The Commune

The Commune was an underground base established by the Dirty Moss Boys on October 18th, 2021. Their third official base in a row, the Commune served as a hub for getting the group established and geared for many weeks throughout mid October and early November before being abandoned in favor of a more permanent city. The base is characterized by its lush, natural aesthetics and various farms.

=History=

New Beginnings
After joining Uneasy Vanilla a day earlier, the Dirty Moss Boys--then a much smaller unnamed team--were getting ready to depart from their small, temporary base inside of an amethyst geode and to move out to a much larger and more semi-permanent settlement on October 18th, 2021. They had spent the last day getting more established on the server and gearing up, as well as recruiting more members from their previous server, SimPvP, to join them, and it was clear that a much bigger location was necessary. Thus, they departed from their temporary geode base and embarked on a journey in the overworld for thousands of blocks, before settling upon a valley in a birch forest surrounded by massive mountains.



Much like their previous two bases, this new base was also meant to be underground, albeit significantly larger and more well-established. With the original members already at the base, as well as new arrivals on their way, this base grew quickly, with a name being coined shortly after its founding: "The Commune". The Commune was chosen as its name thanks to the base's status as a meeting ground for players of different backgrounds and skillsets, all joining together under one common goal: to establish themselves on Uneasy Vanilla and grow larger. It was also while at the Commune that this unnamed team gave themselves the name "Dirty Moss Boys", or DMB for short, based on an incident in which one of the founders, ostrich1414, struggled to bring back a single moss block from spawn for hours, repeatedly dying, but nevertheless proving resilient. As the Commune soon grew in size, so too did DMB's membership, and this ever-growing membership worked to dig out the many rooms, halls, and hubs of the base.

The Commune at its Peak
In general, the Commune functioned primarily as a more permanent location for DMB to get themselves established on the server. Thus, it possessed several farms and amenities required for the group's rise on UV. AntHand began breeding the base's first few villagers, a job which was soon taken over by Coldsauce, and then later by ElectricChugg, who expanded the villager hall and worked on breeding and curing a villager for every enchantment needed for god sets. ElectricChugg also created a raid farm outside of the base, which server to provide the team with a stable source of emeralds and totems. Meanwhile, TheMustacheKing established the Commune's two primary sources of XP: a dual spider grinder and a skeleton grinder. However, the largest room of the Commune was its central lobby, an area accessed by a long cobblestone staircase reaching from up above on the surface to the depths below. Cheesy_chips22 worked on curating a unique aesthetic for this lobby, decorating it with plants, moss, diverse architectural designs, and a small pond with axolotls. Willowienal also assisted with decorating, creating a small loft above the pond, complete with a waterfall next to it.



Of course, due to the Commune being an underground base, there were many other sections of it. AntHand worked on a section of the base for himself, which included a minor spruce tree farm, a bee farm, a dripstone farm, and a lava farm. Most notably, his section was home to an extremely challenging parkour course, which had yet to be fully completed by a single member of the Commune from start to finish. Below, TheMustacheKing and LidGuy developed a unique underground town, complete with houses and a road; even SenorJeb began work on his own home around it. Ostrich1414 created an automatic sugarcane farm and cactus farm, as well as a long hallway filled with several manual crops and livestock pens, ranging from cows and sheep to carrots and potatoes. TheMustacheKing also worked on creating a new storage facility for the base, and f8tal_ would construct a gunpowder farm nearby, as well as an iron farm inside the Commune itself.



Abandonment
Of course, the Commune was never truly meant to be a permanent base for the Dirty Moss Boys; it was not large enough to house the ever-expanding group, and its farms were quickly becoming insufficient in fueling the group's increasing wealth. However, the base was truly successful at two things: getting them established, and giving them an identity. Not only was the crew able to get wealthier here, through god sets and debris mining and other farms and resources, but it is where the "DMB" team itself was truly founded. Nevertheless, with new arrivals joining the server and a need for more space and bigger opportunities, it was decided by early November that DMB would abandon the Commune and move to a more permanent location, having server their purpose there. The Commune would remain as a hub for new recruits and members to join and get themselves established at, much like the base did for the early DMB crew.