Direction
This week, Direction focused on Individual Direction and Paperwork, specifically helping out the Game Department better communicate to the player base, and assisting in the training of new aspirants. A few new aspirants were also taken on, and the usual bout of Server Emails, and Project Assigning were completed. Staff is still actively recruiting, so if you are interested in joining Tech, Quest, PR, Game, or World, please apply here! https://forums.massivecraft.com/forums/staff-applications.11/.

• LumosJared x3: Individual Direction and Staff Apps.
• LumosJared x2: Changelog Structure and Paperwork.
• LumosJared x2: Staff:Dept Updates and Staff Recruitment.

Game
We had an exceptionally productive week! We worked on 1.15 issues, a new War Declaration system brainstorm, an Empires brainstorm, some new mythic mobs, damage balancing in preparation for Races, a long Races testing and balancing session, Gauntlet building, and [REDACTED]. Check out the Harvest Festival this weekend! (https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/massivecraft-harvest-festival-2020.88082/) Sign up for the Fall PVP Tournament Nov 7th! (https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/fall-pvp-tournament-announcement-and-signup.88146/) The usual 33 player tickets, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted Spleef and PVECorruption events this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• Winterless x1: Tickets and Prism Work.
• Sir_Daragon x13: Ban Appeals, Defenses, Investigations, etc.
• The_Fluorspar x11: Helpchats, MassiveCombat, Tickets.
• Drejr x3: Race Testing and Tweaks.
• QGMK x20: Tickets, Game Meetings, Post 1.15 Projects.
• BlueChaos x8: Essalonia Cleanup and Tickets and Testing.
• NotchyHerobrine x2: Tickets and Help Meetings.
• Takedown x11: War declaration rework, Peaceful Factions & Massive Races testing.

World
This week, World combined their efforts to ensure Meereburg was up to scratch for the eventline. The haunted manor was stripped and redecorated, the area closed off from the rest of the world, and the docks given a major facelift. Beyond that, general upkeep in Regalia took place – decorating some of the new shopping regions around the coliseum, fixing issues / updating blocks to 1.15, and setting up for player events. If you’re wanting to get involved in the aforementioned Meereburg events, swing by /tp HarvestVillage for some fun.

• WaterDruppel x4: Eleng, v6, Drakenheim, EventSetup.
• SpunSugar x9: Meereburg Festival Set up, Pumpkins.
• Bunemma x16: Skinning, Dept Rundown, Event Setup.
• EdnaMode x4: Event Setup.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/massivecraft-harvest-festival-2020.88082/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/halloween-writing-competition.88076/
• Allar Update Out Shortly!
• Ithanian Update Out Shortly!

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/drachenburg-chancellery-decree-10-19-308.88055/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/thr…sion-18-a-tale-of-ice-and-airship-fire.88075/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/sendrassian-war-fear-the-beast-within.88155/

Event Updates:

• The Crookback Truce has been formed with the pirates of the Damned Crew!
• Meereburg’s ferry arrived in Regalia’s harbor and is willing to bring any over whenever they desire to see the festival! (tp HarvestVillage)
• The three Witch Sisters will be making another appearance soon…!
• Check out the Event Calendar we have an overwhelming number of scheduled player events!

Roleplay Updates:

• Jared Kade (now Bancroft) is Chancellor-Elect and will take the office on November 1st!

• Eccetra x12: Discord Tickets.
• HydraLana x55: Lore Writing.
• Caelamus x12: Character Sheets.
• MantaRey x6: Processing.
• BillyTheScruffy x23: Noble System DM and Progression Posts.
• MollyMock x17: Character Sheets.
• FireFan96 x8: Character Sheets and Discord Tickets.
• Wumpatron x8: Permission Reviews.
• WaterDruppel x4: Lore Processing and Event Acting.
• Lumiess x4: Event Acting.
• TheBioverse x12: Character Sheets.
• Anarchizm x18: Character Sheets.
• Birdsfoot_Violet x8: Backlog.
• Arhbi x9: Character Sheets.
• Carlit0o x28: Halloween Festival.
• Jonificus x6: Character Sheets.
• Fantuinn x20: Character Sheets.
• Bellarmina x18: Event Work and Quest Writing.
• LumosJared x5: Festival Prep and Sheets.

Quest
The Quest department is actively recruiting! The Quest department is responsible for the in-game questing experience, which involves writing storylines, transferring storylines into quest code, and then inputting that code in-game for debugging and quality assurance testing. Along the way you’ll also create NPCs, WorldGuard regions, MythicMobs, and exciting environments, and overall let your creativity flow. Additional detailed information can be found at https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Staff:Quest . If this sounds interesting to you, we encourage you to consider making an aspirant application here on the forums by visiting the “staff and community feedback” section. You can also contact Alj23 or Derpadillo with specific questions.

• Derpadillo x1: Department Overhead.

PR
This week FlossyBerryRene finished up some changes to our artist spotlight system and was able to implement those changes with a new spotlight, which was covered on the forums and Instagram. With PMC upkeep and social media postings, we worked on a good amount of things! This was along side the addition of a new member to our team, Qoll! FlossyBerryRene was able to show the ropes to the new aspirant, and Qoll even did a write up of a creative competition!

• FlossyBerryRenne x5: Tickets, Graphic Design Creation, Instagram and Artists Spotlight.
• Hierophant x4: Event Assistance.
• Battlebrawn x2: Adding the weekly updates to our PMC page and updating it to stay relevant in the top search lists for roleplay and factions servers, namely updating the tags and SEO. https://www.planetminecraft.com/server/massivecraft-1064138/
• Miracle678 x4: Fall PVP Tourney.
• Anarchizm x6: PR Tickets.
• Seoulmate x8: Weekend Roundup.

Tech
This week, tech has been focussing on MassiveRaces. CS_Birb has been looking and fixing some of the bugs from the 1.15.2 update as well as making a patch in Regalia where players would lose their items on death even when they were not meant to. He has also started work on the 1.16.3 update. TheComputerGeek2 has been working on implementing a fix for the bee hive and bee nest serialisation which causes these items to lose the bees within them on teleporting from 1 shard to another. XxXYaJrAbXxX has been working on MassiveRaces to make race configurations configurable within game for easier tweaking to the values as well as Derpadillo, FourThirteen and ItsLateKnight have been testing MassiveRaces for balancing and bugs within the current code. ItsLateKnight has also made some tweaks to the datapack to change a few custom recipes for elytras and allowing slabs to be turned back into their blocks.

• XxXYaJrAbXxX x7: MassiveCore Updates (tech log below)
• ItsLateKnight x9: Data Pack, Races, Reworks.
• CS_Birb x21: UPDATE WEEK! Read the full report below!
• FourThirteen x7: Tech Work.

CS_Birb’s Full Tech Report