Day 34 took place on 25 December 2019. It follows the events of Day 33 and is followed by the events of Day 35. Day 34 was Christmas Day, and a server event was celebrated near Santa's Grotto.
Major Events
The Christmas Event
- Josh hosted an event on a small island near Santa's grotto, with Wuna301, Svyoshi, VoiceOverPete, Jmakattack, Krinios, Sophietexas, Thunder1408, Sylvee, and KaraCorvus all in attendance.
- A secret Santa gift-exchange was attempted amongst the participants yet quickly gone sideways.
- They spent the time afterward sharing map-art on a wall. RTGame also joined the call to wish the group a Merry Christmas.
- Svyoshi launched an airstrike after the exchange, killing Thunder and Sophie.
The 7 ARG
- Inside of Santa's Grotto, Wuna301 found a cave with a "table" made of black wool with two map arts and two signs hanging off of it. KaraCorvus brought the findings to the attention of the ARG team by asking members of the discord for help.
- One of the map arts was of Optimus Prime from Transformers.
- Josh previously mentioned that "prime numbers are very useful in cryptography". 1151 and 2 are both prime numbers.
- The other was a collection of numbers. The image can be found on google and appears to hold no relevance.
- A sign saying "36P SMPE" can be found between the two map arts.
- This message had also been repeated by Josh on the SMPEarth community discord in the ARG channels before being deleted.
- On the back of the wool was a sign reading "1151-2".
- A new countdown link was discovered putting the numbers into a URL with SMPEarth as the host. The count down ends on Wednesday, January 15.
- 1151 may be a reference to update 1.15.1.
- https://smpearth.com/?p=173 redirects to the same countdown.
- One of the map arts was of Optimus Prime from Transformers.
Other Events
- After the Christmas Event, Pete, Kara, Thunder, and Sophie played 'catch' with Josh using projectiles across the border.
- Josh agreed to finally fix the base legs of the Eiffel Tower, and Kara began to finish the project afterwards.
DEFCON Level
On Day 34, the DEFCON status was 4, as there was no risk of war.