User:Therealoofplux/Drafts/Eclipse

Eclipse is a group that is known for running massive spawn projects on 2b2t, started by yfua. Most notably, Eclipse constructed a large spawn project, known as the 1st Eclipse, from April 22, 2022 to May 11, 2022.

History
Eclipse was founded on March 10 2022 by yfua. The group was originally not a spawn project group, mostly hanging out at Overworld Spawn and helping run small events on the server, like iPeanuts21's Spawn Fight Club. The group was closely allied with the Spawn Builder's Association (or SBA for short), as yfua was highly ranked in SBA. The group had a couple small bases at the time which were quickly abandoned in the coming weeks. On March 26 2022, after a short hiatus from the server, oofplux joined the Eclipse discord as a close friend of yfua. He and yfua had a discussion resulting in them both deciding that to revitalize 2b2t, spawn projects that attracted new players' attention would have to be created. A short while later, oofplux presented a project idea to yfua which would eventually become the 1st Eclipse.

1st Eclipse
After the initial project idea was pitched, oofplux added his friends IronException and Dawnfall_ to a groupchat regarding the project. IronException helped revise the project idea, and a couple weeks later, the project was set in stone. The group would, in essence, keep new players from escaping Nether spawn with a few tricks:


 * 1) exploiting Minecraft Nether Portal mechanics
 * 2) Building layers on the obsidian roof of the Nether to prevent portals from spawning
 * 3) Building a wall at a 256 radius of Nether Spawn (to do this, the obsidian roof at y 120 was also extended from a 200 radius to a 256 radius).

The project had 125 total contributors, and 14 main contributors. The project in total took around 1 million obsidian, with the large majority of this being placed manually, making it the fastest pace to reach 1M obsidian placed manually for any project on 2b2t. Eclipse had many opponents, the main opponent being maksitaxi. He started the Anti Eclipse, a group bent on opposing the project. The groups fought often during the project, and it was a very close rivalry. The project goal was completed though, and a list of 400 new players that were killed and trapped was uploaded to the Eclipse discord to prove their "victory".

Structure
The group purposely keeps a limited amount of members to maintain a tight knit community and an honest group of players. The group has 2 main ranks: Associate, and Prospect. Associate is the rank representing a fully fledged member, and Prospect is the group's candidate rank. There are also the Directors (oofplux, BryceDey, IronException, and yfua) who are the administrators of the group. The group maintains minimal presence in the public eye, only doing spawn projects once every couple months and mostly making spawnbases and building, plus stash hunting.

Allies

 * Spawn Builder's Association
 * Jew Squad
 * Spawn Cleaning Coalition
 * Epsilon
 * 2b2t.group
 * t gang
 * Obscension
 * 2builders12rules
 * Overworld Highways Association

Neutral

 * Spawnmasons

Enemies

 * Anti Eclipse
 * Moonshine
 * Individual PvPers

Old alliances

 * Moonshine

Eclipse Ranks

 * Host - yfua
 * Directors - oofplux, IronException, BryceDey
 * Advisors - spettroca, Dawnfall_, dino_2b2t
 * Associate - DanDucky, doggysam15, Iggen, Ostrich5183, iPeanuts21, baka_833, codysmile11, cope_nn, KeyBison, MrSourKiwi, NugVault, and Osmobyte
 * Prospect - PaulSteve007, xdvc, NeglectedJew, and PuckCoach