Melwin22

Melwin22 is probably best known for creating the Mob Zoo and completing all advancements. This article will be very fucking long so don't bother to read the rest.

## Origin

Melwin joined Purity after watching SalC1's video on how shitty this server is. While he did not the idea of voting either, Melwin decided to simply not ever vote and get all gear legit. He quickly established himself in an underground base (which was much later given to Monsieur Viking in this video and shortly after it was destroyed). Then. he got the first elytra by bridging in the End, however he was very lucky, finding an unlooted end city around +5k, +5k.

Melwin constructed two more small bases near -x highway with multiple trading halls and started selling enchanted items on Trading Hub in his own shop, called "Enchanting centre". He also tried to keep the -x nether highway relatively clean for easier travel between bases. However, after ~~player~~ dickhead iceycoldxd sabotaged his actions multiple times, he decided to leave this job.

During highway caretaking, he met two other players - ASilverStick and CarpMaster. One day, Melwin's bed stasis was destroyed and a funny message was left near the portal. After this happened, three friends decided to leave the area around -x highway and move further out, to a small base built by Silver's friend, SaltineCrackers.

## Dead Zone and advancement hunting

Melwin, Silver and Carp arrived at Saltine's base 11th July 2021. They began to expand the base and invite more friends - WeirdWater and XX1. Saltine later invited rblxnoob. Among other things, Melwin built the Torch Tower and replica of the Moon, while rblx was building multiple farms, including gold farm, iron farm, and gunpowder farm inside a 6x6 chunks perimeter, dug by all inhabitants.

At that point, base didn't have a name yet. Its inhabitants started to get less and less active, and one day Melwin decided to name the place "Dead Zone" due to lack of player activity.

Melwin also decided to complete every advancement in the game, inspired by players like Feinberg, Elysaku, and D1cka\_D1cka. At the end of July 2021 he already had every advancement except How did we get here and The Next Generation. On the last day of July, Apersu and Sasori\_mk ran the Netherite Beacon Hunt event and Melwin managed to get one of the books, thanks to massive trolling by wefhy. Melwin asked for a live shulker in Overworld as the price for his book - to complete the second-to-last missing advancement, which was delivered by Soosh. However, due to lack of skill and shulkers being an absolute nightmare, he could not keep the shulker alive during the transport. After this massive fail, Melwin decided to become an expert in mob transport, and this idea quickly evolved into creation of Mob Zoo.

Torch TowerReplica of the Moon
## Mob Zoo and YT channel

Starting from easier ones, Melwin gathered most mobs in the game in a new building at Dead Zone, called Mob Zoo. Shulker was meant to be the "final boss", but Melwin realized that transporting ghast will be an even bigger nightmare, so he decided to get the shulker before ghast. After Purity updated to 1.17, shulkers were able to replicate, so he could make checkpoints along the way from spawn to Mob Zoo with copies of original shulker. On 12th September 2021, Melwin and rblxnoob went into the End, grabbed a shulker and moved it into Overworld.

This was an insane adventure. rblx would clear the path from enemies - including withers - and other obstacles, while Melwin tried to keep the shulker alive by throwing potions of regen at it. Despite all the efforts, shulker died around 600 blocks from 0,0, after it was targeted by a wither. Seconds before death, it managed to make a copy of itself, which was later successfully boated out of spawn.

Then, using flying machines, Melwin transported the shulker all the way to Dead Zone. This took many months, due to multiple failures on the way and a broken plugin, which caused minecarts to phase through moving blocks. Luckily, thanks to the checkpoint system, he didn't have to start from spawn ever again. During the time that plugin was broken, Melwin constructed a How Did We Get Here station and completed the second-to-last missing advancement, and recorded himself doing so, which was later posted as his first YT video.

Shulker was successfully delivered to Mob Zoo on 12th January 2022. Then, after many more failures and ragequits, ghast was inserted into its cage on 30th January, and the last mob - elder guardian - was inserted on 5th Feb 2022, exactly one year after Melwin joined Purity.

Screenshot by rblxnoob - shulker transport at spawnMelwin being happy
## Sulphage and diplomacy

On 30th December 2021, Melwin was invited into a faction called Sulphage, created by Virkyme. Sulphage base was located on a beautiful island divided into three biomes: mushroom fields, dark forest and mountains. Melwin, Virkyme, Villhume, Kheidge and adventuretimeguy terraformed the island quite a lot, but focusing on large scale things, they didn't pay much attention to small scale decoration or base utilities.

After finishing Mob Zoo, Melwin wanted to make an YT video about it. This worried rblxnoob, as he thought that a video will leak Dead Zone coordinates. On 8th Feb 2022, Melwin and rblx argued for few hours and many harsh words were said from both sides. rblx threatened that he will invite Frrost to the base for a grief, and after that Melwin decided to leave Dead Zone for good and move to Sulphage, but the video was released nonetheless. Melwin proved that he's not good at diplomacy.

While living at Sulphage base, other ideas were occupying Melwin's mind, while he was slowly getting more and more insane. One of them was a hunt for end portals, which caught the attention of NerdieBirdie and evolved into Project Marco. There was also the last missing advancement, The Next Generation, which requires a player to hold a dragon egg. Melwin knew how D1cka got the advancement, but that method was not available to him... unless he would make a new account. Pressure was too strong. Melwin bought an alt called wak35, made a speedrun of "almost all" advancements and posted that on his YT channel. Afterwards, when wak35 account was missing only The Next Generation, another round of negotiations begun - this time with dragon egg owner, Ragsterinja. Dragon egg advancement was completed by wak35 on 18th May 2022. Melwin proved that he got better at diplomacy.

Sulphage's island in FebruaryFinal advancement
## Grief of Sulphage and return to Dead Zone

One day, Kheidge posted by accident an unsafe screenshot of Sulphage base in Purity discord. Knowing what this means, Melwin and others packed up and ran away from the base. Sulphage base was destroyed few weeks later, on 18th August 2022. Melwin decided to check if Dead Zone is still alive... *wait, that's not right...* if it's still not griefed. To his surprise, base was intact. Turns out that rblxnoob did not invite Frrost, and the video seemed exploit-free, as 6 months have passed without anyone destroying the base. Melwin and rblx forgot about their arguments and lived in peace again.

Happy to see Mob Zoo in good shape, Melwin started to upgrade it, expanding mob cages, decorating everything and replacing mobs with their rarer variants: blue axolotl, brown panda, swamp villager, etc. After Purity updated to 1.19, he brought an allay and frogs to Mob Zoo, and the Warden was captured on 28th September 2022. Then he started to invite trustworthy people for a tour. Villhume, Atromis, wefhy, KithandtheKin, and 123miningmaster were given tours and all of them seemed impressed.

Melwin also got a bit involved back into his original job - highway caretaking, as he officially joined SIP on 13th June 2022.

Melwin kept posting random videos on his YT channel and doing more tryhard stuff. Also, from time to time, he visited other bases he got invites to, and helped their inhabitants in various ways.

Blue axolotl in the Mob ZooMelwin extending the +z highway
## Epilogue

At the end of 2022, Melwin started to become less and less active, and on 14th of January 2023 he decided to take a break from Purity, until "something major" happens. Only 1 week later, 3rd Purity seed was leaked, and Penguin reset it once again after few days of temp map. Even though elytra chunk trails were supposedly cleared, Melwin had another chunk trail leading to his base - created by a flying machine, which he used to transport a shulker. Such machine moves much slower than a player flying with elytra, and loads the chunk much longer, so the algorithm clearing chunk trails did not touch this path. Dead Zone was destroyed on 28th January, 4 days after the seed reset, by people from 3M (grief vid here).

While Melwin blamed 3rd seed chunk trails for this grief, a number of players disagreed, citing their knowledge of Dead Zone's coordinates prior to the seed change as well as the video of the base Melwin had released a year before (see above) with a visible, crackable biome border.

After that, Melwin gave away the contents of his echest to Kith and NoiZeX90, and left the server for good. Few days later, a final video about Mob Zoo and Dead Zone was released.

## Random

Other random stuff that Melwin did include:

* visiting the Elders base and meeting the Elders themselves
* briefly getting involved in Falconists faction
* redoing this wiki...