A Merchant mans one of the new stalls just to the left of /tp regalia.

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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, the Game Department began working with PR on updating our website, wiki, and forums. We consolidated all rules into a single document and ensured they matched on each platform. We will be having a large meeting today to lay out our priorities and plan for the first quarter of the year. Expect more information on that in next week’s changelog. We continued to prepare for the 1.16 update, and are in the process of introducing more events each weekend. Minor changes to vampires were also made, increasing their Speed and Jump to level 3 when bloodlusting, but reducing their damage by 15% when not in bloodlust. 32 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted Pig Racing Event this week! You can vote on which events we host next week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• BlueChaos aided players, updated website and wiki pages, and hosted events.
• QGMK aided players, built new events, updated website and wiki pages, bug tested, and met with Game members to discuss their roles in the department.
• Notchyherobrine aided players, hosted events, and spent time looking into and testing possible plugins for the KitPVP rework.
• Winterless aided players and created 6 blue & 1 yellow boss MythicMobs.
• AzureShoyru answered help chats and prepared for MassiveCraft’s 10 year Anniversary.
• Sweet_Dreams answered help chats, aided in event hosting, built rooms for the KitPVP rework and new events, and tested MassiveRaces on 1.16.
• TakeDown__ aided players, prepared for MassiveCraft’s 10 year anniversary, and processed War Declarations.

Quest
This week progress was made towards writing the last few quests needed for our Silverwind Remaster update and the first one for the Regalia resource nodes. We also started using a road mapping tool in an effort to better visualize and track our goals for the next 4 months. 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

• Lazzulai worked on an ore gathering quest for finding roleplay resources.
• Derpadillo did QA for Lazzulai’s project, worked on the quest roadmap and got started on a robbery quest for Silverwind.
• The_Fluorspar got acquainted with MythicMobs in an effort to over time replace all vanilla quest mobs with custom ones and worked on the quest roadmap.
• Vegemiite worked on a family reunion quest for Silverwind and did research for a future quest world.

World
This week was another week of World ‘upkeep’, focusing on bettering and changing already existing buildings vs. building new ones. Make sure to check out the new market stalls on mainstreet, free for public use.

• Bunemma re-did the Cadieux estate, tickets.
• Patsie Did some work on the ‘Dreamrealm’.
• WaterDruppel Decorated the new Reinard estate, and helped with the Cadieux estate.

PR
The past couple weeks to the last month have been very productive for PR. Recently we’ve been working a lot on new player research and Direction focused data collection as well as our standard duties for internal/external presence. This includes Discord events, such as Canaa’s Community Game Night, our social media, voting work, player monitoring, player communication, and inter-department discussions regarding the growth of the server. There has also been work including font expansion and various graphical tasks requested of PR.

• Derpadillo Helped organize, edit, and obtain login info
• Seoulmate Weekend Roundup and Facebook posts (Factions Spotlight and Gauntlet Showcase)
• Miracle678 Daily Creeper and Faction Spotlight work
• Hierophat_ Compiling Social Media Embed and working on post about new general and seasonal deco heads
• Battlebrawn Planet Minecraft Upkeep and weekly update
• Canaa Hosting Community Game Night and Gauntlet screenshots
• Essentialess Font editing and testing, as well as software training
• SpecTec Coordinated the strategy to increase voting, edited voting sites, added voting sites, as well as creating videos and creating assets for external/internal use. Communication with faction leaders for new player and general research in survival. They also coordinated the development of the PR department as well as recruitment.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on various items for the 1.16 update:

• CS_Birb has been updating plugins for the 1.16 update such as adding missing writers for the new compass meta and persistent data containers. He has also been working on fixing various bugs within the Massive plugins such as weakness not working on the server. He has also implemented a command to toggle items being able to be picked up within MassiveCombat so players can easily level unarmed.
• ItsLateKnight has been working on MassiveVillagers to implement a grey list of items and their associated regal price.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been working on MassiveCore to add compass meta to serialise to our database. He has also been working on MassiveHat with Ghirko fixing an issue where players would get an error when attempting to put on helmets that were not hats. He has also been working on bringing toggleable notifications for Factions where players will be able to disable receiving specific messages that are announced to the faction such as claiming, joining, leaving etc.
• Ghirko has been working on MassiveHats to fix an issue where players will be able to wear a helmet but will receive an error message when putting on a vanilla helmet if they are not a premium member. She has also been working on an issue with Factions where players will get an internal error when trying to set someones rank when that rank does not belong to that faction.