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Else doesn't sound archaic to my ears.

"When you go shopping make sure to buy flour or else we won't be able to bake the cake"

"otherwise" is a more common word choice but "else" is definitely in the active vocabulary of modern English speakers.

"or else" is redundant. One can omit one word or the other and it still works.

> When you go shopping make sure to buy flour, or we won't be able to bake the cake.

> When you go shopping make sure to buy flour, else we won't be able to bake the cake.

EDIT: TIL: Dictionaries don't commonly define "else" as a conjunction, except for Wiktionary. Still sounds natural to my ears, so this is a surprise.

It occurs to me that this would be similar to "so" no longer being a conjunction and people instead using "and so".

> Make sure to buy flour, and we'll be able to bake the cake.

> Make sure to buy flour, so we'll be able to bake the cake.

> Make sure to buy flour, and so we'll be able to bake the cake.

That’s “or else”. Bare else is no longer common.

Someone else might disagree with that

That’s not bare else.

There's also "everything else" and similar phrases

That's an adjective. This is about the conjunction.