The Elders

The Elders are a group of players officially founded on the 23rd of April 2020, though the group has been active on the server from as early as August of 2019. Primarily focused on one central base, the group's members are mainly builders, Redstone engineers, and traders.

Beginnings
The first assembly of the group was on August 26, 2019. YorgaKi, _ClickbaitGod, and Egg, the three joint founders of The Elders, started working on their first base within 30,000 blocks from spawn. Here, the group began progressing and quickly built up the necessary equipment to begin work on their new and current base. After traveling far, they found the spot for their second base and quickly began construction on decorative builds and efficient farms. After months of working on the base as a trio, the group began inviting new members. Within the months of February, March, and April 2020, the group first welcomed 3mmWilly, and soon after, recruited HiBiKiO, dropkickbananas, FatCes, Saucyboy123, and MasonMan108.

The Elders' base
The Elders' base is a constantly evolving collection of decorative and engineering builds which sprawls over hundreds of blocks above and below ground.

Redstone and farms
ClickbaitGod is the main Elder engineer, having single-handedly constructed multiple farms that keep The Elders up and running. The Elders have multiple GP farms, that use both cat and water dispenser mechanics, flying machine mob farms, custom Purity-made iron farms, slime farms, and an advanced raid farm. In addition to these mob farms, The Elders have massive melon, pumpkin, flying machine kelp farms, and sugar cane farms, as well as an automatic tree farm.

Decorative builds
Among the more technical builds, The Elders' base is made up of many decorative builds including the Hub, the Tree of YorgaKi, melon, YorgaKi's field, Bikini Bottom, North Village, and more. The Elders - mainly 3mmWilly and Egg - also worked on the Elder End Base, which they use as a meeting point for end raids.

Games and past times
The Elder Base also has many mini-games that they use to have some fun together on the side. They have two PvP arenas, one larger one for sword and bow fights, and a smaller one filled with lava and parkour courses where the main goal is to knock others in lava and other traps. The base also includes a semi-functional jousting arena. One of the more popular games on the base is Egg's Connect Four machine. Using a redstone contraption built by him, The Elders' face each other as well as mods in a game of Connect Four. So far, The Elders have beat Snakob and Ras at the game.

Trading
Originally, YorgaKi was the sole merchant of the group. Starting from around January 2020, following a period of inactivity, YorgaKi traded items such as beacons to get the base back on its feet. After seeing the potential of trading with other players, YorgaKi quickly began ordering more and more trades. During this early trading period, The Elders invested incredible amounts of obsidian which they gathered from beneath their base. This mining effort paid off; The Elders now have an excess of valuable materials and items that would lead to their golden age of base expansion. With their newly gained stamina, The Elders expanded their base at a much faster rate within the months of February, March, and April of 2020.

This boom of productivity and expansion lead to more farms, more efficient farms, and better setups to be built at their base, allowing them to trade more than they ever had before. Egg quickly became eager in getting involved with the market of the server, and began trading multiple bulk orders of ender pearls and other items. In just a matter of weeks, Egg went from zero trades to being a gold trader on the trading hub, allowing him to open up the Elder-Mart shop.

Elder-Mart
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Elder-Mart is like the Walmart of the Purity Market. Elder-Mart has it all, from items such as totems, pearls, and chorus fruit, to materials like wood, stone, and glowstone, to god tools and weapons, all the way to redstone items. As of now, Elder-Mart is the only store that sells Ender Pearls, building materials such as wood and stone, redstone materials, and more.

"'I opened one of the books I was going to buy and smelled the mix of shawn mendes series 2 perfume and le epic blood. that was when I knew it wasnt the last time I was gonna buy here!' - Vibe"Elder-Mart is currently closed.

Le Epic Base Grief
One notable event The Elders were involved in was the grief of Le Epic's base.

On May 11, 2020, _ClickbaitGod, out of the blue, felt like taking a break from his complex redstone builds to embark on an exploration session. He would travel along nether highways, entering random portals he came across to see what was on the other side. On one particular milestone, _ClickbaitGod felt like flying further away from the highway, curious about what he would find. Then, while on a voice call with other Elders, he exclaims "I think I just found something." He quickly streams his screen and low and behold, he is standing next to an important looking base. After flying around it, careful to not be spotted, _ClickbaitGod finds a 128x128 plot of land dedicated to an Elmo map art. Sure enough, on the bottom left of the art is the name "Ska". The Elders then knew: this was Le Epic's base.

The Elders had recently had some conflicts with some members of Le Epic at spawn, and they knew that they now had the upper card. However, they had to act quickly since before understanding the scope of the base, _ClickbaitGod raided some loot, essentially creating evidence that someone had found the base. _ClickbaitGod quickly wrote down the coordinates and traveled back to base to begin preparing for the grief.

Upon arrival, 4 of the Elders (3mmWilly, _ClickbaitGod, Egg, and YorgaKi) quickly split up, raiding as much loot as they can. They took a significant amount of shulkers, god sets and tools, enchanted books, player heads, maps, and gold. After everything of value had been raided, they then began work on griefing everything. The Elders then focused on griefing farms and the main chest area, since that is really what fuels any group and base. They then spawned withers to deal with the large obsidian gold farm and the rest of the base. Then, just as they thought the grief was done, 3mmWilly came across a village they had built just on the other side of a mountain. Using flint and steel, the TNT they had left, and another wither they then proceeded to complete the grief.

Le Epic Base Grief 2
A couple weeks after their official resignation, Creep_Assassin reached out to YorgaKi and Egg to invite The Elders to help grief Le Epics second base. The opportunity to grief Le Epic for the second time was too great to decline; The Elders were ready to unite once more for this attack. '''

YorgaKi, Egg, 3mmWilly, and Dropkickbanana all logged on for the first time in a while, gathered any items they needed, and quickly moved to the designated meeting location. Alongside Empire, Adiesa, and others, The Elders were ready.    Once at Le Epic’s base, everyone involved spread out and proceeded to completely destroy Le Epics base.

The Elders were proud to witness other groups destroying Le Epic, just like they had a long time ago, and were grateful for the opportunity to get involved.

The Future
Unfortunately, towards the end of May 2020 many of The Elders would step down and stop playing on Purity Vanilla. This includes YorgaKi, Egg, _ClickbaitGod -- the 3 original founders of The Elders. 3mmWilly is set to continue playing as an Elder on purity, although much less than before, as well as dropkickbanana, who currently dedicates more time on the queue server than on the actual server. Currently it is not known when -- or if -- any of The Elders will formally unite once again. Some members like YorgaKi are set on visiting again in the future, and would perhaps consider continuing their journey, living off the wealth and stability they gained from their past. As for now, their large base still stands. No one, despite many attempts from enemy groups like Le Epic, has Elder Base coordinates, and the only way it could be found would be by accidentally coming across it. '''