Direction
This week, Direction’s primary efforts were seen through MonMarty, did a blitz of new large scale Lore Projects, Writings, and Updates while also juggling HR and Paperwork concerns. Hats off! More quietly, LumosJared handelled HR matters within Lore and began work on some new Buycraft Features. As always, Staff is actively recruiting in most departments, so if you are interested in joining Tech, Quest, PR, Game, or World, please apply here! https://forums.massivecraft.com/forums/staff-applications.11/. Note, Quest and PR this week are undergoing some shuffles and will resume weekly updates starting next Sunday.

• LumosJared provided HR for several Lore Staff members, and began work some additions to the Buycraft/Premium Services.
• MonMarty focused on the Archaeology Project, Updates to Werebeats, and a host of other updates are in the works!

Game
What a week it has been! We are finally beginning to see the fruits of our labor we have spent numerous hours working on. Massive Races are here in 4 days: https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/massiveraces-reborn.88855/ The first 10 levels of Gauntlet Dungeons have been released on the server at /tp Dungeons! https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/introducing-gauntlet-dungeons.88862/ We are extremely pleased with the hype and positive feedback we have received.

The Game Staff have been reevaluating our performance over the past few years, specifically regarding new content and player retention. We have recently been trying to focus on building a more positive relationship between players and staff. We believe that by building this relationship and introducing exciting content which caters towards each type of player, our player count will increase. Specifically, we have a project in mind which will benefit all players, but especially the PVP community, and we plan to work closely with them to achieve the best results. We hope that you all are able to view us as dedicated volunteers for this amazing server.

The usual 30 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted PVE Corruption and Dancy Chairs events this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• Sir_Daragon handled ban appeals, player reports, server bugs, and many player tickets. He also tested the Gauntlet Dungeons and worked on a [[REDACTED]] project.
• Bluechaos made some major changes to MCMMO fishing, which should be arriving on the server soon. The Fishing Expert himself added unique rewards and treasures which can be fished up. He also decorated Essalonia spawn a bit in preparation for the holidays and began reevaluating our current voting system.
• QGMK released his major project last night, Gauntlet Dungeons. He is extremely pleased with the hype and excitement it has brought to the server. More levels will be coming! He is also excited to begin working on a new project which will benefit the PVP community.
• The_Fluorspar also contributed heavily to the Gauntlet Dungeons. He is a member of both the Game and Quest Departments, which makes intra-department communication easier. He aided in hosting two events this week, PVE Corruption and Dancy Chairs, as well as routine backstage maintenance.
• Takedown__ aided in decorating Essalonia spawn and handled in game tickets.
• Winterless handled in-game tickets.

World
This week World continued to upkeep with the surge of decoration and event requests. Noble estates, clandestine bases, and various venues were all re-decorated and set up. Further work for an upcoming event was completed, as well as building some resources for future builds.

• WaterDruppel Worked on the Kreiburg estate interior, repurposing an older building, and doing the interior of a couple clandestine bases.
• Patsie Worked on decorating the Kade summer estate, and the Goretaan estate.
• Bunemma Did event set up, worked on clandestine bases, and helped with the Kreiburg interior.
• JakePostanJake1 Did some ship re-working to make the interiors bigger, decorated for an event, and built a blast furnace.
• Snashuupomayma Worked on the Cadieux estate.
• SpunSugar worked on the Typhonus and Cadieux Estates, and did a check up on the Goretaan Estate.
• EdnaMode_ Worked with Caelamus on some Roleplay Resources Caves and their Implementation.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Regalian_Law#Regalian_Knight_Law Updated to fit with Knights Update
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Knights Full Rework!
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Werebeast Full Rework!
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Capradeim New Capradeim! History coming soon
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/massiveraces-reborn.88855/ Massive Races plugin out now!

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/archeology-progression-orders-explained.88810/ Archeology System out now!
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/world-system-flashpoints-october-end.88839/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/week-1.88854/

Event Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/a-wintertide-reflection.1225/event
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/gingerbread-festival.1226/event
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/peerage-couples-night.1227/event
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/glitter-ball.1228/event

Roleplay Updates:

• In the wake of the fires that have seared Regalia’s differing boroughs of Petal Court and Crookback, citizens gather in support. And some rally in offense to these acts. Whether for revenge, or to do good. What have you done in light of these recent events?

Quest
This week the quest department saw the release of two projects and the introduction of a new one. 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 put the finishing touches on her ‘little lion’ quest in Essa spawn which rewards you with your very own kitty cat! This quest was written as her introduction to the quest department. Go check it out at /tp Essa.
• Derpadillo has been working on department coordination and implemented the gauntlet dungeon this week. He also coded a bunch of last minute additions to the gauntlet. –
• The_Fluorspar have been busy with providing technical assistance to the Gauntlet dungeon in the form of teleports, reward and potion effects. Be sure to check out this puzzle and parkour based dungeon at /tp dungeons.
• Now that a few projects have been completed the team is currently setting its sights on Silverwind improvements. If you have any suggestions, be sure to let us know!

Tech
It’s very rare for Tech to have a quiet week, but this has been that! CS_Birb’s full report will be posted for now, but things should return to a normal schedule for Tech next Sunday.

• CS_Birb has been doing the following…
  – MassiveRaces integration in MassiveMoney for Dwarves (4 points)
  – MapId writer in MassiveCore. Helps prevent maps from corrupting on server restart, but work still ongoing for saving maps when moving between shards (1 Point)
  – Upstream update for McMMO (1 Point)
  – Made the Sharding whitelist editable in-game. (2 points)
  – Dynmap upstream update and dependency update (1 point)
  – MassiveRaces cleanup, review, testing and pair-programming (5 points)
  – MassiveRaces integration in MassiveBasic (2 points)
  – Fixed issue with MassiveBasic where Feed and Heal wouldn’t work across shards when Sync events were deserialise to be Async. (3 points. This took a lot of tinkering)
  – Migrated Holos, Regions, Gates and Quests for Gauntlet (1 point).