Good [Timezone] everyone!

THOUGHT YOU COULD GET RID OF ME?

...is what I would have said if it was not announced last week that I would be doing every other week

As for the other thing...

Challenge accepted

And of course I'll return the favor, so wolf, here is a riddle for you: "Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What word am I?" And of course to any of you reading it, nobody tell wolf (and wolf no looking it up either)

Okay with the preamble out of the way, let's get to the actual updates and changes.

Changes

Monday 21st October

- Lore stuff was worked on

- Reworked rules for revamp were worked on

- Performance was worked on for revamp

- Food mods for revamp were worked on

- Decoration mods for revamp were worked on

Tuesday 22nd October

- An announcement was made to staff regarding changes towards working on revamp

- Non-donators heads were removed from their resting places, and the donators names were etched onto the signs. 

- Food and Quality of life mods were worked on for revamp

- Purged a few inactive members

- Our stat bot got some wires crossed, and started displaying the wrong numbers, we went in did some wiring, and fixed this, while also adding a new counter.

- A vote was made about unbanning a banned member

Wednesday 23rd October

- A application for new staff came in, and was discussed

Thursday 24th October

- The previously mentioned staff application was accepted, and we welcomed @MatorkBoela to the team. If you haven't already, congratulate them on becoming staff, and sympathies for the time to come.

- An ex-staff member still had staff permissions in the spawn claim, this was rectified and the permissions removed.

- Devlopers, after a long while, have their administrator rights back, we were still called adminstrators when that was removed...

- The staff watchlist (yes we have that, staff are not immune to the rules) was updated so that all staff can now see it, it was only owner and head mod before.

- A new nation was added

Friday 25th October

- Revamp stuff was tested

- More staff were properly added to the revamp section of our drive

- A staff discussion ticket was opened with a player about innapropriate behaviour 

- Some of the finished staff dicussion tickets were properly closed

- The on leave role with the colour for staff was deleted, being replaced with the current one with the icon

- A dupe was removed related to unenchanting golden apples

- The previously mentioned vote about unbanning a player ended, and the member was unbanned.

- The nether worldgen datapack was worked on

- Shop rent was checked on, and @MatorkBoela was taught how to do it

Saturday 26th October

- A claimed 4 spawner desert temple was located, and two of the spawners were removed

- A lore build was built in a singleplayer world

- Mayve's section of the lore doc was updated to include her current (deceased ) status

- The lore doc timeline and events were updated

- 16 pumkins heads were added to spawn and a scavenger hunt was made around them, this was subsequently announced

Sunday 20th October

- Two new emotes were added to the server

- The spawn area was cleaned up a bit

Other

Tickets

In the last seven days, we have had 23 open tickets (1 less than last week), 9 of these are still open (1 fewer than last week). Of these tickets, 6 were origin changes (2 more than last week)

Discord

In the last seven days, we have had a total of 22,278 messages sent. This is a staggering 11,423 more than last week. We have spent a combined total of 115.63 hours in VC. This is 19.15 longer than last week. 

The three most active chatting channels this week were General with 9,159 messages, Staff break room with 2,954 messages and Staff wild chat :/ with 1,915 messages (staff... I'm dissapointed)

The top chatters this week were @DoomSlayer4 with 2,841 messages, @WolfQueen1896 with 2,803 messages and @Dinnerbone2845 with 2,563 messages. 

The three most active voice channels this week were Staff hang out with 37.68 hours, Event Stage with 28.57 hours and Staff VC with 15.52 hours. (Staff proving they have no life outside the server again...)

The three top voice chatters this week were @Vibechef17 with 19.55 hours, @WolfQueen1896 with 18.73 hours and @Lankaster (hey that me!) with 14.65 hours. 

For those interested, in further stats of the discord:

We had an average of 2,784 messages per day this week with 90 unique typers within 60 unique channels. On average we had 14.45 hours spent in VC with 29 unique people over 10 unique channels. 

We have had 29 people join the server and 112 people leaving the server (purge hit hard...), leaving us with a weekly loss of 83 members.