Good [Timezone] everyone!

Another week of me writing the updates and changes (that I definitely did forget was today...), but that also means another riddle for wolf.

"What has to be broken before you can use it?"

As for my answer, I believe this might be the first time someone will be beat, as the thing I can think of is a program. But I do not believe that to be the answer to the riddle. (There are way to many things that run but don't walk)

Changes

Monday 4th November

We were all tuckered out from the war, so we all induvidually decided not to do anything out of the ordinary apparently

Tuesday 5th November

Still nothing out of the ordinary

Wednesday 6th November

Ah, back to work

- Floating trees and creeper holes were fixed at spawn

- Around 30 zombie horses were sent from spawn to "the farm"

- The top of the nation hall was decorated

- Talis' corpse was placed in the world

- Lore scripts were worked on

- Talis' eyeball was added to the datapack and the datapack posted in the datapacks channel

- A discord was worked on for lore

- An application for something lore related was worked on

Thursday 7th November

- Another lore script was worked on

Friday 8th November

- The server node was fixed again, and people could play on the server again

- A new nation was added

- Another another lore script was worked on (this was a lore heavy week)

- New nation quests were added, and nation coins were tallied, and the nations were updated about score changes

- The donation podium was updated

- Stone chests were replaced for lootr ones

- Server schedule times were updated

- The player cap on the server was raised to 40 people, from 35

Saturday 9th November

- The origins document was updated to explain how the password works

- The nation scoreboard was expanded to show 10 nations instead of 5

- A lore video was recorded

- The "fatal error" lore vid was edited

- Lore doc was updated

- @Flyvee experienced the life of a voice actor

- A lot of embertortoise were also sent to "the farm"

- A lore video was premiered

Sunday 10th November

- Arcane typing was added to phoenix, and the origins doc was updated to reflect this change

- A bot was set up for auto moderation

- The ending date for art fight was announced

Other

Tickets

In the last seven days, we have had 27 open tickets (2 less than last week), 4 of them are still open (13 less than last week). Of these tickets, 14 were origin changes (4 more than last week).

Discord

In the last seven days, we have had a total of 27,918 messages sent. This is 10,875 more than last week. We have spent a combined total of 148 hours in VC. This is 23.85 less than last week. 

The three most active chatting channels this week were Ooc (out of character) with 9,847 messages, General with 2,723 messages and Location threads with 2,704 messages. 

The top chatters this week were @Dinnerbone2845 with 4,063 messages, @solarizer0 with 3,590 messages and @Flyvee with 3,252 messages. 

The three most active voice channels this week were Juice Bar <18 with 55.07 hours, Minecraft VC with 31.30 hours and Other Games with 16.58 hours. 

The three top voice chatters this week were @FancyHatFool with 27.88 hours, @DoomSlayer4 with 19.37 hours and @Assassin9451 with 12.73 hours.  

For those interested, in further stats of the discord:

We had an average of 3,493 messages per day this week, 1,362 more than last week with 114 unique members throughout 67 unique channels. 

On average, we had 21.14 hours spent in VC with 47 unique people and 11 unique channels. 

We have had 16 people join the server and 12 people leaving the server, leaving us with a weekly gain of 4 people.

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. 

Good [timezone] everyone.

I couldn't think of anything to start the post with, so lets just get right to it.

Changes

Monday 7th October

- Wrote last weeks updates and changes, and updated the top 3 chat and voice chatter roles.

- Nation quests for Enders Reach were added

Tuesday 8th October

- A revamp announcement was made

- Perms were fixed so players can talk in threads in revamp announcements

Wednesday 9th October

Nothing outside the usual happened today.

Thursday 10th October

- Restart times were fixed

- Magic mods were looked into for revamp

Friday 11th October

Again nothing besides the usual happened today.

Saturday 12th October

- The shop spreadsheet was updated with the new shops

Sunday 13th October

- Restart times were fixed again (it is suspected that if this isn't done every two days, restart times get messed up again)

- An apology was posted to players and staff by wolf, staff have been discussing how to continue from here

- The links channel was removed from onboarding features

- Instructions on how to do shops, quests and nation stuff were made for staff, so more staff can pick up those duties

- A trade in quest for a contained remnant was made for a random unique, as the item was crashing the player whenever it was supposed to roll into a random unique

- A player with an inception backpack upgrade was located, and had been asked to remove it. It was then removed from existance

Other

Tickets

In the last 7 days, we have had 35 open tickets, 8 of these are still open. Of these tickets, 12 were origin changes

Discord

In the last seven days, we have had a total of 9,151 messages sent. We have spent a combined total of 45.68 hours in VC.

The three most active chatting channels this week were General with 3,470 messages, Staff Hell with 1,244 messages and Mc talk with 1,012 messages. 

The top chatters this week were @Siletha with 1,281 messages, @DoomSlayer4 with 1,103 messages and @Dinnerbone2845 with 892 messages. 

The three most active voice channels this week were Movie Nights with 21.22 hours, Event Stage with 13.22 hours and Sleepy Time with 4.55 hours. 

The three top voice chatters this week were @vibechef17 with 13.22 hours, @atlis.star with 6.85 hours and @Siletha with 4.77 hours.

Good [timezone] everyone.

I'm writing this while barely awake enough to comprend words. Sleep is overratered anyway. (Do not take half awake me's advice)

As usual, the month change is a busy time, so expect that to be reflected in the daily changes.

Changes

Monday 30th September

- Wrote last weeks updates and changes, and updated the top 3 chat and voice chatter roles.

- Ender mind was officially added to the softban list (it was softbanned before, just not on the list)

- A website for revamp was worked on

- The server resource pack was updated for October and uploaded to the server

Tuesday 1st October

- The discord icon was changed to a spooky icon

- Old nation quests were removed, and the new months ones were added.

- Nation leaderboard was reset

- An announcement was made about the results from the pro vs anti wolfqueen quests, and the leaderboard was cleared and removed from the sidebar

- Operator permissions were removed from an ex-staff member's alt account

- The server was paid for

- Origin password was changed

- @Cirawynn and I worked on putting in three reworked strongholds

- An announcement was made about the Cira quests

Wednesday 2nd October

- @DoomSlayer4 Passed trial! Be sure to congratulate them if you haven't yet. They've been a great help to the staff team.

- More nation quests were added

Thursday 3rd October

- Stone chests were replaced

- Mods in the "other" catogory were looked into for revamp

Friday 4th October

- Rewards were added to the Cira quests

- Even more nation quests were added

- A loottable datapack was added to the server to add custom loottables

- Replaced the empty lootr chests in the reworked strongholds with ones with custom loot tables added by the above mentioned datapack. (I reccomend checking these out, some unique items can be found there) 

Saturday 5th October

Finally slowing down. Nothing outside the usual happened today

Sunday 6th October

- Results from a staff origin questionnaire were compiled and discussed

Other

Tickets

In the last 7 days, we have had 36 open tickets, 13 of these are still open. Of these tickets, 18 were origin changes

Discord

In the last seven days, we have had a total of 8,896 messages sent. We have spent a combined total of 27.60 hours in VC.

The three most active chatting channels this week were General with 3,636 messages, Staff Hell with 1,512 messages and Other Games with 516 messages. 

The top chatters this week were @Shewolf117 with 1,144 messages, @DoomSlayer4 with 869 messages and Myself with 725 messages. 

The three most active voice channels this week were Movie Nights with 8.80 hours, Event Stage with 7.82 hours and Study Hall with 4.58 hours. 

The three top voice chatters this week were @Shewolf117 with 3.87 hours, @Chaos_o with 3.50 hours and @l.m.n.24 with 3.18 hours.

Good [timezone] everyone.

Second week of me writing the updates and changes. I really got thrown it to the deep end last week with one of the busiest weeks. Lucky this week was a bit quieter as most staff were still recovering from last week.

Changes

Monday 23th September

- Wrote last weeks updates and changes, and updated the top 3 chat and voice chatter roles.

Tuesday 24th September

Staff took a collective day off today

Wednesday 25th September

Another day off! Look at us go taking a break.

Thursday 26th September

Okay back in action today

- A case of ban evasion was loctated, and the person was banned again.

- The revamp worlgen datapack was worked on

- Origin changes were done

Friday 27th September

Another day with nothing notable happening, so count this as another day off.

Saturday 28th September

- A certain something was added to the server in preparation for the coming month

- Lore was recorded

Sunday 29th September

Like it should be, sunday was treated as a day off by staff this week, we did prepare for next week though today.

Other

Tickets

In the last 7 days, we have had 24 open tickets, 13 of these are still open. Of these tickets, 8 were origin changes

Discord

In the last seven days, we have had a total of 10,402 messages sent. We have spent a combined total of 34.23 hours in VC.

The three most active chatting channels this week were General with 3,325 messages, Staff Break Room with 1,335 messages and Other Games with 1,058 messages. 

The top chatters this week were @solarizer0 with 1,088 messages, @DoomSlayer4 with 1,052 messages and Myself with 988 messages. 

The three most active voice channels this week were Event Stage with 24.02 hours, Other Games - The Better one with 5.43 hours and Minecraft VC with 2.53 hours. 

The three top voce chatters this week were @dinnerbone2845 with 3.33 hours, @Flyvee with 3.05 hours and Myself again with 2.92 hours.