January 2025 Stage Call

Winter Event

• What did you THINK!

• What were your favourite parts of the event?

• Cali will be opening her official stand in the Grizzly Parkour

IF Wrapped!

• WRAPPED WRAPPED WRAPPED

• anything surprise you in your wrapped?

• DROP ‘EM IN THE MEETING CHAT WE WANT TO SEE THEM ALL AGAIN

Autopia Release

• This was the last old ride we ever closed for revamp that sat in the abyss waiting for revamp

• We’ve now officially cleared the old ride revamp list!

• DRIFTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Monorail Release

• An “in-progress release” meaning that we thought it would be cool if, as you’re riding it, you can see us build out the area of DTD, Disneyland Drive, etc.
• A bit of a behind the scenes to track progress as it’s being built out, live see the changes every time we push the map
• We won’t tell you something changes every time we push the map, you’ll have to see if you notice!
• Things are always changing, a lot we don’t directly talk about so it’s cool to see who’s exploring and noticing it!

Our New Years Resolutions

• December and January are the months where we spend a lot of time reflecting on the past year and planning for the upcoming year — what went well, what could go better, what we want to prioritize for the upcoming year.

• One of the main pain points we’ve been working to address for the past year and a half is the feeling of over-promising and under-delivering, our first step for that as you’ve noticed in past stage calls is not putting dates on anything until they are at least 95% ready for release

• This became a problem simply because life happens. We’re a very small team compared to the amount of content we put out, and nobody works here 9-5; we all have other jobs, school, etc.

• We feel as though we’ve been doing a good job of catching up with a backlog of announced content, and we want to continue to do so, as well as releasing the new content we’re working on and brainstorming. This is why we’ve come up with some New Year's resolutions.

• Regarding events, we’ve found that the insane amount of new content for each holiday is unsustainable for a couple reasons:
1. Looking to other games and servers for inspiration on our operations
• Primary takeaway: our event releases should be focused on the experience rather than the amount of new cosmetics.
• Also, there’s only so many fun and cute items for each holiday. We don’t want our quality to degrade over time because we’ve reached the end of our potential but we still have to come up with 50 more new item ideas to have an adequate event.
2. The team
• A majority of the creative team spends a majority of their time working on content for the next big event. In December and January it’s Valentine’s Day, February through April are Spring and May the 4th, May through July are Pride and Summer, August and September are Halloween, October and November are Winter.
• It’s easy to get burnt out considering the size of our team and how much we’re asking of each team member. We’re endlessly grateful for the time everyone takes out of their lives and other obligations, and it leaves little to none of their “allocated IF time” to work on non-holiday content.
• The same can definitely be said for the dev team, every time they sit down to work there are 10 urgent time-sensitive issues with upcoming events that arise and take priority
• Ultimately, we want to value and get the most out of our creative team and dev team’s time and energy to create content that you’re going to be able to experience forever

• This long-winded spiel is NOT to say that we’re getting rid of any events, just to say they might look slightly different this year. You’ll still have more than enough to do, but there won’t be 150 new items in the event shops, because we want to focus on the quality of the experience rather than the quantity of items.

• This also creates opportunities for our creative team to shift some of their reclaimed time to other attractions and features, and for the dev team to focus on fixing bugs as they arise and releasing solid and amply tested features.

• It also creates the space to include more smaller-scale events aside from the major holidays. We’re excited to work on more week-long or days-long micro-events that give you more to interact with on the server beyond a month-long token grind. We’ve had some really cool ideas on this for months or years that we hope to finally have the time to bring to life!

• So that whole segment is to say, we’re really excited with how the server is progressing. We’ve really prioritized valuing the team’s time and creating content and experiences that we’re proud of. Thank you for all the support, and we can’t wait for everything we have planned for this year!

• TLDR; Quality of experience > quantity of content!

Mystery Boxes!

• COOL PRIZES BUY NOW, ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS! (just over 2 more days from the time of the call)

• As of now, Cali has sold 193 Mystery Boxes

• At /spawn, walk forward and purchase from Cali for 50k KC

• 2 choices:
• you can buy the box, not open it, and in a year you can sell it back to her for 100k
• OR you can open it (at any point this year) and take a chance on the prizes

• Some prize leaks:
• full set of keyblades, bundle of 3 of Cam, Nara or Ramen’s favorite toys, Ducky Momo plush, all of the villain rewards from the sinister shard event Halloween 2022
• Highest KC reward: 250,000
• Lowest KC reward: 25,000

• No plans for this to be recurring, but never say never. Maybe not every year, but if it does well sometimes it’s fun to throw in a random event

• Circling back to the micro-events between holidays point we talked about earlier!!

Stacy & Katie pricing

• Poll: do you want the price of shibes & cats to be increased based on the rarity of their name?

• if you noticed in the last month, we updated the magic crate animation and the colors of the names on the animals

• Shibes/Cats/Ducks/Llama Rarity (Text Color)
Exceedingly Rare = 0.26% (Golden) Ancient = 0.64% (Red) Legendary = 3.2% (Pink) Mythical = 15.98% (Purple) Common = 79.92% (Blue)
Old Shibes/Cats/Ducks/Llama are Italic Yellow/Pink Golden Tier is Underlined

Any suspicions on what we’re working on next ride-wise?

• Currently working on Pirates Lair on Tom Sawyer Island!

• No set-in-stone timeline on when we’re going to release that

• There might be some other fun stuff in the river area perhaps

• Disclaimer: no plans at the moment for Mark Twain to move. But there WILL be some moving things in the water. Multiple, even! 👀 Not very good at math, but Cam thinks he counted at least 3 things

Another show leak

• Working on a new way of creating our shows, courtesy of Mats

• Not indicative of the next show to come out, but:

• Using a genuine legit lighting console!! Actual show equipment

• If you look in pins of #off-topic on the discord, there are some cool videos Mat posted

Server Hardware & Stability updates

• New hardware on the way, huge upgrade

• lots of focus been put into server stability (way less crashes & player connection drops)

• Hopefully you’ve noticed, summer compared to November/December, spent a lot of time reducing bandwidth and lowering crashes.

• On average, 1-2 instance crashes per week now, compared to multiple times a day in the past

• Definitely seen great improvement, overall improvement in player latency. Your ping is down on average by 30 ms which is a good drop, most people average 50-60 ms which is pretty good

• For the hardware nerds, we just bought new servers (9950x Ryzens, 16 core, no GPUs Minecraft servers don’t need that)

• Quite a nice bump in the general server performance (40-60 CPU improvement)

FAQ/Guide progress

• newbie's guide, community guide — meant to be a one-stop for info about the server, for both new players and regulars alike
• this will replace the current wiki on FANDOM, which is quite outdated
• hard-coded site, so no guest contributor editing. if you want to contribute or help out in any way, contact Quinnithan on Discord

• will aim to keep this up to date as much as possible, dates for upcoming updates will be on the front page as seen in the provided image

BUG FIXES

• SO MANY TOY FIXES - pushing this week! Will put out a changelog when it all goes live
• BING BONG WAGON
• Other flying toys
• HARLEY HAMMER
• SPOONS CROSS-SERVER
• Pirate’s coin
• Green elixir (you now see for yourself as well)

• Palaround no longer captures you for all of eternity!!

Applications

• Hiring builders, apply now!
• You must include a portfolio to be considered! This is a link (set to public so we can access it without being invited) to photos of your past work in Minecraft or other voxel-based creations

• Hiring EU + international staff, apply now!

Questions!

• Not actually opening up the meeting questions channel until during the call because a lot of the times a lot of the questions that are being asked are already planned to be discussed, so it’ll be easier to talk about them as we talk about the topics