Direction
This week, Direction focused on maintaining current staff systems.

• LumosJared focused on Individual Direction and HR, and new Aspirants.
• MonMarty focused on server finances, paperwork, and lore rewrites.

World
This week was fairly normal for world – we continued chipping away at the long list of estate decoration, including but not limited to continuing a bit on the de Piedmont estate, a bunch of decoration in the Solisti estate, and making serious headway on Caelfall. The secret spring project was finally finished after considerable amount of work, so expect some sort of announcement relatively soon. Beyond that it was the typical event set up, and ticket upkeep.

• SpunSugar picked out new decoheads for the plugin.
• EdnaMode finished up some work for the secret project, and began work on the Solisti estate, finishing up the foyer, small lounge, war room meeting area, a dining room, kitchen, and a sparring/fighting pit.
• Bunemma set up some player events, continued work on Caelfall with WaterDruppel, and finished up the secret spring project with everyone above.
• Patsie helped out with the secret project, and worked on some gardens – one for Caelfall, and one for the chapel on mainstreet.
• WaterDruppel worked with both Patsie and Bunemma to finish up the secret spring project, and did some individual and collaborative work on Caelfall. SpunSugar picked out new decoheads for the plugin.

Lore Updates:

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Bintaar
• Undead, arcanologists, scholars and the macabre-obsessed now have actual concrete lore to interact with in some ways! also, this article provides a bit of flavor to a few existing races and cultures as well, and additionally provides some loose inspiration for characters who’re totally into death worship and goth stuff like that.
• In addition, birdsfoot and Finlaggan will now be considering potential applications for ordial mages.
• Resourcepack updated to 1.16.1 as a hotfix, you can find the download here: https://www.massivecraft.com/medieval-rpg-resourcepack (it will say updated 01-30, but clicking download should give the right download zip)
• This includes:
  – Fix for Warped Pressure Plate turning square upon standing on it
  – Fix for Carpet textures being Missing Texture when broken or sprinting over them
  – Includes Biome appropriate dockyard pack of textures for Regalia V6’s poor district harborside warehouse appartments

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/thr…rising-tensions-and-cultural-functions.91347/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/empty-promises-and-world-news.91398/

Event Updates:

• The defense of the Sepulchre has ended in favor of the defending side.
• The Chancellor Vote Event has been moved to Saturday, March 13th, 5pm US Eastern Time, to accommodate schedules. It will be a brief Vote, and a 2 1/2 hour cap on the event to not intrude on the Main Street Market event.

Roleplay Updates:

• The Mistress of Ceremonies, Countess Amelina Peirgarten, officially announces the following selections for the new Imperial Court positions.
  • Novellia Reinard as Mistress of Conduces
  • Florian Peirgarten as Master of Celebrations
  • Laenrell Avelleia as Mistress of Celebrations
• Sol Laenrell Avalleia is formally courting Rosanthe Athe-Meliaan, daughter of the Sol Athentol.

PR
This week, PR has been working on our Social Media presence, as well as video creation and screenshots.

• Seoulmate has trained other PR staff on the ticket system.
• Spectec has been helping test Kingdoms and working on a video.
• Wan_Xia has been trained on the ticket system and has been testing resource pack bugs.
• Canaa did tickets and screenshots.
• FlossyBerryRene has been taking screenshots and videos of in-game events and editing them, as well as Instagram upkeep.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on various bug fixes and feature implementation.

• CS_Birb has been doing maintenance on the servers such as updating our server software as well as adding handling for knockback resistance in MassiveCombat. He has also been working on various bug fixes.
• ItsLateKnight has been working on a bug in Factions which wouldn’t update the client when a door was placed down when you do not have permission, leaving the upper half of the door floating in the air.
• XXXYajRabXXX has been working on Kingdoms fixing issues where sending relation requests from faction to faction causes you only to send a request and not acknowledge the relation between factions in the kingdom has updated.
• Ghirko has been working alongside ItsLateKnight to fix the issue with the doors. She has also worked on MassiveRaces to make potion effects more configurable as well as adding handling to Vampires when right clicking with lapis lazuli to also create holy water (currently, you have to right click with a water bottle only)