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

• LumosJared focused on the new spawns to be implemented next week, and tp overhauls.
• MonMarty focused on lore rewrites, progressions, and lore events.

World
Week 11 was all about finishing up previous projects, and making headway on the long list of work for the World department. The Telarel estate was finished up, Caelfall’s interior is inching ever closer to completion, both the Militia base and the representative’s office and Crookback received decoration, and various events took place.

• SpunSugar finished up the Telarel ballroom, and did tickets.
• Bunemma completed the crookback rep.’s decoration, and did most of the work on the militia base. Alongside this, she did events, clandestine base management, and tickets.
• WaterDruppel continued work on Caelfall, adding in a magic library, armoury for the mage-fighting arena, and mapping out the upper portions of the library building. The Latimer estate was gutted in preparation for decoration.

Game

Here are some updates on the projects we have been working on:

• 1. MassiveVillagers: Tech Staff have successfully enabled village raids in claimed land. Start trapping zombie villagers! Expect this to drop soon!
• 2. MythicMobs: We fixed the issue with low mob spawns in certain darkrooms. Darkrooms which were under water would be affected the most because water mobs were spawning with priority over darkroom mobs.
• 3. Netherite: Tech Staff has successfully disabled the knockback resistance of netherite armor. We still need to finish the MythicMob which will drop netherite, and now that our other MythicMob issues are handled, we will prioritize this.
• 4. KitPVP rework: Most of the maps, kits, and ELO rankings have been configured. We are having difficulty placing a quartz in the offhand for race ultimate use in each kit.
• 5. The Factions-Survival GUI Tutorial has been implemented on the test server. Gone will be the days of signs, holograms, NPCs, and text. New players will have everything at their disposal in a GUI by typing /tutorial.
• 6. St. Patrick’s Day Event is on Wednesday at 1:30 PST. We will have a costume contest and Irish brawl! A larger announcement will be sent out soon! M

Minor Notes:

• /clearitems and /clear items have been combat tagged.
• We are looking into possibly combat tag faction claiming and disable slow-falling potions.
• 55 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed.
• We hosted Archery and Checkers Events this week! You can vote on which events we host next week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• QGMK aided players, fixed darkroom mob spawns, tested Kingdoms, and handled appeals and reports.
• Notchyherobrine aided players, hosted events, and investigated players.
• Effloresce_ implemented the new Tutorial on the test server and hosted events.
• BlueChaos aided players, hosted events, and investigated players.
• Sevak answered help chats, aided players, and tested the new tutorial, MythicMobs, and Kingdoms.
• The_Fluorspar answered help chats, aided players, fixed darkroom mob spawns, handled war declarations, and tested the new tutorial and McDuels.
• skhosh aided players and hosted events.
• Sweet_Dreams built and planned the St. Patricks Day Event.
• Sir_Daragon aided players and tested MythicMobs.

Lore Updates:

• Delete the Player-help channel on the discord. We are of the opinion – now that the 11 new lore staff made it into a rank where they can comfortably take care of tickets and the turnover rate is high, that player help is also no longer necessary. The degree of error in player replies to help request is also not of a sufficient degree to really substitute staff tickets, and so new players should simply be directed to staff tickets where we have staff ready nearly 24/7 to help them!
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Cult_of_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Milôt_Bloodline
• All Mivver or Shilot Characters are encouraged to switch to Milôt or become lore incompliant.
• This Bloodline now also sets the standard for future Bloodline updates.
• The remnants have been merged into the Milôt Bloodline
• Mivver & Shilôt Bloodlines have been purged from lore.
• The Cult of Order is an Exist variant of the Void based Cult of Evolution. It is strictly Exist worship in its non-Estel Worship variant, open to all and legal in the Regalian Empire under religious tolerance (though keep in mind some of the activities of the Cult of Order may not be legal, like assaulting people and force removing their mutations.)
• We’ve made a long string of popular changes to lore and Abilities and implementations, but sometimes an unpopular decision will take place that we have (what we think are) good reasons internally, that will probably not be agreed with by the wider population base who make use of the lore that is about to be gate-kept. The topic in particular concerns ritualism.

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/an-imperial-missive-to-the-empire.91517/

Event Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/artist-spotlight-averyween.91540/
• William Howlester will be taking the last of the interviews for the position of Military Commissioner 3/14 at 6 EST. Be at /tp Howlester estate by the bell at that time. The position will be filled regardless.

Roleplay Updates:

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNOVrrLcBCXkXARXxFhNSWL5BBPJY7GgmbALNNFilco/edit#gid=0
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/bancroft-chancellery-last-bit-of-business.91577/
• The Marshal Cabinet/War System for Regalian Wars was updated recently
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/bancroft-chancellery-one-last-time.91588/#post-998272