Black Mod Base

The ruins as of 06/10/23

#### Beginnings

After Richeatue joined the server, he would occasionally recruit greys to come and live with him at his villager hall. These players were Nuns, Jasper20019 and Braqey (who later changed her IGN to EveQ). At the time, lots of players joked about Rich only inviting girls to base with him. Once the group became more established, this habit would start to be abandoned by the group due to the fear of other groups playing on alt accounts.

#### Abandoning the Trading Hall

After the group had finished making their first builds, Rich accidentally posted the coordinates to the base in a screenshot in the Purity Vanilla Discord server. After realising his mistake, Rich decided that the group should move and they started construction on a new base. While it is unknown who griefed the trading hall after this it was most likely Zeraxul (who later joined Chadlets alongside Rich) due to what happened to their nether portal.

#### The Nether Portal

The group constructed a dark oak tower inside an ice spikes biome ~500 blocks from their building location to use as a nether portal. This tower was griefed weeks before black mod base, believed to be griefed by Zeraxul by the base members due to a discussion in chat, although Zeraxul find the base until the coordinates became public.

#### Black Mod Base

At their new building location, the group constructed a gold farm which was known for lagging the server at the time. Alongside this, Rich, Nuns, Jas and Braq all built their own purely aesthetic buildings around the base. These builds included a barn built by Nuns, and housed built by the other three. The group had plans to create a path out of gold blocks between their builds, however the base was griefed before this was completed. While the base was active, they invited Dr\_SpaceCrane and 2Kusan, although neither of them built much.

#### The Black Mod

While at the base, Both Rich and Nuns joined the Staff Team, causing Rich to gain the nickname of the "Gay Black Furry Moderator", or "The Black Mod" for short. As this base was unnamed and generally referred to as "Rich's Base" by the player base, given the group never chose a name as this was uncommon at the time, the only named groups being Erebus Core, Dumpster Dogs and Phoenix, the community retroactively named the base Black Mod Base. Despite the lack of a name, it is common belief that this group was the largest and most powerful group on purity at the time.

#### Another Mistake

While at this base, Braq made a trade with StarBaron where they met on the nether highway. Following this trade, Star followed Braq from a distance, then allegedly used ESP to find the tunnel she used to go to their nether portal, although this was never proven.

#### The Glassing of Black Mod

The Glassing of Black Mod is the name given to the event of the griefing of Black Mod Base. The base was thoroughly blown up and lavacasted by Star and Douug1, solidifying Dumpster Dogs as the first group to conduct a major grief on Purity. During the grief, Richeatue was at spawn then became busy with Mod work while Braq tried to defend against the griefers, however she got crystalled by Star after her pc lagged from loading in the large lavacast. Following the Grief, Several images of the ruins were posted to the discord by the griefers.

#### The Aftermath

Following the grief, several notable players visited the base and left signs including 123MiningMaster, Zeraxul, OwO and GoldenCookie420.

Following the grief, the members of the base were invited to come to Thanos Sex Farm by Chief and M1an, the leaders of Erebus Core. Braq, Rich and SpaceCrane accepted this offer while Nuns started The Hive. While at this base, SpaceCrane quit and Braq took a break from the server while Rich eventually decided to join Dumpster Dogs. Jas quit after the grief without coming to EC and 2Kusan was inactive at the time of the grief.

As the only member of the base who has played since 2021, Braq occasionally visits the ruins to see how the place is doing and reminisce on the good times she had with the other members.