Iris

Iris
Location	HUMmian exclave in Montrose
Inhabitants	argetlam04

Iris is a walled village that argetlam04 lives in. It is an island situated in south-central Montrose but owned by HUM. The name "Iris" is for the purple flower that symbolizes wisdom and bravery. It has evolved many times over its existence, which are detailed below:

Iterations:

Flag of Iris

Design of Iris. Top left clockwise: Two houses, gatehouse, square, two more houses, Castle Iris

Iris 1:

Original Island of Iris

The first Iris was argetlam04's first ever project on Elgeis. It took him many days to flatten the part of the island that needed it, gather resources, build, and furnish it. It was a two by five chunk rectangle, created to best use the 10 claims allotted for his estate by the Montrosian Constitution. Inside of the wall, that ran along the edge of the chunk boundaries, argetlam04 created five houses, a square for villagers, and his own house, Castle Iris. Villagers were intended to live in the houses and stalls in the square, but that ultimately failed. Castle Iris was completely surrounded by obsidian as all of argetlam04's valuables were inside of it. Some months after its finish, argetlam04 and Abstacious flattened the rest of Iris to turn into farms. A giant memorial to the toeGANG deity, Brain Stem, was also erected to the north of Iris out of black wool; it stands there to this day. The general layout of Iris 1, with minor changes, remained from argetlam04's date of joining, February 17th, 2019, to the end of the Great Western War.

Iris 2:

Construction of Iris 2:

Where Iris used to be vs. where it was moved

Iris 1 was attacked and aesthetically destroyed by Vailan in the Great Western War. Castle Iris was not penetrated because of its obsidian casing but the houses and square were destroyed. Much landscaping had to be done to repair the ground under Castle Iris, and argetlam04's ultimate decision was to scrap the old design in favor of a new one. It was to be a three by three chunk square, keeping the walls on the bottom right side unchanged. The whole thing would be occupied by a square for villagers, centered around four beacons in a tower. No one knows where argetlam04 moved his valuables after ender chests were removed.

Additions to Iris 2:

Iris 2, beacons, chicken farm, bamboo farm, and bee dome

After the completion of the walls, many aspects were added to and around Iris 2. A passive bamboo farm, semi-AFK tree farm, and eventually a feather and chicken farm was added. The largest addition around Iris 2 was a glass dome for bees. It has three rings of jungle trees with increasing height which were surrounded by many flowers—predominately alliums—for the bees to pollinate.

Screenshot taken on the eve of beginning the construction of Iris 3

Iris 3:

Construction of the Village:

Iris' borders after being "geometric-ified"

Planning of Iris 3 began on March 12th, 2020, and construction began the day after. There was no specific reason for this redesign, but argetlam04 had just finished updating the MID and had some ideas he wanted to implement. The intent was to have a fully functioning industrial villager trading area on the island that was better than that of any other nation on the server. The whole island was to be walled in which required the edges to be geometric, the villager stalls to be removed, and various smart villager farms to be instated from top to bottom. Upon completion, Iris contained a fully automatic villager breeder, a tree farm, a sheep farm, a super smelter, a cow shed, a weapon of mass destruction, two villager vending machines, a regular villager trading hall, and a square. The bulk of construction for Iris 3 ended on June 18th, but CreeperColder finished the last part, a nature walk, on July 27th.

Construction of the Castle

Iris as seen on Dynmap as of January 18th, 2021

After finishing the village area of Iris 3, argetlam04 decided to add a castle where Iris 2 used to be. The castle is named Castle Iris 2. Construction of that castle began on June 16th. Argetlam04 built the castle in a creative testing world before implementing it in Elgeis. something that took many days to perfect. Castle Iris 2 consists of five main walls in the shape of a pentagon with a gate at the tip of it. In its center lies a tall tower with a viewing house on top.

Additions/modifications

A few notable additions and modifications to Iris made since the finishing of the Castle Iris 2 are arget's moving of the villager breeder and replacing it with arget Museum. The villager breeder was moved to an island south of Iris, which is currently owned by Montrose. The museum that replaced it, finished on August 20th, 2020, is a collection of historical artifacts displayed for public viewing.