Mayors

Origins of Tudbuz (Leader of Mayors)
In early 2020, A new player logged onto Purity for the first time by the name of Tudbuz. After escaping spawn and setting up some basic survival bases, Tudbuz began mining for resources to focus on his true passion, architecture, design, and building. Soon after obtaining the necessities for survival, Tudbuz began building on the server for the first time, one notable project being the “The Great Library”, a blend of both form and function which elevated a simple utilitarian villager hall into a decorative masterpiece that was built only 25 thousand blocks from spawn. The Library was populated with dozens of Master Librarians, contained living quarters, a map room, an extensive storage system, and few farms thrown in for good measure, all conforming to Tudbuz’s architectural vision. Under the library there existed extensive catacombs that honeycombed out beneath the build. Slightly further down there was a Nether Portal which was surrounded by a seemingly griefed underground so as to be unappealing to any basehunting player who happened upon the portal. Knowing that things do not last on an anarchy server, especially builds close to spawn, Tudbuz came to the realization that he would soon have to go further out to start the groundwork for his next project. Abandoning the Library, he set out to lay the foundations of a new project, eclipsing his previous works on Purity Vanilla by orders of magnitude in scale and grandeur; an entire city, planned from the ground up in its own original style and to be built entirely by Tudbuz himself. As he began to pour hours into what was once but a simple landscape, The buildings started to take form, and Tudbuz became his Majesty, the first King of Mason City – Population 1.

Prelude to Formation
To understand the birth of the Mayors faction as it is known in the modern sense, one must travel back in time to late 2020. Two players, Pachie and Halo, decided to base together at a small base sitting only 30k blocks from spawn. While they were gathering resources and stocking up on gsets and elytras, they recieved Jobre67’s base coordinates, who had established a faraway base in June 2020 at the behest of Halo, who had previously implored Jobre to establish a base that could house their faction safely in the future. This foresight and Jobre’s work in establishing a safe location with farms allowed Pachie, Halo and Jobre to move into a somewhat skeletal yet fully functioning base at a much safer location than the spawn fortress where Pachie previously lived. Upon the arrival of Halo and Pachie the faction of “The Deliverance” was thus born as the three started work building out farms and a villager trading hall with Maxpaddy returning to activity and joining the group at their new location along the way.

However, a few months afterwards and by random luck (or was it?), a player by the name of Itz_Freaks came across the base and laid waste to the farms and murdered the villagers in cold blood, leaving the faction distraught and sad to see their hours of work go down the drain.

After the grief Jobre67 quit the server and the three remaining friends led by Pachie traveled further out to establish a new base and continue the Deliverance faction. Not wanting a repeat of their previous experience they decided to hide their base underground beneath the sea floor of an ocean. As this base expanded, Pachie, Halo and Maxpaddy also recruited new members. Doomguard (Ex-NSO), beata_beatrix (Halo’s old friend from Greenland), CYDell, and a few other semi-active players joined the ranks.

Exploration
Anybody that knows Pachie knows that he likes three things: Finding bases, admiring beautiful builds, and blowing things up. During one of these expeditions close to spawn he came across some of the architecture left behind by Tudbuz, and after connecting on discord and some back and forth, Tudbuz decided to temporarily abandon Mason City to help build up The Deliverance base.

Although Tudbuz found the constraints of building underground to be quite an adjustment from the wide open spaces he was used to, it became quickly apparent that he was one of the most talented builders on the team.

Pachie continued to explore the nether paths below the builds Tudbuz had left, and came across a trading hall that appeared to have an active iron, bee, and slime farms. Due to being low on TNT at that moment in time, Pachie decided to leave a sign and initiate contact. A fairly new player to the server named Gamer_Dad_LOTS, who was a simple nomad that had moved into the abandoned trading hall built by Tudbuz and expanded it with additional farms, found Pachie on discord and reached out. A few mutually beneficial trades were made and Pachie considered inviting Gamer_Dad to join The Deliverance, but decided to hold off.

Expansion and Betrayal
As the base continued to expand, The Deliverance faction continued to recruit new players with Doomguard reaching out to GlaceonGuy who had a falling out (later found to be a ruse) with his faction the Chadlets in May of 2021. Under this guise, he gained the coordinates of The Deliverance base and organized a grief (the inside and grief are documented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JalVo9esei4 ).

Many members were deeply saddened over the leaking of the base, and several of the new recruits lost interest and started branching out to new locations without a cohesive plan. Communications broke down and the faction began to stagnate.

Out of the Ashes
Seeing the breakdown of The Deliverance, Tudbuz took the opportunity to create the Mayors faction and expand it and invited the founding members of The Deliverance to join. Tudbuz, Pachie, Halo, and Maxpaddy started extracting materials, and building out the infrastructure at Mason City.

Projects and goals were created and plans were made for the future of the faction. Several hundred thousand blocks away Gamer_Dad, after living for several months in close proximity to several of the builds left by Tudbuz, happened to come across The Great Library while exploring the area around his adopted base. While navigating through the expansive build he came across a sign left by Tudbuz identifying himself as the architect. Gamer_Dad reached out to Tudbuz on discord and after some correspondence and a stamp of approval from Pachie, Gamer_Dad was invited to join them at Mason City.

Rags to Riches
The group continued to prosper at Mason City. Farms were established and the city continued to grow. Gamer_Dad went to work setting up a bee farm and iron farm, along with some decorative builds including adding a ship to the harbor and a large decorative tree. And although there was already a villager breeder and a free-range villager hall, a second one was established on the opposite side of the city to start producing products to trade.

Maxpaddy had to step away from the server to run from the FBI irl (or so the story goes).

Pachie continued to explore and raid while Tudbuz and Halo mined and built new structures, Gamer_Dad continued to tend to the farms and villagers, but it soon became apparent that there was a few things that were in short supply at Mayors, GP and shulker shells. Since the server had not yet updated and shell farms were not yet in existence, Gamer_Dad made several excursions to the End to raid cities and collect shells for the faction.

Pachie and Gamer_Dad began work on a perimeter in late July 2021, after days of digging, their hard work would eventually pay off and allow the faction to plan out multiple advanced farms and sell off goods. The perimeter was completed and a temporary GP farm established early in August. Throughout the month of August the farm continued to expand to include a full GP, iron, honeycomb/honey, sugarcane, dripstone, and lava AFK farm.

With the completion of this new farm, gunpowder became extremely plentiful and off-site storage areas were set up to store excess goods for use at future bases.

A Tale of Many Bases
The group became aware that it was time to enact some of the plans for expansion, and in October 2021 they started to recruit new members. Having learned from the past recruiting mistakes of The Deliverance faction, and not wanting to expose Mason City, a recruiting base was established for the purpose of testing the commitment of new members as well as weeding out any potential leakers.

The faction of Introvius led by Lacksal, Drengodr, and I8mydog was absorbed into Mayors, adding their base to the roster.

loligirl2 was also accepted into the faction along with the small beginnings of a base dubbed “EVA Phoenix”, named in memoriam of the old underground base under the Deliverance that was destroyed.

The recruitment base was designated as the “Sky Islands” and several new members were invited including: I8mydog, Drengodr, Egg, Swag, Hjorthen, FilipBro, IDontLikeY, Lacksal, Joca9.

Gamer_Dad visited Eva Phoenix to set up a slime farm and do some interior decorating, and later jumped over the Sky Islands to add some basic structures so there would at least be something there to entice one of the new recruits that may have had other loyalties to leak. It did not take long for one player, Hjorthen, to lose patience and leak the coordinates.

Fearing that with so many new recruits there could potentially be another leaker, a second attempt at a sky themed base was attempted and named the “Sky Dimension”. After about a month, all appeared to be going well and during the month of November and early December of 2021 the base started to expand and take shape with a gold farm, a villager trading hall, raid farm, and a large central floating island build in the works. Everyone was feeling safe believing that this base would last. Taiga, rblxnoob, and NerdieBirdieYT were added to the group at around this time, but L̶e̶a̶k̶s̶a̶l̶  Lacksal predictably leaked the base coordinates of Sky Dimension and Future, the latter being the Introvius base, to Chadlets as a Christmas present and both bases met an unceremonious end.

As of Early 2022 (Jan-April)
With the known leakers neutralized, it was again time to form a new base. Abandoning the idea of a base set in the sky (for now), a new location was scouted, and Nova base was established with a select membership from the previous bases.

During the beginning of 2022 these members made their way to Nova base and started to establish a small settlement with some basic farms and machines built by rblxnoob. Several other members pitched in with cosmetic and architectural builds.

During February and March 2022 the base had begun to take shape with Gamer_Dad showing up and adding a few builds as well as fleshing out a few farms for basic needs, and Swag, Pachie and Halo adding on their own building contributions are they filtered over to the base as well. The future of Mayors, while occasionally inactive, looks bright, with ties to players in high places and the faction becoming increasingly specialized in a variety of roles in Purity Vanilla.