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.
• Derpadillo x12: Game and Festival Direction.

Game
This week, Game performed extensive work on Mythic Mob creation, Gauntlet Dungeons building, custom crafting recipes, Shady Merchant items, and [REDACTED], which will all be hitting the server shortly after Races. Speaking of which, Races are almost here! Keep an eye out for a post detailing their release. 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 a Pig Race event this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• Winterless x3: Tickets.
• Sir_Daragon x17: Ban Appeals, Defenses, Investigations, Mythic Mobs, etc.
• QGMK x10: Tickets, Game Meetings, Events, Dungeons.
• Drejr x9: [[REDACTED]], Tickets.
• Falconhand x8: Various Game Tasks.
• NotchyHerobrine x7: Tickets.
• Takedown x8: Game Meetings, Tickets.

World
This week World focused on a variety of things. The Essa spawn continued in its rework, ships were built on request, business regions were re-decorated, and a clandestine base finished for use. A venue was constructed for a large Halloween event, alongside various touchups to Meereburg for the end of the festival. In preparation for the coming holiday season, world also began adding snow onto the map, and added new seasonal decoheads to /dh (68 of them!).

• WaterDruppel x3: Various Bases and Tickets.
• SpunSugar x5: Meereburg Festival Set up, World Tickets, Chrimmas Decor.
• Bunemma x18: Tickets, Decor, Setup, Festival Work.
• EdnaMode x2: Event Setup and Tickets.
• JakePostanJake x8: Pirate Schooner.
• Patsie x3: Kathar Ravine.
• SnashuuPomayMay x3: Essa Spawn Fortress.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• Allar Update Out!
• Ithanian Update Out!
• Make sure to complete the Meereburg Quests before they will no longer be accessible!

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/sendrassian-war-fear-the-beast-within.88155/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/long-live-the-liberum-veto.88251/
• Troop losses in the war now are permanent and Nobility will have to repurchase troops to replenish losses when the Logistics minister divvies up where the losses are. Effectively from the next military prog onward.

Event Updates:

• The Peril In Meereburg has ended, thank you all to those who fought valiantly in taking back the town for the people.
• Strange sightings of floating crystals have been sighted in Regalia. What could it mean?

Roleplay Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/drachenburg-chancellery-final-decree.88312/

• Eccetra x9: Discord Tickets.
• Caelamus x18: Character Sheets.
• Messtro x12: Character Sheets.
• Fantuinn x12: Character Sheets.
• Bellarmina x8: Special Perm Reviews.
• Lumiess x3: Event Acting.
• Birdsfoot_Violet x5: Backlog.
• BillyTheScruffy x8: Noble System DM and Progression Posts.
• LumosJared x2: Festival and Sheets.
• TheBioverse x3: Character Sheets.
• BetaInsomnia x19: Processings.
• HydraLana x47: Lore Writing.
• WaterDruppel x2: Permission Reviews.
• FireFan96 x15: Character Sheets and Discord Tickets.

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 x25: The whole damn Harvest Festival!
• Lazzulai x4: Harvest Festival Training.

PR
This week, PR staff has been up to quite a bit of work! Most of us have been updating things & ensuring communication is in order, generally looking at how we can get information out to more players about upcoming events & upcoming spotlights. This week we’ve been up to the following:

Battlebrawn has been up to updating the Planet Minecraft page, helping other departments & answering in-game tickets.

FlossyBerryRene has been up to looking at Instagram & questioning some of the accounts we follow, as well as posting some reminders.

Seoulmate has done the weekend roundup, taking screenshots of various events that were happening including Bunemma’s Monster Mash! As well as working on getting information out in a more streamlined manner to fit the new style of announcing things through Discord to work with our forum posts. They have also put together the Staff Trick or Treat, which was a major success!

• FlossyBerryRenne x2: Tickets, Instagram and Artists Spotlight.
• Battlebrawn x3: 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 x1: New Factions Spotlight.
• Seoulmate x4: Weekend Roundup.
• Qoll x2: New Changelog Template Draft.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on MassiveRaces. CS_Birb has been working on updates to all of the Massive plugins to prepare them for 1.16.3. He also did pair programming with XxXYaJrAbXxX to get to the root cause of a bug within MassiveRaces. XxXYaJrAbXxX and Derpadillo has also been working on balancing the races from the feedback that the game department provided us as well as implement some final changes to commands that were missing some functionality. FourThirteen has been helping test some of the functionality of the bug fixes for MassiveRaces too as well as working on bug fixes from the 1.15 update. ItsLateKnight has been doing some pair programming with CS_Birb on the new Prism interface as well as an introduction to JavaScript.

• XxXYaJrAbXxX x6: MassiveRaces Updates.
• ItsLateKnight x9: Pair Coding.
• CS_Birb x38: Read the full report below!
• FourThirteen x5: [[REDACTED]], Hats, Roundup.
• Derpadillo x35: MassiveRaces Development.

CS_Birb’s Full Tech Report