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

• LumosJared focused on Individual Direction, HR Talks, and PR Department long term planning. Of note, World and Lore will be posting their updates later this week.
• MonMarty focused on a new roleplay event arcs, the crown regency progressions, and lore updates.

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

• Please join in on testing our new plugin, Kingdoms! Details can be found here: https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/kingdoms-public-test-server.92302/
• The Netherite MythicMob went live last week! Head to /tp nether to discover it!
• We are entering into the phase of the KitPVP rework where all of the Quests, Regions, NPCs, and Arenas are functioning properly on our test server and are ready to be moved to the live server for release. We are hoping to get this done this week.
• We have added a command to our test server to activate the Race Ultimate ability, /mr ultimate, which will be an alternative to carrying a quartz in the offhand.
• MassiveVillagers is still on hold. Game needs to test optimal configuration for the FarmLimiter plugin so that your villagers do not get despawned undeservingly, and Tech is working on logging all villager transaction events to ensure the plugin in balanced.

• QGMK aided players, tested exploits, built Gauntlet Dungeons levels, and handled appeals, reports, and investigations.
• The_Fluorspar answered help chats, aided players, looked into MythicMob spawning conditions, and continued the KitPVP rework.
• TakeDown__ aided players, hosted events, created MythicMobs, and maintained the player market stalls.
• Sevak aided players, balanced and planned MassiveRaces changes, and created new items for the Vote Crates.
• Effloresce_ contacted and aided factions with illegal claims in Essa.
• BlueChaos aided players, hosted events, and spent a significant amount of time designing and testing Easter and Netherite MythicMobs.
• skhosh aided players, hosted events, created new items for the Vote Crates, and built Gauntlet Dungeons levels.

Quest
This week the quest department worked on some of the staff teams major projects such as the spawn & tutorial rework, KitPVP rework and gauntlet dungeon. Due to an increase in tickets issued for quest related NPC’s missing we have also started the process of replacing NPC’s with MythicMobs. From a user perspective this should be almost unnoticeable except in combat where fighting MythicMob NPC’s should feel a lot more smooth. This also allows us to further customize their looks, strengths and abilities. As we are the smallest staff department we are always looking to grow our team, consider applying here: https://forums.massivecraft.com/forums/staff-applications.11/create-thread. You can also have a look at our methods on this page: https://www.massivecraft.com/massivequest-author

• The_Fluorspar wrote quests for the kitpvp rework and worked on the Citizens to MythicMobs plugin transfer.
• Derpadillo worked on spawn/tutorial quest writing and gauntlet dungeon quest writing.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on various projects:

• FourThirteen has been working on MassiveVillagers allowing the plugin to log trade events when a player initiates a trade.
• CS_Birb has been fixing minor issues within various plugins, this includes MassiveBooks where it was attempting to use an incorrect editor type for the config. He has also added a new rule for MassiveQuest and also updated MythicMobs on the test server and live server.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been working on Kingdoms where he implemented a few minor features, this included fixing an issue with kingdom flags where you could not access the command. He also worked on making the kingdom name show up in the faction territory information and finally fixed an issue with the kingdom list where it was listing the kingdoms, but was displaying the wrong information such as how many factions are in the kingdom and how many people are online.
• XVW has been working on MassiveRaces making a utility for targeting with the Altalar ultimate ability. This searches to see if a player is under an open sky.