Canvas 2

⚠️ This canvas contains nudity and hate symbols as they were allowed at the time.

The initial canvas

The final canvas

2017/04/09 - 2017/05/08 (29 days)

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The 2nd canvas was launched a few mere days after the first canvas, adding new automated anti-bot and manual anti-multi-accounting tools to help weed out the cheaters in the game. While many still suspected factions of cheating, those factions would often retaliate by showing just how much they're not bots by steamrolling all over smaller factions. Due to the sheer size of some of these factions, use of simplistic bots can not easily be ascertained from placement times as each connection naturally has a minor offset from others.

The 2nd canvas was also the canvas that dictated that canvases should be family-friendly from there on out, as certain characters would be drawn nude, given underwear by moderators using their new tools, users would make them nude again, and ultimately the art wiped from the canvas altogether.

In social terms, there were two major force events on this canvas:

The New Pixel Axis - an alliance of Ukrainians, Fins, and Germans - felt annoyed by other forces, and built a large circular stamp in the top right corner of the canvas to intimidate others; this necessitated the destruction of artworks there which were offered to be rebuilt elsewhere (though few if any were), which caused many of the players to be even more upset with this alliance. However, given their sheer size, there was little that the players could do as they feared retribution if they decided to join in on efforts to remove the new stamp.

The Pink Lattice - a group borne out of a German Minecraft player's YouTube live streams - was under the impression that the Green Lattice was trying to take over the Pi numbers, not being aware that Pi had requested Green Lattice to surround them. The 1st canvas was made live shortly after Reddit's r/place shut down, giving it huge exposure to players and an influx of players was the result, and Pink Lattice quickly took over Green Lattice areas, only to be fought back later. They reached a truce after explanations, with the requirement that a pink lattice heart should be adjacent the r/Green Lattice banner. This heart was later coopted by Green Lattice.

One often-changing piece of art was a simple white rectangle with black text - with players deeming it a good target for changing that text, it was eventually dubbed the community board, which made another appearance in the third canvas.

User Sorunome headed the Foxes faction, developing a bot that its members used to automatically place pixels and detect griefs. Despite this, Sorunome went on to become the main Pxls project lead for over a year. The increase in activity of the Foxes faction led to their prominence in canvas 3 as a belligerent in the war with the Spurdos.

Info

The size of the canvas was 2000x2000 and all of the 4,000,000 total pixels were placeable.

An interactive version of this canvas showing the names of factions and where they were located can be found here.

More detailed info such as timelapses, the final virginmap, and more can be found on the official pxls.space archives.

Major Events

• Russian Bot Wars: Series of battles between the Axis and Russia in attempt to defeat Russian bots
• Void/Axis Wars: Series of attacks by The Void against The Axis
• Axis Stamp War: Placement of a large stamp over Void+allies territory as retaliation for Void attack

Minor Events

• GL-Ylilauta War: Ylilauta attempted invasion of GL territory, fought back by GL
• Banana War: PxlsAmerica+Frodo vs Banana Army+Green Lattice
• GL Colony War: Green Lattice response to Pink Lattice invasion of a GL colony

Sources

pxlsFiddle

archives.pxls.space

#announcements in the Pxls Discord server