User:Hellssponge

Hellssponge is a long-time player on UV and former moderator. He resides in the Pacific time zone and generally keeps to himself. He was briefly the richest player on the server (11db, late 2019), having been the first one to farm and sell beacons, before the value of beacons dropped and he spent his money on demigod armor.

Personal Life
Hellssponge (often just called "Sponge") joined the server on June 29th, 2019. He briefly lived in a shack in a savanna, while locating and digging out an 80*80 hole next to an end portal approximately 25,000 blocks from spawn. From there, he created the castle he now resides in. After this, he quickly built a nether hub and cemented himself into the surrounding landscape, grabbing up blaze spawners and witch huts from the surrounding countryside.

He spent much of his time building nearly every farm and contraption, establishing quite the footprint. While he does not have over-the-top farms such as Ilmango's rabbit farm, made from a bombed-out desert biome, he considers himself to have built every prudent farm.

Once becoming a moderator in early 2020, he was in charge of the design and management of new spawn's nether hub.

Capitalism
The establishment of a half-dozen useful farms led to the opening of The Jungle Store, located on the spawn boat when it was allowed. Miscellaneous books, blaze rods, slime balls, and iron bars stocked the two-double-chest-wide store. The name was based on the jungle wood store sign, colored with dark green dye.

This quickly evolved into the beacon store - the first store in Aurora to have a beacon. This was, of course, due to the wither skeleton farm that later made Hellssponge rich. It featured a quartz exterior with prismarine and purple glass as color accents.

Having completed most major farms, Sponge closed the beacon store and began work on The Money Store. This store was outside Aurora - about 800 blocks from spawn, in the middle of an unused ocean. This was because Aurora was somewhat too small and the store would have to be rebuilt to house the bookstore Sponge was keen on opening after completing his villager trading hall. This store was opened in late 2019. With over 70 items sold, multiple secret chests, and maps of major towns, it was successful. It closed briefly during a mild period of inactivity by Sponge in early 2020, opening again with minimal items for sale. The store, during this time, was criticized for being overpriced. Upon reopening in mid 2020, the store remained mostly unchanged from its original popular design.

Hellssponge also played briefly with an animal delivery service, but found it took too long and was unreliable to deliver them.