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{{Town

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~~name=Purest Pines~~

|title1=Purest Pines

|image1=[[File:PurestPinesFlag.webp|50px]]

|Motto=''Where the grass is always greener''

|Nation=[[Aurora:~~Cascadia~~|~~Cascadia~~]]

|Nation=[[Aurora:Baranof|Baranof]]

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|InternetCurtains was here, 22/08/2025

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|Continent=North America

|Discord=https://discord.gg/YwB6qJG7

|mayor=InternetCurtains

|mayor=InternetCurtains and Bingy726 (Co-Mayors)

|past_nations=Canada, James Bay, [[Aurora:Laurentia|Laurentia]], Cree, [[Aurora:Vermont|Vermont]], Ontario

|past_nations=Canada, James Bay, [[Aurora:Laurentia|Laurentia]], Cree, [[Aurora:Vermont|Vermont]], Ontario, Cascadia

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}}Purest Pines was a town located in the Ontarian wilderness in Canada. It was run by InternetCurtains almost continuously throughout its two-year-long lifespan. Purest Pines has been a member of eight separate notable nations in the past: Canada, James Bay, Laurentia, Cree, Vermont, Ontario, Cascadia and Baranof.

~~'''WIP! Adding photos~~, ~~history section~~, and ~~notable residents soon~~.~~'''~~

Purest Pines ~~is a town located in~~ the ~~Ontarian wilderness in Canada. It has~~ been ~~run by InternetCurtains almost continuously throughout its two-year-long lifespan~~. ~~Purest Pines is part~~ of ~~the nation of Cascadia~~, ~~situated in Manicouagan County, however it has been~~ a ~~member~~ of ~~six other nations in the past~~.

Purest Pines was split up into three main residential 'districts' surrounding the central Aquille District, an area that had been furbished and decorated extensively to give it a peaceful, natural feel. The town also contains an old replica of a Victorian-era English neighbourhood, built for a building contest (Swinasham); a fairly obsolete business district (Chauser); rebuilt ruins of an old town (Merlin); and two main areas of empty, undeveloped claims.

~~Purest Pines is split up into three main residential 'districts' surrounding~~ the central Aquille District, which has been furbished and decorated extensively to give it a peaceful, natural feel. The town also contains an old replica of a Victorian-era English neighbourhood, built for a building contest; a fairly obsolete business district; rebuilt ruins of an old town; and two main areas of ~~empty~~, ~~undeveloped claims.~~

By the end of Terra Aurora, Purest Pines bordered the separate town of Ontario and was also close to Chester Port, Kings, and Treasure Town, the capital of the nation of Hudson.

Purest Pines ~~borders~~ the separate town of Ontario and is also close to Chester Port, Kings, and Treasure Town, the capital of the nation of Hudson.

Throughout the course of its history, countless residents have been and gone, and the town's population peaked at 102 on 7 January 2025.

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'' 'Accueillir' - 'to host' in French ''

Aquille is located near the centre of the town. It is the oldest district in the town, and is where the town spawn building, the Third Endeavour, is located. To the north of this district is Aquille Reserve, a naturalistic park home to various memorabilia from throughout the town's history, plus town embassies. The Purest Pines CityPlace, a large, cuboidal building containing prebuilt apartments for residents and the Primary Storage ~~for the town~~ is located in this district as well.

Aquille is located near the centre of the town. It is the oldest district in the town, and is where the town spawn building - the Third Endeavour - is located. In the north of this district is Aquille Reserve, a naturalistic park home to various memorabilia from throughout the town's history, plus town embassies. The Purest Pines CityPlace - a large, cuboidal building containing prebuilt apartments for residents and the Primary Storage Unit - is located in this district as well.

[[File:AquilleDistrict.webp|alt=test|500px]] ''A pathway in Aquille Reserve leading to the Chauser District.''

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''Named after an unknown French infinitive verb''

Chauser was the second district to be made in Purest Pines. Historically, it was meant to take up a clearing on the northern side of a river between it and the Aquille District. It was built up ~~first~~ in late 2023 from the James Bay to the Cree Era, but InternetCurtains demolished most of the buildings in 2024 so that it could be rebuilt later. InternetCurtains retained several buildings, however, such as the Disco Tower, a skyscraper built by former resident DiscoEwe4410090, whose apartments housed the first residents in the town; Bingy Estate, a large mansion built by InternetCurtains for ~~former~~ comayor Bingy726; and the USSNA Perm Base, a military base deemed widely to be unsightly, built by banned player USFriskI.

Chauser was the second district to be made in Purest Pines. Historically, it was meant to take up a clearing on the northern side of a river between it and the Aquille District. It was first built up in late 2023, from the James Bay to the Cree Era, but InternetCurtains demolished most of the buildings in 2024 so that it could be rebuilt later. InternetCurtains retained several buildings, however, such as the Disco Tower, a skyscraper built by former resident DiscoEwe4410090, whose apartments housed the first residents in the town; Bingy Estate, a large mansion built by InternetCurtains for comayor Bingy726; and the USSNA Perm Base, a military base deemed widely to be unsightly, built by banned player USFriskI.

Reconstruction of Chauser started in December 2024 during the Second Vermont Era at the height of Purest Pines, led by InternetCurtains and Bingy726 and built with help from BuilderBoy59, Amartine60, Jazbbwtyl, Platinum201547 and Aqualicorn, all of whom were residents of the town at the time. Progress was quick, and before long, an assortment of new buildings were completed, including InternetCurtains Estate, 'The Dives', a refurbished ice rail station, headquarters for the short-lived newspaper 'Purest Papers', and more. These buildings can be found in Chauser today.

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Near the centre of the district is Cordan Plaza, a large, hollow building with an underground section containing an inn for residents, the Maple Tavern, an automatic music disc player, and Secondary Storage for the district. Flags of the nation of Cree are flown at the top of the building.

In October 2024, shortly before the foreseen acceleration in population of the town, this district was extended to the north~~, containing~~ roughly twenty new plots for residents.

In October 2024, shortly before the foreseen acceleration in population of the town, this district was extended to the north to contain roughly twenty new plots for residents. Further expansion of the Cordan District - this time to the west - occurred in September 2025, for the same reason.

[[File:CordanDistrict.webp|alt=test|500px]] ''View of the older part of the district from the top of Cordan Plaza, taken on 4 October 2024.''

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Mercer was the second residential district to be built, found just to the east of Aquille. Its plots contain borders made of flowering azalea leaves with smooth quartz slabs on top of them. The roads are built out of stripped dark oak wood.

The first three rows of the Mercer District (including the short, two-plot wide one closest to Aquille) were built first, with an extra row and outwards extensions to all rows emerging during November 2024. Overall, the Mercer District has over 50 plots, meaning that out of the three residential districts, it's able to house the most residents theoretically. However, the outer two rows have been deemed abandoned officially due to the difficulty in demolishing the voluminous plots in them and their distance from the town spawn and are upkept no longer, although Kevin484848 built an unfinished shopping centre at the edge of this ~~edge~~ of the district in August 2025.

The first three rows of the Mercer District (including the short, two-plot wide one closest to Aquille) were built first, with an extra row and outwards extensions to all rows emerging during November 2024. Overall, the Mercer District has over 50 plots, meaning that out of the three residential districts, it's able to house the most residents - theoretically. However, the outer two rows have been deemed abandoned officially due to the difficulty in demolishing the voluminous plots in them and their distance from the town spawn, and are upkept no longer, although Kevin484848 built an unfinished shopping centre at the edge of this part of the district in August 2025.

The 'Mercer Minipark' is located at the southern edge of the central rows, acting as a district centre similar to the Cordan Plaza and the Purest Pines CityPlace. It consists of two towers surrounded by a small park built originally by a resident called FlakeyYT.

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''No prizes for guessing where the name of the district comes from!''

The Cherry District is located south of Aquille. It bears several resemblances to the Aquille District, with a naturalistic, cherry-themed ~~forested area~~ to the north filled with memorabilia.

The Cherry District is located south of Aquille. It bears several resemblances to the Aquille District, with a naturalistic, forested area (cherry-themed, in this case) to the north filled with memorabilia.

To the south, the Cherry District acts as a residential area, with cherry-tree-themed plot borders and roads. The easternmost road in the district was turned into an arcade by former resident Gheddochris. Three small, near-identical structures at the wilderness end of the three roads in the district commemorate the first three nations that Purest Pines joined: Canada, James Bay, and Laurentia.

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== History ==

Purest Pines has an incredibly broad and rich history. Throughout its two years of existence, the town has manifested itself in seven separate nations, changing nations on eight occasions. Hence, its history is split up into the eight distinct ''eras'' that follow:

# ~~Canadian~~ Era (27 June 2023 to 20 August 2023)

# Canada Era (27 June 2023 to 20 August 2023)

# James Bay Era (20 August 2023 to 9 September 2023)

# Laurentia Era (9 September 2023 to 23 October 2023)

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# Ontario Era (23 September 2024 to 17 November 2024)

# Second Vermont Era (17 November 2024 to 11 July 2025)

# Cascadia Era (11 July 2025 to ~~16 August 2025~~)

# Cascadia Era (11 July 2025 to 28 February 2026)

# Baranof Era (28 February 2026 to 12 April 2026 [server reset])

The Cree Era, First Vermont Era and Ontario Era all beginning on the 23rd is entirely coincidental.

~~Note to self: Add number of days of each era~~

In the following subchapters, an overview of these eras will be provided. The events that occurred in these eras are provided in a timeline form to make them easier and less daunting to read. An introductory pre-Canadian-Era subchapter is given as well.

=== '''Pre-~~Canadian~~-Era''' ===

'''Notes'''

''InternetCurtains’ first months on EarthMC were spent largely in an inactive town called Maluku, part of the Aru Islands nation – situated around eastern Indonesia (not too far away to the west was the town of Albany, which at the time was massive and extremely populous). The town occupied a duo of small islands along with the nation capital, Iambetter. InternetCurtains logged on every single day, unlike every other person in the entire nation. Despite this, InternetCurtains stayed in Maluku for a good month or two, slowly but surely growing his wealth, knowledge of EarthMC and hoarding of items in a storage room. This was done with only two plots available to him (one which was used specifically for a farm), and the chance to make the occasional trip to Australia – a wasteland of ruined towns at this point – via a short boat ride south.

# A different version of this timeline, which also includes images for some events, can be found on the Purest Pines Discord server: https://discord.gg/YwB6qJG7. (The Discord version of the timeline also looks considerably less like a rather unsightly text dump!)

InternetCurtains was enjoying his time in Maluku, but one day in June of 2023, he decided it would be fun to make his own town. The first location to found the town that came to mind to him was Canada. Not only was it vast but it was ruled by pines and solitude at the time, not towns, per se. There was a lot of room for a town to develop without it having to worry about anything like its nearby neighbours. InternetCurtains didn’t mine; his only source of gold was from the two voting websites, which he voted on every day. This meant that the process of getting 64 gold to found a town would be slow and difficult. However, this meant that a lot of time was given to InternetCurtains to plan out the town before it was built.

# Asterisks (**) around a date denote that this date is an estimate.

While the 64 gold was being collected, InternetCurtains made regular journeys to eastern Canada in search for a solid place to found his town. Eventually, he found the perfect location somewhere in Quebec, to the east of James Bay. Unfortunately, though, he lost the coordinates to this place.

# The events detailed have been compiled and described using screenshots, chat logs, notes, and sometimes even nothing more than sheer memory; thus, while every effort as been made to preserve accuracy, perfect precision cannot be guaranteed.

Then, while finding his way through Ontario, InternetCurtains came across a small clearing. There was a flat middle section, a part that stretched out from the main area, a river that led to an even larger clearing and an array of ponds which could be combined into a decent lake. In this clearing, InternetCurtains could visualise the construction of a peaceful, humble town. He knew that this was the picture-perfect, unspoiled location he had been searching for.

Thus, the planning of this town was now underway.

=== '''Pre-Canada-Era''' ===

The original idea was to build some sort of town centre in the middle of the small clearing. Around the perimeter of pine trees, pre-built houses for residents would be built, each one alluding to a certain type of wood.

[Excerpt from an unfinished text about Purest Pines' history]

A few days before the process of getting 64 gold for the town was complete, InternetCurtains left Maluku, farewelling the town via signs at his plot, and joined New Kaliningrad, which at the time was medium-sized and around the area. It had recently become the nation capital of James Bay. He claimed a pre-built house there without consent of the mayor, USFriskI, (InternetCurtains would later learn that residents of this town were doomed to living without their own plots or support or anything, making the addition of prebuilt houses ever so slightly dubious) who InternetCurtains never even spoke to until a couple of months later. He put all of the valuable items he had taken with him from Maluku into the pre-built house.

InternetCurtains started construction on the town centre first, before the town was actually founded. It was very simple: a small wooden structure took up most of a chunk. The walls were made of spruce planks with entrances of air (no doors or anything else) on each of the four corners. Five blocks up was the roof: a flat ceiling of orange glass with a perimeter of spruce planks from the walls. The floor was a simple mosaic of sorts, with four different types of wood around each corner entrance. In the centre was a four-by-four entrance into what was proposed to be the town storage, where InternetCurtains would put his things. At first, this was small and compact, but it did the job, since Purest Pines was nowhere near as large as it would be several months later, and InternetCurtains’ vision for most certainly did not include his town being a popular capital of a well-known and active nation, nor being the second-largest town in the third-largest nation on the server. The chests were countable and the walls were made cheaply of deepslate. From what was described, it may seem like this town centre was detailed, but it really wasn’t; it was incredibly simple, and not too eye-catching, either, but for InternetCurtains’ plan to make his dream humble town, it seemed alright. It actually took quite a long time for him to build this town centre despite how straightforward it was, and InternetCurtains was almost killed by a duo of hunters approaching him once while he was making it, only to be saved by a player called Peace_of_Poo who owned the town of Feces_Island_2, which took up real life Akimiski and was reasonably close to Internet’s town. This player alerted him through DMs, so InternetCurtains was able to run to a nearby nether portal just in time and wait for the hunters to disappear. The names of these two hunters have faded away in time.

''InternetCurtains’ first months on EarthMC were spent largely in an inactive town called Maluku, part of the Aru Islands nation – situated around eastern Indonesia (not too far away to the west was the town of Albany, which at the time was massive and extremely populous). The town occupied a duo of small islands along with the nation capital, Iambetter. InternetCurtains logged on every single day, unlike every other person in the entire nation. Despite this, InternetCurtains stayed in Maluku for a good month or two, slowly but surely growing his wealth, knowledge of EarthMC and hoarding of items in a storage room. This was done with only two plots available to him (one which was used specifically for a farm), and the chance to make the occasional trip to Australia – a wasteland of ruined towns at this point – via a short boat ride south.''

On the 27th of June, 2023, InternetCurtains finally managed to get 64 gold to found Purest Pines. He headed over to the clearing once again and left New Kaliningrad.

This marked the start of an exceptionally extensive journey governed by InternetCurtains himself – a lengthy one filled with fallen heros, motivational loss, countless players, and so, so much more. One that InternetCurtains and so many other people will never forget, one that changed the course of a few select player’s lives, of whom most had not even touched the server yet at this point. This very moment defined so many things that can be seen all around eastern Canada, New England, Quebec and further afield.

''InternetCurtains was enjoying his time in Maluku, but one day in June of 2023, he decided it would be fun to make his own town. The first location to found the town that came to mind to him was Canada. Not only was it vast but it was ruled by pines and solitude at the time, not towns, per se. There was a lot of room for a town to develop without it having to worry about anything like its nearby neighbours. InternetCurtains didn’t mine; his only source of gold was from the two voting websites, which he voted on every day. This meant that the process of getting 64 gold to found a town would be slow and difficult. However, this meant that a lot of time was given to InternetCurtains to plan out the town before it was built.''

''While the 64 gold was being collected, InternetCurtains made regular journeys to eastern Canada in search for a solid place to found his town. Eventually, he found the perfect location somewhere in Quebec, to the east of James Bay. Unfortunately, though, he lost the coordinates to this place.''

''Then, while finding his way through Ontario, InternetCurtains came across a small clearing. There was a flat middle section, a part that stretched out from the main area, a river that led to an even larger clearing and an array of ponds which could be combined into a decent lake. In this clearing, InternetCurtains could visualise the construction of a peaceful, humble town. He knew that this was the picture-perfect, unspoiled location he had been searching for.''

''Thus, the planning of this town was now underway.''

''The original idea was to build some sort of town centre in the middle of the small clearing. Around the perimeter of pine trees, pre-built houses for residents would be built, each one alluding to a certain type of wood. A few days before the process of getting 64 gold for the town was complete, InternetCurtains left Maluku, farewelling the town via signs at his plot, and joined New Kaliningrad, which at the time was medium-sized and around the area. It had recently become the nation capital of James Bay. He claimed a pre-built house there without consent of the mayor, USFriskI, (InternetCurtains would later learn that residents of this town were doomed to living without their own plots or support or anything, making the addition of prebuilt houses ever so slightly dubious) who InternetCurtains never even spoke to until a couple of months later. He put all of the valuable items he had taken with him from Maluku into the pre-built house.''

''InternetCurtains started construction on the town centre first, before the town was actually founded. It was very simple: a small wooden structure took up most of a chunk. The walls were made of spruce planks with entrances of air (no doors or anything else) on each of the four corners. Five blocks up was the roof: a flat ceiling of orange glass with a perimeter of spruce planks from the walls. The floor was a simple mosaic of sorts, with four different types of wood around each corner entrance. In the centre was a four-by-four entrance into what was proposed to be the town storage, where InternetCurtains would put his things. At first, this was small and compact, but it did the job, since Purest Pines was nowhere near as large as it would be several months later, and InternetCurtains’ vision for most certainly did not include his town being a popular capital of a well-known and active nation, nor being the second-largest town in the third-largest nation on the server. The chests were countable and the walls were made cheaply of deepslate. From what was described, it may seem like this town centre was detailed, but it really wasn’t; it was incredibly simple, and not too eye-catching, either, but for InternetCurtains’ plan to make his dream humble town, it seemed alright. It actually took quite a long time for him to build this town centre despite how straightforward it was, and InternetCurtains was almost killed by a duo of hunters approaching him once while he was making it, only to be saved by a player called Peace_of_Poo who owned the town of Feces_Island_2, which took up real life Akimiski and was reasonably close to Internet’s town. This player alerted him through DMs, so InternetCurtains was able to run to a nearby nether portal just in time and wait for the hunters to disappear. The names of these two hunters have faded away in time.''

''On the 27th of June, 2023, InternetCurtains finally managed to get 64 gold to found Purest Pines. He headed over to the clearing once again and left New Kaliningrad. This marked the start of an exceptionally extensive journey governed by InternetCurtains himself – a lengthy one filled with fallen heros, motivational loss, countless players, and so, so much more. One that InternetCurtains and so many other people will never forget, one that changed the course of a few select player’s lives, of whom most had not even touched the server yet at this point. This very moment defined so many things that can be seen all around eastern Canada, New England, Quebec and further afield.''

[18:12:41 NZT] [CHAT] [Towny] InternetCurtains created a new town called Purest Pines''

=== '''Canada Era''' ===

When Purest Pines was first founded, the only prominent nation in the area was Canada, owned by Twomoo1119. However, even Canada was nowhere near as active or populous as other nations that came later, such as Laurentia or Vermont. Terra Aurora was still only about a year old, so most other nations in the area were yet to proliferate.

During this era, the first few buildings in Aquille were built, including the original spawn building: a relatively straightforward, two-chunk-wide and one-storey-tall building made primarily out of spruce. A balcony covering the flat-topped roof of the building contained the spawn itself, a message board, seats, and a view of the surroundings. On the ground floor, there was a small mayoral office to the left and an inn to the right. In due course, a small, undeveloped wood shop was built just below the building. The first two plots were built just to the south of the spawn, and a nether portal, which is still standing today, was built to the north. Other buildings around the area were built later.

Purest Pines had a slow start at first - InternetCurtains relied almost completely on vote crates for collecting gold and expanding. As a result, scarcely three months after Purest Pines was founded, InternetCurtains gave up hope and deleted it. However, he regretted this decision quickly, and re-founded it less than a week later. The growth of Purest Pines was faster after the re-founding, though it was still relatively slow.

• 27 June: Purest Pines is founded initially.

• **2 July:** InternetCurtains meets Enoch01, a player who would give support to Purest Pines several times in the future.

• 15 July: After the aforementioned slow start, Purest Pines is deleted by InternetCurtains, who joins the town of Wien in Austria. At the time, Wien was incredibly well-known, home to various builds such as the Hanse Library, one of the largest libraries ever built on EarthMC. InternetCurtains regrets his decision to delete the town almost immediately though, so he decided to re-found it once he had enough gold.

• 21 July: Purest Pines is re-founded. A large amount of the gold required to re-found it was collecting by killing animals in the wilderness to obtain products such as leather which were then sold to shops - a tedious, time-verbose collection method; InternetCurtains was unconfident with his mining skills at the time. Purest Pines received little grief during this interval, especially since the town was still extremely small when it was founded.

• 31 July: InternetCurtains attends his first Vote Party. These parties proved to be a sufficiently reliable source of gold for expanding Purest Pines.

• 2 August: Klonkybonky, Purest Pines' first-ever resident, is recruited by InternetCurtains. His plot is the chunk which is now taken up by the Cree Museum.

• 3 August: Klonkybonky leaves Purest Pines to make a town with his friend. However, he goes inactive soon after leaving the town, remains townless and then 42-days.

• 5 August: Helloaiminsane joins Purest Pines, making him the second-ever resident. Flakeycap, his friend, later joins the town on the same day. The two become inactive after a couple of days.

• 8 August: InternetCurtains meets TylenolEC, the new leader of a nation called Laurentia, located in northern Quebec around Ungava Bay.

• 11 August: A chicken named Chicko is transported from InternetCurtains' former embassy at Twinpeaks, on Coats Island (at the northern tip of Hudson Bay), to Purest Pines. This chicken was later adopted by USFriskI, leader of the nation of James Bay, and was kept in the USSNA Perm Base for likely well over a year before its mysterious disappearance.

• 12 August: InternetCurtains attends his first Vote Party. These parties proved to be a sufficiently reliable source of gold for expanding Purest Pines.

• 13 August: InternetCurtains sends a mail message to USFriskI, leader of James Bay, asking whether he would be willing to donate some gold to Purest Pines.

• 13 August: InternetCurtains receives a 48-gold donation from Extro089. This gold was used to expand to the east, around where the embassy plots in the Aquille District are located today.

• 19 August: InternetCurtains takes a set of screenshots to form a panoramic view of the town from the spawn building. These screenshots have been referenced to several times in the past to show how much the town has changed over the years. One of these screenshots is shown just above the timeline.

• 20 August: InternetCurtains receives a response from USFriskI about town funding, stating that he only gives funding to "[his] own towns and developing nations". InternetCurtains later DMs USFriskI, who explains that it would make sense to join the nation since, firstly, it's the closest nation to Purest Pines; secondly, it's new and growing rapidly; and thirdly, USFriskI will give the town funding upon joining the nation. InternetCurtains takes USFriskI's advice and joins James Bay.

=== '''James Bay Era''' ===

The James Bay Era of Purest Pines is the shortest era by far, lasting for only 21 days. It's highly comparable to the Canada Era: in both, Purest Pines was a small, new town in a largely inactive nation, with barely any residents and similar atmospheres.

The primary undertaking during this era was the beginning of the expansion into what is now the Chauser District, to the north of spawn. This area was a large, open clearing on the other side of a river. Only a few buildings were built in the Chauser District during this era, those being the USSNA Perm Base, a small house based off of a building guide, and a watermelon farm.

• 20 August: Purest Pines reaches four residents, making it a hamlet.

• 28 August: Bingy726 joins Purest Pines, along with his friend, Swimmy171383, making then two of the earliest residents of many in the town. He copies the design of a cabin built in the Aquille District in his plot, and then gets hunted by Chengwen07, a notorious hunter at the time. Subsequently, InternetCurtains tries - and fails - to kill Chengwen07. InternetCurtains and Bingy726 then travel to the hunter's town in search of anything which could be used against him. However, this search is largely unsuccessful, and Bingy726 goes inactive the day after, eventually 42-daying. He never touched the server again - or will he?

• 9 September: InternetCurtains leaves James Bay, due to reasons like the toxicity of USFriskI and his lack of promised funding, joining Canada again. However, shortly after, TylenolEC, leader of the nation of Laurentia, notices this action and asks InternetCurtains whether he would like to join Laurentia. InternetCurtains was hesitant at first, since Purest Pines is located relatively far away from its capital, New Amsterdam , in northern Quebec. However, InternetCurtains eventually changes his mind, beginning the Laurentia Era.

=== '''Laurentia Era''' ===

At the time of joining, Laurentia was a budding but active nation based in northern Quebec. In fact, InternetCurtains was astounded by its activity: up until this point, messages sent in nation chat regularly were unheard of for him. Laurentia also gave a large amount of support to Purest Pines, boosting its growth.

During this era, the Chauser District was developed further. Buildings such as an ice rail station for Laurentia's *LRC* were created, plus a well in which, upon dropping an item into it, a stack of that item was supposedly guaranteed to be given back to the dropper at some point. However, InternetCurtains realised that this was an non-viable novelty and demolished it. A larger storage unit was built for the town during this time, below the spawn building's mayoral office. Prior to the construction of this storage unit, most items were stored in only two double chests, located in the mayoral office. Chests were assigned to store specific types of items, though after running out of space a second time, this assignments were dismissed and items were stored in whatever chests were free. Minor expansions to the wood shop also took place during this time.

Laurentia would later go on to be one of the largest nations in the server due to the mass-recruitment done in the town of Vermont, before this town founded its own nation.

• 20 September: InternetCurtains reaches a Power level of 1000: around this time, InternetCurtains had begun to mine for gold, helping him to claim new plots for the town.

• 25 September: MasterEWild, a devout Laurentian, founds the town of Fort Aurelian in real-life René-Levasseur Island, Quebec. Along with Purest Pines, Fort Aurelian is one of the oldest remaining towns in eastern Canada.

• **27 September:** USFriskI is perm-banned from the server for repeated 2.4 offenses. James Bay begins to decay as a result.

• **30 September:** InternetCurtains finishes the 'LRC' ice rail tunnel which connects Purest Pines to Laurentia's capital, New Amsterdam, and numerous other towns in the nation in-between. This tunnel can still be seen today from the ice rail station in the Chauser District.

• 11 October: Flakeycap, Purest Pines' third-ever resident, 42-days. This makes him the first resident of the town to 42-day, with Helloaiminsane following shortly after.

• 22 October: Austinh8911 and DiscoEwe4410090 join Purest Pines. Both were active on the server, livening up the town. Austinh8911 went on to found the town of Northern Pines, but later quit the server and went inactive. DiscoEwe4410090 built the Disco Tower in his former plot in Chauser, which can be seen today. He then founded the town of Kapuskasing. This town no longer exists, but DiscoEwe4410090 is still somewhat active on the server.

• 22 October: Bingy726, who first joined Purest Pines during the Laurentia Era, is spotted in global chat by InternetCurtains, residing in Farmington, a new but growing town in New England. Subsequently, InternetCurtains decides to visit Farmington and meets its mayor, F1R3L0RD2009. Bingy726 suggests to the two mayors that they should try to create their own nation. They agree; thus, the trio plan out how they will acquire the nation. Initially, InternetCurtains was to snipe a tiny nation based along Lake Superior called Apache Union. However, he soon realised that this nation wasn't open, so he couldn't join it. The trio then decide to make a brand-new nation, so InternetCurtains and Bingy726 start mining to collect the 2048 gold required.

• 23 October: F1R3L0RD2009 comes across a nation for sale: Ohio. With the gold collected from mining yesterday, along with a generous donation from Enoch01, Ohio is purchased, Farmington becomes the capital, and the Cree Era begins.

=== '''Cree Era''' ===

''Note: Cree was not the nation's original name. When Ohio was first purchased, InternetCurtains, F1R3L0RD2009 and Bingy726 decided that Farmington should be the capital. F1R3L0RD2009 names the nation 'Yankeeland', but, quite understandably, this is 2.1ed quickly. Later on, this nation was renamed to 'Wabanaki'. Once F1R3L0RD2009 quit the server and gave the nation to InternetCurtains, it was 2.1ed a second time and renamed to 'Cree': its longest-standing and most recognised name.''

The Cree Era is arguably the most important era in Purest Pines' history. Purest Pines governed an entire nation. Numerous important Purest Pines residents joined during this time. InternetCurtains had multiple valuable experiences during this era which helped Purest Pines to survive through the following eras. Purest Pines was transformed from a small, humble side project of InternetCurtains' to a large, bustling, enduring town: the most prominent in the area.

Purest Pines grew immensely during this era. The Chauser District became filled with buildings such as Bingy Estate and the WPMC (Wabanaki Problem Management Centre) tower. DiscoEwe4410090 constructed the Disco Tower in his plot in this district, which held the first mass-recruited residents of the town. The Aquille District changed so much that it became almost unrecognisable from its former appearance - the spawn building itself was refurbished *twice*. Not only that, but the Cordan and Mercer districts were built, providing plots for the influx of residents recruited during the latter half of this era and beyond.

• 23 October: Ohio is renamed 'Yankeeland', but then 2.1ed shortly after.

• 1 November: Kevin484848 joins Purest Pines. Over the ages, Kevin484848 built several huge industrial complexes in Purest Pines and other nearby towns, some of which are still around today. Kevin484848 himself is still active, and likely has the greatest playtime out of all Purest-Pines-bred residents, except InternetCurtains.

• 2 November: Due to boredom and inactivity, F1R3L0RD2009 makes the decision to give Cree (then Wabanaki) to InternetCurtains, making Purest Pines the capital. As such, the town's spawn building is enlarged: a roof, plus a balcony, is added to it, and some renovations are made on what became the first floor.

• 2 November: The Purest Pines spawn building is renovated heavily to make it more feasible for a nation capital. A ceiling and walls are built to the first floor, with coloured windows; a simple terrace is built on the roof; and some aesthetics are added to the building.

• 3 November: Planning of the WPMC (Wabanaki Problems Management Centre) Tower in the Chauser District begins, spearheaded by InternetCurtains and Bingy726. This tower was meant to be the headquarters of the WPMC, which aims to solve problems faced by Wabanaki residents.

• 4 November: Construction of the WPMC (Wabanaki Problems Management Centre) Tower begins.

• 6 November: F1R3L0RD2009 makes a brief return to EarthMC and founds the town of Rockwick, engulfing several separate town ruins around the northern coast of Lake Superior. Approximately 75 chunks are claimed within the first day, and after a few days, it reaches village rank.

• **8 November:** After finishing the 'Pine Tower' next to the Purest Pines spawn building, Kevin484848 begins to build a huge, four-chunk deepslate building where the Purest Pines Cityplace now lies.

• **11 November:** Bedude, a relatively active Cree resident, joins the town.

• 12 November: Austinh8911 founds the town of Northern Pines in the large artificial clearing just to the north of Purest Pines. Later, DiscoEwe4410090 founds Kapuskasing, located around a large, abandoned andesite building in the forests to the north-west of Purest Pines.

• 18 November: Kevin484848 leaves Purest Pines to found the nearby town of Westpine.

• 18 November: InternetCurtains, DiscoEwe4410090, Chaobell and a couple of other Cree residents start messing around with DivineClips and Rodekeel, two notorious hunters, in a wilderness chunk adjacent to Purest Pines. Over time, as people see the substantial number of death messages, PVPers begin to join in with the fun. Further players come to this chunk, and in less than an hour, it becomes destroyed so badly by the tens of people who came that a moderator has to come and verify that InternetCurtains doesn't mind. Later on, Twomoo1119, who owned the nation of Canada at the time, drops hundreds of thousands of XP around this wilderness chunk and in Mali. This is the largest, most popular single event in Purest Pines' history - approximately 40 people came.

• 20 November: InternetCurtains, tophatbrady (now TheDegenerate), pduck69, Chaobell, YakkoClient, tty959876, and Ewhy_ (now EwhyCA) lead the *Holy Duck Crusade*, planning to found the Cree town of Ducktopia on an island in Hudson Bay. However, the 128g raised to fund the town is stolen by tty959876. Further betrayal occurs when YakkoClient takes InternetCurtains hostage and demands all of the other innocent crusaders to give him all of their gold. However, YakkoClient later regrets doing this, and gives InternetCurtains several heads. YakkoClient and tty959876 are not affiliated with each other.

• 21 November: Ducktopia is founded, and the Holy Duck Crusaders work together to build up the town, building a castle and a couple of mini-games. Many of the crusaders agree that Ducktopia was an enjoyable town to create. Not only that, but this helped to improve relations between InternetCurtains and Ewhy_, who went on to work for governments in Texas and California, both of which may have been threats to Purest Pines at separate points throughout the town's history without Ducktopia.

• **28 November:** InternetCurtains turns the floors in DiscoEwe4410090's Disco Tower into quarters for new residents. This provides an abundance of housing for new residents, allowing them to be recruited much more quickly.

• 29 November: InternetCurtains goes on holiday and gives the nation to Bingy726 temporarily.

• **29 November:** Huffymagicdragon, who had been friends with InternetCurtains for a while, joins Purest Pines.

• 1 December: [CLASSIFIED 1]

• **1 December:** InternetCurtains begins to build the Bingy Estate in the Chauser District, a three-chunk-wide mansion in which Bingy726 has resided ever since.

• **1 December:** The first part of the Cordan District is claimed by InternetCurtains, taking up a clearing to the west of the Chauser District. Initially, he was planning to build a replica of a Victorian-era English town, but this later proves to be too difficult and the area is instead used for more resident plots.

• 3 December: InternetCurtains meets BrayStillGames - now known as WifiShutters - after showing him where to find a trap. Thus begins a friendship which would last throughout the rest of Terra Aurora, and beyond.

• **4 December:** InternetCurtains starts building a district with a beach-like theme in what is now Swinasham. It goes on to include several tropical, prebuilt houses on a sandy beach around an artificial lake. However, this district was never finished and was eventually demolished.

• 5 December: The newly-founded town of Vermont, owned by Kellyisanicelady and co-run by Princeling7, joins Cree. Vermont would go on to be the most populous town on the server, and the capital of what was once one of the most influential nations in North America.

• 8 December: InternetCurtains begins to build a large Victorian estate in the Cordan District, which was never finished but remained in the area for months before being demolished.

• 9 December: Vermont leaves Cree and joins Canada. The exact reason why is unknown.

• 9 December: Pixiesinferno, who would go on to be an active Cree resident, joins Purest Pines.

• 14 December: InternetCurtains finds that members of the NSR (North Sea Republic meganation) had sniped New Kaliningrad and were planning to delete it once they had looted the town. Due to New Kaliningrad's cultural importance to Purest Pines, he decides to buy the town for 2160g. Pixiesinferno is chosen as its holder. The town is later transferred over to ownership of BrayStillGames (now WifiShutters), and then Hurhighness80.

• 16 December: bruh_villajah joins Purest Pines, his first town. However, he leaves to start his own town the day after. Bruh_villajah would later become known for being permanently banned for harassing another player, and then joining on several alt accounts to continue the harassment.

• 20 December: [CLASSIFIED 2]

• **20 December:** SnailOwO, along with his friend AlemakkQwQ, join Cree. They become the only real Cree-hailing PVPers in the nation's history.

• 27 December: After the beginning of mass-recruitment efforts, Purest Pines reaches 12 residents, becoming a 'village' for the first time.

• 30 December: Cree joins the Third Nubian Empire meganation. Since the nation didn't have a Discord server beforehand, a channel dedicated to nation residents is created in the meganation's own Discord server.

• 31 December: InternetCurtains makes a survival SMP server for Cree. Numerous Cree residents went on to join the server, but its most active players were InternetCurtains, Austinh8911, DiscoEwe4410090, Swaggyxoashe, and Pixiesinferno - all of whom were past or present Purest Pines residents.

• 31 December: RuleroftheLand contacts InternetCurtains about having a temporary embassy in Purest Pines where he can store his items while moving towns. RuleroftheLand is thereby the first person given a plot in the Mercer District.

• 1 January: Overclaim is added to EarthMC.

• 4 January: Purest Pines becomes a 'town' for the first time, reaching 20 total residents. Around this time, the first plots in the Cordan District were being given to new residents.

• 5 January: The Purest Pines Spawn Building is rebuilt from the ground up, into the Third Endeavour: its current form. This new spawn building is larger and more aesthetically-pleasing than its last two forms, but the wood shop is finally decommissioned in the process of rebuilding.

• 8 January: The Cree town of Northern Pines, owned by Austinh8911 (former Purest Pines resident), is taken over by RealLIMPOPO - voluntarily. This allows RealLIMPOPO to overclaim the nearby town now known as TBI, capital of New France. However, the server moderators consider the townblocks passing from Northern Pines to TBI to be a claim arm. Thus, most of the damage is rolled back, though the townblocks lost by TBI were never reclaimed.

• 9 January: InternetCurtains begins to plan a relatively large shop for Cree, to be located below the spawn building. While actual construction of the shop *did* commence, it was never finished.

• 9 January: Huffymagicdragon leaves Cree after controversy between her and Bingy726, with InternetCurtains eventually joining Bingy726's side. She steals all 2000 gold from the nation bank.

• 14 January: Purest Pines becomes a 'large town' for the first time, reaching 28 total residents. By now, InternetCurtains was recruiting for Purest Pines consistently.

• 16 January: RuleroftheLand joins Cree officially and founds the town of Kapiscau along James Bay, next to Akimiski Island. After joining Purest Pines temporarily while moving towns, he had become good friends with InternetCurtains.

• 19 January: After intense recruiting from Princeling7, the town of Vermont becomes a metropolis.

• 20 January: MajorVortex_, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town. He later builds the initial design for the church behind the Aquille CityPlace.

• 4 February: TuftyYT (later known as WifiShutters) founds the town of New Farmington, located in the ruins of the original Farmington. Initially, InternetCurtains planned to make New Farmington (alongside Purest Pines, at a later date) a metropolis. However, the town never surpassed 'large town' ranking.

• 6 February: CFRhino, at the time a friend of InternetCurtains on Terra Nova, joins Purest Pines and starts mingling with Cree residents.

• 14 February: Around this time, the Mercer District - the residential area to the east of the town spawn - is built up by InternetCurtains. Initially, it contained approximately 26 new plots for residents.

• 15 January: F1R3L0RD2009 returns to the server again, this time founding the town of Iskotew (Cree for 'fire') in northern Quebec, west of Ungava Bay, around the ruins of a castle. F1R3L0RD2009 plunges into another hiatus before Iskotew is developed properly.

• 21 February: Helloaiminsane - Purest Pines' second-ever resident - joins the server again briefly, likely only for a moment. He joins no town.

• *22 February:* Cree reaches a total of 100 residents. It gained more residents afterwards, reaching an estimated peak of 120.

• 24 February: NotCix, friend of InternetCurtains and mayor of Zinnia (later renamed to 'Ungava Bay'), joins Cree after becoming fed up with Laurentia's petty government. Soon after, atTAboycARL, mayor of New Amsterdam, joins the nation as well. This increases Cree's population and activity.

• 25 February: InternetCurtains builds a penguin in Purest Pines for MasterEWild's Project Penguin. This project inspires InternetCurtains to start the beloved Project Ducc. The first three duccs (in the Cree towns of New Amsterdam, Kapuskasing and Purest Pines respectively) are built later that day.

• 28 February: [CLASSIFIED 3]

• 29 February: The Laurentian town of Akimiski claims said island fully, destroying RuleroftheLand's plans to expand his town, Kapiscau. As a result, tensions between Cree and Laurentia rise.

• 1 March: Princeling7 and Kellyisanicelady - mayors of Vermont City - found the nation of Vermont Republic. Since Vermont City wasn't the capital (rather the newly-founded town of Montpelier was), it joins Cree. Thus, due to the immense population of Vermont City, Cree momentarily becomes the eight-most-populous nation, with a total of 259 residents.

• 2 March: Huffymagicdragon is forgiven by InternetCurtains and joins Purest Pines. However, she left again shortly after.

• 2 March: TuftyYT changes his username to WifiShutters, which he becomes known by best.

• 2 March: SweetSideOfFries - the first active resident recruited into the Cordan District and an experienced builder - joins Purest Pines.

• 3 March: King_arthur1220, the Mercer District's first active resident, joins the town.

• **7 March:** Due to stress, WifiShutters gives Farmington to Huffymagicdragon. WifiShutters then rejoined Purest Pines.

• 8 March: Purest Pines becomes a 'city' for the first time, reaching 40 total residents.

• 8 March: Blockbuilder18, who would go on to be a relatively active resident, joins the town.

• **8 March:** CFRhino notices the minor skirmishes between Cree and Laurentia and starts harassing Laurentian residents, causing a headache for Cree residents, especially those who used to be in Laurentia. InternetCurtains is left with no choice but to kick CFRhino from the nation. CFRhino goes on to be exposed as a p𝗲do𝕡hɪʟe.

• 9 March: Rorae00, an active resident whose plot would go on to be used as a mine, joins the town.

• 9 March: DaMinecraftPanda, an active Mercer District resident and eventual Vermont loyalist, joins the town.

• 9 March: Just a day after becoming a 'city', Purest Pines becomes a 'large city' for the first time, reaching 48 total residents.

• 13 March: Vermont surpasses Shinkyo in terms of residents, making it the most populous town on the server, with 228 residents to its name.

• 15 March: Farmington, under Huffymagicdragon, leaves Cree and joins the Vermont Republic. This frustrates InternetCurtains, especially since Farmington is such an important town in Cree's history. The friendship between InternetCurtains and Huffymagicdragon then diminishes a second time.

• 17 March: The nation of Vermont Republic is disbanded unexpectedly by Kellyisanicelady after he becomes fed up with Princeling7.

• 18 March: InternetCurtains is unable to log on for a few days and gives Purest Pines and Cree to WifiShutters.

• 18 March: Vermont Republic is re-founded as 'Vermont'. The funding of this nation was supported greatly by Huffymagicdragon.

• 21 March: Amgwya founds the town of Latvija and joins the nation of Cree. This becomes important in two days, because...

• 23 March: InternetCurtains makes the decision to give away Cree to Amgwya's town Latvija and join Vermont, effectively resulting in the dissolution of the nation. This was done due to InternetCurtains' increased business in real life coupled with the increased drama in Cree, meaning that he was no longer able to run the nation adequately. This decision comes as a surprise to many people.

=== '''First Vermont Era''' ===

When Purest Pines first joined Vermont, it was the most active nation on the entire server, despite having been conceived fairly recently. It was centred in New England, but expanding outwards at a rapid pace. This, alongside the fact that InternetCurtains was good friends with Princeling7, meant that Vermont was the obvious destination after the dissolution of Cree. During Purest Pines' time in Vermont, nation chat was almost always active, and the nation's playerbase was dedicated and friendly. InternetCurtains made several friends, including Jaynbutter7 and Thacommoncold. Some of InternetCurtains' most vivid server memories took place during this era and involved the nation.

As for Purest Pines' growth during this era, InternetCurtains' style of building involving intense, interactive decoration was perfected. This decoration moulded the Aquille District into the shape known for the rest of the town's lifespan. It also sparked several other buildings, including the Cree Museum and Purest Pines CityPlace, which were built during this era.

By this point in his career, InternetCurtains was now comfortable with recruiting, and thus countless residents were recruited during this era and the town became a metropolis for the first time. The only Purest Pines OGs who were consistently active during this time were InternetCurtains himself and WifiShutters - Bingy726, DiscoEwe4410090 and Austinh2911 were all inactive, and Jazbbwtyl had not yet joined the town.

Despite all of this, the First Vermont Era was far from the most enjoyable era for InternetCurtains. He had lost all motivation for the server after the dissolution of Cree, and was now playing the server out of nothing but sheer willpower. EarthMC had become an obsession for him. During the week, he would be too busy in real life to play the server that often, but his plans for Purest Pines would churn on in his mind ceaselessly. During the weekend, he would play EarthMC for hours on end - on a few occasions up to ten hours almost non-stop - only to feel burnt out after every session. Purest Pines got him through the busiest, most gruelling part of his life, but it costed his sanity.

• 23 March: WifiShutters joins Latvija in protest of the near-dissolution of Cree, stating that the nation will always live on. However, shortly after, WifiShutters reconsiders and joins Vermont with InternetCurtains.

• 23 March: After joining Vermont, InternetCurtains almost immediately becomes friends with Jaynbutter7, a fellow Vermonter. InternetCurtains helps to develop Jaynbutter7's town, Maryland.

• 30 March: Several buildings in the Chauser District are demolished - InternetCurtains plans to revive and refurbish the Chauser District at a later date.

• 31 March: Vermont reaches 500 residents. By this point, it's the third-most-populous nation on the server.

• 1 April: After remaining steadily in 'large city' rank, a small increase in the rate of resident recruitment means that Purest Pines becomes a 'metropolis' for the first time. However, the 56th resident - MeepMinecraft2 - leaves the town just five minutes after joining. It is months before Purest Pines regains metropolis rank.

• 13 April: [CLASSIFIED 4]

• **15 April:** WifiShutters quits EarthMC after being demotivated by the dissolution of Cree.

• 16 April: The nation of Vinland, previously a threat to Laurentia, suddenly becomes more active. This entices Vermont, but fortunately, war never breaks out.

• 17 April: The Cree Museum (just to the south of the spawn building) is built.

• 23 April: InternetCurtains has the bright idea of getting Chunk_of_Cheese, a notorious scammer, to show him around his town. At the end of the tour, Chunk_of_Cheese shows InternetCurtains a "funny shop glitch that removes stone". InternetCurtains proceeds to lose almost all of his 4000g wealth.

• 25 April: CooperSaurus_YT, a friend of InternetCurtains and former Vermont City resident, joins Purest Pines. He becomes active in the town, and comes and goes from it multiple times over the First Vermont Era. He built the Cooper Estate in eastern Mercer District.

• **29 April:** The Diamond of Cree, kept on an item frame in an exhibition at the town spawn, goes missing unexpectedly. It was never recovered, and the culprit was never found. The diamond found below the Cree Museum is a fake.

• 12 May: The top floor of the spawn building is refurbished greatly by InternetCurtains. Some new memorabilia and furniture is added.

• 16 May: A map of Purest Pines and its surroundings is finished and placed on the wall of the top floor of the spawn building - this map can still be seen today.

• 18 May: Crazy500o, the miner behind what is known colloquially as 'The Hole' - the huge area just to the west of Purest Pines that has been mined out to bedrock - returns to the server under the new username 'MrBeldingFan'. He states that he wants to create a new hole. It is unknown whether his plan went ahead.

• 19 May: Austinh8911 and DiscoEwe4410090, both having quit the server months before, rejoin and visit Purest Pines.

• **24 May:** idog279, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town. He goes on to build several small monuments around Purest Pines, such as the hot air balloon in Mercer and the medieval building in Cordan.

• 25 May: WifiShutters returns to EMC after a month-long hiatus, rejoining Purest Pines.

• 26 May: After experiencing a decline in population, the nation of Vermont reaches 400 residents again.

• 26 May: SwampNuts1, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town.

• 27 May: Similar to Vermont (see 26 May), Purest Pines had been undergoing a decline in population since mid-April. Around this time, InternetCurtains tries to recruit more often and promises a 'new era' of Purest Pines. However, due to InternetCurtains being busy in real life, this 'new era' turns out to be nothing more than a slight increase in town activity.

• **2 June:** At some point around this time, Mr_Herobrine_JR of Monark Industries, Vermont, is paid by InternetCurtains to create the Purest Pines CityPlace. This building is inspired by the CityPlace located in Vermont City. It includes several spacious apartments for residents, and is later expanded by InternetCurtains to include information about the town, a cafe, a swimming pool on the top of the building, and some other decoration. Then, at a later date lost to time, the Purest Pines primary storage unit is built beneath the CityPlace.

• 2 June: HamanIsChosen, an old friend of InternetCurtains from the Canada Era, returns to EMC. He joins Purest Pines and offers to help InternetCurtains build up the town. Eventually, HamanIsChosen agrees to create an entirely new district, though after a few days he became fed up with Vermont and left the town. This new district was never built.

• 3 June: InternetCurtains, SwampNuts1, CooperSaurus_YT and Kelp14 - all Purest Pines residents - explore a huge ice rail discovered beneath Purest Pines earlier on in the year. As InternetCurtains had established when it was first discovered, the ice rail stretches from the Cascadian capitol area to Ireland and Iceland. The four decide to take the route heading east. Along the way, they build some amusing things on a base in the Atlantic just above the ice rail, and then explore Iceland together. This adventure signifies the prosperity and activity enjoyed by Purest Pines - at certain time intervals.

• 5 June: Pixiesinferno, a former active Purest Pines resident during the middle part of the Cree Era, rejoins the server and visits the town, but is never seen again.

• 8 June: A two-chunk-wide barn is built to fill in the open space just south of the spawn building.

• 8 June: WifiShutters temporarily changes his username to 'WaifuShutters' as a joke. He sends a subsequent related image to InternetCurtains, which is not received well by him. This annoys WifiShutters, and he briefly leaves Purest Pines is protest and joins the town owned by Huffymagicdragon at the time.

• 8 June: Swisschees, an active Mercer District resident who founded the cult of the 'Pit', joins the town.

• 9 June: Georges_IV, former leader of Patagonia (which was the most populous nation on the server in mid-to-late 2023), joins Purest Pines briefly while visiting towns.

• 11 June: For four days, starting from this date, Terra Aurora goes down so that the performance plugin 'Folia' could be added. The server was also updated to 1.19 during this time. It is replaced by ArtMC, another project started by Fix, which aims to recreate r/place in Minecraft.

• 15 June: Terra Aurora opens again. Newly-available cherry saplings are distributed throughout the server. Alfowumpapride, a fellow Vermonter, gives InternetCurtains a cherry sapling, which is planted outside the Cree Museum. The resultant cherry tree is one of the oldest on the server.

• 25 June: WifiShutters' parents divorce, leading him into a depression which would soon spiral out of control.

• 30 June: After a period of inactivity from DiscoEwe4410090, mayor of Kapuskasing and now-leader of Kentucky, InternetCurtains leaves Purest Pines temporarily and buys Kentucky for 600g to save it from falling into ruin (shortly before going inactive, DiscoEwe4410090 attempted to sell the nation, unsuccessfully). Purest Pines is held by WifiShutters during this process.

• 4 July: After four days of holding the nation of Kentucky, InternetCurtains manages to contact DiscoEwe4410090 successfully, who tells him to simply give the nation away. It is sold for 300g to Papyt1, a former Vermonter. The 600g spent by InternetCurtains on buying Kentucky is later reimbursed by DiscoEwe4410090, making InternetCurtains 900g richer. This gold is used to expand the Cherry and Mercer Districts and later helps fund the expansion into Merlin.

• 5 July: The Purest Pines shield, visible at the top of the CityPlace, is built.

• 9 July: InternetCurtains visits the mayors of some towns with an all-black version of his duck skin, claiming to be the 'Phantom Ducc'. He jokingly asks each mayor to give him all of their gold. Swozie, a town mayor in Mali, *does* actually comply and give InternetCurtains his worth: about 30g. This has no relation to Purest Pines, but is funny nevertheless. If you're reading this, I hope you're finding the history of Purest Pines interesting so far!

• 10 July: Spuddles_69, a partially active Cordan District resident, builder of the house next to RuleroftheLand's plot in southern Cordan and eventual friend of Laser3210, joins the town.

• 11 July: Part of Toronto, former capital of Canada (Purest Pines' first nation) is unclaimed by Twomoo1119. This part of the city is reclaimed under 404aka's Vermont town Hamilton. The reclaiming is funded partially by InternetCurtains.

• 11 July: SoftPlains09299, an active but reclusive Mercer District resident, joins the town.

• 12 July: Laser3210, a fairly active Mercer District resident and eventual friend of Spuddles_69, joins the town.

• 13 July: Bingy726 returns to EarthMC, with the immediate goal of reviving Purest Pines. This leads to a surge in town activity, residing around large town rank for about a month, as he recruits with InternetCurtains over the school holidays.

• 14 July: SmartLittleMan, the first Cherry District resident (given one of the plots in the cherry forest itself, as opposed to the larger residential area which was still being built up) joins the town. He admires Purest Pines and all of the work put into it, and remains active on EarthMC for a while.

• **14 July:** Cloudesy, the builder behind the artifical cherry tree in the Aquille District, joins the town, but leaves and eventually goes inactive shortly after.

• **14 July:** t0r, an active Aquille District resident who built his own now-demolished tower close to the spawn building, joins the town.

• 15 July: Around this time, war breaks out between the OFN (mainly Vermont) and the Lone Star Republic (operated by Texas). Texas takes advantage of Vermont's passivity, using it to effectively bully the nation. For example, Texas manages to convince a mod to 2.1 Vermont falsely. Little brawling effort was made by Vermont at first, resulting in InternetCurtains making the decision to start hunting Texan residents. The gear of these Texan victims are still stored in Purest Pines today.

• 15 July: Kevinvu532, an active Mercer District resident who built the ramen shop in the Chauser District, joins the town.

• 16 July: 5bagel, the second Cherry District resident, given a plot in the cherry forest itself, joins the town. Like SmartLittleMan, he becomes active on the server, and builds a huge, water-framed tower in his plot which would continue to stand in Purest Pines until mid-to-late 2025.

• 18 July: Laurentia, Purest Pines' third nation, is disbanded by its leader, TylenolEC. The nation had undergone major inactivity after Vermont City left it to found the Vermont Republic nation. The capital of Laurentia, New Amsterdam, is renamed to Farewell Folks and given to DerpiestBurger, an old resident of the town. Farewell Folks continues to live on until the server reset.

• 25 July: The Cordan District is expanded further north (past the Cordan Plaza). During this expansion, Purest Pines surpasses 300 townblocks.

• 27 July: Around this time, InternetCurtains expands into what is now the residential area of the Cherry District and starts building the roads and plots there.

• 3 August: kellyisanicelady spearheads a dissent to remove 'dictator' Princeling7 from power in Vermont. Several people support him, including InternetCurtains and RuleroftheLand, though Princeling7 would retain ownership of Vermont.

• 17 August: Baconmayonaise1, now Jacquemon, friend of InternetCurtains, joins Purest Pines temporarily after the dissolution of his nation, Zealandia.

• 1 September: Around this time, InternetCurtains becomes busy with exams and is unable to play much EarthMC, causing Purest Pines to decay in population and activity yet again.

• **4 September:** WifiShutters' depression reaches boiling point and he goes multiple days without sleeping.

• 9 September: WifiShutters fakes his own death, supposedly a mixture of suicide and cancer, with the goal of subsequentially becoming uninterested in EarthMC and eventually quit. This death is perceived as genuine by most people, with numerous being upset. However, this attempt at getting EarthMC out of his life would not be successful. WifiShutters would continue to play, under the persona of his older brother. As a result, several people, including InternetCurtains, would become suspicious about his death. His supposed last words can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VP5idMN6Wys06tvchWVuX2viWJafrqVYjTCXiRI9Hk/edit?tab=t.0.

• 14 September: InternetCurtains starts designing a floating island in Creative Mode dedicated to WifiShutters. However, after suspicions that WifiShutters' death was faked, this island is never finished.

• 18 September: RuleroftheLand founds the nation of Ontario. With InternetCurtains being a long-time friend of RuleroftheLand, he agrees to join Ontario to help him develop it.

=== '''Ontario Era''' ===

The Ontario Era is a relatively short era between the First and Second Vermont Eras. Ontario's capital was Kapiscau, the town founded by Ruleroftheland just to the north-east of Purest Pines during the Cree Era. InternetCurtains was second-in-command in Ontario, and helped develop the nation immensely. Thus, while Purest Pines was still top-priority, InternetCurtains also found himself working for the good of an entire nation once again. Occasionally, InternetCurtains joined back to Vermont briefly to see how it was doing. After a couple of months, Ontario was deleted by Ruleroftheland due to lack of motivation while InternetCurtains was taking a break from EarthMC.

Perhaps the most important aspect of this era was the introduction of the jobs system for Purest Pines. This was not meant to enslave residents; instead, it was completely optional, only meant to keep them occupied (and, hopefully, active on the server). The Cordan District was also expanded to the north to include numerous new plots. The jobs system aside and Cordan expansion aside, little new development arised during this short era.

By this point, InternetCurtains vowed to do something incredible in EarthMC. After some consideration, he decided that it might be a good idea to mass recruit for the town such that it would become the most populous town on the entire server. This would be done between November and January, and using the recruitment planning devised by InternetCurtains in his spare time, the town could reach a population of 400. Such a milestone could finally cure InternetCurtains' insatiable thirst to do something great on the server - and do something great in his life as a whole. However, he would not succeed in his plans altogether.

• 22 September: Mynuetto, previously known as ViaRynn, real-life cousin of Pixiesinferno (see 9 December 2023), joins Purest Pines again. She initially vows to support the growth of the town, but then steals some items from the Purest Pines primary storage with her friend and leaves the town to make her own on Akimiski Island - see 27 October.

• 4 October: Around this time, InternetCurtains starts expanding the Cordan District greatly in preparation for the influx of new town residents planned after the end of October. Most of this expansion takes place in north of the Cordan Plaza, but some plots around what is now the north-eastern edge of the space built for the Purest Pine are also added.

• 24 October: With InternetCurtains now having a large amount of free time, he does a server-wide vote for a new town flag for Purest Pines. Flag Number Four wins and becomes town flag known today.

• 27 October: ViaRynn and Ice_Lord188 steal about 100 gold's worth of items from the Purest Pines primary storage, including its wealth of over two stacks of lecterns. These items are used in the construction of a new town on Akimiski Island. To worsen the situation, these towns joined Vermont instead of Ontario, irritating RuleroftheLand. The items were never recovered.

• 27 October: InternetCurtains buys a camel called Camelot from the town of Fairbanks in Alaska and starts transporting it to Purest Pines, thousands of blocks away. After a couple of days, the camel is abandoned in a hole in western Ontario, but recovered by InternetCurtains much later in April 2025 and transported all the way to Purest Pines successfully. This camel is now on display in the Chauser District.

• 28 October: InternetCurtains starts setting up a sophisticated but entirely optional town jobs system. The first three town jobs to be created are Resource Collector, Demolition Expert and Builder.

• 29 October: Amartine60 joins the town. Despite being quite reclusive, he would go on to be one of the most active Purest Pines residents and would contribute to the reconstruction of the Chauser District during Purest Pines' golden era.

• 31 October: Sonic43210000 joins Purest Pines. He would become an active Aquille District resident who would provide support in the construction of Swinasham.

• 1 November: Goatoffutball112, a prolific mystery crate seller, joins Purest Pines and randomly gives InternetCurtains two stacks of gold blocks - a total of 1152g.

• 3 November: 5bagel rejoins Purest Pines briefly (see 16 July).

• 6 November: Goatoffutball112 returns to Ontario, this time giving Ruleroftheland a whopping 6930g unexpectedly. This gold is initially used to help Ontario fund new towns.

• 17 November: After InternetCurtains once again loses motivation from EMC and takes a short break from the server, he returns to find Ontario deleted by RuleroftheLand, who had lost motivation himself in the midst. Thus, InternetCurtains rejoins Vermont, commencing the Second Vermont Era.

=== '''Second Vermont Era''' ===

By the time Purest Pines rejoined Vermont, the nation was more or less the same, but was likely slightly less active than it was before, and new faces such as Wind2920, ComfortableBed and AuraKaisen had joined.

The Second Vermont Era is a story in its own right. During this lengthy era - the longest era overall - Purest Pines reached its absolute apex, and then reached its absolute nadir. During December, InternetCurtains expanded the Mercer District and Cherry District immensely, and recruited an influx of new residents. Before long, Purest Pines was a metropolis for the second occasion, and was seen at the top of the /t list by online consistently - it was the most active town on the server, except for maybe Sukhbaatar. Bingy726 returned to the server and helped InternetCurtains make the town active and populous, propelling it into its golden era. With the help of several new active residents, the Chauser Business District was redesigned almost from the ground up in the space of a couple of weeks, a town newspaper was created, and the model Victorian village of Swinasham was created. On 7 January, Purest Pines reached its goal of 100 residents in the town, though the most remarkable achievement of this incredible day was 13 residents online in the town at a single point in time, a record that InternetCurtains never saw topped for the entirety of Terra Aurora, likely Purest Pines' greatest achievement.

However, almost immediately after the 100-resident milestone, the town began to decay again. InternetCurtains had extreme recruiting fatigue and Bingy726 was busy moving houses in real life. After a few months, the town was completely deserted. Other than InternetCurtains' and WifiShutters' (who had become best friends due to the grace of Purest Pines despite not knowing each other in real life) occasional messing around in Purest Pines and cherishing of its nostalgia, no residents could be seen online. InternetCurtains assumed that this was the end of Purest Pines at long last - but it most certainly was not.

• **30 November:** [Very rough timestamp] InternetCurtains starts building up the area just to the south of the spawn building. He adds some acacia trees, a river, a line of flags, and other decoration, livening up the once-empty portion of the town.

• 30 November: InternetCurtains goes to the Moon on a rocket ship developed by the Texas Space Agency. He collected a few souvenirs along the way, which are now on display in the Cherry Forest.

• 1 December: InternetCurtains starts building the Purest Pines Military and PVP building, based off of an intricate Japanese house and situated at the edge of the Cherry Forest. Alongside this building, other decoration is added to the forest to make the area more appealing to new Cherry District residents.

• 1 December: Bloomwise, an active Mercer District resident and talented builder, joins the town.

• 2 December: ButteredMash, an active Mercer District resident who would help build Swinasham and become good friends with Willowpelt, joins the town.

• 3 December: Around this time, InternetCurtains expands the Mercer District greatly, adding approximately 35 new plots to house the influx in town residents.

• 4 December: [CLASSIFIED 5]

• 4 December: Seeing the recent immense growth in Purest Pines' population (at this time, it was in the city rank), Tuzzzie asks whether InternetCurtains would be interested in joining Alaska. InternetCurtains remarks that the nearest Alaskan town was thousands of blocks away from Purest Pines, but according to Tuzzzie, Alaska could eventually become in range of Purest Pines. However, they never were.

• 6 December: Keyspiderhole, a fairly active Mercer District resident, joins the town.

• 7 December: Hays99, an active Mercer District resident and builder behind 'Hayton' at the edge of the district, joins the town. He would also help clear out some of the old Mercer District plots to make way for more empty plots.

• **7 December:** KartKid8 (previously CooperSaurus_YT) rejoins Purest Pines, once again becoming an active resident. He helps with the construction of Swinasham.

• 8 December: MegalomaniacJack, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.

• 8 December: Willowpelt, an active Mercer District resident who would go on to provide building support and become good friends with ButteredMash, joins the town.

• 9 December: DartVaderVkJ (later FoxGamerVkJ), an active Mercer District resident who made significant contributions to Purest Pines' town council, joins the town. He leaves the game the moment InternetCurtains gives him a plot, resulting in InternetCurtains simply evicting it, believing mistakenly that DartVaderVkJ would never log on again.

• 10 December: Gamingseries2003, an active Mercer District resident and avid farmer, joins the town.

• 11 December: Captianfalcon, a real-life friend of DartVaderVkJ who would become fairly active himself, joins the town.

• 12 December: A Christmas-themed building contest is announced in Vermont, with huge prizes for the best buildings. The deadline is 29 December. Thus, multiple Purest Pines town residents start working on a Victorian-London-themed area (with The Night Before Christmas by Charles Dickens in mind) to replace the unsightly wasteland to the south of the CityPlace. This area becomes known as 'Swinasham'. ButteredMash makes the buildings and some of the general decoration, InternetCurtains makes the paths, the park and comes up with the name 'Swinasham', Sonic43210000 and KartKid8 build the Christmas tree in the centre of the build, and Willowpelt provides moral support.

• 13 December: HappyTomato132, a somewhat active Mercer District resident who built the large wooden house next to KartKid8's estate, joins the town.

• 16 December: Concord (previously Farmington), now owned by an ambiguous townhopper called Suitepeed, is deleted, bringing an end to the history of Farmington.

• 17 December: SwampNuts1, an old active resident from the Cordan District, rejoins Purest Pines. However, it's not long before he goes inactive again.

• 18 December: Likely starting from this date, InternetCurtains, Willowpelt and ButteredMash compete in a series of head-finding contests run at Iceland by BlueRedStone_.

• 19 December: BuilderBoy59, an active Cherry District resident who built the InternetCurtains Estate, joins the town.

• 23 December: Jazbbwtyl joins the town. He would go on to be active on the server for a long time, helping to refurbish the Chauser Business District, and then helping with the Duck Society once it had been re-founded. He is considered a Purest Pines OG, despite not being in the town for as long as some of the others who hold this title.

• **23 December:** Occasional mayor Bingy726 runs a project to refurbish the Chauser Business District. At this point in time, it had been a derelict space, with the WPMC Tower, Disco Tower, USSNA Perm Base and Bingy Estate acting as the last stands. However, thanks to Bingy726 himself, InternetCurtains, BuilderBoy59, Jazbbwtyl, Platinum201547, Aqualicorn, Amartine60, and KNG_Sakuma, several new buildings and general decoration is built in the district, including Purest Papers (a newspaper company run by Bingy726 documenting the town's happenings), InternetCurtains Estate (built by BuilderBoy59 next to Bingy Estate), 'The Dives' (an underground shopping area and town archive), several shops (including Amartine60's flower shop, Sugoi Sand, and KNG_Sakuma's 'Shop and Chomp'). This cooperative project boosts the town's activity and dedication massively and is able to be completed in an extremely short length of time; the bulk being finished in under a week. As such, this project has become a symbol of Purest Pines' golden era.

• 24 December: Comp1bl, an active Cherry District resident, joins the town.

• 24 December: A town council is formed by Bingy726 and InternetCurtains. Most information about the town council have been lost to time, but active town members such as Amartine60 and Jazbbwtyl joined it, and the occasional council meeting was held to discuss Purest Pines' development. Despite the planning of monthly elections, only a single election - for December - was held.

• 26 December: ButteredMash and Willowpelt leave Purest Pines to found the Icelandic town of Akranes. They remain honorary residents of Purest Pines, however.

• 29 December: The results of the Christmas-themed Vermont building contest are announced. Swinasham comes in second place (behind L1AB1LITY's How the Grinch Stole Christmas build), meaning that 500g is won for Purest Pines.

• 30 December: SlipperySalmon14, a well-known nation leader from Africa, joins Purest Pines briefly while townhopping.

• 30 December: Purest Pines, now at about 76 residents, overtakes Vermont City in population to become the largest town in Vermont.

• 31 December: Platinum201547, an active Mercer District resident and real-life friend of Jazbbwtyl, joins the town.

• 31 December: Purest Pines reaches a total of 80 residents, promoting it to the second page of /t list.

• 2 January: Aqualicorn, an active Chauser District resident, joins the town.

• 2 January: KNG_Sakuma, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.

• 3 January: Mayorship of Purest Pines is transferred to Bingy726 temporarily due to the strong connection and trust between the two mayors.

• 3 January: Purest Pines reaches a total of ten residents online at once, almost definitely the highest number achieved by the town at that point.

• 7 January: At the height of the golden era, Purest Pines reaches its absolute apex. Across today, thanks to extreme recruiting efforts by Bingy726 and InternetCurtains, 18 residents are gained in a single day - not including some more who left the town shortly after joining. This influx of residents mean that the mayors' dream for Purest Pines is reached: 100 total residents. The 100th resident is FreddyFlame13, who would unfortunately go inactive after his first day on the server. Even more incredible, during the recruiting spree, Purest Pines reaches a total of 13 residents online at once. This is not only the highest number achieved by Purest Pines, but the highest number ever witnessed by any town in InternetCurtains' career, a record seemingly intact for the rest of Terra Aurora's lifespan. InternetCurtains and Bingy726 continue to recruit for a bit, with the town's population being 102 at its highest. A collection of screenshots documenting this incredible day can be seen at https://imgur.com/a/7th-january-2025-6x4xa6Z.

• 8 January: Around this time, Bingy726 moves houses in real life, which renders him inactive. Despite unsuccessful persuasion from Bingy726, no more residents are recruited by InternetCurtains; his goal had been achieved at long last, and he was developing a hangover after such intense recruiting. From this point onwards, the town would slowly decay into a fraction of its former self, the next revival being over six months away.

• 27 January: Knowing that the town would never reach such a high population again, InternetCurtains gathers all of the gold he can find to expand Purest Pines greatly while the possible town size was still high. All in all, 1600 gold is spent on approximately 100 new plots. Most of these are to the south of the Mercer District, with some more to the north of the Chauser District, and are mostly disused.

• 30 January: By this point, Vermont as a whole had decayed. InternetCurtains logs on to find only two people (including himsel) online in the nation at once.

• 31 January: WifiShutters announces to InternetCurtains that he is not actually dead; he faked his own death to try and get away from EarthMC at the height of his depression. InternetCurtains forgives WifiShutters, and decides that while he will not announce publicly that WifiShutters' death was faked, if anyone asks about it, he will tell them the truth about what happened to WifiShutters. Due to this, after a few months, word is spread around about the death being faked.

• 25 March: Firstclassstew, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town during its decay period.

• 6 April: It is announced that EarthMC will reset on 1 May 2026.

• 14 April: Hyerin_ye (previously Mynuetto, an active Cree town mayor), rejoins the server and visits Purest Pines. After being told about the town's decay, she volunteers to help InternetCurtains revive it. However, other than fixing up the Merlin District, both Hyerin_ye and InternetCurtains go inactive again before any real progress is made.

• 15 April: InternetCurtains finally finishes the transportation of Camelot the camel from Alaska to Purest Pines (see 27 October). Part of the Chauser District near a creek is sectioned off for a desert-themed exhibit for Camelot.

• 17 May: InternetCurtains may-or-may-not have stolen a horse with maximum stats from a nearby town.

• 21 June: InternetCurtains decides to explore some towns across EarthMC (and eventually tries and fails to take up town sniping), partially in the hope of regaining interest in the server. Ownership of Purest Pines is transferred to WifiShutters (now Luminarad).

• 11 July: InternetCurtains has little fun with exploring other towns around EarthMC. He decides to return to Purest Pines, thereby regaining town mayorship. With Cascadia now the largest nation on the server and expanding eastwards towards the town, plus with Vermont being extremely inactive, InternetCurtains decides to leave Vermont and join this nation.

=== '''Cascadia Era''' ===

''Welcome to Cascadia! This goliath nation has expanded so much recently that Purest Pines is now in range of it, despite the capital being on the other side of the continent. With the joining of Cascadia, motivation to revive Purest may be found" - Town board message, 12 July 2025''

InternetCurtains simply could not let Purest Pines fall into nothingness. EarthMC was a prominent part of his life. Purest Pines was likely the greatest thing he had created in his life. In July 2025, he began to recruit for the town again. This recruitment was slow at first, but grew to a rapid pace by October thanks to Bingy726. Despite InternetCurtains' increasing business in real life, to his surprise, the town was able to thrive. Several active residents joined the town during this era, and Purest Pines became a metropolis for the third and final time.

Numerous advancements were made in Purest Pines during this era. The remaining derelict parts of town - the area to the south of the spawn building and to the west of the CityPlace most notably - were turned into lively spaces by InternetCurtains. The Cordan District was expanded to the west to make way for new town plots. However, the most important advancement did not take place on EarthMC itself: by August, InternetCurtains was finally able to use Discord, and thus he was able to create a definitive Discord server for the town. Several other opportunities emerged when InternetCurtains started using Discord: it was easier to contact players he knew, a wiki page for the town was developed, and InternetCurtains was even able to participate in the Cascadian presidential elections.

Cascadia as a whole was a highly active nation with a strong community. It dominated North America, stretching from the Pacific Northwest to Newfoundland and Labrador, containing over a thousand residents spanning over two hundred towns. Contrary to Vermont, nation chat in Cascadia wasn't perpetually active, but most communication happened on Discord. Cascadian officials such as FlyGuy3000 gave support to Purest Pines, and InternetCurtains was able to interact with his home nation (and the server as a whole) in a way he had not been able to experience before.

• 12 July: InternetCurtains recruits a few new residents into the town. These residents are housed in whatever plots throughout the residential districts were easy to demolish. This recruiting continues to happen at a relatively slow rate for a couple of weeks.

• 17 July: Izzypro321yt, an active Mercer District resident who helped to build a couple of structures around the town, joins the town. He is the first active resident recruited into Purest Pines after the decay following its golden era.

• **19 July:** InternetCurtains is prompted by FlyGuy3000 to connect the ice rail found underneath Purest Pines with the new Cascadian ice rail, which had been expanded towards Purest Pines.

• 23 July: Purest Pines has five players online at once, showing its revival.

• 16 August: During a Cascadian election, candidate FlyGuy3000 hosts a presidential rally in Purest Pines. This rally takes place in the office on the second storey of the spawn building, with approximately eight attendees. FlyGuy3000 would go on to win the election and remain president for two terms.

• 16 August: InternetCurtains is able to use Discord at long last, prompting him to join the Discord server for Cascadia.

• 18 August: InternetCurtains starts writing a wiki page for Purest Pines. Progress was made sporadically over the course of the next year.

• 20 August: Shmoosee, an active Cherry District resident and avid fisher, joins the town.

• 21 August: InternetCurtains completes an official, definitive Discord server for Purest Pines. This would serve the town well and improve communication between residents and other Cascadians. WifiShutters, TheDegenerate and DiscoEwe4410090 are the first joiners.

• 24 August: InternetCurtains picks up the recruiting pace. On this day, it becomes a large town again (with 28 residents). InternetCurtains plans to maintain a healthy population of about 30 for the time being.

• 24 August: Titoto9130, an active Cherry District resident, joins the town.

• 30 August: The second-ever resident of Purest Pines, Helloaiminsane (now Deusvult6290), joined back to EarthMC after two years of almost total inactivity. He asks Titoto9130 to get InternetCurtains online to meet him. This is an incredible, unexpected moment in Purest Pines' history. He tours the town briefly and joins the town Discord server, but besides that remains inactive. The sudden arrival of Deusvult6290 prompts DiscoEwe4410090 and InternetCurtains to try and find Klonkybonky, the first resident of Purest Pines. They come across a Discord user who goes by the same name, who is contacted by InternetCurtains. This user claims to be the Klonkybonky from Purest Pines, but InternetCurtains remains uncertain, and the user never joins the Purest Pines Discord server, nor returns to the server.

• 6 September: Bingy726 returns to EarthMC... Once again.

• 13 September: The southern side of the Aquille District is refurbished to include new detail, memorabilia and interesting facts about the buildings that once lay there.

• 14 September: X_Tree, a fairly active Cordan District resident, joins the town.

• 15 September: To InternetCurtains' surprise (who was increasingly busy in real life), Purest Pines becomes a city (40 residents total). He announces on the Purest Pines Discord server that he'd be genuinely surprised if Purest Pines was able to reach large city rank. The increased population is used towards the west of the CityPlace to make way for new Cordan District plots.

• 16 September: With the expanding of the Cordan District further west, the town reaches a total of 600 townblocks - worth 9600g.

• 20 September: Xrhstosdim1, an active Cherry District resident who helped immensely with demolishing former resident plots during this part of the town's history, joins the town.

• 20 September: Tbnrjstrong, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town.

• 21 September: With 48 residents in the town, Purest Pines exceeds InternetCurtains' expectations and reaches large city rank.

• **22 September:** Bingy726 starts recruiting for Purest Pines alongside InternetCurtains. The majority of the remaining recruitment in this part of Purest Pines' history is done by him.

• 23 September: The Bingy Arena is built by Bingy726 in northern Cordan. Unfortunately, it is never really used.

• 24 September: Thanks to rapid mass-recruitment from Bingy726, Purest Pines reaches 56 residents, becoming a metropolis for the third occasion.

• 26 September: Seeing that Bingy726 was putting more effort into the town than him, InternetCurtains decides to give Towny mayorship to Bingy726.

• 27 September: Tibbletime321, an active Cordan District resident and extremely talented builder who would go on to build several estates around the eventually derelict part of northern Cordan, joins the town.

• 28 September: Dwyvr, an active Cordan District resident who built the large stone brick structure in western Cordan, joins the town.

• 1 October: Purest Pines reaches 80 residents. During this third endeavour into metropolis rank, the maximum population of the town has been lost to time, but was likely about 84.

• 5 October: The day after the release of WorldMC, a separate Earth Towny server run by some former EarthMC staff, InternetCurtains and WifiShutters travel across North America on the server, from Jamaica to Alberta. This several-thousand-block journey takes three hours. Once they reach their destination in Alberta, they found Purest Pines. WifiShutters spearheads the growth of this town, but little progress is made before InternetCurtains and him lose interest in WorldMC. The WorldMC iteration of Purest Pines falls quickly.

• 13 October: Cascadia dominates the server, reaching over 1100 residents. Six separate towns in the nation are metropolises at this point - including Purest Pines, the fourth most populous, at 71 residents.

• 23 October: InternetCurtains announces that both him and Bingy726 will be going inactive for a few weeks to focus on real-life ordeals.

• 27 October: Kevin484848's newly re-founded town of 'Kings' joins Cascadia. Shortly after, a pathway is built between Purest Pines and Kings, lined with pale oak trees.

• 29 October: Princeling7 joins Purest Pines briefly, planning to found a town between Purest Pines and Chester Port. Though Princeling7 never founds this town, he becomes the holder of an important Cascadian town near the West Coast.

• 30 October: The Perdisac Garden and Church are built to the west of the CityPlace, reviving the previously derelict area.

• 30 October: Coughitout, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.

• 1 November: With low activity in Vermont and close ties between Vermont and Cascadia, the former (now under the leadership of Wishful_, merges with the latter). This boosts Cascadia's population massively and secures its place in eastern Canada.

• 2 November: EarthMC updates to 1.21.6, allowing Purest Pines to gain its own happy ghast.

• 4 November: Cherylblossom208, a fairly active Cordan District resident, joins the town. Cherylblossom208 would be paid by InternetCurtains to create a cafe in the Cherry Forest, which was later decorated and turned into a third place by InternetCurtains.

• 8 November: Numerous residents start 42-daying, meaning that Purest Pines goes down to large city rank overnight. However, InternetCurtains manages to "destroy the evidence quickly", and by the end of the day, the town had over 60 residents again.

• 8 November: Maneater_Mela and Korthegolem, two active Cordan District residents who know each other in real life, join the town.

• 8 November: Jiek, an active Mercer District resident who joined the town randomly and proceeded to build a huge hole in his plot, joins the town.

• 9 November: Sobbingbox joins the town. He would go on to help with some of the builds around Purest Pines, only to destroy his reputation by obliterating the Purest Pines primary storage unit and blaming it on Texas. However, he was later forgiven by InternetCurtains and would become the first resident besides InternetCurtains to join Ducktopia on Terra Nostra. InternetCurtains and Sobbingbox would stay in contact even after InternetCurtains quit EarthMC.

• 15 November: The Purest Pines Discord server reaches 50 members.

• 21 November: Chips200112, an active Aquille District resident and strong Cascadian patriot, joined the town. He would go on to be part of several other Cascadian towns, and would attempt to run in the Cascadian general elections often.

• 24 November: Sobbingbox informs InternetCurtains that the Purest Pines primary storage unit had been destroyed. Sure enough, when InternetCurtains logs on, he finds the unit obliterated, with damage increasing as level decreases. Countless items were lost, and Texan flags were placed around the storage unit - Texas and Cascadia were skirmishing at the time. However, no one outside of Purest Pines had trust in the storage unit. A witch hunt began in order to find the culprit behind the destruction. Eventually, InternetCurtains and Bingy726 came to the conclusion that it was Sobbingbox's doing. Sobbingbox initially denies (but is nevertheless kicked from the town and outlawed from the whole of Cascadia, causing him to become inactive), but later accepts it towards the end of Terra Aurora. The Texan flags were likely placed there as red herrings.

• 29 November: The Duck Society is re-founded (see 21 November 2023) after two years. This means that Project Ducc is advertised again and the town of Ducktopia is planned. Bingy726 also starts the Goose Society, which exists "purely the thwart the wholesome and happy plans of the Duck Society".

• 30 November: The Holy Duck Crusade (comprising InternetCurtains, TheDegenerate, Jazbbwtyl and Chips200112) travel from Mansel to an island further north, where Jazbbwtyl and Platinum201547 had founded 1 Chunk City at the start of 2025. There, they found Ducktopia. However, a couple of weeks later, after Goosetopia had been deleted by DiscoEwe4410090, rendering Ducktopia nationless, the town is deleted. InternetCurtains vows to found Ducktopia properly when Terra Nostra releases.

• 3 December: Titoto9130 leaves Purest Pines to found his own town in Tahiti, which he names 'Purest Islands'.

• 15 December: Coughitout leaves Purest Pines to found the town of 'Acadian', located in the Acadian Peninsula. With the loss of Coughitout and Titoto9130, plus an increasing number of inactive town residents 42-daying, the town decays once again. By this point, the reset is only five and a half months away, so no further revival to the town was ever made.

• 11 January: [CLASSIFIED 6]

• 14 January: InternetCurtains finishes the construction of the 'Purest Pine' in a creative world, which is planned to be an "endgame megaproject" celebrating the town's extensive history. It is approximately three-by-three chunks large and 110 blocks tall (spanning 13 storeys). InternetCurtains starts building it on EarthMC, but despite the monumental importance of this building in wrapping up the town's lifespan, it is never finished.

• 18 January: InternetCurtains runs a joke presidential campaign with fellow Cascadian Ejsj1 during the Cascadian elections, with the pledge to make *Nubia* a better nation. Needless to say, this campaign was not successful.

• 15 February: QuickMash, who InternetCurtains, DiscoEwe4410090 and WifiShutters had trolled during a stream of his in late 2023, joins Purest Pines after regaining interest in the server.

• 15 February: InternetCurtains gives the horse he may-or-may-not have stolen on 17 May 2025 back to its rightful owner.

• 23 February: Sammyjammy77 of Alberta, Baranof, agrees to fund for some of the items required for the Purest Pine.

• 25 February: Around this time, InternetCurtains starts planning the first set of buildings for Ducktopia in Terra Nostra. However, these buildings were never made before Ducktopia was deleted.

• 28 February: InternetCurtains is persuaded by GrayMold9 (also known as 'Carl') to join Baranof, an extremely rich and active new nation based in eastern Alaska. His reasoning for this is that, with the reset imminent, "we might as well have some fun and join Baranof after all".

=== '''Baranof Era''' ===

By this point in time, Baranof was similar to Cascadia in population, activity and power. However, InternetCurtains was not active enough to connect with Baranof residents in the same way he had done with those of Cree, Vermont and Cascadia.

Purest Pines as a whole was in its final stage of life by this era. Throughout the whole of the era, no more residents were recruited into the town; with the server reset imminent, there was no purpose. InternetCurtains himself was barely active on the server, only logging on every now and then to work on the Purest Pine which was never finished completely.

Purest Pines also ended up in Nubia and Japan during the Baranof Era (and Baranof itself was eventually renamed to United States), but the town's time in these nations has been amalgamated into the Baranof Era to avoid overcomplication.

• 3 March: Due to the imminent server reset, the nation of Nubia (based in north-east Africa), makes a network of numerous bridge towns travelling to North America, allowing Purest Pines to join the nation. In order to have some more fun, plus due to Nubia's ties with Purest Pines during the Cree Era, InternetCurtains decides to join the nation.

• 6 March: Purest Pines rejoins Baranof.

• 1 April: Purest Pines joins Japan. Like Nubia, Japan had created a series of bridge towns heading into North America.

• 4 April: Purest Pines joins Nubia again.

• 12 April: After four years of server-wide history, Terra Aurora is shut down.

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-[[File:Purest pines banner.png|thumb]]
 {{Town
 |color=Green
-name=Purest Pines
 |title1=Purest Pines
 |image1=[[File:PurestPinesFlag.webp|50px]]
 |Motto=''Where the grass is always greener''
-|Nation=[[Aurora:Cascadia|Cascadia]]
+|Nation=[[Aurora:Baranof|Baranof]]
 |Chunks=564
 |InternetCurtains was here, 22/08/2025
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 |Continent=North America
 |Discord=https://discord.gg/YwB6qJG7
-|mayor=InternetCurtains
+|mayor=InternetCurtains and Bingy726 (Co-Mayors)
-|past_nations=Canada, James Bay, [[Aurora:Laurentia|Laurentia]], Cree, [[Aurora:Vermont|Vermont]], Ontario
+|past_nations=Canada, James Bay, [[Aurora:Laurentia|Laurentia]], Cree, [[Aurora:Vermont|Vermont]], Ontario, Cascadia
-}}
+}}Purest Pines was a town located in the Ontarian wilderness in Canada. It was run by InternetCurtains almost continuously throughout its two-year-long lifespan. Purest Pines has been a member of eight separate notable nations in the past: Canada, James Bay, Laurentia, Cree, Vermont, Ontario, Cascadia and Baranof.
-'''WIP! Adding photos, history section, and notable residents soon.'''
-Purest Pines is a town located in the Ontarian wilderness in Canada. It has been run by InternetCurtains almost continuously throughout its two-year-long lifespan. Purest Pines is part of the nation of Cascadia, situated in Manicouagan County, however it has been a member of six other nations in the past.
+Purest Pines was split up into three main residential 'districts' surrounding the central Aquille District, an area that had been furbished and decorated extensively to give it a peaceful, natural feel. The town also contains an old replica of a Victorian-era English neighbourhood, built for a building contest (Swinasham); a fairly obsolete business district (Chauser); rebuilt ruins of an old town (Merlin); and two main areas of empty, undeveloped claims.
-Purest Pines is split up into three main residential 'districts' surrounding the central Aquille District, which has been furbished and decorated extensively to give it a peaceful, natural feel. The town also contains an old replica of a Victorian-era English neighbourhood, built for a building contest; a fairly obsolete business district; rebuilt ruins of an old town; and two main areas of empty, undeveloped claims.
+By the end of Terra Aurora, Purest Pines bordered the separate town of Ontario and was also close to Chester Port, Kings, and Treasure Town, the capital of the nation of Hudson.
-Purest Pines borders the separate town of Ontario and is also close to Chester Port, Kings, and Treasure Town, the capital of the nation of Hudson.
 Throughout the course of its history, countless residents have been and gone, and the town's population peaked at 102 on 7 January 2025.
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 '' 'Accueillir' - 'to host' in French ''
-Aquille is located near the centre of the town. It is the oldest district in the town, and is where the town spawn building, the Third Endeavour, is located. To the north of this district is Aquille Reserve, a naturalistic park home to various memorabilia from throughout the town's history, plus town embassies. The Purest Pines CityPlace, a large, cuboidal building containing prebuilt apartments for residents and the Primary Storage for the town is located in this district as well.
+Aquille is located near the centre of the town. It is the oldest district in the town, and is where the town spawn building - the Third Endeavour - is located. In the north of this district is Aquille Reserve, a naturalistic park home to various memorabilia from throughout the town's history, plus town embassies. The Purest Pines CityPlace - a large, cuboidal building containing prebuilt apartments for residents and the Primary Storage Unit - is located in this district as well.
 [[File:AquilleDistrict.webp|alt=test|500px]] ''A pathway in Aquille Reserve leading to the Chauser District.''
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 ''Named after an unknown French infinitive verb''
-Chauser was the second district to be made in Purest Pines. Historically, it was meant to take up a clearing on the northern side of a river between it and the Aquille District. It was built up first in late 2023 from the James Bay to the Cree Era, but InternetCurtains demolished most of the buildings in 2024 so that it could be rebuilt later. InternetCurtains retained several buildings, however, such as the Disco Tower, a skyscraper built by former resident DiscoEwe4410090, whose apartments housed the first residents in the town; Bingy Estate, a large mansion built by InternetCurtains for former comayor Bingy726; and the USSNA Perm Base, a military base deemed widely to be unsightly, built by banned player USFriskI.
+Chauser was the second district to be made in Purest Pines. Historically, it was meant to take up a clearing on the northern side of a river between it and the Aquille District. It was first built up in late 2023, from the James Bay to the Cree Era, but InternetCurtains demolished most of the buildings in 2024 so that it could be rebuilt later. InternetCurtains retained several buildings, however, such as the Disco Tower, a skyscraper built by former resident DiscoEwe4410090, whose apartments housed the first residents in the town; Bingy Estate, a large mansion built by InternetCurtains for comayor Bingy726; and the USSNA Perm Base, a military base deemed widely to be unsightly, built by banned player USFriskI.
 Reconstruction of Chauser started in December 2024 during the Second Vermont Era at the height of Purest Pines, led by InternetCurtains and Bingy726 and built with help from BuilderBoy59, Amartine60, Jazbbwtyl, Platinum201547 and Aqualicorn, all of whom were residents of the town at the time. Progress was quick, and before long, an assortment of new buildings were completed, including InternetCurtains Estate, 'The Dives', a refurbished ice rail station, headquarters for the short-lived newspaper 'Purest Papers', and more. These buildings can be found in Chauser today.
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 Near the centre of the district is Cordan Plaza, a large, hollow building with an underground section containing an inn for residents, the Maple Tavern, an automatic music disc player, and Secondary Storage for the district. Flags of the nation of Cree are flown at the top of the building.
-In October 2024, shortly before the foreseen acceleration in population of the town, this district was extended to the north, containing roughly twenty new plots for residents.
+In October 2024, shortly before the foreseen acceleration in population of the town, this district was extended to the north to contain roughly twenty new plots for residents. Further expansion of the Cordan District - this time to the west - occurred in September 2025, for the same reason.
 [[File:CordanDistrict.webp|alt=test|500px]] ''View of the older part of the district from the top of Cordan Plaza, taken on 4 October 2024.''
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 Mercer was the second residential district to be built, found just to the east of Aquille. Its plots contain borders made of flowering azalea leaves with smooth quartz slabs on top of them. The roads are built out of stripped dark oak wood.
-The first three rows of the Mercer District (including the short, two-plot wide one closest to Aquille) were built first, with an extra row and outwards extensions to all rows emerging during November 2024. Overall, the Mercer District has over 50 plots, meaning that out of the three residential districts, it's able to house the most residents theoretically. However, the outer two rows have been deemed abandoned officially due to the difficulty in demolishing the voluminous plots in them and their distance from the town spawn and are upkept no longer, although Kevin484848 built an unfinished shopping centre at the edge of this edge of the district in August 2025.
+The first three rows of the Mercer District (including the short, two-plot wide one closest to Aquille) were built first, with an extra row and outwards extensions to all rows emerging during November 2024. Overall, the Mercer District has over 50 plots, meaning that out of the three residential districts, it's able to house the most residents - theoretically. However, the outer two rows have been deemed abandoned officially due to the difficulty in demolishing the voluminous plots in them and their distance from the town spawn, and are upkept no longer, although Kevin484848 built an unfinished shopping centre at the edge of this part of the district in August 2025.
 The 'Mercer Minipark' is located at the southern edge of the central rows, acting as a district centre similar to the Cordan Plaza and the Purest Pines CityPlace. It consists of two towers surrounded by a small park built originally by a resident called FlakeyYT.
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 ''No prizes for guessing where the name of the district comes from!''
-The Cherry District is located south of Aquille. It bears several resemblances to the Aquille District, with a naturalistic, cherry-themed forested area to the north filled with memorabilia.
+The Cherry District is located south of Aquille. It bears several resemblances to the Aquille District, with a naturalistic, forested area (cherry-themed, in this case) to the north filled with memorabilia.
 To the south, the Cherry District acts as a residential area, with cherry-tree-themed plot borders and roads. The easternmost road in the district was turned into an arcade by former resident Gheddochris. Three small, near-identical structures at the wilderness end of the three roads in the district commemorate the first three nations that Purest Pines joined: Canada, James Bay, and Laurentia.
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 == History ==
 Purest Pines has an incredibly broad and rich history. Throughout its two years of existence, the town has manifested itself in seven separate nations, changing nations on eight occasions. Hence, its history is split up into the eight distinct ''eras'' that follow:
-# Canadian Era (27 June 2023 to 20 August 2023)
+# Canada Era (27 June 2023 to 20 August 2023)
 # James Bay Era (20 August 2023 to 9 September 2023)
 # Laurentia Era (9 September 2023 to 23 October 2023)
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 # Ontario Era (23 September 2024 to 17 November 2024)
 # Second Vermont Era (17 November 2024 to 11 July 2025)
-# Cascadia Era (11 July 2025 to 16 August 2025)
+# Cascadia Era (11 July 2025 to 28 February 2026)
+# Baranof Era (28 February 2026 to 12 April 2026 [server reset])
 The Cree Era, First Vermont Era and Ontario Era all beginning on the 23rd is entirely coincidental.
-Note to self: Add number of days of each era
 In the following subchapters, an overview of these eras will be provided. The events that occurred in these eras are provided in a timeline form to make them easier and less daunting to read. An introductory pre-Canadian-Era subchapter is given as well.
-=== '''Pre-Canadian-Era''' ===
+'''Notes'''
-''InternetCurtains’ first months on EarthMC were spent largely in an inactive town called Maluku, part of the Aru Islands nation – situated around eastern Indonesia (not too far away to the west was the town of Albany, which at the time was massive and extremely populous). The town occupied a duo of small islands along with the nation capital, Iambetter. InternetCurtains logged on every single day, unlike every other person in the entire nation. Despite this, InternetCurtains stayed in Maluku for a good month or two, slowly but surely growing his wealth, knowledge of EarthMC and hoarding of items in a storage room. This was done with only two plots available to him (one which was used specifically for a farm), and the chance to make the occasional trip to Australia – a wasteland of ruined towns at this point – via a short boat ride south.
+# A different version of this timeline, which also includes images for some events, can be found on the Purest Pines Discord server: https://discord.gg/YwB6qJG7. (The Discord version of the timeline also looks considerably less like a rather unsightly text dump!)
-InternetCurtains was enjoying his time in Maluku, but one day in June of 2023, he decided it would be fun to make his own town. The first location to found the town that came to mind to him was Canada. Not only was it vast but it was ruled by pines and solitude at the time, not towns, per se. There was a lot of room for a town to develop without it having to worry about anything like its nearby neighbours. InternetCurtains didn’t mine; his only source of gold was from the two voting websites, which he voted on every day. This meant that the process of getting 64 gold to found a town would be slow and difficult. However, this meant that a lot of time was given to InternetCurtains to plan out the town before it was built.
+# Asterisks (**) around a date denote that this date is an estimate.
-While the 64 gold was being collected, InternetCurtains made regular journeys to eastern Canada in search for a solid place to found his town. Eventually, he found the perfect location somewhere in Quebec, to the east of James Bay. Unfortunately, though, he lost the coordinates to this place.
+# The events detailed have been compiled and described using screenshots, chat logs, notes, and sometimes even nothing more than sheer memory; thus, while every effort as been made to preserve accuracy, perfect precision cannot be guaranteed.
-Then, while finding his way through Ontario, InternetCurtains came across a small clearing. There was a flat middle section, a part that stretched out from the main area, a river that led to an even larger clearing and an array of ponds which could be combined into a decent lake. In this clearing, InternetCurtains could visualise the construction of a peaceful, humble town. He knew that this was the picture-perfect, unspoiled location he had been searching for.
-Thus, the planning of this town was now underway.
+=== '''Pre-Canada-Era''' ===
-The original idea was to build some sort of town centre in the middle of the small clearing. Around the perimeter of pine trees, pre-built houses for residents would be built, each one alluding to a certain type of wood.
+[Excerpt from an unfinished text about Purest Pines' history]
-A few days before the process of getting 64 gold for the town was complete, InternetCurtains left Maluku, farewelling the town via signs at his plot, and joined New Kaliningrad, which at the time was medium-sized and around the area. It had recently become the nation capital of James Bay. He claimed a pre-built house there without consent of the mayor, USFriskI, (InternetCurtains would later learn that residents of this town were doomed to living without their own plots or support or anything, making the addition of prebuilt houses ever so slightly dubious) who InternetCurtains never even spoke to until a couple of months later. He put all of the valuable items he had taken with him from Maluku into the pre-built house.
-InternetCurtains started construction on the town centre first, before the town was actually founded. It was very simple: a small wooden structure took up most of a chunk. The walls were made of spruce planks with entrances of air (no doors or anything else) on each of the four corners. Five blocks up was the roof: a flat ceiling of orange glass with a perimeter of spruce planks from the walls. The floor was a simple mosaic of sorts, with four different types of wood around each corner entrance. In the centre was a four-by-four entrance into what was proposed to be the town storage, where InternetCurtains would put his things. At first, this was small and compact, but it did the job, since Purest Pines was nowhere near as large as it would be several months later, and InternetCurtains’ vision for most certainly did not include his town being a popular capital of a well-known and active nation, nor being the second-largest town in the third-largest nation on the server. The chests were countable and the walls were made cheaply of deepslate.  From what was described, it may seem like this town centre was detailed, but it really wasn’t; it was incredibly simple, and not too eye-catching, either, but for InternetCurtains’ plan to make his dream humble town, it seemed alright. It actually took quite a long time for him to build this town centre despite how straightforward it was, and InternetCurtains was almost killed by a duo of hunters approaching him once while he was making it, only to be saved by a player called Peace_of_Poo who owned the town of Feces_Island_2, which took up real life Akimiski and was reasonably close to Internet’s town. This player alerted him through DMs, so InternetCurtains was able to run to a nearby nether portal just in time and wait for the hunters to disappear. The names of these two hunters have faded away in time.
+''InternetCurtains’ first months on EarthMC were spent largely in an inactive town called Maluku, part of the Aru Islands nation – situated around eastern Indonesia (not too far away to the west was the town of Albany, which at the time was massive and extremely populous). The town occupied a duo of small islands along with the nation capital, Iambetter. InternetCurtains logged on every single day, unlike every other person in the entire nation. Despite this, InternetCurtains stayed in Maluku for a good month or two, slowly but surely growing his wealth, knowledge of EarthMC and hoarding of items in a storage room. This was done with only two plots available to him (one which was used specifically for a farm), and the chance to make the occasional trip to Australia – a wasteland of ruined towns at this point – via a short boat ride south.''
-On the 27th of June, 2023, InternetCurtains finally managed to get 64 gold to found Purest Pines. He headed over to the clearing once again and left New Kaliningrad.
-This marked the start of an exceptionally extensive journey governed by InternetCurtains himself – a lengthy one filled with fallen heros, motivational loss, countless players, and so, so much more. One that InternetCurtains and so many other people will never forget, one that changed the course of a few select player’s lives, of whom most had not even touched the server yet at this point. This very moment defined so many things that can be seen all around eastern Canada, New England, Quebec and further afield.
+''InternetCurtains was enjoying his time in Maluku, but one day in June of 2023, he decided it would be fun to make his own town. The first location to found the town that came to mind to him was Canada. Not only was it vast but it was ruled by pines and solitude at the time, not towns, per se. There was a lot of room for a town to develop without it having to worry about anything like its nearby neighbours. InternetCurtains didn’t mine; his only source of gold was from the two voting websites, which he voted on every day. This meant that the process of getting 64 gold to found a town would be slow and difficult. However, this meant that a lot of time was given to InternetCurtains to plan out the town before it was built.''
+''While the 64 gold was being collected, InternetCurtains made regular journeys to eastern Canada in search for a solid place to found his town. Eventually, he found the perfect location somewhere in Quebec, to the east of James Bay. Unfortunately, though, he lost the coordinates to this place.''
+''Then, while finding his way through Ontario, InternetCurtains came across a small clearing. There was a flat middle section, a part that stretched out from the main area, a river that led to an even larger clearing and an array of ponds which could be combined into a decent lake. In this clearing, InternetCurtains could visualise the construction of a peaceful, humble town. He knew that this was the picture-perfect, unspoiled location he had been searching for.''
+''Thus, the planning of this town was now underway.''
+''The original idea was to build some sort of town centre in the middle of the small clearing. Around the perimeter of pine trees, pre-built houses for residents would be built, each one alluding to a certain type of wood. A few days before the process of getting 64 gold for the town was complete, InternetCurtains left Maluku, farewelling the town via signs at his plot, and joined New Kaliningrad, which at the time was medium-sized and around the area. It had recently become the nation capital of James Bay. He claimed a pre-built house there without consent of the mayor, USFriskI, (InternetCurtains would later learn that residents of this town were doomed to living without their own plots or support or anything, making the addition of prebuilt houses ever so slightly dubious) who InternetCurtains never even spoke to until a couple of months later. He put all of the valuable items he had taken with him from Maluku into the pre-built house.''
+''InternetCurtains started construction on the town centre first, before the town was actually founded. It was very simple: a small wooden structure took up most of a chunk. The walls were made of spruce planks with entrances of air (no doors or anything else) on each of the four corners. Five blocks up was the roof: a flat ceiling of orange glass with a perimeter of spruce planks from the walls. The floor was a simple mosaic of sorts, with four different types of wood around each corner entrance. In the centre was a four-by-four entrance into what was proposed to be the town storage, where InternetCurtains would put his things. At first, this was small and compact, but it did the job, since Purest Pines was nowhere near as large as it would be several months later, and InternetCurtains’ vision for most certainly did not include his town being a popular capital of a well-known and active nation, nor being the second-largest town in the third-largest nation on the server. The chests were countable and the walls were made cheaply of deepslate.  From what was described, it may seem like this town centre was detailed, but it really wasn’t; it was incredibly simple, and not too eye-catching, either, but for InternetCurtains’ plan to make his dream humble town, it seemed alright. It actually took quite a long time for him to build this town centre despite how straightforward it was, and InternetCurtains was almost killed by a duo of hunters approaching him once while he was making it, only to be saved by a player called Peace_of_Poo who owned the town of Feces_Island_2, which took up real life Akimiski and was reasonably close to Internet’s town. This player alerted him through DMs, so InternetCurtains was able to run to a nearby nether portal just in time and wait for the hunters to disappear. The names of these two hunters have faded away in time.''
+''On the 27th of June, 2023, InternetCurtains finally managed to get 64 gold to found Purest Pines. He headed over to the clearing once again and left New Kaliningrad. This marked the start of an exceptionally extensive journey governed by InternetCurtains himself – a lengthy one filled with fallen heros, motivational loss, countless players, and so, so much more. One that InternetCurtains and so many other people will never forget, one that changed the course of a few select player’s lives, of whom most had not even touched the server yet at this point. This very moment defined so many things that can be seen all around eastern Canada, New England, Quebec and further afield.''
 [18:12:41 NZT] [CHAT] [Towny] InternetCurtains created a new town called Purest Pines''
+=== '''Canada Era''' ===
+When Purest Pines was first founded, the only prominent nation in the area was Canada, owned by Twomoo1119. However, even Canada was nowhere near as active or populous as other nations that came later, such as Laurentia or Vermont. Terra Aurora was still only about a year old, so most other nations in the area were yet to proliferate.
+During this era, the first few buildings in Aquille were built, including the original spawn building: a relatively straightforward, two-chunk-wide and one-storey-tall building made primarily out of spruce. A balcony covering the flat-topped roof of the building contained the spawn itself, a message board, seats, and a view of the surroundings. On the ground floor, there was a small mayoral office to the left and an inn to the right. In due course, a small, undeveloped wood shop was built just below the building. The first two plots were built just to the south of the spawn, and a nether portal, which is still standing today, was built to the north. Other buildings around the area were built later.
+Purest Pines had a slow start at first - InternetCurtains relied almost completely on vote crates for collecting gold and expanding. As a result, scarcely three months after Purest Pines was founded, InternetCurtains gave up hope and deleted it. However, he regretted this decision quickly, and re-founded it less than a week later. The growth of Purest Pines was faster after the re-founding, though it was still relatively slow.
+• 27 June: Purest Pines is founded initially.
+• **2 July:** InternetCurtains meets Enoch01, a player who would give support to Purest Pines several times in the future.
+• 15 July: After the aforementioned slow start, Purest Pines is deleted by InternetCurtains, who joins the town of Wien in Austria. At the time, Wien was incredibly well-known, home to various builds such as the Hanse Library, one of the largest libraries ever built on EarthMC. InternetCurtains regrets his decision to delete the town almost immediately though, so he decided to re-found it once he had enough gold.
+• 21 July: Purest Pines is re-founded. A large amount of the gold required to re-found it was collecting by killing animals in the wilderness to obtain products such as leather which were then sold to shops - a tedious, time-verbose collection method; InternetCurtains was unconfident with his mining skills at the time. Purest Pines received little grief during this interval, especially since the town was still extremely small when it was founded.
+• 31 July: InternetCurtains attends his first Vote Party. These parties proved to be a sufficiently reliable source of gold for expanding Purest Pines.
+• 2 August: Klonkybonky, Purest Pines' first-ever resident, is recruited by InternetCurtains. His plot is the chunk which is now taken up by the Cree Museum.
+• 3 August: Klonkybonky leaves Purest Pines to make a town with his friend. However, he goes inactive soon after leaving the town, remains townless and then 42-days.
+• 5 August: Helloaiminsane joins Purest Pines, making him the second-ever resident. Flakeycap, his friend, later joins the town on the same day. The two become inactive after a couple of days.
+• 8 August: InternetCurtains meets TylenolEC, the new leader of a nation called Laurentia, located in northern Quebec around Ungava Bay.
+• 11 August: A chicken named Chicko is transported from InternetCurtains' former embassy at Twinpeaks, on Coats Island (at the northern tip of Hudson Bay), to Purest Pines. This chicken was later adopted by USFriskI, leader of the nation of James Bay, and was kept in the USSNA Perm Base for likely well over a year before its mysterious disappearance.
+• 12 August: InternetCurtains attends his first Vote Party. These parties proved to be a sufficiently reliable source of gold for expanding Purest Pines.
+• 13 August: InternetCurtains sends a mail message to USFriskI, leader of James Bay, asking whether he would be willing to donate some gold to Purest Pines.
+• 13 August: InternetCurtains receives a 48-gold donation from Extro089. This gold was used to expand to the east, around where the embassy plots in the Aquille District are located today.
+• 19 August: InternetCurtains takes a set of screenshots to form a panoramic view of the town from the spawn building. These screenshots have been referenced to several times in the past to show how much the town has changed over the years. One of these screenshots is shown just above the timeline.
+• 20 August: InternetCurtains receives a response from USFriskI about town funding, stating that he only gives funding to "[his] own towns and developing nations". InternetCurtains later DMs USFriskI, who explains that it would make sense to join the nation since, firstly, it's the closest nation to Purest Pines; secondly, it's new and growing rapidly; and thirdly, USFriskI will give the town funding upon joining the nation. InternetCurtains takes USFriskI's advice and joins James Bay.
+=== '''James Bay Era''' ===
+The James Bay Era of Purest Pines is the shortest era by far, lasting for only 21 days. It's highly comparable to the Canada Era: in both, Purest Pines was a small, new town in a largely inactive nation, with barely any residents and similar atmospheres.
+The primary undertaking during this era was the beginning of the expansion into what is now the Chauser District, to the north of spawn. This area was a large, open clearing on the other side of a river. Only a few buildings were built in the Chauser District during this era, those being the USSNA Perm Base, a small house based off of a building guide, and a watermelon farm.
+• 20 August: Purest Pines reaches four residents, making it a hamlet.
+• 28 August: Bingy726 joins Purest Pines, along with his friend, Swimmy171383, making then two of the earliest residents of many in the town. He copies the design of a cabin built in the Aquille District in his plot, and then gets hunted by Chengwen07, a notorious hunter at the time. Subsequently, InternetCurtains tries - and fails - to kill Chengwen07. InternetCurtains and Bingy726 then travel to the hunter's town in search of anything which could be used against him. However, this search is largely unsuccessful, and Bingy726 goes inactive the day after, eventually 42-daying. He never touched the server again - or will he?
+• 9 September: InternetCurtains leaves James Bay, due to reasons like the toxicity of USFriskI and his lack of promised funding, joining Canada again. However, shortly after, TylenolEC, leader of the nation of Laurentia, notices this action and asks InternetCurtains whether he would like to join Laurentia. InternetCurtains was hesitant at first, since Purest Pines is located relatively far away from its capital, New Amsterdam , in northern Quebec. However, InternetCurtains eventually changes his mind, beginning the Laurentia Era.
+=== '''Laurentia Era''' ===
+At the time of joining, Laurentia was a budding but active nation based in northern Quebec. In fact, InternetCurtains was astounded by its activity: up until this point, messages sent in nation chat regularly were unheard of for him. Laurentia also gave a large amount of support to Purest Pines, boosting its growth.
+During this era, the Chauser District was developed further. Buildings such as an ice rail station for Laurentia's *LRC* were created, plus a well in which, upon dropping an item into it, a stack of that item was supposedly guaranteed to be given back to the dropper at some point. However, InternetCurtains realised that this was an non-viable novelty and demolished it. A larger storage unit was built for the town during this time, below the spawn building's mayoral office. Prior to the construction of this storage unit, most items were stored in only two double chests, located in the mayoral office. Chests were assigned to store specific types of items, though after running out of space a second time, this assignments were dismissed and items were stored in whatever chests were free. Minor expansions to the wood shop also took place during this time.
+Laurentia would later go on to be one of the largest nations in the server due to the mass-recruitment done in the town of Vermont, before this town founded its own nation.
+• 20 September: InternetCurtains reaches a Power level of 1000: around this time, InternetCurtains had begun to mine for gold, helping him to claim new plots for the town.
+• 25 September: MasterEWild, a devout Laurentian, founds the town of Fort Aurelian in real-life René-Levasseur Island, Quebec. Along with Purest Pines, Fort Aurelian is one of the oldest remaining towns in eastern Canada.
+• **27 September:** USFriskI is perm-banned from the server for repeated 2.4 offenses. James Bay begins to decay as a result.
+• **30 September:** InternetCurtains finishes the 'LRC' ice rail tunnel which connects Purest Pines to Laurentia's capital, New Amsterdam, and numerous other towns in the nation in-between. This tunnel can still be seen today from the ice rail station in the Chauser District.
+• 11 October: Flakeycap, Purest Pines' third-ever resident, 42-days. This makes him the first resident of the town to 42-day, with Helloaiminsane following shortly after.
+• 22 October: Austinh8911 and DiscoEwe4410090 join Purest Pines. Both were active on the server, livening up the town. Austinh8911 went on to found the town of Northern Pines, but later quit the server and went inactive. DiscoEwe4410090 built the Disco Tower in his former plot in Chauser, which can be seen today. He then founded the town of Kapuskasing. This town no longer exists, but DiscoEwe4410090 is still somewhat active on the server.
+• 22 October: Bingy726, who first joined Purest Pines during the Laurentia Era, is spotted in global chat by InternetCurtains, residing in Farmington, a new but growing town in New England. Subsequently, InternetCurtains decides to visit Farmington and meets its mayor, F1R3L0RD2009. Bingy726 suggests to the two mayors that they should try to create their own nation. They agree; thus, the trio plan out how they will acquire the nation. Initially, InternetCurtains was to snipe a tiny nation based along Lake Superior called Apache Union. However, he soon realised that this nation wasn't open, so he couldn't join it. The trio then decide to make a brand-new nation, so InternetCurtains and Bingy726 start mining to collect the 2048 gold required.
+• 23 October: F1R3L0RD2009 comes across a nation for sale: Ohio. With the gold collected from mining yesterday, along with a generous donation from Enoch01, Ohio is purchased, Farmington becomes the capital, and the Cree Era begins.
+=== '''Cree Era''' ===
+''Note: Cree was not the nation's original name. When Ohio was first purchased, InternetCurtains, F1R3L0RD2009 and Bingy726 decided that Farmington should be the capital. F1R3L0RD2009 names the nation 'Yankeeland', but, quite understandably, this is 2.1ed quickly. Later on, this nation was renamed to 'Wabanaki'. Once F1R3L0RD2009 quit the server and gave the nation to InternetCurtains, it was 2.1ed a second time and renamed to 'Cree': its longest-standing and most recognised name.''
+The Cree Era is arguably the most important era in Purest Pines' history. Purest Pines governed an entire nation. Numerous important Purest Pines residents joined during this time. InternetCurtains had multiple valuable experiences during this era which helped Purest Pines to survive through the following eras. Purest Pines was transformed from a small, humble side project of InternetCurtains' to a large, bustling, enduring town: the most prominent in the area.
+Purest Pines grew immensely during this era. The Chauser District became filled with buildings such as Bingy Estate and the WPMC (Wabanaki Problem Management Centre) tower. DiscoEwe4410090 constructed the Disco Tower in his plot in this district, which held the first mass-recruited residents of the town. The Aquille District changed so much that it became almost unrecognisable from its former appearance - the spawn building itself was refurbished *twice*. Not only that, but the Cordan and Mercer districts were built, providing plots for the influx of residents recruited during the latter half of this era and beyond.
+• 23 October: Ohio is renamed 'Yankeeland', but then 2.1ed shortly after.
+• 1 November: Kevin484848 joins Purest Pines. Over the ages, Kevin484848 built several huge industrial complexes in Purest Pines and other nearby towns, some of which are still around today. Kevin484848 himself is still active, and likely has the greatest playtime out of all Purest-Pines-bred residents, except InternetCurtains.
+• 2 November: Due to boredom and inactivity, F1R3L0RD2009 makes the decision to give Cree (then Wabanaki) to InternetCurtains, making Purest Pines the capital. As such, the town's spawn building is enlarged: a roof, plus a balcony, is added to it, and some renovations are made on what became the first floor.
+• 2 November: The Purest Pines spawn building is renovated heavily to make it more feasible for a nation capital. A ceiling and walls are built to the first floor, with coloured windows; a simple terrace is built on the roof; and some aesthetics are added to the building.
+• 3 November: Planning of the WPMC (Wabanaki Problems Management Centre) Tower in the Chauser District begins, spearheaded by InternetCurtains and Bingy726. This tower was meant to be the headquarters of the WPMC, which aims to solve problems faced by Wabanaki residents.
+• 4 November: Construction of the WPMC (Wabanaki Problems Management Centre) Tower begins.
+• 6 November: F1R3L0RD2009 makes a brief return to EarthMC and founds the town of Rockwick, engulfing several separate town ruins around the northern coast of Lake Superior. Approximately 75 chunks are claimed within the first day, and after a few days, it reaches village rank.
+• **8 November:** After finishing the 'Pine Tower' next to the Purest Pines spawn building, Kevin484848 begins to build a huge, four-chunk deepslate building where the Purest Pines Cityplace now lies.
+• **11 November:** Bedude, a relatively active Cree resident, joins the town.
+• 12 November: Austinh8911 founds the town of Northern Pines in the large artificial clearing just to the north of Purest Pines. Later, DiscoEwe4410090 founds Kapuskasing, located around a large, abandoned andesite building in the forests to the north-west of Purest Pines.
+• 18 November: Kevin484848 leaves Purest Pines to found the nearby town of Westpine.
+• 18 November: InternetCurtains, DiscoEwe4410090, Chaobell and a couple of other Cree residents start messing around with DivineClips and Rodekeel, two notorious hunters, in a wilderness chunk adjacent to Purest Pines. Over time, as people see the substantial number of death messages, PVPers begin to join in with the fun. Further players come to this chunk, and in less than an hour, it becomes destroyed so badly by the tens of people who came that a moderator has to come and verify that InternetCurtains doesn't mind. Later on, Twomoo1119, who owned the nation of Canada at the time, drops hundreds of thousands of XP around this wilderness chunk and in Mali. This is the largest, most popular single event in Purest Pines' history - approximately 40 people came.
+• 20 November: InternetCurtains, tophatbrady (now TheDegenerate), pduck69, Chaobell, YakkoClient, tty959876, and Ewhy_ (now EwhyCA) lead the *Holy Duck Crusade*, planning to found the Cree town of Ducktopia on an island in Hudson Bay. However, the 128g raised to fund the town is stolen by tty959876. Further betrayal occurs when YakkoClient takes InternetCurtains hostage and demands all of the other innocent crusaders to give him all of their gold. However, YakkoClient later regrets doing this, and gives InternetCurtains several heads. YakkoClient and tty959876 are not affiliated with each other.
+• 21 November: Ducktopia is founded, and the Holy Duck Crusaders work together to build up the town, building a castle and a couple of mini-games. Many of the crusaders agree that Ducktopia was an enjoyable town to create. Not only that, but this helped to improve relations between InternetCurtains and Ewhy_, who went on to work for governments in Texas and California, both of which may have been threats to Purest Pines at separate points throughout the town's history without Ducktopia.
+• **28 November:** InternetCurtains turns the floors in DiscoEwe4410090's Disco Tower into quarters for new residents. This provides an abundance of housing for new residents, allowing them to be recruited much more quickly.
+• 29 November: InternetCurtains goes on holiday and gives the nation to Bingy726 temporarily.
+• **29 November:** Huffymagicdragon, who had been friends with InternetCurtains for a while, joins Purest Pines.
+• 1 December: [CLASSIFIED 1]
+• **1 December:** InternetCurtains begins to build the Bingy Estate in the Chauser District, a three-chunk-wide mansion in which Bingy726 has resided ever since.
+• **1 December:** The first part of the Cordan District is claimed by InternetCurtains, taking up a clearing to the west of the Chauser District. Initially, he was planning to build a replica of a Victorian-era English town, but this later proves to be too difficult and the area is instead used for more resident plots.
+• 3 December: InternetCurtains meets BrayStillGames - now known as WifiShutters - after showing him where to find a trap. Thus begins a friendship which would last throughout the rest of Terra Aurora, and beyond.
+• **4 December:** InternetCurtains starts building a district with a beach-like theme in what is now Swinasham. It goes on to include several tropical, prebuilt houses on a sandy beach around an artificial lake. However, this district was never finished and was eventually demolished.
+• 5 December: The newly-founded town of Vermont, owned by Kellyisanicelady and co-run by Princeling7, joins Cree. Vermont would go on to be the most populous town on the server, and the capital of what was once one of the most influential nations in North America.
+• 8 December: InternetCurtains begins to build a large Victorian estate in the Cordan District, which was never finished but remained in the area for months before being demolished.
+• 9 December: Vermont leaves Cree and joins Canada. The exact reason why is unknown.
+• 9 December: Pixiesinferno, who would go on to be an active Cree resident, joins Purest Pines.
+• 14 December: InternetCurtains finds that members of the NSR (North Sea Republic meganation) had sniped New Kaliningrad and were planning to delete it once they had looted the town. Due to New Kaliningrad's cultural importance to Purest Pines, he decides to buy the town for 2160g. Pixiesinferno is chosen as its holder. The town is later transferred over to ownership of BrayStillGames (now WifiShutters), and then Hurhighness80.
+• 16 December: bruh_villajah joins Purest Pines, his first town. However, he leaves to start his own town the day after. Bruh_villajah would later become known for being permanently banned for harassing another player, and then joining on several alt accounts to continue the harassment.
+• 20 December: [CLASSIFIED 2]
+• **20 December:** SnailOwO, along with his friend AlemakkQwQ, join Cree. They become the only real Cree-hailing PVPers in the nation's history.
+• 27 December: After the beginning of mass-recruitment efforts, Purest Pines reaches 12 residents, becoming a 'village' for the first time.
+• 30 December: Cree joins the Third Nubian Empire meganation. Since the nation didn't have a Discord server beforehand, a channel dedicated to nation residents is created in the meganation's own Discord server.
+• 31 December: InternetCurtains makes a survival SMP server for Cree. Numerous Cree residents went on to join the server, but its most active players were InternetCurtains, Austinh8911, DiscoEwe4410090, Swaggyxoashe, and Pixiesinferno - all of whom were past or present Purest Pines residents.
+• 31 December: RuleroftheLand contacts InternetCurtains about having a temporary embassy in Purest Pines where he can store his items while moving towns. RuleroftheLand is thereby the first person given a plot in the Mercer District.
+• 1 January: Overclaim is added to EarthMC.
+• 4 January: Purest Pines becomes a 'town' for the first time, reaching 20 total residents. Around this time, the first plots in the Cordan District were being given to new residents.
+• 5 January: The Purest Pines Spawn Building is rebuilt from the ground up, into the Third Endeavour: its current form. This new spawn building is larger and more aesthetically-pleasing than its last two forms, but the wood shop is finally decommissioned in the process of rebuilding.
+• 8 January: The Cree town of Northern Pines, owned by Austinh8911 (former Purest Pines resident), is taken over by RealLIMPOPO - voluntarily. This allows RealLIMPOPO to overclaim the nearby town now known as TBI, capital of New France. However, the server moderators consider the townblocks passing from Northern Pines to TBI to be a claim arm. Thus, most of the damage is rolled back, though the townblocks lost by TBI were never reclaimed.
+• 9 January: InternetCurtains begins to plan a relatively large shop for Cree, to be located below the spawn building. While actual construction of the shop *did* commence, it was never finished.
+• 9 January: Huffymagicdragon leaves Cree after controversy between her and Bingy726, with InternetCurtains eventually joining Bingy726's side. She steals all 2000 gold from the nation bank.
+• 14 January: Purest Pines becomes a 'large town' for the first time, reaching 28 total residents. By now, InternetCurtains was recruiting for Purest Pines consistently.
+• 16 January: RuleroftheLand joins Cree officially and founds the town of Kapiscau along James Bay, next to Akimiski Island. After joining Purest Pines temporarily while moving towns, he had become good friends with InternetCurtains.
+• 19 January: After intense recruiting from Princeling7, the town of Vermont becomes a metropolis.
+• 20 January: MajorVortex_, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town. He later builds the initial design for the church behind the Aquille CityPlace.
+• 4 February: TuftyYT (later known as WifiShutters) founds the town of New Farmington, located in the ruins of the original Farmington. Initially, InternetCurtains planned to make New Farmington (alongside Purest Pines, at a later date) a metropolis. However, the town never surpassed 'large town' ranking.
+• 6 February: CFRhino, at the time a friend of InternetCurtains on Terra Nova, joins Purest Pines and starts mingling with Cree residents.
+• 14 February: Around this time, the Mercer District - the residential area to the east of the town spawn - is built up by InternetCurtains. Initially, it contained approximately 26 new plots for residents.
+• 15 January: F1R3L0RD2009 returns to the server again, this time founding the town of Iskotew (Cree for 'fire') in northern Quebec, west of Ungava Bay, around the ruins of a castle. F1R3L0RD2009 plunges into another hiatus before Iskotew is developed properly.
+• 21 February: Helloaiminsane - Purest Pines' second-ever resident - joins the server again briefly, likely only for a moment. He joins no town.
+• *22 February:* Cree reaches a total of 100 residents. It gained more residents afterwards, reaching an estimated peak of 120.
+• 24 February: NotCix, friend of InternetCurtains and mayor of Zinnia (later renamed to 'Ungava Bay'), joins Cree after becoming fed up with Laurentia's petty government. Soon after, atTAboycARL, mayor of New Amsterdam, joins the nation as well. This increases Cree's population and activity.
+• 25 February: InternetCurtains builds a penguin in Purest Pines for MasterEWild's Project Penguin. This project inspires InternetCurtains to start the beloved Project Ducc. The first three duccs (in the Cree towns of New Amsterdam, Kapuskasing and Purest Pines respectively) are built later that day.
+• 28 February: [CLASSIFIED 3]
+• 29 February: The Laurentian town of Akimiski claims said island fully, destroying RuleroftheLand's plans to expand his town, Kapiscau. As a result, tensions between Cree and Laurentia rise.
+• 1 March: Princeling7 and Kellyisanicelady - mayors of Vermont City - found the nation of Vermont Republic. Since Vermont City wasn't the capital (rather the newly-founded town of Montpelier was), it joins Cree. Thus, due to the immense population of Vermont City, Cree momentarily becomes the eight-most-populous nation, with a total of 259 residents.
+• 2 March: Huffymagicdragon is forgiven by InternetCurtains and joins Purest Pines. However, she left again shortly after.
+• 2 March: TuftyYT changes his username to WifiShutters, which he becomes known by best.
+• 2 March: SweetSideOfFries - the first active resident recruited into the Cordan District and an experienced builder - joins Purest Pines.
+• 3 March: King_arthur1220, the Mercer District's first active resident, joins the town.
+• **7 March:** Due to stress, WifiShutters gives Farmington to Huffymagicdragon. WifiShutters then rejoined Purest Pines.
+• 8 March: Purest Pines becomes a 'city' for the first time, reaching 40 total residents.
+• 8 March: Blockbuilder18, who would go on to be a relatively active resident, joins the town.
+• **8 March:** CFRhino notices the minor skirmishes between Cree and Laurentia and starts harassing Laurentian residents, causing a headache for Cree residents, especially those who used to be in Laurentia. InternetCurtains is left with no choice but to kick CFRhino from the nation. CFRhino goes on to be exposed as a p𝗲do𝕡hɪʟe.
+• 9 March: Rorae00, an active resident whose plot would go on to be used as a mine, joins the town.
+• 9 March: DaMinecraftPanda, an active Mercer District resident and eventual Vermont loyalist, joins the town.
+• 9 March: Just a day after becoming a 'city', Purest Pines becomes a 'large city' for the first time, reaching 48 total residents.
+• 13 March: Vermont surpasses Shinkyo in terms of residents, making it the most populous town on the server, with 228 residents to its name.
+• 15 March: Farmington, under Huffymagicdragon, leaves Cree and joins the Vermont Republic. This frustrates InternetCurtains, especially since Farmington is such an important town in Cree's history. The friendship between InternetCurtains and Huffymagicdragon then diminishes a second time.
+• 17 March: The nation of Vermont Republic is disbanded unexpectedly by Kellyisanicelady after he becomes fed up with Princeling7.
+• 18 March: InternetCurtains is unable to log on for a few days and gives Purest Pines and Cree to WifiShutters.
+• 18 March: Vermont Republic is re-founded as 'Vermont'. The funding of this nation was supported greatly by Huffymagicdragon.
+• 21 March: Amgwya founds the town of Latvija and joins the nation of Cree. This becomes important in two days, because...
+• 23 March: InternetCurtains makes the decision to give away Cree to Amgwya's town Latvija and join Vermont, effectively resulting in the dissolution of the nation. This was done due to InternetCurtains' increased business in real life coupled with the increased drama in Cree, meaning that he was no longer able to run the nation adequately. This decision comes as a surprise to many people.
+=== '''First Vermont Era''' ===
+When Purest Pines first joined Vermont, it was the most active nation on the entire server, despite having been conceived fairly recently. It was centred in New England, but expanding outwards at a rapid pace. This, alongside the fact that InternetCurtains was good friends with Princeling7, meant that Vermont was the obvious destination after the dissolution of Cree. During Purest Pines' time in Vermont, nation chat was almost always active, and the nation's playerbase was dedicated and friendly. InternetCurtains made several friends, including Jaynbutter7 and Thacommoncold. Some of InternetCurtains' most vivid server memories took place during this era and involved the nation.
+As for Purest Pines' growth during this era, InternetCurtains' style of building involving intense, interactive decoration was perfected. This decoration moulded the Aquille District into the shape known for the rest of the town's lifespan. It also sparked several other buildings, including the Cree Museum and Purest Pines CityPlace, which were built during this era.
+By this point in his career, InternetCurtains was now comfortable with recruiting, and thus countless residents were recruited during this era and the town became a metropolis for the first time. The only Purest Pines OGs who were consistently active during this time were InternetCurtains himself and WifiShutters - Bingy726, DiscoEwe4410090 and Austinh2911 were all inactive, and Jazbbwtyl had not yet joined the town.
+Despite all of this, the First Vermont Era was far from the most enjoyable era for InternetCurtains. He had lost all motivation for the server after the dissolution of Cree, and was now playing the server out of nothing but sheer willpower. EarthMC had become an obsession for him. During the week, he would be too busy in real life to play the server that often, but his plans for Purest Pines would churn on in his mind ceaselessly. During the weekend, he would play EarthMC for hours on end - on a few occasions up to ten hours almost non-stop - only to feel burnt out after every session. Purest Pines got him through the busiest, most gruelling part of his life, but it costed his sanity.
+• 23 March: WifiShutters joins Latvija in protest of the near-dissolution of Cree, stating that the nation will always live on. However, shortly after, WifiShutters reconsiders and joins Vermont with InternetCurtains.
+• 23 March: After joining Vermont, InternetCurtains almost immediately becomes friends with Jaynbutter7, a fellow Vermonter. InternetCurtains helps to develop Jaynbutter7's town, Maryland.
+• 30 March: Several buildings in the Chauser District are demolished - InternetCurtains plans to revive and refurbish the Chauser District at a later date.
+• 31 March: Vermont reaches 500 residents. By this point, it's the third-most-populous nation on the server.
+• 1 April: After remaining steadily in 'large city' rank, a small increase in the rate of resident recruitment means that Purest Pines becomes a 'metropolis' for the first time. However, the 56th resident - MeepMinecraft2 - leaves the town just five minutes after joining. It is months before Purest Pines regains metropolis rank.
+• 13 April: [CLASSIFIED 4]
+• **15 April:** WifiShutters quits EarthMC after being demotivated by the dissolution of Cree.
+• 16 April: The nation of Vinland, previously a threat to Laurentia, suddenly becomes more active. This entices Vermont, but fortunately, war never breaks out.
+• 17 April: The Cree Museum (just to the south of the spawn building) is built.
+• 23 April: InternetCurtains has the bright idea of getting Chunk_of_Cheese, a notorious scammer, to show him around his town. At the end of the tour, Chunk_of_Cheese shows InternetCurtains a "funny shop glitch that removes stone". InternetCurtains proceeds to lose almost all of his 4000g wealth.
+• 25 April: CooperSaurus_YT, a friend of InternetCurtains and former Vermont City resident, joins Purest Pines. He becomes active in the town, and comes and goes from it multiple times over the First Vermont Era. He built the Cooper Estate in eastern Mercer District.
+• **29 April:** The Diamond of Cree, kept on an item frame in an exhibition at the town spawn, goes missing unexpectedly. It was never recovered, and the culprit was never found. The diamond found below the Cree Museum is a fake.
+• 12 May: The top floor of the spawn building is refurbished greatly by InternetCurtains. Some new memorabilia and furniture is added.
+• 16 May: A map of Purest Pines and its surroundings is finished and placed on the wall of the top floor of the spawn building - this map can still be seen today.
+• 18 May: Crazy500o, the miner behind what is known colloquially as 'The Hole' - the huge area just to the west of Purest Pines that has been mined out to bedrock - returns to the server under the new username 'MrBeldingFan'. He states that he wants to create a new hole. It is unknown whether his plan went ahead.
+• 19 May: Austinh8911 and DiscoEwe4410090, both having quit the server months before, rejoin and visit Purest Pines.
+• **24 May:** idog279, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town. He goes on to build several small monuments around Purest Pines, such as the hot air balloon in Mercer and the medieval building in Cordan.
+• 25 May: WifiShutters returns to EMC after a month-long hiatus, rejoining Purest Pines.
+• 26 May: After experiencing a decline in population, the nation of Vermont reaches 400 residents again.
+• 26 May: SwampNuts1, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town.
+• 27 May: Similar to Vermont (see 26 May), Purest Pines had been undergoing a decline in population since mid-April. Around this time, InternetCurtains tries to recruit more often and promises a 'new era' of Purest Pines. However, due to InternetCurtains being busy in real life, this 'new era' turns out to be nothing more than a slight increase in town activity.
+• **2 June:** At some point around this time, Mr_Herobrine_JR of Monark Industries, Vermont, is paid by InternetCurtains to create the Purest Pines CityPlace. This building is inspired by the CityPlace located in Vermont City. It includes several spacious apartments for residents, and is later expanded by InternetCurtains to include information about the town, a cafe, a swimming pool on the top of the building, and some other decoration. Then, at a later date lost to time, the Purest Pines primary storage unit is built beneath the CityPlace.
+• 2 June: HamanIsChosen, an old friend of InternetCurtains from the Canada Era, returns to EMC. He joins Purest Pines and offers to help InternetCurtains build up the town. Eventually, HamanIsChosen agrees to create an entirely new district, though after a few days he became fed up with Vermont and left the town. This new district was never built.
+• 3 June: InternetCurtains, SwampNuts1, CooperSaurus_YT and Kelp14 - all Purest Pines residents - explore a huge ice rail discovered beneath Purest Pines earlier on in the year. As InternetCurtains had established when it was first discovered, the ice rail stretches from the Cascadian capitol area to Ireland and Iceland. The four decide to take the route heading east. Along the way, they build some amusing things on a base in the Atlantic just above the ice rail, and then explore Iceland together. This adventure signifies the prosperity and activity enjoyed by Purest Pines - at certain time intervals.
+• 5 June: Pixiesinferno, a former active Purest Pines resident during the middle part of the Cree Era, rejoins the server and visits the town, but is never seen again.
+• 8 June: A two-chunk-wide barn is built to fill in the open space just south of the spawn building.
+• 8 June: WifiShutters temporarily changes his username to 'WaifuShutters' as a joke. He sends a subsequent related image to InternetCurtains, which is not received well by him. This annoys WifiShutters, and he briefly leaves Purest Pines is protest and joins the town owned by Huffymagicdragon at the time.
+• 8 June: Swisschees, an active Mercer District resident who founded the cult of the 'Pit', joins the town.
+• 9 June: Georges_IV, former leader of Patagonia (which was the most populous nation on the server in mid-to-late 2023), joins Purest Pines briefly while visiting towns.
+• 11 June: For four days, starting from this date, Terra Aurora goes down so that the performance plugin 'Folia' could be added. The server was also updated to 1.19 during this time. It is replaced by ArtMC, another project started by Fix, which aims to recreate r/place in Minecraft.
+• 15 June: Terra Aurora opens again. Newly-available cherry saplings are distributed throughout the server. Alfowumpapride, a fellow Vermonter, gives InternetCurtains a cherry sapling, which is planted outside the Cree Museum. The resultant cherry tree is one of the oldest on the server.
+• 25 June: WifiShutters' parents divorce, leading him into a depression which would soon spiral out of control.
+• 30 June: After a period of inactivity from DiscoEwe4410090, mayor of Kapuskasing and now-leader of Kentucky, InternetCurtains leaves Purest Pines temporarily and buys Kentucky for 600g to save it from falling into ruin (shortly before going inactive, DiscoEwe4410090 attempted to sell the nation, unsuccessfully). Purest Pines is held by WifiShutters during this process.
+• 4 July: After four days of holding the nation of Kentucky, InternetCurtains manages to contact DiscoEwe4410090 successfully, who tells him to simply give the nation away. It is sold for 300g to Papyt1, a former Vermonter. The 600g spent by InternetCurtains on buying Kentucky is later reimbursed by DiscoEwe4410090, making InternetCurtains 900g richer. This gold is used to expand the Cherry and Mercer Districts and later helps fund the expansion into Merlin.
+• 5 July: The Purest Pines shield, visible at the top of the CityPlace, is built.
+• 9 July: InternetCurtains visits the mayors of some towns with an all-black version of his duck skin, claiming to be the 'Phantom Ducc'. He jokingly asks each mayor to give him all of their gold. Swozie, a town mayor in Mali, *does* actually comply and give InternetCurtains his worth: about 30g. This has no relation to Purest Pines, but is funny nevertheless. If you're reading this, I hope you're finding the history of Purest Pines interesting so far!
+• 10 July: Spuddles_69, a partially active Cordan District resident, builder of the house next to RuleroftheLand's plot in southern Cordan and eventual friend of Laser3210, joins the town.
+• 11 July: Part of Toronto, former capital of Canada (Purest Pines' first nation) is unclaimed by Twomoo1119. This part of the city is reclaimed under 404aka's Vermont town Hamilton. The reclaiming is funded partially by InternetCurtains.
+• 11 July: SoftPlains09299, an active but reclusive Mercer District resident, joins the town.
+• 12 July: Laser3210, a fairly active Mercer District resident and eventual friend of Spuddles_69, joins the town.
+• 13 July: Bingy726 returns to EarthMC, with the immediate goal of reviving Purest Pines. This leads to a surge in town activity, residing around large town rank for about a month, as he recruits with InternetCurtains over the school holidays.
+• 14 July: SmartLittleMan, the first Cherry District resident (given one of the plots in the cherry forest itself, as opposed to the larger residential area which was still being built up) joins the town. He admires Purest Pines and all of the work put into it, and remains active on EarthMC for a while.
+• **14 July:** Cloudesy, the builder behind the artifical cherry tree in the Aquille District, joins the town, but leaves and eventually goes inactive shortly after.
+• **14 July:** t0r, an active Aquille District resident who built his own now-demolished tower close to the spawn building, joins the town.
+• 15 July: Around this time, war breaks out between the OFN (mainly Vermont) and the Lone Star Republic (operated by Texas). Texas takes advantage of Vermont's passivity, using it to effectively bully the nation. For example, Texas manages to convince a mod to 2.1 Vermont falsely. Little brawling effort was made by Vermont at first, resulting in InternetCurtains making the decision to start hunting Texan residents. The gear of these Texan victims are still stored in Purest Pines today.
+• 15 July: Kevinvu532, an active Mercer District resident who built the ramen shop in the Chauser District, joins the town.
+• 16 July: 5bagel, the second Cherry District resident, given a plot in the cherry forest itself, joins the town. Like SmartLittleMan, he becomes active on the server, and builds a huge, water-framed tower in his plot which would continue to stand in Purest Pines until mid-to-late 2025.
+• 18 July: Laurentia, Purest Pines' third nation, is disbanded by its leader, TylenolEC. The nation had undergone major inactivity after Vermont City left it to found the Vermont Republic nation. The capital of Laurentia, New Amsterdam, is renamed to Farewell Folks and given to DerpiestBurger, an old resident of the town. Farewell Folks continues to live on until the server reset.
+• 25 July: The Cordan District is expanded further north (past the Cordan Plaza). During this expansion, Purest Pines surpasses 300 townblocks.
+• 27 July: Around this time, InternetCurtains expands into what is now the residential area of the Cherry District and starts building the roads and plots there.
+• 3 August: kellyisanicelady spearheads a dissent to remove 'dictator' Princeling7 from power in Vermont. Several people support him, including InternetCurtains and RuleroftheLand, though Princeling7 would retain ownership of Vermont.
+• 17 August: Baconmayonaise1, now Jacquemon, friend of InternetCurtains, joins Purest Pines temporarily after the dissolution of his nation, Zealandia.
+• 1 September: Around this time, InternetCurtains becomes busy with exams and is unable to play much EarthMC, causing Purest Pines to decay in population and activity yet again.
+• **4 September:** WifiShutters' depression reaches boiling point and he goes multiple days without sleeping.
+• 9 September: WifiShutters fakes his own death, supposedly a mixture of suicide and cancer, with the goal of subsequentially becoming uninterested in EarthMC and eventually quit. This death is perceived as genuine by most people, with numerous being upset. However, this attempt at getting EarthMC out of his life would not be successful. WifiShutters would continue to play, under the persona of his older brother. As a result, several people, including InternetCurtains, would become suspicious about his death. His supposed last words can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VP5idMN6Wys06tvchWVuX2viWJafrqVYjTCXiRI9Hk/edit?tab=t.0.
+• 14 September: InternetCurtains starts designing a floating island in Creative Mode dedicated to WifiShutters. However, after suspicions that WifiShutters' death was faked, this island is never finished.
+• 18 September: RuleroftheLand founds the nation of Ontario. With InternetCurtains being a long-time friend of RuleroftheLand, he agrees to join Ontario to help him develop it.
+=== '''Ontario Era''' ===
+The Ontario Era is a relatively short era between the First and Second Vermont Eras. Ontario's capital was Kapiscau, the town founded by Ruleroftheland just to the north-east of Purest Pines during the Cree Era. InternetCurtains was second-in-command in Ontario, and helped develop the nation immensely. Thus, while Purest Pines was still top-priority, InternetCurtains also found himself working for the good of an entire nation once again. Occasionally, InternetCurtains joined back to Vermont briefly to see how it was doing. After a couple of months, Ontario was deleted by Ruleroftheland due to lack of motivation while InternetCurtains was taking a break from EarthMC.
+Perhaps the most important aspect of this era was the introduction of the jobs system for Purest Pines. This was not meant to enslave residents; instead, it was completely optional, only meant to keep them occupied (and, hopefully, active on the server). The Cordan District was also expanded to the north to include numerous new plots. The jobs system aside and Cordan expansion aside, little new development arised during this short era.
+By this point, InternetCurtains vowed to do something incredible in EarthMC. After some consideration, he decided that it might be a good idea to mass recruit for the town such that it would become the most populous town on the entire server. This would be done between November and January, and using the recruitment planning devised by InternetCurtains in his spare time, the town could reach a population of 400. Such a milestone could finally cure InternetCurtains' insatiable thirst to do something great on the server - and do something great in his life as a whole. However, he would not succeed in his plans altogether.
+• 22 September: Mynuetto, previously known as ViaRynn, real-life cousin of Pixiesinferno (see 9 December 2023), joins Purest Pines again. She initially vows to support the growth of the town, but then steals some items from the Purest Pines primary storage with her friend and leaves the town to make her own on Akimiski Island - see 27 October.
+• 4 October: Around this time, InternetCurtains starts expanding the Cordan District greatly in preparation for the influx of new town residents planned after the end of October. Most of this expansion takes place in north of the Cordan Plaza, but some plots around what is now the north-eastern edge of the space built for the Purest Pine are also added.
+• 24 October: With InternetCurtains now having a large amount of free time, he does a server-wide vote for a new town flag for Purest Pines. Flag Number Four wins and becomes town flag known today.
+• 27 October: ViaRynn and Ice_Lord188 steal about 100 gold's worth of items from the Purest Pines primary storage, including its wealth of over two stacks of lecterns. These items are used in the construction of a new town on Akimiski Island. To worsen the situation, these towns joined Vermont instead of Ontario, irritating RuleroftheLand. The items were never recovered.
+• 27 October: InternetCurtains buys a camel called Camelot from the town of Fairbanks in Alaska and starts transporting it to Purest Pines, thousands of blocks away. After a couple of days, the camel is abandoned in a hole in western Ontario, but recovered by InternetCurtains much later in April 2025 and transported all the way to Purest Pines successfully. This camel is now on display in the Chauser District.
+• 28 October: InternetCurtains starts setting up a sophisticated but entirely optional town jobs system. The first three town jobs to be created are Resource Collector, Demolition Expert and Builder.
+• 29 October: Amartine60 joins the town. Despite being quite reclusive, he would go on to be one of the most active Purest Pines residents and would contribute to the reconstruction of the Chauser District during Purest Pines' golden era.
+• 31 October: Sonic43210000 joins Purest Pines. He would become an active Aquille District resident who would provide support in the construction of Swinasham.
+• 1 November: Goatoffutball112, a prolific mystery crate seller, joins Purest Pines and randomly gives InternetCurtains two stacks of gold blocks - a total of 1152g.
+• 3 November: 5bagel rejoins Purest Pines briefly (see 16 July).
+• 6 November: Goatoffutball112 returns to Ontario, this time giving Ruleroftheland a whopping 6930g unexpectedly. This gold is initially used to help Ontario fund new towns.
+• 17 November: After InternetCurtains once again loses motivation from EMC and takes a short break from the server, he returns to find Ontario deleted by RuleroftheLand, who had lost motivation himself in the midst. Thus, InternetCurtains rejoins Vermont, commencing the Second Vermont Era.
+=== '''Second Vermont Era''' ===
+By the time Purest Pines rejoined Vermont, the nation was more or less the same, but was likely slightly less active than it was before, and new faces such as Wind2920, ComfortableBed and AuraKaisen had joined.
+The Second Vermont Era is a story in its own right. During this lengthy era - the longest era overall - Purest Pines reached its absolute apex, and then reached its absolute nadir. During December, InternetCurtains expanded the Mercer District and Cherry District immensely, and recruited an influx of new residents. Before long, Purest Pines was a metropolis for the second occasion, and was seen at the top of the /t list by online consistently - it was the most active town on the server, except for maybe Sukhbaatar. Bingy726 returned to the server and helped InternetCurtains make the town active and populous, propelling it into its golden era. With the help of several new active residents, the Chauser Business District was redesigned almost from the ground up in the space of a couple of weeks, a town newspaper was created, and the model Victorian village of Swinasham was created. On 7 January, Purest Pines reached its goal of 100 residents in the town, though the most remarkable achievement of this incredible day was 13 residents online in the town at a single point in time, a record that InternetCurtains never saw topped for the entirety of Terra Aurora, likely Purest Pines' greatest achievement.
+However, almost immediately after the 100-resident milestone, the town began to decay again. InternetCurtains had extreme recruiting fatigue and Bingy726 was busy moving houses in real life. After a few months, the town was completely deserted. Other than InternetCurtains' and WifiShutters' (who had become best friends due to the grace of Purest Pines despite not knowing each other in real life) occasional messing around in Purest Pines and cherishing of its nostalgia, no residents could be seen online. InternetCurtains assumed that this was the end of Purest Pines at long last - but it most certainly was not.
+• **30 November:** [Very rough timestamp] InternetCurtains starts building up the area just to the south of the spawn building. He adds some acacia trees, a river, a line of flags, and other decoration, livening up the once-empty portion of the town.
+• 30 November: InternetCurtains goes to the Moon on a rocket ship developed by the Texas Space Agency. He collected a few souvenirs along the way, which are now on display in the Cherry Forest.
+• 1 December: InternetCurtains starts building the Purest Pines Military and PVP building, based off of an intricate Japanese house and situated at the edge of the Cherry Forest. Alongside this building, other decoration is added to the forest to make the area more appealing to new Cherry District residents.
+• 1 December: Bloomwise, an active Mercer District resident and talented builder, joins the town.
+• 2 December: ButteredMash, an active Mercer District resident who would help build Swinasham and become good friends with Willowpelt, joins the town.
+• 3 December: Around this time, InternetCurtains expands the Mercer District greatly, adding approximately 35 new plots to house the influx in town residents.
+• 4 December: [CLASSIFIED 5]
+• 4 December: Seeing the recent immense growth in Purest Pines' population (at this time, it was in the city rank), Tuzzzie asks whether InternetCurtains would be interested in joining Alaska. InternetCurtains remarks that the nearest Alaskan town was thousands of blocks away from Purest Pines, but according to Tuzzzie, Alaska could eventually become in range of Purest Pines. However, they never were.
+• 6 December: Keyspiderhole, a fairly active Mercer District resident, joins the town.
+• 7 December: Hays99, an active Mercer District resident and builder behind 'Hayton' at the edge of the district, joins the town. He would also help clear out some of the old Mercer District plots to make way for more empty plots.
+• **7 December:** KartKid8 (previously CooperSaurus_YT) rejoins Purest Pines, once again becoming an active resident. He helps with the construction of Swinasham.
+• 8 December: MegalomaniacJack, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.
+• 8 December: Willowpelt, an active Mercer District resident who would go on to provide building support and become good friends with ButteredMash, joins the town.
+• 9 December: DartVaderVkJ (later FoxGamerVkJ), an active Mercer District resident who made significant contributions to Purest Pines' town council, joins the town. He leaves the game the moment InternetCurtains gives him a plot, resulting in InternetCurtains simply evicting it, believing mistakenly that DartVaderVkJ would never log on again.
+• 10 December: Gamingseries2003, an active Mercer District resident and avid farmer, joins the town.
+• 11 December: Captianfalcon, a real-life friend of DartVaderVkJ who would become fairly active himself, joins the town.
+• 12 December: A Christmas-themed building contest is announced in Vermont, with huge prizes for the best buildings. The deadline is 29 December. Thus, multiple Purest Pines town residents start working on a Victorian-London-themed area (with The Night Before Christmas by Charles Dickens in mind) to replace the unsightly wasteland to the south of the CityPlace. This area becomes known as 'Swinasham'. ButteredMash makes the buildings and some of the general decoration, InternetCurtains makes the paths, the park and comes up with the name 'Swinasham', Sonic43210000 and KartKid8 build the Christmas tree in the centre of the build, and Willowpelt provides moral support.
+• 13 December: HappyTomato132, a somewhat active Mercer District resident who built the large wooden house next to KartKid8's estate, joins the town.
+• 16 December: Concord (previously Farmington), now owned by an ambiguous townhopper called Suitepeed, is deleted, bringing an end to the history of Farmington.
+• 17 December: SwampNuts1, an old active resident from the Cordan District, rejoins Purest Pines. However, it's not long before he goes inactive again.
+• 18 December: Likely starting from this date, InternetCurtains, Willowpelt and ButteredMash compete in a series of head-finding contests run at Iceland by BlueRedStone_.
+• 19 December: BuilderBoy59, an active Cherry District resident who built the InternetCurtains Estate, joins the town.
+• 23 December: Jazbbwtyl joins the town. He would go on to be active on the server for a long time, helping to refurbish the Chauser Business District, and then helping with the Duck Society once it had been re-founded. He is considered a Purest Pines OG, despite not being in the town for as long as some of the others who hold this title.
+• **23 December:** Occasional mayor Bingy726 runs a project to refurbish the Chauser Business District. At this point in time, it had been a derelict space, with the WPMC Tower, Disco Tower, USSNA Perm Base and Bingy Estate acting as the last stands. However, thanks to Bingy726 himself, InternetCurtains, BuilderBoy59, Jazbbwtyl, Platinum201547, Aqualicorn, Amartine60, and KNG_Sakuma, several new buildings and general decoration is built in the district, including Purest Papers (a newspaper company run by Bingy726 documenting the town's happenings), InternetCurtains Estate (built by BuilderBoy59 next to Bingy Estate), 'The Dives' (an underground shopping area and town archive), several shops (including Amartine60's flower shop, Sugoi Sand, and KNG_Sakuma's 'Shop and Chomp'). This cooperative project boosts the town's activity and dedication massively and is able to be completed in an extremely short length of time; the bulk being finished in under a week. As such, this project has become a symbol of Purest Pines' golden era.
+• 24 December: Comp1bl, an active Cherry District resident, joins the town.
+• 24 December: A town council is formed by Bingy726 and InternetCurtains. Most information about the town council have been lost to time, but active town members such as Amartine60 and Jazbbwtyl joined it, and the occasional council meeting was held to discuss Purest Pines' development. Despite the planning of monthly elections, only a single election - for December - was held.
+• 26 December: ButteredMash and Willowpelt leave Purest Pines to found the Icelandic town of Akranes. They remain honorary residents of Purest Pines, however.
+• 29 December: The results of the Christmas-themed Vermont building contest are announced. Swinasham comes in second place (behind L1AB1LITY's How the Grinch Stole Christmas build), meaning that 500g is won for Purest Pines.
+• 30 December: SlipperySalmon14, a well-known nation leader from Africa, joins Purest Pines briefly while townhopping.
+• 30 December: Purest Pines, now at about 76 residents, overtakes Vermont City in population to become the largest town in Vermont.
+• 31 December: Platinum201547, an active Mercer District resident and real-life friend of Jazbbwtyl, joins the town.
+• 31 December: Purest Pines reaches a total of 80 residents, promoting it to the second page of /t list.
+• 2 January: Aqualicorn, an active Chauser District resident, joins the town.
+• 2 January: KNG_Sakuma, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.
+• 3 January: Mayorship of Purest Pines is transferred to Bingy726 temporarily due to the strong connection and trust between the two mayors.
+• 3 January: Purest Pines reaches a total of ten residents online at once, almost definitely the highest number achieved by the town at that point.
+• 7 January: At the height of the golden era, Purest Pines reaches its absolute apex. Across today, thanks to extreme recruiting efforts by Bingy726 and InternetCurtains, 18 residents are gained in a single day - not including some more who left the town shortly after joining. This influx of residents mean that the mayors' dream for Purest Pines is reached: 100 total residents. The 100th resident is FreddyFlame13, who would unfortunately go inactive after his first day on the server. Even more incredible, during the recruiting spree, Purest Pines reaches a total of 13 residents online at once. This is not only the highest number achieved by Purest Pines, but the highest number ever witnessed by any town in InternetCurtains' career, a record seemingly intact for the rest of Terra Aurora's lifespan. InternetCurtains and Bingy726 continue to recruit for a bit, with the town's population being 102 at its highest. A collection of screenshots documenting this incredible day can be seen at https://imgur.com/a/7th-january-2025-6x4xa6Z.
+• 8 January: Around this time, Bingy726 moves houses in real life, which renders him inactive. Despite unsuccessful persuasion from Bingy726, no more residents are recruited by InternetCurtains; his goal had been achieved at long last, and he was developing a hangover after such intense recruiting. From this point onwards, the town would slowly decay into a fraction of its former self, the next revival being over six months away.
+• 27 January: Knowing that the town would never reach such a high population again, InternetCurtains gathers all of the gold he can find to expand Purest Pines greatly while the possible town size was still high. All in all, 1600 gold is spent on approximately 100 new plots. Most of these are to the south of the Mercer District, with some more to the north of the Chauser District, and are mostly disused.
+• 30 January: By this point, Vermont as a whole had decayed. InternetCurtains logs on to find only two people (including himsel) online in the nation at once.
+• 31 January: WifiShutters announces to InternetCurtains that he is not actually dead; he faked his own death to try and get away from EarthMC at the height of his depression. InternetCurtains forgives WifiShutters, and decides that while he will not announce publicly that WifiShutters' death was faked, if anyone asks about it, he will tell them the truth about what happened to WifiShutters. Due to this, after a few months, word is spread around about the death being faked.
+• 25 March: Firstclassstew, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town during its decay period.
+• 6 April: It is announced that EarthMC will reset on 1 May 2026.
+• 14 April: Hyerin_ye (previously Mynuetto, an active Cree town mayor), rejoins the server and visits Purest Pines. After being told about the town's decay, she volunteers to help InternetCurtains revive it. However, other than fixing up the Merlin District, both Hyerin_ye and InternetCurtains go inactive again before any real progress is made.
+• 15 April: InternetCurtains finally finishes the transportation of Camelot the camel from Alaska to Purest Pines (see 27 October). Part of the Chauser District near a creek is sectioned off for a desert-themed exhibit for Camelot.
+• 17 May: InternetCurtains may-or-may-not have stolen a horse with maximum stats from a nearby town.
+• 21 June: InternetCurtains decides to explore some towns across EarthMC (and eventually tries and fails to take up town sniping), partially in the hope of regaining interest in the server. Ownership of Purest Pines is transferred to WifiShutters (now Luminarad).
+• 11 July: InternetCurtains has little fun with exploring other towns around EarthMC. He decides to return to Purest Pines, thereby regaining town mayorship. With Cascadia now the largest nation on the server and expanding eastwards towards the town, plus with Vermont being extremely inactive, InternetCurtains decides to leave Vermont and join this nation.
+=== '''Cascadia Era''' ===
+''Welcome to Cascadia! This goliath nation has expanded so much recently that Purest Pines is now in range of it, despite the capital being on the other side of the continent. With the joining of Cascadia, motivation to revive Purest may be found" - Town board message, 12 July 2025''
+InternetCurtains simply could not let Purest Pines fall into nothingness. EarthMC was a prominent part of his life. Purest Pines was likely the greatest thing he had created in his life. In July 2025, he began to recruit for the town again. This recruitment was slow at first, but grew to a rapid pace by October thanks to Bingy726. Despite InternetCurtains' increasing business in real life, to his surprise, the town was able to thrive. Several active residents joined the town during this era, and Purest Pines became a metropolis for the third and final time.
+Numerous advancements were made in Purest Pines during this era. The remaining derelict parts of town - the area to the south of the spawn building and to the west of the CityPlace most notably - were turned into lively spaces by InternetCurtains. The Cordan District was expanded to the west to make way for new town plots. However, the most important advancement did not take place on EarthMC itself: by August, InternetCurtains was finally able to use Discord, and thus he was able to create a definitive Discord server for the town. Several other opportunities emerged when InternetCurtains started using Discord: it was easier to contact players he knew, a wiki page for the town was developed, and InternetCurtains was even able to participate in the Cascadian presidential elections.
+Cascadia as a whole was a highly active nation with a strong community. It dominated North America, stretching from the Pacific Northwest to Newfoundland and Labrador, containing over a thousand residents spanning over two hundred towns. Contrary to Vermont, nation chat in Cascadia wasn't perpetually active, but most communication happened on Discord. Cascadian officials such as FlyGuy3000 gave support to Purest Pines, and InternetCurtains was able to interact with his home nation (and the server as a whole) in a way he had not been able to experience before.
+• 12 July: InternetCurtains recruits a few new residents into the town. These residents are housed in whatever plots throughout the residential districts were easy to demolish. This recruiting continues to happen at a relatively slow rate for a couple of weeks.
+• 17 July: Izzypro321yt, an active Mercer District resident who helped to build a couple of structures around the town, joins the town. He is the first active resident recruited into Purest Pines after the decay following its golden era.
+• **19 July:** InternetCurtains is prompted by FlyGuy3000 to connect the ice rail found underneath Purest Pines with the new Cascadian ice rail, which had been expanded towards Purest Pines.
+• 23 July: Purest Pines has five players online at once, showing its revival.
+• 16 August: During a Cascadian election, candidate FlyGuy3000 hosts a presidential rally in Purest Pines. This rally takes place in the office on the second storey of the spawn building, with approximately eight attendees. FlyGuy3000 would go on to win the election and remain president for two terms.
+• 16 August: InternetCurtains is able to use Discord at long last, prompting him to join the Discord server for Cascadia.
+• 18 August: InternetCurtains starts writing a wiki page for Purest Pines. Progress was made sporadically over the course of the next year.
+• 20 August: Shmoosee, an active Cherry District resident and avid fisher, joins the town.
+• 21 August: InternetCurtains completes an official, definitive Discord server for Purest Pines. This would serve the town well and improve communication between residents and other Cascadians. WifiShutters, TheDegenerate and DiscoEwe4410090 are the first joiners.
+• 24 August: InternetCurtains picks up the recruiting pace. On this day, it becomes a large town again (with 28 residents). InternetCurtains plans to maintain a healthy population of about 30 for the time being.
+• 24 August: Titoto9130, an active Cherry District resident, joins the town.
+• 30 August: The second-ever resident of Purest Pines, Helloaiminsane (now Deusvult6290), joined back to EarthMC after two years of almost total inactivity. He asks Titoto9130 to get InternetCurtains online to meet him. This is an incredible, unexpected moment in Purest Pines' history. He tours the town briefly and joins the town Discord server, but besides that remains inactive. The sudden arrival of Deusvult6290 prompts DiscoEwe4410090 and InternetCurtains to try and find Klonkybonky, the first resident of Purest Pines. They come across a Discord user who goes by the same name, who is contacted by InternetCurtains. This user claims to be the Klonkybonky from Purest Pines, but InternetCurtains remains uncertain, and the user never joins the Purest Pines Discord server, nor returns to the server.
+• 6 September: Bingy726 returns to EarthMC... Once again.
+• 13 September: The southern side of the Aquille District is refurbished to include new detail, memorabilia and interesting facts about the buildings that once lay there.
+• 14 September: X_Tree, a fairly active Cordan District resident, joins the town.
+• 15 September: To InternetCurtains' surprise (who was increasingly busy in real life), Purest Pines becomes a city (40 residents total). He announces on the Purest Pines Discord server that he'd be genuinely surprised if Purest Pines was able to reach large city rank. The increased population is used towards the west of the CityPlace to make way for new Cordan District plots.
+• 16 September: With the expanding of the Cordan District further west, the town reaches a total of 600 townblocks - worth 9600g.
+• 20 September: Xrhstosdim1, an active Cherry District resident who helped immensely with demolishing former resident plots during this part of the town's history, joins the town.
+• 20 September: Tbnrjstrong, an active Cordan District resident, joins the town.
+• 21 September: With 48 residents in the town, Purest Pines exceeds InternetCurtains' expectations and reaches large city rank.
+• **22 September:** Bingy726 starts recruiting for Purest Pines alongside InternetCurtains. The majority of the remaining recruitment in this part of Purest Pines' history is done by him.
+• 23 September: The Bingy Arena is built by Bingy726 in northern Cordan. Unfortunately, it is never really used.
+• 24 September: Thanks to rapid mass-recruitment from Bingy726, Purest Pines reaches 56 residents, becoming a metropolis for the third occasion.
+• 26 September: Seeing that Bingy726 was putting more effort into the town than him, InternetCurtains decides to give Towny mayorship to Bingy726.
+• 27 September: Tibbletime321, an active Cordan District resident and extremely talented builder who would go on to build several estates around the eventually derelict part of northern Cordan, joins the town.
+• 28 September: Dwyvr, an active Cordan District resident who built the large stone brick structure in western Cordan, joins the town.
+• 1 October: Purest Pines reaches 80 residents. During this third endeavour into metropolis rank, the maximum population of the town has been lost to time, but was likely about 84.
+• 5 October: The day after the release of WorldMC, a separate Earth Towny server run by some former EarthMC staff, InternetCurtains and WifiShutters travel across North America on the server, from Jamaica to Alberta. This several-thousand-block journey takes three hours. Once they reach their destination in Alberta, they found Purest Pines. WifiShutters spearheads the growth of this town, but little progress is made before InternetCurtains and him lose interest in WorldMC. The WorldMC iteration of Purest Pines falls quickly.
+• 13 October: Cascadia dominates the server, reaching over 1100 residents. Six separate towns in the nation are metropolises at this point - including Purest Pines, the fourth most populous, at 71 residents.
+• 23 October: InternetCurtains announces that both him and Bingy726 will be going inactive for a few weeks to focus on real-life ordeals.
+• 27 October: Kevin484848's newly re-founded town of 'Kings' joins Cascadia. Shortly after, a pathway is built between Purest Pines and Kings, lined with pale oak trees.
+• 29 October: Princeling7 joins Purest Pines briefly, planning to found a town between Purest Pines and Chester Port. Though Princeling7 never founds this town, he becomes the holder of an important Cascadian town near the West Coast.
+• 30 October: The Perdisac Garden and Church are built to the west of the CityPlace, reviving the previously derelict area.
+• 30 October: Coughitout, an active Mercer District resident, joins the town.
+• 1 November: With low activity in Vermont and close ties between Vermont and Cascadia, the former (now under the leadership of Wishful_, merges with the latter). This boosts Cascadia's population massively and secures its place in eastern Canada.
+• 2 November: EarthMC updates to 1.21.6, allowing Purest Pines to gain its own happy ghast.
+• 4 November: Cherylblossom208, a fairly active Cordan District resident, joins the town. Cherylblossom208 would be paid by InternetCurtains to create a cafe in the Cherry Forest, which was later decorated and turned into a third place by InternetCurtains.
+• 8 November: Numerous residents start 42-daying, meaning that Purest Pines goes down to large city rank overnight. However, InternetCurtains manages to "destroy the evidence quickly", and by the end of the day, the town had over 60 residents again.
+• 8 November: Maneater_Mela and Korthegolem, two active Cordan District residents who know each other in real life, join the town.
+• 8 November: Jiek, an active Mercer District resident who joined the town randomly and proceeded to build a huge hole in his plot, joins the town.
+• 9 November: Sobbingbox joins the town. He would go on to help with some of the builds around Purest Pines, only to destroy his reputation by obliterating the Purest Pines primary storage unit and blaming it on Texas. However, he was later forgiven by InternetCurtains and would become the first resident besides InternetCurtains to join Ducktopia on Terra Nostra. InternetCurtains and Sobbingbox would stay in contact even after InternetCurtains quit EarthMC.
+• 15 November: The Purest Pines Discord server reaches 50 members.
+• 21 November: Chips200112, an active Aquille District resident and strong Cascadian patriot, joined the town. He would go on to be part of several other Cascadian towns, and would attempt to run in the Cascadian general elections often.
+• 24 November: Sobbingbox informs InternetCurtains that the Purest Pines primary storage unit had been destroyed. Sure enough, when InternetCurtains logs on, he finds the unit obliterated, with damage increasing as level decreases. Countless items were lost, and Texan flags were placed around the storage unit - Texas and Cascadia were skirmishing at the time. However, no one outside of Purest Pines had trust in the storage unit. A witch hunt began in order to find the culprit behind the destruction. Eventually, InternetCurtains and Bingy726 came to the conclusion that it was Sobbingbox's doing. Sobbingbox initially denies (but is nevertheless kicked from the town and outlawed from the whole of Cascadia, causing him to become inactive), but later accepts it towards the end of Terra Aurora. The Texan flags were likely placed there as red herrings.
+• 29 November: The Duck Society is re-founded (see 21 November 2023) after two years. This means that Project Ducc is advertised again and the town of Ducktopia is planned. Bingy726 also starts the Goose Society, which exists "purely the thwart the wholesome and happy plans of the Duck Society".
+• 30 November: The Holy Duck Crusade (comprising InternetCurtains, TheDegenerate, Jazbbwtyl and Chips200112) travel from Mansel to an island further north, where Jazbbwtyl and Platinum201547 had founded 1 Chunk City at the start of 2025. There, they found Ducktopia. However, a couple of weeks later, after Goosetopia had been deleted by DiscoEwe4410090, rendering Ducktopia nationless, the town is deleted. InternetCurtains vows to found Ducktopia properly when Terra Nostra releases.
+• 3 December: Titoto9130 leaves Purest Pines to found his own town in Tahiti, which he names 'Purest Islands'.
+• 15 December: Coughitout leaves Purest Pines to found the town of 'Acadian', located in the Acadian Peninsula. With the loss of Coughitout and Titoto9130, plus an increasing number of inactive town residents 42-daying, the town decays once again. By this point, the reset is only five and a half months away, so no further revival to the town was ever made.
+• 11 January: [CLASSIFIED 6]
+• 14 January: InternetCurtains finishes the construction of the 'Purest Pine' in a creative world, which is planned to be an "endgame megaproject" celebrating the town's extensive history. It is approximately three-by-three chunks large and 110 blocks tall (spanning 13 storeys). InternetCurtains starts building it on EarthMC, but despite the monumental importance of this building in wrapping up the town's lifespan, it is never finished.
+• 18 January: InternetCurtains runs a joke presidential campaign with fellow Cascadian Ejsj1 during the Cascadian elections, with the pledge to make *Nubia* a better nation. Needless to say, this campaign was not successful.
+• 15 February: QuickMash, who InternetCurtains, DiscoEwe4410090 and WifiShutters had trolled during a stream of his in late 2023, joins Purest Pines after regaining interest in the server.
+• 15 February: InternetCurtains gives the horse he may-or-may-not have stolen on 17 May 2025 back to its rightful owner.
+• 23 February: Sammyjammy77 of Alberta, Baranof, agrees to fund for some of the items required for the Purest Pine.
+• 25 February: Around this time, InternetCurtains starts planning the first set of buildings for Ducktopia in Terra Nostra. However, these buildings were never made before Ducktopia was deleted.
+• 28 February: InternetCurtains is persuaded by GrayMold9 (also known as 'Carl') to join Baranof, an extremely rich and active new nation based in eastern Alaska. His reasoning for this is that, with the reset imminent, "we might as well have some fun and join Baranof after all".
+=== '''Baranof Era''' ===
+By this point in time, Baranof was similar to Cascadia in population, activity and power. However, InternetCurtains was not active enough to connect with Baranof residents in the same way he had done with those of Cree, Vermont and Cascadia.
+Purest Pines as a whole was in its final stage of life by this era. Throughout the whole of the era, no more residents were recruited into the town; with the server reset imminent, there was no purpose. InternetCurtains himself was barely active on the server, only logging on every now and then to work on the Purest Pine which was never finished completely.
+Purest Pines also ended up in Nubia and Japan during the Baranof Era (and Baranof itself was eventually renamed to United States), but the town's time in these nations has been amalgamated into the Baranof Era to avoid overcomplication.
+• 3 March: Due to the imminent server reset, the nation of Nubia (based in north-east Africa), makes a network of numerous bridge towns travelling to North America, allowing Purest Pines to join the nation. In order to have some more fun, plus due to Nubia's ties with Purest Pines during the Cree Era, InternetCurtains decides to join the nation.
+• 6 March: Purest Pines rejoins Baranof.
+• 1 April: Purest Pines joins Japan. Like Nubia, Japan had created a series of bridge towns heading into North America.
+• 4 April: Purest Pines joins Nubia again.
+• 12 April: After four years of server-wide history, Terra Aurora is shut down.

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