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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 internal HR, the PR reform along with Spectec, finishing up the [[REDACTED]], and various individual direction talks.
• MonMarty wrote several new Lore Updates and Overhauled the Violet Order, including making the new Greygate and coordinating various roleplay events to go hand in hand with that iniative.

Game
This week, Game continued work on future projects. Empires & Sieges has been renamed to Kingdoms & Sieges to better represent and respect the lore of MassiveCraft. We are hosting a competition for the best KitPVP arena builds here: https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/pvp-arena-design-competition.89244/ The best designs will be awarded with 1000 regals! We have been focusing on the reoccurring issue of mass alt-padding used by several factions across the worlds. Our rules state alt-abuse within factions (padding huge numbers of power claims with alts) will result in the offending accounts being banned and the faction in question being disbanded (https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Massive_Rules#Rules_related_to_Faction_Power_and_Claim). If you believe you are someone who does fall under the category of violating this rule, please let us know, and we will work with you to find an optimal solution. The usual 35 player tickets, mythic mob creation, numerous help chats, world cleanup and restoration, and naughty player investigations were completed. We hosted Maze and Checkers events events this week! You can vote on which events we host the coming week here: https://www.massivecraft.com/discord-factions

• BlueChaos assisted players in game, worked on player reports & appeals, and aided PR Staff with their work on reworking the Voting system.
• QGMK aided players in game, handled player reports & appeals, and continued to develop the initial stages of Kingdoms & Sieges.
• Notchyherobrine assisted players in game and hosted two exciting events this week!
• Winterless provided input on Kingdoms & Sieges and the KitPVP rework.

World
These past two weeks, world has been working on projects for various aspects of the server. Event sites for staff run events, namely the discovery site within the crater in Regalia, a new Greygate, region decoration to keep shops and estates up to date, and something to really bring the ‘Wintertide’ cheer.

• JakePostonJake1: Built a boat. SpunSugar: Began work on the Winter festival.
• Bunemma: Decorated Carcalla’s spa region, set up mainstreet with a more christmas feel for an event + in general, finished up the Viduggla estate, small tent at the Crookback refugee camp, started on the Slumberwood estate.
• WaterDruppel: Same as Bunemma, continued Slumberwood estate, event set ups for two player events, and decorated parts of the new Greygate.

Lore
Lore Updates:

We have a new Permission Type: Tech Invention, which covers this:

• “Tech Invention, which allows for the invention of something through: Clockwork, Steamtech, Maraya Tech, Dwarven Tech (gasses). It is absolutely crucial that the invention in question is either portable, wearable, or transportable, and is not some static object, unless this pertains to some sort of unique clandestine base function. Tech Inventions are tech/mundane based abilities generated through objects and items that the wearer/user invented. Unlike Artifacts, they are non-transferrable.”
• Managers are @❂ WaterDruppel and @❂ MonMarty
• Questions about this permission can be answered in Tickets.

Updates to these recent pages on the wiki!

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Old_Gods
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Bloodcast_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Darkwald_Order
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Villiers-Eclaire_Order

Roleplay Rules, Regalian Law, and Regalian City Guard changes! Check out #staff-announcements on the Roleplay Discord for more details! (12/10)

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Roleplay_Rules
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Regalian_Law
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/regalian-city-guard-applications.89349/

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Curing mechanics for Vampires and Werebeasts have changed!

• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Werebeast#Curing_of_Werebeast

World System Updates:

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/world-system-progression-24-1-boring-finance-data.89308/
• The new Mistress of Ceremonies is Amelina Peirgarten.
• Archeology prog is pushed back 1 week!
• Amelina Peirgarten has resigned as Foreign Minister.

Event Updates:

• The dig site has come a long way due to the combined efforts of the rich and their deep pockets! As the dig commences, scholars, archeologists, and all sorts of folk begin getting into the thick of it as the old Clicker Crater Ruins have been converted into a fully functional operation. More to come in due time as they work their magic on the region! (12/25 TBD Major World Event)

Roleplay Updates:

• Viggo Kensley has been voted in as Regalia’s 18th Lord Commander with recent guard changes.
• The Bancroft Chancellory and the Emperor have put forth a series of Regalian Law and State Updates. Read up here! https://forums.massivecraft.com/thr…ery-mercy-law-changes-and-civil-status.89337/
• https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Regalian_Law

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 coordinating with the lore and world departments about providing quests for the upcoming winter events.
• Derpadillo worked on training Vegemiite in the quest plugin, helping him troubleshoot his first quest. He also trained Fluorspar on massivegates and its possibilities for interfacing with the quest plugin.
• The_Fluorspar Wrote several quests for the upcoming Silverwind expansion and received massivegate training.
• Vegemiite has completed his aspirancy project: The new quest ‘Woes of the Dead’ should be going live just before or after this changelog releases. Once it’s released you can head to the cathedral in Fort Presford (Essalonia spawn) and give it a try!

PR
This week the Pr department has been performing its usual social media upkeep and various internal tasks, with plans to soon branch out into more external projects in store

• Battlebrawn Adding the weekly update to our PMC page, posting throughout the week as well as spending alot of the week fixing an error which meant our page was down for a few days.
• Miracle678 did the daily creeper and in game event announcement tickets
• FlossyBerryRene has been upkeeping activity on the Instagram page
• Hierophant took tickets for player event announcements and assembled the department worklog.

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

• CS_Birb has been updating the test server to 1.16.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been working on various bug fixes for MassiveRaces such as the Kathar undead symbiosis breaking truce when hitting any mob as well as animals not following you if you hold their breeding food. XxXYaJrAbXxX has also been working on various documents and researching items that could potentially benefit the server.
• Derpadillo has been bug fixing within MassiveRaces where tridents were being thrown even if you cancel your throw for the Spear of Ulley ability.
• Ghirko has been fixing various bugs within MassiveTickets where the ticket creator’s name was not being displayed correctly. She has also fixed a couple of minor bugs within MassiveRaces where the clear debuff ultimate was not clearing any negative potion effects the player already has. She also worked on fixing the information for the Kathar race where it said it would summon Heralds instead of Champions.