Foundational Era (Squid Island)

* The beginning of Season 1
The foundational arc was the inaugural Era of Squid Island. It is marked by lack of severity and low frequency of trolls and general unity in group videos. It started with the series premiere of Squid Island on November 8 2023 and ended with the debut and coronation of King Glowey I on November 22 2023. Architecture and design were simple and diamonds were very rare to have, often opting for iron instead. The city was packed in the southern shore exclusively and the main antagonist was Jelly, who generally took a mischievous and malevolent role troll wise.
== Timeline ==
This is a timeline for all of the events of the Foundational Era, conveniently in bullet points for formatting and efficiency. Please remember that the numbers are supposed to represent actual days of each month.
 
=== November ===
8: Squid Island (back then, untitled) premieres with very high ratings. Jelly and Slogo reunite with Crainer, build their houses and go mining and collecting resources together.
10: Crainer gifts presents to Jelly and Slogo, with Slogo’s slightly better than Jelly’s.
11: Jelly begins construction on his gigantic temple citadel, he also steals Slogo’s gift and replaces it with a worse one.
12: Slogo finds out about Crainer’s gift, beginning to speculate that Jelly might’ve stolen his gift, though deciding to help him on his temple, returning his gift. He also works on an animal farm in the centre of all of their houses.
15: The two name the unnamed island Squid Island for Henward, ultimately find out Jelly had stolen Crainer’s gift to Slogo. They also create an iron golem knighted Golem to protect their city.
17: Crainer puts sand on top of the house on Jelly’s Temple as a troll in retaliation for the gift sabotage.
18: Slogo rigs Jelly’s chest with TNT so that when he opens it, it blows up, as a troll for the same motive as Crainer’s troll the day prior. He also finds the first diamond on the server and stashes it away in a block near the Slogo Hut.
19: Jelly clears up the sand troll by Crainer and finishes construction on his temple. In order to secure his valuables, he constructs a secret underground labyrinth inside his temple, and in a secret area makes a large room for such purpose.
== Trolls ==
There were only 3 trolls in this era, as the series was just starting out.
=== The Gift Exchange ===
Crainer gifts presents to Jelly and Slogo, with Slogo’s slightly better than Jelly’s. Jelly then steals Slogo’s gift and replaces it with a worse one.
=== The Sand-Covered Pyramid ===
Crainer puts sand on top of the house on Jelly’s Temple as a troll in retaliation for the gift sabotage.
=== The Pyramid Trap Chest ===
Slogo rigs Jelly’s chest with TNT so that when he opens it, it blows up, as a troll for the same motive as Crainer’s troll the day prior.
== Area ==
Since this is the beginning of the series, almost all of the land was empty and unoccupied. The only occupied lands were the trio's houses, and a couple of pens.
== Residences ==
In the Foundational Era, each member in the trio had one residence with simple architecture, as this was the start of the series. Eventually, the architecture would get more complex in later eras. Jelly's residence would be the only one to get trolled in this era.
=== Crain Crib ===
The Crain Crib was Crainer's main residence in Squid Island from November 8, 2023 to December 2, 2023. It would contain a "pooper", which was the entrance to Crainer's mine, and a backyard farm that he would expand in further episodes. It would replace the site of Crainer's old residence, which was a dirt hut that was notably smaller than the Crain Crib.
The Crain Crib would be north of King Glowey's residence which would also mean that the "ugly" statue for him would also be right next to the Crain Crib.
=== Slogo's Hut ===
The Slogo Lighthouse was first constructed in the first episode as the Slogo Hut. It was a much smaller design as it was a bungalow and the smallest house in the first episode. The hut would contain a mine used for gathering resources.
==== Trivia ====
1. The Slogo Hut during its lifetime was the smallest residence of the three by property and land management.
2. In the next era, Slogo's Hut would drastically change into something much, much bigger: A lighthouse.
=== Jelly's Temple ===
Jelly’s Temple was the first structure ever built in Squid Island history, alongside the Crain Crib and the Slogo Hut, a citadel featuring a humongous underground labyrinth with birch doors and a secret chest room in which Jelly never used. Crainer and Slogo helped him build the towering pyramid. This would be the start of Jelly's architectural pyramid trend, as he would build a couple more in the later eras.
==== Sand Troll ====
On November 10th, Crainer would troll Jelly by putting tons of sand on top of the towering citadel which overlooked The Slogo Hut and the Crain Crib.
==== Pyramid trap chest ====
Slogo rigs Jelly’s chest with TNT so that when he opens it, it blows up, as a troll for the same motive as Crainer’s troll the day prior.
== Characters ==
=== Jelly ===
Jelly, with Josh moved into the titular island after finding Crainer in a dirt hut, and they went on many adventures and performed many trolls for our epic entertainment in the early days, just like in 2021. However, the trolls were less destructive than the previous troll town.
Jelly went on to build a huge citadel which was pyramid shaped, later featuring an underground labyrinth beneath it.
In this era, Jelly was a tiny bit of an antagonist. For example, he stole a gift from Crainer that was directed to Slogo. Despite this, Jelly was pretty chill, atleast for now.
=== Slogo ===
On November 8, 2023, Josh and Jelly had moved onto the titular island to meet up with Crainer in a dirt hut. In that episode, they went on to gather resources and build houses to live in.
Slogo would live relatively peaceful, not receiving any trolls by the other two albeit still trolling them. He would work on his house, the Slogo Hut and work on transforming it. From here on out, everything would remain relatively normal.
=== Crainer ===
Crainer is the main protagonist of the Squid Island series, but his benevolence has been questioned by some as of recently, making his role uncertain as well if he's still the protagonist, or the new antagonist. He was usually friendly to others but usually got taken for granted by the other two to exploit him into wrongdoing, rarely getting revenge. In general, his trolls weren't very harmful, as most of them were usually time-consuming to clean up, however he received harsh consequences for most of them. Notable examples are his sand troll on Jelly's pyramid that he set out in this era.
==== Trivia ====
* Crainer is the member that has made the darkest jokes out of the three.
* Crainer was the most peaceful person on the server in this era.
=== Golem ===
The creatively-named Golem is an iron golem that has served as the chief protector of Squid Island from November 15 2023 onwards. Golem originated as a default iron golem in a spruce village close by to Squid Island, which was found by Jelly, Slogo and Crainer on the hunt for a protector for their new town. In order to make Golem follow them back to the island to capture them, they began hitting the golem; however, Golem did not follow them, forcing the three to kill them and use some of the iron ingots dropped and mine a bunch of iron to make 4 iron blocks and a pumpkin to rebuild the golem. Once rebuilt, they trapped the golem and Jelly was given the task of knighting the golem, knighting the golem as Golem the Protector.
==== Trivia ====
* Golem does not have a kill count because there is no monsters on the surface
* Golem does NOT have a name tag
=== Henward the Squid ===
Henward the Squid, God Squid or just Henward, was the first squid discovered in Squid Island, being what the island was named after, by Crainer, on November 18th 2023. He was the first ruler of Squid Island. After swimming away from the island, Henward supposedly despawned, succeeded by King Glowey as the ruler of Squid Island, buried on November 22nd, 2023, and posthumously given the name Henward, a little presumed nod to the SpongeBob SquarePants character Squidward Tentacles, their grave was later removed after the Treaty of Squid Island.
==== Trivia ====
* Henward is the only important character to despawn.
* Henward is responsible for the debut of King Glowey I.
* Henward has had the shortest amount of screentime in Squid Island.
* Henward likes swimming. Probably.
== Episodes ==
=== Episode Information ===
The Foundational Era covers Episode 1 - 8 of Squid Island, and a third of Squid Island The Movie (Episode 1).
=== Episode List ===
Key:
*	Group video
*	Semi-group video
(If it's blank, it's a solo video)
Every episode of the Foundational Era.
Jelly	Slogo	Crainer
* Welcome Back CRAINER!
SLOGO Hid His Diamonds And I STOLE Them…
* Building An ARMY To Protect Our Survival Island... (Minecraft)
I Built A *SECRET* Underground Base! (Minecraft Squid Island)	* Crainer JOINED Our NEW Minecraft Server!
CRAINER Gifted ME A PRESENT In Minecraft! (sabotaged)
* Our NEW Minecraft TOWN! (Squid Island)
I Made Him BLOW UP His OWN HOUSE In Minecraft! (troll)	* I Trolled JELLY In Minecraft..
My Gift To JELLY & Slogo... (Minecraft)
* Jelly TOOK All Of Our ITEMS! (Minecraft)
Pranking Jelly With a SAND TRAP In Minecraft!
==Gallery==
File:Foundationera.jpeg|The picture used to represent this era.
File:Crainer'sDirtHut.png|Crainer's dirt hut at the start of the first episode.
File:Screenshot 20240628 195637 YouTube.jpg|The skin that Crainer used in the opening of Squid Island.
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