Weekly Announcements – July 14th to 20th

Good timezone everyone!

It's still been very busy on the staff this week, and many of us are still tired, but we have made a lot of changes this week still, so let's get to writing them out.

Changes This Week

Monday 14th July

• Cira handled some more origin changes
• Cire also refunded a players items
• Lankaster did some fixes to Imp, notably cutting the rate of exhaustion in three, and fixing the hydrophobia to actually work with water protection
• Lankaster fixed the vanilla enchants showing up twice in the enchant table
• Shewolf fixed up the stalls
• Shewolf added water breathing to all the doc shops, so water origins can shop in peace again
• Shewolf added lootr chests and shop blocks to the flan exclude list, meaning they will be able to be interacted with regardless of claim permissions
• Flyvee changed an origin
• Flyvee started planning an event

Tuesday 15th July

• Cira fixed up the stalls again, this time making them more origin friendly
• Cira signposted the event area
• Cira made spawn a bit more hydrophobic friendly
• Jingles prettied up the signposting Cira did
• Jingles... moderated? (Come on give me something more to work with here...)
• Cira did another origin change
• Lankaster worked on responding to most of the open tickets and handled the ones they could (do I really need to refer to myself in the third person?)

Wednesday 16th July

• Jingles tested if removing enhanced cats would mess up existing cats, it did not
• Karma set up three shops
• Jingles did a lot of enchant fixes, I really mean a lot, go give some appreciation to Jingles for all the work put in 
• Jingles went of a bonus round after that and also fixed up phantoms description to match its in game powers properly
• Shewolf disabled FTB teams permissions
• Shewolf fixed the nether /spawn command, no more suffocation! (no I did not suffocate in the wall multiple times, what do you mean?)

Thursday 17th July

• Karma was removed from the staff team
• Flyvee handled moving one players shop to another plot
• Flyvee did a round of spawn checking up on possible nations, art, lore and the like, found nothing
• Flyvee fixed the cobweb parkour to be large origin accessible, now spending minutes in cobweb because you failed a jump is an experience available to everyone!
• Shewolf made the triggering inconvenience channel
• Jingles finished listing out the enchants
• Jingles also updated the lore doc
• Jingles did more enchant fixes, like damn again too many to list out while not cluttering the already very long list

Friday 18th July

• Cira did some origin changes and closed some tickets
• Shewolf opened up the lore characters forum to the players, and approved the first few lore characters
• Donators and boosters now have gradient names on the discord server
• Modpack update time! Review the 1.1 modpack update post for the details there
• Shewolf approved more lore and rp characters
• Shewolf made enchant books and discs stack to 16
• Shewolf paid for the server for another month
• Shewolf updated the website to reflect the recent removal of Karma from the staff team
• Some fixes were done to try and fix the server not restarting
• An announcement was made regarding staff mental health and the behavior towards staff
• Shewolf did an origin change, and accepted more lore and rp characters

Saturday 19th July

• Cira added a person to rp, and did some origin changes
• Shewolf set up tickets for donators to claim their rewards, and also put all their decapitated heads on anvils in the dono hall for display
• Shewolf made the cat parkour tall origin accessible
• Shewolf accepted more lore characters
• Shewolf made a ticket with solstice commands regarding the ignore command not working

Sunday 20th July

• Shewolf added the quests to obtain end items, and added the endstone forge and void totem to the item obliterator
• Flyvee changed someone's origin
• Shewolf made the staff task board channel

Discord Stats

Messages

We sent 20,318 messages this week, averaging 2,539 a day.

Peak day: Wednesday (4,214 messages)

132 unique users chatted across 52 channels.

Top 3 Text Channels

• #rp-locations - 3,762 messages
• #general - 3,298 messages
• #staff-hell - 2,383 messages

Top Chatters

1. Solar - 3,333
2. Shewolf - 1,656
3. Flyvee - 1,529
4. Jingles - 1,322
5. Julian - 1,274
6. Lankaster - 1,246
7. Cira - 953
8. Karma -690

Voice Activity

We spent 10.08 hours in voice, across 5 channels with 14 unique users. 

Peak day: Saturday (7.2 hours)

Top 3 VC Channels

• Other Games - The worse one - 5.76 hours
• Other Games - The better one - 3.6 hours
• Minecraft VC - 0.48 hours

Top VC Talkers

1. Ace - 2.4
2. Null - 2.16
3. Dany - 2.16

Tickets

I'm going to be honest due to not being able to view all the ticket types, I have no clue how many tickets there were, and how many of each type... sorry

Final Notes

While this week was heavy on staff needing some love, do show yourself some love as well, you also deserve it.

 - lankaster.