Day 17 took place on 8 December 2019. It follows the events of Day 16 and is followed by the events of Day 18.
Major Events
The Courting of the Bean Empire
- WilburSoot and Sylvee established an alliance between their factions, Newfoundland and Bean Empire, respectively.
The Great Pyramid of Steve
- WilburSoot, CharlieSH, KaraCorvus, ScotGriswold, Eret, Jameskii, TanningOil and StinksterDaily partake in the construction of a large pyramid in the Arafura Sea, between New Hawaii and Bean Island.
- It's marked as one of the first inter-factional structures ever built on the server.
- The Pyramid was initially constructed with a slightly rectangular shape by accident. It was later rectified as a proper square-based pyramid.
- Following its completion, a screaming match ensued over the voice chat as the location of the Pyramid is not located in a desert.
- Some of the other players, along with RobTob, set out on creating a desert landscape around the structure.
- In an attempt to escape the project, Wilbur urged Charlie to spawn a plane, in which the former hurriedly entered and took off. Unbeknownst to him, Scot infiltrated the passenger seat, leaving Charlie stranded and with no choice but to despawn the hijacked vehicle.
- Wilbur and Scot ultimately fell to their death after the plane disappeared.
- Wilbur respawned at this base in Newfoundland and decided to add New Hawaii and Business Bay to the Newfoundland Debt Wall.
Other Events
- Pogland claimed the nation of Japan.
- Ph1LzA was recruited to join the SMPEarth C.I.A.
- Phil was mining for diamonds at the time and he suddenly received a book in his inventory (from presumably an admin). The book was called Ph1lza, which faintly detailed his recruitment in to the organization.
- Phil did not think much of it until he received a second book called Dear Ph1lza. The book stated similar information and appeared to have been made in haste as the pages lacked sensible flow.
- Later Josh said "ignore him i fucked up lol".
- ScotGriswold logged on to the server for the first time and joined New Hawaii.
- Eret claimed India and parts of Pakistan for New Hawaii, along with ScotGriswold.
- They also claimed the highest point on Mount Everest where they constructed an observatory and an airstrip.
- The mountain was ultimately renamed to "Mount Everet".
- Eret and Scot agreed to combine their personal enterprises to create a conglomerate known as Ursus.
- KaraCorvus continued to construct the Eiffel Tower in France.
- IAmSp00n was sent to explore a mysterious wooden statue in northern Canada but discovered that it is a Woody statue built by Michaelmcchill.
- Sophietexas set out to gather resources for her Eiffel Tower project in Brittany.
DEFCON Status
On Day 17, the DEFCON level was 4, as there was no risk of war.