The Tower

The Tower was initially built in season 1.5 by NiriBear and Nomaku, and it functions as their home base.

As both of them liked living away from other people, the Tower was one of the furthest bases from spawn. However, due to Winter implementing limitations for base building distance at the start of the season in order to encourage more interactions between players, The Tower was built at a hard to find, but still somewhat discoverable distance from the world spawn. Niri and Nomaku agree that they would have probably gone further out if not for such restrictions implemented in the start of the season.

### Conception

##### The Beginning

In Season 1, Nomaku lived a very isolationist lifestyle in their far-away base within a Taiga/Ice Plains biome. Because NiriBear lived similarly privately and nonviolently (at least compared to many others on the server), as well as demonstrating admirable building skills with her Season 1 church, Nomaku decided to try and come out of their shell and asked NiriBear about living together for Season 1.5 soon after it started. NiriBear agreed, and they set off to find a suitable building location. Much later, NiriBear revealed that she was actually planning herself to ask Nomaku about living together that season- but Nomaku got to it first, and so that was that. Nomaku found this revelation to be shocking and touching, having previously believed that their teaming up only occurred due to themself bringing the idea to Niri.

##### Starting Out

NiriBear found the building spot, which was the edge of a mesa biome with a nearby pond, plains in the front with a small village, and some nearby mountains. The start of the base was just a small area dug out in the side of a mesa hill where chests and whatnot were put- meant for function as resources were gathered. A few villagers were moved inside, where Nomaku started making a very small trading hall as to get some useful enchanting books like Mending and Fortune III. A spider farm for XP was established quickly with the use of a cave spider spawner found in the mesa hill, where Nomaku ended spending most of their time to get a plethora of enchantments. Nomaku also started brewing some potions such as Fire Resistance for nether trips. The Tower's nether portal was also built in this time, and it remains the only part of the original "base" that was never changed or removed, apart from perhaps the mine hole/water elevator. Nomaku continued doing most of the brewing and enchantment work for the Tower throughout the season- as their Cleric class from the Origins:Classes mod enabled them to get better enchants more easily, as well as double the duration of potions.This literal hole-in-the-wall base remained basically the same (very small and function over form) for quite a long while, mostly because its isolation made it improbable for people to discover randomly and be judgy of. Some people requested to come visit so they see the base, expecting NiriBear to have made something nice looking. Obviously, given the state of things (as well as Niri and Nomaku's preference for their base's location to remain secret), all were denied.

##### Building The Tower

NiriBear came up with the idea of making a large, circular tower for the proper base. The approximately 72 block diameter circlular outline was simply created around the original base. NiriBear had Nomaku fix the circle, as she had made it uneven. As the Tower would be going right through the mesa hill, a good amount of time was spent simply digging that portion out. This was made faster with a beacon, which was maxed out for Haste (mostly with the large amount of gold Nomaku got from mining for netherite). Much time was also spent mining blackstone from a nearby Ruined Bastion in the Nether for the walls. Eventually it got to a point where the walls were up, the middle was clear, and all that remained was a small little house-thing in the middle that was the original base. Interior building was mostly NiriBear's work. Quartz was added to the floor and ceiling, and a middle level was put in where a second cave spider XP farm was made (the first spawner, which was closer to the ground floor, was removed).

The Tower before being dug out.Perspective of Nomaku's cat hallway. Inside base during Tower constructionVillager hallway perspective during Tower construction.At some point, Nomaku made a small semi-automated bee farm for a bit of honey, farmed slime from the nearest swamp, and after a lot of time and pain, made a large piston door for the entrance that also had a locking system. However, mostly due to Endermen placing blocks that blocked the door, the door would still sometimes break and at that point Nomaku had fixed it so many times they only use it occasionally, and would instead mainly clip in and out of the tower with a Ender Pearl (which were infinitely summonable on a cooldown from their Enderian origin). NiriBear, as a Phantom origin, would usually simply phase through the wall out of fear of the door getting messed up again in addition to it being faster.

Nomaku also added patterns to the Tower walls so that it wasn't flat blackstone brick, although as the Tower eventually grew taller they only put the time to decorate the first two layers out of the 4-5ish it ended up with.

### Completion

##### Tower Interior

The specific order of creation for parts of the interior is mostly forgotten. At any rate, Nomaku set up much of the main section such as the villager trading hall section, manual brewing area with nether wart farm, and aquarium. In addition, Nomaku created the various redstone automatic potion brewers, which made The Tower to have probably the largest stock on the server of most potion types. Due to selecting the Cleric Class from the Origins:Classes mod, Nomaku was also able to double the duration of all the potions created. However, most of the potion stocks were more of a "just in case" rather than something Nomaku or Niri used regularly. The most-used potions were Fire Resistance, which were mainly used by Nomaku when they went to the Nether (usually mining for Ancient Debris).

At some point after much of the main section of the Tower was set up, NiriBear started construction of the sub-floor that would be the storage area- with automatic item sorting. The process took a lot of wood for the chests as well as a huge amount of redstone, in addition to a staggering amount of iron for all of the hoppers required for the system. Mining the iron took NiriBear and Nomaku a lot of time. As Nomaku had not made auto storage systems before, NiriBear did most of the work in setting up the system, while Nomaku would simply assist in construction. When it was getting close to finished, NiriBear let Nomaku determine the specific items to be automatically sorted and locations for them to be sorted into.

### Other

#### Pets

Very early on, Nomaku acquired a Horse, which they named Huarse. Huarse wore golden horse armor and remained in a 2x2 pit just outside of the Tower the majority of the time.
Nomaku also had many dogs, which mostly stayed scattered around outside The Tower until they got moved to a hidden location.

On June 9, 2020, a squad of skeleton horses spawned outside The Tower. Nomaku brought them inside and named them War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. They would remain in the entrance area of The Tower for a very long time.

Sometime after the the ground floor of The Tower was finished, a large fish tank took up a majority of the bottom floor. It was filled with countless exotic fish and two turtles, Squirt and Crush.

Though technically not a 'pet', there was a single villager that resided outside of The Tower in one of the closed off villager buildings. Mr. Farmer Man lived a very solitary life and was only ever moved from his home very late into the season. He died just as all the other mobs did when the server file was corrupted.