Tukolh (spawn base)

This article refers to the Tukolh spawn base, commonly known as just Tukolh. If you are searching for the Tukolh region article, check here.
The Tukolh Spawn Base (acronym for The United Kingdom Of Lithuanian Humans), commonly refered to as Tukolh or Tukol, was one of the most important and proeminent spawn bases in TVE history.
It was located in +2300, +600, and was created in September 2022 by EficaciousMig47 after the Fifth Spawn Party, serving as the main centerpoint of all activity on the server afterwards during the final months of TVE. Not only was it being frequented by most of the most powerful established players and clans of the server, it also served as a main point of conflict at the time, and got griefed and rebuilt countless time in its 8-month lifespan, making it one of the longest continously running spawnbases in the server's history, staying inhabited until the server's very end in April 2023. It's largely considered one of the most successful community federating projects ever on the server by the 2022-2023 playerbase, as it was central to the server's life and activity during that period.
= History of the Tukolh spawn base: =
== Creation and first months (September-October 2022) ==
On September 15th, 2022, the Spawn Nomads, now led by Gite and EficaciousMig47, decided to hold a spawn party to celebrate TVE miraculously surviving another month due to clutch donations in a period of great financial stress for the server. This marked the Fifth Spawn Party that Efic was included in the organization of, which was a great success considering the low playercount on the server at the time. Seeing all of this activity spark up again, Efic decided to capitalize on the small momentum the party had created on the server to attempt one last time to build an active, lasting spawnbase on the server reminiscent of the Anarchyville or early Nomads Spawnbase days. 
On the 18th of September 2022, Efic, helped by the Spawn Nomads, started construction on the then-unnamed Tukolh at +2300, +600 in the overworld. The base was publicly announced on multiple Discord servers on September 22nd, 2022, and though the first week was a productive and inspiring start for the base, getting improvements from the Spawn Nomads, WhipsterStain and a couple of relatively unknown players, the base's activity quickly dwindled by the start of the second week. Only a handful of buildings were constructed at this point, including :
* The Central hub (which became the main entrance to the underground part of tukol later on), made by Efic.
* A birch building, which later hosted a small obsidian jail, made by Efic.
* A big storage building, made by Whipster.
* A small room below The Central hub, made by Efic.
* The crops hole and farming room, made by Efic.
* The quartz fountain/temple, by Whipster.
* The medieval tower (and the castle), by Whipster.
* One of the copies of Efic's Anarchyville tower (made after the screenshot)
* The Productive Hole (made behind the medieval tower, after the screenshot was taken) by Efic.
From the right, we can see the quartz fountain/temple, the medieval tower and castle, the crops hole, the birch building/jail, The Central hub, and the storage building. We can also see some smaller structures, like bridges, piers, etc...
== Development and conflicts (21st October 2022-December 2022) ==
A month after the start, tukolh sees more activity, as new players (FitFC, felipezambuja and others) join and become active, as well as Nomads & Friends, who starts damaging tukolh, while Spawn Nomads defends it.
At this moment is when Tukolh saw most of its growth, with the creation of most of the central and border parts of Tukolh, most of which were destroyed and had to be rebuilt, or redone with entirely different buildings with the griefs of Nomads & Friends later on.
=== First grief (21st October 2022 - 6th November 2022) ===
The first grief that tukol suffered was a small one, done by Nomads & Friends, and was shortly followed by another small one at the end of the day. Both only caused a small damage that got repaired on the next week, with the hunting of some of the griefers by Spawn Nomads.
The buildings completely destroyed by the griefs were:
* None
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The buildings damaged but rebuilt/reused after the griefs were:
* The medieval tower and the castle.
* Efic's anarchyville tower.
* The quartz temple.
* The wall of the crops hole.
The new buildings being made on this period were:
* The island of crops, by ducki3ziscoolman
* The stone colliseum, by WhipsterStain
* The brick/stone house near the island, by felipezambuja.
* The floating obsidian signs, by Spawn Nomads (mostly).
* A tunnel that connected the crops with the underground room of tukol, by Efic.
Here we can see how tukol looked on the 26th of October 2022:
On the last days of this period of growth, a new part of the base was started between the quartz temple and the island. A small, three story house (named "la eficasa") was built by Efic, along with an enchantment room and a farm nearby. On the top of the nearby hill, an Amongus sculpture was also built, to guard and protect tukol. 
Another new build was a new tower on top of Efic's birch building, which got demolished by a unknown builder, with the construction of stone and birch houses near it, similar to felipezambuja's brick/stone house.
This period ended with the new griefs done by Nomads & Friends, after the 6th of November. This griefs changed Tukol forever, starting a new era on the Tukol spawn base.
=== Big griefs & war between Tukol members and Nomads & Friends (6th November 2022- December 2022) ===
This period covers most of the griefs done at tukol, as well as most of the conflict that happened there. In this period, most of the structure and looks of Tukol changed drastically, as some builds were destroyed, while others were rebuilt or new ones were built where ruins remained. Tukol also saw a peak in player activity in this moment, with players often staying at the base to watch out for griefers (or players hunting them), others rebuilding bases, building new ones, or gearing for the expected combat.
==== First 2 griefs (not severe, 6th-10th Nov 2022) ====
This period started with a small grief on the morning of the 6th of November, with just 2 or 3 small explosions. But on that same night, a bigger grief had been done, as the last buildings made (the ones made after the 27th Oct) were almost entirely wiped out. For that reason, Efic decided to remove the rest of the griefed houses of "la Eficasa", and start a new one, which served as a boat storage/indoor pier.
This 2 new griefs put the Spawn Nomads on alert, as Chile Curtido had already been trapped in the end, and the rest of Nomads & Friends were inactive/also trapped (when their name appeared on signs after the grief). The truth was that, in the shadows, Nomads & Friends had reached out to neutral players who also had a special "love" for gite, recruiting most of those players (like RJthatsme, PunitiveDamages, and probably Bramblestar720 and others). This were the actual players who griefed Tukol on this period, blaming gite and the Spawn Nomads cooperation on tukol as the cause of all the griefs done on this period.
On the next days, Tukol got slowly rebuilt from this 2 griefs, with the holes of most houses being repaired, and a new amongus statue and indoor boat pier/storage being built near the ruins of "la eficasa", with the later being only blocks from completion when the next big grief happened on the 11th of November.
The buildings completely destroyed by the griefs were:
* "La eficasa", a set of 2 houses built by Efic.
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The buildings damaged but rebuilt/reused after the griefs were:
* The big storage building, made by Whipster.
* The tower that sat on top of Efic's birch building, whose builder is unknown.
* The quartz temple.
* The medieval tower (but not the castle).
* The 2 new stone and brick houses near the new tower.
* The old amongus statue, which got rebuilt after 2 days.
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The new buildings being made on this period were:
* The indoor boat pier built by Efic.
==== Next 2 griefs (severe, 11th-13th Nov 2022) ====
That day (11th of November), when Efic logged on, he saw most of Tukol's buildings gone (as seen on the image on the right). A large part of them were just removed with baritone, others with small explosions, but very few remained.
Still, the griefers wouldn't stop at this point, as just 2 days later, the entirety of Tukol got turned into a natural plains biome, removing almost any trace of civilization (apart from the island of crops and 1 or 2 houses that were far from the main area of Tukol), in a project called "Project of restoration of the forest". Grass and trees had also grown above most of the areas previously occupied by buildings in another devastating grief to Tukol.
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The buildings completely destroyed by the griefs were:
* The Central hub.
* The big storage building.
* The quartz fountain/temple built by Whipster.
* The medieval tower, and its nearby castle.
* Efic's Anarchyville tower.
* The stone colliseum, by WhipsterStain
* The brick/stone house near the island, by felipezambuja.
* The tower that sat on top of Efic's birch building, whose builder is unknown.
* The 2 new stone and brick houses near the new tower.
* The amongus statue.
* Infrastructure (paths, roads, bridges, chests...)
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The buildings damaged but rebuilt/reused after the griefs were:
* None at this point, though some would get rebuilt in the future.
The new buildings being made on this period were:
* None
The buildings that (barely) survived for a future rebuild
* A small room below The Central hub.
* The crops hole and farming room, made by Efic.
* The Productive Hole by Efic (that never got rebuilt, but could have been for months after this griefs)
* The island of crops, rebuilt shortly after.
==== Last big grief, prior building and later rebuilding (13th Nov-1st Dec) ====
After this devastating grief, Efic decided to start building fast and quickly. He needed to fill all the empty space to make tukol a base again. For that reason, 2 main birch buildings had been built from the ground up just a day after the last grief. The day after this 2 buildings were made (the 14th) a huge ammount of signs appeared all around Tukolh blaming a certain player as a reason for the griefs (and while that player was never mentioned, it is thought to be gite). 
On the 15th and 16th, new signs appeared, along with an attempt by the grieffers to fill most of the land tukol ocupied with trees and grass. This plan was nicknamed "Project of the restoration of the forest" by the grieffers, which lead to the spawn nomads setting up an alt to guard Tukol. 
Apart from this attempt (that for now hadn't removed any new building), two new stone towers were built near the birch buildings, with a bigger, third tower being started on the 18th, and finished on the 21st. On the 20th, mostly overnight, Tukol got a new castle, a huge structure made by Whipster that lasted (although damaged) until the last days of TVE. 
Small progress and activity were done until the 24th, with the start of the rebuild of the indoor pier (that mostly survived previous attacks because it got buried up in dirt), decoration of the birch structures, creation of new paths, and start of new buildings. Sadly, this trend wasn't going to last forever, because on the 23rd of November, PunitiveDamages got caught trying to grief Tukol (and ran away), with a huge hole appearing near the birch towers on the 24th. This hole was used by Efic to create a new structure at tukol. Meanwhile, Red_ICE showed up at Tukol and built his tree house, and both started making small rooms on the underground part of tukol, reopening tukol's underground with the rebuild of the old entrance. 
On the 27th, the Spawn Nomads decided to write a book for the Nomads & Friends (the group griefing tukol) to sign. This book would cease the griefings and bring back stability to Tukol. And around two days later, the indoor pier was completely rebuilt again, with the construction of Zog's house and new development underground on the 30th of November. But all of this progress would be stopped by a new grief on the 2nd of December. 
The buildings that got completely destroyed in this period were: 
* None
The new buildings done in this period were: 
* Whipster's medieval castle.
* Red ICE's tree house.
* Three stone/wooden towers made by Efic.
* Two birch buildings made by Efic.
* A hole that would shape tukol's underground, made indirectly by PunitiveDamages.
* A small expansion of Tukol's underground, that connected all of Tukol's underground structures.
The buildings rebuilt in this period were: 
* The indoor boat pier, rebuilt by Efic.
* The Central hub.
==== Last smaller grief and finishing touches for this period (1st-3rd Dec) ==== 
After the progress made in November, after the griefs, Tukol saw one last "big" grief. This one affected most of the underground part of Tukol, as well as the entire terrain surrounding it. This grief happened on the 2nd of December 2022, being the last one made by Nomads & Friends and removing most of the terrain of Tukol, but attempting to keep the new buildings intact or only slightly damaged.
After this grief, Tukol's terrain slowly got rebuilt over the next weeks, affecting mostly the new underground development. The fear of new griefs made most Tukol players inactive and led to a new phase on the spawnbase, both in construction and strategy, focusing on a more silent approach and on the underground parts of tukol.
For the stated reasons, no new buildings were made on this period, neither were destroyed or rebuilt (apart from the underground parts of tukol and terrain, which saw already mentioned changes)
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== Underground building (3rd - 18th December 2022) ==
After seeing that most of its activity above ground had been griefed, and after most griefs had been done, most of the players stopped being active, with only Efic and sometimes FitFC, Felipe or Spawn Nomads left to help with the rebuilds. Efic decided to build below ground, to counteract the griefs, as destroying the base below ground would have been harder than destroying ablove ground builds.
After the lack of activity on the start of December 2022, the griefs stopped too, with the last one being mostly harmless as it just removed the remaining terrain, leaving the 2 or 3 still standing builds intact (though most of the builds were already griefed before so they didn't leave much standing). The terrain was restored, and new builds were started again, mostly below ground. At this moment, the buildings/underground rooms made were:
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== Slow and steady progress (December 2022-February 2023) ==
After the small period of underground builds done on December 2022, Tukol suffered a small but steady progress, with the rebuild of different buildings, and creation of a bunch of new ones, with Efic being the most active player on this period (but with buildings from other players such as WhipsterStain too). The Moliokalnas route was also done during this period of slow but steady growth. The buildings being made in this period were:
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== Small tree war, spark of activity and final development (March-April 2023) ==
After the slow progress of the last 2 months, Tukol saw a small spark of activity in March, with SkeeverEyes returning to TVE, and making new buildings, being joined by FitFC and Efic. 
In this period, Tukol becomes the center of the Tree war, a war that saw a fight between the trees established in tukol, with the invasion of tundra trees (not native to the area) and the fights between oak, birch and the invasive spruce trees. The war ended with the creation of the acacia church, a symbol of union that held a tree of each type inside it, as a way to reconcile the different species.
The buildings being done in this period were:
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