Direction
This week, Direction focused upcoming changes to the Spawns for Factions, Lore, Quest, and Creative!

• LumosJared focused on Individual Direction and HR, Staff Applications, new staff training, and [[REDACTED]].
• MonMarty worked primarily on Race updates and prep work for V6.

Game
This week, Game assisted Tech in update to 1.16 by identifying and testing bugs. We are aware PVP feels a bit different, and we will test further to optimize the nodamageticks for player comfort. We continued to work on the KitPVP rework and are pleased with how far we have come. McDuels and many new maps should be arriving on the server very soon. We continued to configure [REDACTED], which we are incredibly excited for and can’t wait to introduce it to everyone soon as well. While Tech Staff are currently busy coding Kingdoms, we are eagerly devising a plan for how Sieges will work in conjunction. 58 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted Sumo Islands and Minotaur Maze Events this week! You can vote on which events we host next week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• BlueChaos aided players, edited mythic mobs, and prepared for MassiveCraft’s 10 year anniversary.
• QGMK aided players, tested and configured [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], and handled appeals and report.
• Takedown aided players, handled faction claiming violations, hosted events, and prepared for MassiveCraft’s 10 year anniversary.
• Notchyherobrine aided players and hosted events.
• The_Fluorspar aided players, handled war declarations, and tested and Configured McDuels and the new KitPVP setup.
• Winterless build a new large KitPVP map which will replace the one we have as the main map.
• AzureShoyru build for the KitPVP rework, prepared for MassiveCraft’s 10 year anniversary, tested [REDACTED], and aided with events.
• Sweet_Dreams built for the KitPVP rework, reviewed the Custom Crafting Recipes, and tested [REDACTED].
• Skhosh answered helpchats, reviewed the Custom Crafting Recipes, aided in event hosting, and performed ticket training.

World
This week, World continued to finish up the new interiors of various noble estates and businesses, such as the Reinard and Bancroft Estate, but also the new bar at Arena Court. Some quality of life edits were made around the Regalian spawn to clean things up, but the biggest clean-up job was the covering of the crater in the middle of Imperial Isle, that now hosts a vast, open square with memorial in its stead. Additionally, the Dragon Temple got a face-lift with brand new Anglian textures, go take a look!

Lore Updates:

• 1.6 RELEASE!
• Resource Pack
• Adjustments have been made to Body Stat for Ranged Combat
• We’ve added a new alt-rule for Artifacts. If your character has any Ability or power that allows them to walk around somewhere, or exist– via cloning, disguises, anything. You must have the Artifact on that persona as long as it is on your main account. The artifact must be carried on an active account. This varies case by case, so make a ticket if you need specific advice. But the rule of thumb is the Artifact must always be on your active Persona/Account.
• Burglary System Updates

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/general-world-system-update-explained.90533/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/progression-orders-explained.90532/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/noble-title-progressions-explained.90529/
• Large World System Rework please view the full changelog through these threads or #progression-pings on the RP Community Discord

Event Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/the-scented-dove-grand-opening.1361/event?id=1415
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/under-the-sea.1283/event?id=1328

Roleplay Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/crown-isle-bounty-board.89500/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/alms-ministry-of-regalia-january-report.90536/

PR
This week, PR has been working on updating the main website, as well as preparing for events for the tenth anniversary and the 1.16 Update!

• Seoulmate has done the Weekend Roundup and posted on Facebook. They also held PR Question Night in the RP Community Discord.
• Miracle678 has been working on the Daily Creeper and maintaining our Twitter presence.
• Hierophat_ has been rewording the roleplay page on the main website.
• Battlebrawn has been updating and maintaining our PMC page.
• Canaaa has been preparing for Saturday’s Community Night and the Anniversary Week post.
• Essentialess has been working on website page updates.
• SpecTec has been working on the 1.16 release video, uploading it onto YouTube, Reddit, and 11 discords, in addition to implementing various updates to the website pages. They have also updated our version of all voting sites.

Tech
This week, tech has been focusing on the 1.16 update.

• CS_Birb has been making multiple preparations as well as some final bug fixes for the 1.16 update. He then implemented the update from 8AM GMT on Saturday the 30th of January which took roughly 3 hours.
• ItsLateKnight has then fixing multiple bugs within MassiveVillagers and Factions. He has also been working on the Kingdoms plugin with XxXYaJrAbXxX.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX fixed a minor bug with MassiveRaces where you could become a race when you were a vampire. He has also been working on Kingdoms where a lot of the backend processing should now be implemented and requires some tweaks.
• Ghirko has been working on the bug fix for MassiveRaces as mentioned in XxXYaJrAbXxX’s report. She has also been working on a new plugin proposal to help organise staff members into their departments when a player does /seen and so it will also organise staff into departments within MassiveTickets so players can direct their issue to the appropriate department easier.