Intrepid Explorers

The Nomadic Nerds started in August 2019 as a group of 3 friends coming from various different games. It was founded by sonickmonx, supersteve0331, and Tom4749. Their first base was The Vault. It was quickly abandoned after acquiring some starting resources and construction of The Cavern began. The Cavern is now over a year old. The goals of the Nomadic Nerds is to explore the server and document its history, collect resources, and to become a trade power.

Early Days
On their first day on the server, sonickmonx and supersteve0331 made their way along the nether highway. Quickly, sonickmonx found a portal that went to an abandoned base with trees, a wheat farm, and lots of kelp. While he let the kelp cook, he gathered basics materials, and supersteve0331 caught up with him. A couple of days later, supersteve0331 and sonickmonx both continued down the nether highway, rationing the little dried kelp they had. They set up a temporary base, The Vault, and were joined by Tom4749. Together they collected many basic resources over the first month and filled their ender chests. Sonickmonx's eye was firmly on the End and, specifically, an elytra.

End Troubles
Sonickmonx was set on getting an elytra, and even more motivated after reading the wiki and seeing Passione's mission at the time to monopolize Elytras. He, Tom4749, and supersteve0331 set out, expecting to spend days, if not weeks, collecting enchantments, elytras, and shulker shells. Tom4749 decided to end his journey after the first day. After putting all his belongings in his ender chest, he jumped off, leaving supersteve0331 and sonickmonx to brave the end together. Sonickmonx pioneered the journey, and supersteve0331 caught up. supersteve0331 then continued from sonickmonx's spot for 1 hour and found two cities, which made sonickmonx extremely salty. Then, supersteve0331 was making a highway for the two of them but lagged and fell to his death. He had an elytra and shulker boxes on him so he decided to call that the end of his journey. Sonickmonx pressed on, made it 20k blocks out, and found a city with a ship. He then promptly got carried away trying to kill a shulker that teleported outside a tower and fell off to his death. Legend says his girlfriend thought he was dying because he stopped stone-cold and sat silent and motionless as tears rolled down his cheeks. He then spent 2 days attempting to make it back. One more painful death and hours of journeying later, he made it back, got everything from back, and got the shell of the shulker that caused him such pain. He named it "Pain Incarnate" and he has it safe in his ender chest. He later raided 2 more cities before getting killed by an unlucky enderman encounter.

The First Break
As burnout caught up to the crew, they left the server for an extended time. Sonickmonx, after encountering Fae outside the server, decided to try the server again. He got Supersteve0331 and Tom4749 to come back on, as well as brought his friend GAFLboys to the base. The Cavern itself was quickly completed. The floor is mostly grass with some glowstone paths leading to other parts of the base, with a beacon at the middle inside a fountain built by Banort.

The Second Break
After finishing the Cavern, burnout again caught up to the crew. This led to another extended break that lasted a few months. The newly built base remained dormant for some time. Sonickmonx wanted something new for the group, so he teamed up with Creep_Assassin to build a joint base between Adiesa and the Nomadic Nerds. Sonickmonx made the journey, and Tom was on his way not far behind. Unfortunately, the seed was leaking soon after sonickmonx's arrival and the "base" was griefed by The Empire. In this time, OwO was invited. He came for a short time but left after the base fell inactive again.

The Third Break
This prompted a break of only a couple of months. By the time sonickmonx returned, he was done with being poor. After being welcomed back by many people, his passion was ignited. He was ready to grind out some farms, and that's what he did. In a week, he built a raid farm, a gold farm (with help from a few basemates on placing obby), and a creeper farm based on Invicta's design that Jimothy had sent to sonic. After these farms were done he invited syuu_inri and Creep_Assassin to the base. With these newfound resources, sonickmonx started trading. He quickly amassed his first stack of netherite and got on the path to trusted trader gold. Sonickmonx also finished the group's first mapart, "A Son's Love". The main base remains The Cavern, and there are no plans to move on from it currently. It remains standing over a year after first being started being, as far as I know, the second oldest standing base on the server.