The icy crevice of Imperial Isle, still under repairs after the disastrous Clicker Crisis.
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Direction
This week, Direction’s hands were full with handling internal matters, with projects being set for release post-thanksgiving. As always, Staff is actively recruiting in most departments, so if you are interested in joining Tech, Quest, PR, Lore, Game, or World, please apply here! https://forums.massivecraft.com/forums/staff-applications.11/.

• LumosJared focused on HR within the Team and assisting with the [[REDACTED]] Project.
• MonMarty wrote new lore and spearheaded lots of in-game events.
• Derpadillo collaborated with and provided oversight to the game dept on a wide range of personnel matters, player investigations, rules applications, and meetings/voice calls.

Game
This week, Game began working on a number of new projects, including a major update planned for Survival: Empires & Sieges. Smaller projects include a KitPVP rework, making items for crates, and a plan to make the world spawns more lively. We posted a competition for the best player-made arenas! The best designs will be awarded with 1000 regals! Check it out here: https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/pvp-arena-design-competition.89244/ The usual 48 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted KOTH and PVE events events this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions.

• BlueChaos aided players, hosted events, updated the Shady Merchant, and created a competition for KitPVP arena design.
• QGMK jumpstarted the major update planned for Survival, Empires and Sieges. He is working closely with a group of PVPrs to optimize the PVP aspects of the plugin and plans to work with other types of players so no one is too heavily displaced from their current lifestyle in Survival. He also handled major player investigations.
• Notchyherobrine aided players in game, hosted events, and began working on a KitPVP rework. He is hoping to incorporate 1v1, 2v2, etc. arenas and the a way to test out MassiveRaces abilities there.
• Falconhand created mythic mobs and researched ways to improve Survival. Winterless aided players in game.
• Winterless aided players in game.

Lore
Lore Updates:

More Knight Lore Updates!

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Oranjen_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Blackguard_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Monzon_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Parthas_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Viridian_Order

New Mutation Pack!

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Mutations

Slizzer Full Rework!

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Slizzar

Archblood Rework!

• Minor changes again on Werebeast, Slizzar pages. Check specifics in #staff-announcements! (11/30)
• Clandestine Rules reminder! #staff-announcements (11/30)
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Mythics Check out this new tier of artifacts!
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/massivecraft-secret-santa-2020-sign-ups.89142/ Sign up if you want in on the Holiday fun!
• Initiating Conflict reminder! #staff-announcements (12/02)
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Knights#Blackguard_Order Code & Rule changes for Blackguard Order

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/world-system-progression-24-the-iron-peace-commences.89149/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/week-2.89150/

Event Updates:

• Upon one later evening Regalians far and wide can now both feel and see the repercussions of magical meddling as a large veil was torn open. Meticulous essence corruption over the recent crystalline structures burrowing their way topside have led to a Magestorm looming over the Archipelago. For now, the storm rolls on in full force, but afterwards… What shall be done with recent knowledge of where these crystals are coming from?

Roleplay Updates:

• House Mac Conall calls the Goretaan Throng leader Quin to Court for grievances most foul, Sunday December 27th to answer for the charges of assault, theft and piracy! Discovery and evidence will need to be dmed to me at least 3 days before the trial.
• The Regalian Bureaucracy has processed all finances in accordance with the Iron Peace beginning date, Dec 1, and declares them properly updated.

Quest
This week some new quest projects have officially come off the ground and improvements to existing content got pushed to the live server as well. 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 has been working on her new project and wants you all to be reminded that cats are being handed out in Essa spawn. Do your part in populating the world with these grumpy little critters and go get yours today!
• Derpadillo developed a new method for adding cooldowns to quests while working out the last kinks in the gauntlet dungeon. He also scheduled meetings with the rest of the team to check up on their individual and team progress.
• The_Fluorspar had a meeting with Derpadillo about the Silverwind Expansion and thought up some new content to go along with it, including a transcribing minigame.
• Vegemiite has been working on his aspirancy project.
• For those interested in this niche activity: This week Silverwind mining got a buff and leveling and the gathering of materials should be easier.

PR
This week, PR focused on various projects.

• Battlebrawn has been updating the PMC page.
• Qoll Put together the skinner spotlight that was posted this week.
• FlossyBerryRene has been continuing to post and replying to comments on our Instagram page
• Seoulmate has put together the weekend roleplay roundup and Secret Santa.
• Hierophant has been taking tickets for minor player event assistance with announcements and assembled the department worklog.
• Spectec doing immeasurable work to put together a plan and all the tools necessary to grow the sever population over the next few months, meeting with every member of the department individually.

Tech
This week, tech has been focusing on bug fixes on MassiveRaces as well as other various projects.

• CS_Birb has been working on various projects such as MassiveRaces helping fix some minor bugs and updating these plugins on the server. He has also been working on the Prism configuration on the server. Finally, he has been looking into some issues with LibsDisguises and MassiveDisguises.
• FourThirteen has been helping with McMMO configuration as well as debugging with the GSit plugin.
• ItsLateKnight [Redacted]
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has fixed a few minor bugs within MassiveRaces as well as configuring an initial config for SimplePets with BlueChaos.
• Derpadillo has been making various bug fixes as well as quality of life implementations for MassiveRaces requested by the player base.
• Ghirko has been investigating an issue with factions where doing /f access show or /f perm show was causing an internal error when a player’s data has expired.