or World, please apply here! https://forums.massivecraft.com/forums/staff-applications.11/.

• LumosJared focused on the new Changelog format, as well as wrapping a few [[REDACTED]] projects, which should stimulate new vigor in the Lore Department.
• MonMarty focused on preparations for V6, as well as a variety of HR talks and inter-department coordination.

Game
This week, Game worked on Gauntlet Dungeons, which we are hoping to release next week. A new Shady Merchant can be found at /tp market, so go check out all of the limited-time items he is selling! We have become aware of an issue involving items disappearing from player’s backpacks. If you experience this issue, please make a discord ticket on the Main MassiveCraft Discord (https://www.massivecraft.com/discord). The Fall PVP Tournament was a success! Congratulations to our top three finishers, Winterless, Notchyherobrine, and Wizkers! The usual 24 player tickets, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted a Boat PVP event this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• Sir_Daragon created a bunch of Mythic Mobs this week for circulation, and tackled some [[REDACTED]] Game Lead tasks.
• Bluechaos set up the Shady Merchant setup and handelled a bunch of Ban Appeals this week.
• QGMK led the Gauntlet Dungeons created, hosted a few events, and conducted player investigations
• The_Fluorspar prepared a PVP Tournament and then hosted it, along with some tickets and help chat.

World
This week world worked to improve existing builds, and create new ones for upcoming use. Event sites, V6 neighborhoods, PvE sites, and estates were all decorated / built.

• SpunSugar completed the interior of the Elysium Club, completed world tickets, as well as biome changes around the map to help bring Winter to Regalia.
• WaterDruppel has been working on constructing neighborhood designs for V6, completed in-game tickets regarding region fix-ups, and worked on redecorating the Typhonus estate in Regalia. Therapy was also handled by placing snow layer after snow layer across the entirety of Old Town and Imperial Isle.
• Patsie worked with BlueChaos and EdnaMode_ to bring his cave pve event site to life, followed by time spent on a roleplay event site for Carlit0o featuring some elven ruins.
• Bunemma did much the same as Waterdruppel: helping with the Typhonus estate, cleaning up and fixing the snow fall in Regalia, tickets, and V6 building.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• New Deco-heads available! Use /dh to view them all!
• The activity board now contains a tp and player count for the most active public establishments for food/drinks in Regalia: https://i.gyazo.com/2776e9e1662ce49366eaa2cf03f6b00f.png
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/regalia-v6-community-housing-registration.88423/

World System Updates:

• The Calm Before the Storm!

Event Updates:

• The early November storms bring with them a pleasant sheet of pillow snow that covers the streets of Regalia. Stay warm folks!
• Shady Merchant has been released in the world. The merchant however will be placed next to the chest tomorrow afternoon. So have fun trying to find the chest :D. Hint: Not in Regalia.
• More strange crystals that hum and vibrate have been reported by locals and travelers in and outside of Regalia. Where are they coming from?

Roleplay Updates:

• First Decree from the New Chancellor!
• Second Decree from the New Chancellor!
• A Decree from the Arcane Minister, relevant to the Occult!

Quest
The Quest department is recovering from the sprint that it took to complete the Harvest Festival, but is quietly working away on the groundwork for upcoming quest implementations with Lore Staff.

• The_Fluorspar focused on Quality Assurance on an upcoming quest.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on some of the bug fixes that was raised by game when testing MassiveRaces as well as some minor bug fixes on the server.

• CS_Birb has been working on Factions to be able to perform relation set commands on behalf of other factions (Permission dependent). He has also been working on MassiveCore for some of the functionality of 1.16.
• FourThirteen has been working on MassiveRaces fixing many of the bugs from the game testing such as the Isldar chilling touch where it was overriding regions.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been testing and fixing minor bugs within MassiveRaces making minor amendments to some of the code to make chilling touch respect faction relations as well as making worlds configurable for this ability.
• Derpadillo has been working on bug fixes on MassiveRaces too. He has been working on items such as the Url growl not triggering correctly and again working on chilling touch to respect faction claims and regions.
• Ghirko has been working on Factions with CS_Birb making it so that you can perform relation set commands on behalf of another faction if you have the permission.