Menders (Earth World)

For the company of the same name in Vegatable/Multi/Jenny Earth World, see Menders (Multi Earth World).

Menders™, also known as Menders Inc. or simply Menders, was a company founded in the Earth World series that existed throughout the majority of Earth World Mark VI and all of Earth World Mark VII. It was founded by AbolishSuburbs (Mich) while he was in the Empire of Starymglia and specialized in selling valuable items, which included enchanted books, high-level armor, tools, and weapons, shulker boxes, and elytra.

Founding (Earth World Mark VI)
By the beginning of Earth World VI, Mich had begun to see his grinding on the server pay off, with him becoming wealthier as time went on. At the time he was still in the Empire of Starymglia and quickly grew to become one of the more richer members of his nation, with him increasing his count in diamond blocks, iron, and other valuables. After establishing a secret base far out into the Outer World, he stumbled upon a village one thousand blocks away which contained a Mending villager. This excited Mich, as not only he could use these Mending books to max-out all of his gear, he could also sell these books to other players, as demand was high for them. Mich started Menders™ as a business during this time doing this exact thing — although it would remain unrecognized by the government of Starym. After recognizing the potential use of AFK fish farms in his operation, he also used them to his advantage; it allowed him to grind for all kinds of enchanted books more easily, as well as saddles, fish, and salmon that he would start selling. At some point, Mich bought a Menders™ shop in the Vasque underground in Araga and started selling other items there, which were horse armor, shulker shells/shulker boxes, dragon heads, and elytra. This would be the only official location that Menders™ would ever have, as most transactions he would have with customers were done person-to-person via teleporting to them anyways. Mich's company began to formalize, although it never had an official logo or headquarters of the sort, the latter partially due to Starym's refusal to recognize the company officially. Due to the income from Menders™, Mich would begin to become one of the richest players on the Mappercraft server at the time, with him having several stacks of diamond blocks and having a virtual monopoly on Mending enchanted books, shulker boxes, and elytra. Although he did have some competition in the expensive items market at this time, they did not exactly undercut his inexpensive prices and aforementioned monopoly. Just before the Second Araga-Starym War broke out, Mich would leave Starym and join Araga, moving all of his business operations to there as a result. He would end up living in Munich, which would become the de facto headquarters of Menders for the remainder of Earth World. As the activity of the server declined nearing the end of Earth World Mark VI, Menders™ business operations would slow down as well due to lack of demand for items.

Decline (post-EW6 and Earth World Mark VII)
The end of Earth World Mark VI meant an at-the-time indefinite halt of the Menders™ company. In the time between October 2017, and April 2019, Menders™ had begun being referred to as Menders Inc. for unknown reasons and began to become a sort of meme in the Mappercraft community. However, by the start of Earth World Mark VII in April 2019, Menders™ would soon see a revival, albeit a weak one. This is where Menders™ actually first began to be officially recognized, wherein it became a state-owned enterprise of Araga, with profits intended to be used for the greater good of the nation. Despite this, Menders™ did not see sales as it used to, as the expensive items market it had a monopoly on just one Earth World previous would become very saturated; people had little incentive to buy from Mich as most had maxed-out gear and valuables of the sort at the point and activity on the server was very low.