Kingdoms

Kingdoms is a planned feature for PixelLands.

Will said on the 24th of March that the update will come out in 1-2 months, meaning April or May of 2021.

This is what will said on the Discord server:

"Griefing is an issue in PixelLand. It takes a lot of work to create something great and it’s too easy to grief. I think we would see a lot more great creations if there was some way to protect against griefing. On the other hand, griefing is an essential part of PixelLand and I don’t want to ban anybody who wants to grief -- it’s just a part of the game.

''This update attempts to find some middle ground with the introduction of a new feature called “Kingdoms.” A kingdom is essentially an area that can be protected from griefing. Only the people who are members of a given kingdom are allowed to paint pixels inside that kingdom. Kingdoms can expand their area simply by painting more pixels, but it has to be continuous with the start point of the kingdom.''

More about kingdoms:


 * Kingdoms will have their own chat that they can set to “members only” or “public.”
 * A kingdom can be created by anybody, and they can generate links to invite people to join their Kingdom, kind of like a discord server.
 * You can own a maximum of 5 kingdoms. This will hopefully stop people from spamming the map with junk kingdoms.
 * A kingdom can destroy another kingdom by completely encircling it.
 * The kingdom area is constrained based on the number of pixels that the kingdom has painted. This keeps low-effort kingdoms small and prevents somebody from encircling the whole map and destroying all kingdoms.
 * Each new kingdom is set to expire after 5 days, but there is a button that members can press to extend the expiration to a maximum of 5 days. This way if kingdom members stop playing, the kingdom won’t be around forever and the space will open up again."