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Before crying wolf about anything, you should read through these 3 tabs, there isn't much to read but it is really useful, like the links tab under info, and a bunch of quality of life settings (Shown in one of the questions).

FYI if you can only see a 3 gear tab (on the right), you need to close chat first for it to appear

This is meant as just a general Q&A, most of the other big questions like “when is reset??” are in the tabs.If you have any questions please ask chat in pxls or in discord pxls (questions will be answered within 3-5 business days)

Q. What's the point of pixels?

A. Idk you can place pixels, sometimes it turns to art, and sometimes it doesn't.

You can make your own art, join factions and help them with art, grief (except people will be mad at you), or just chill in chat, whatever floats your boat.

Q. How to Chat? Why is Chat?

A. Chat’s chat. Sometimes it's so quiet that you see messages from two hours ago and sometimes every message is from the same minute. Try not to spam (i.e. type out 1 word messages, have the entire chat as your name, spam pinging others). If someone is being aggressive or out of line you can report them and the appeal would be sent straight to the mods, but don’t abuse it or you'll get banned lol.

Q. Can't post links/create factions?

A. You get access to posting links at 250 pixels placed, and 1000 placed for faction creation

You can post your coordinates in chat like this : (x, y) ex. (400, 342)

Q. Happy new year?? it surely isn’t!

A. Yes it is + you're bald. But in truth it's an “event” that happens every hour in chat where everyone says happy new year. When you think about it, it's always the new year.

Q. Is there anything that's not allowed to be drawn?

A. Obviously the TOS rules, and whatever else is in the pixel rules.

However, there are a few generally disliked things in the community, those being:

- Flags: Could be for a few reasons why they are hated, but generally flags are removed by either the factions they are built near or anyone. If you still want to make art around that nation/country, you could make art from said place.

- Single color spread/”void”: Uninteresting and too simple, try harder.

- Badly rendered art: Also known as fiddled art, it happens when you convert art with a lot of color to pxls palette of colors. there are a bunch of guides to defiddling it. (Look to “how to make art?”)

- Single pixel thickness art: Again kinda lazy and doesn’t look good with other lattices being near it (an outline might save it from being deleted).

- Duplicated art: Unless it's with a good reason, having the same art twice is usually looked down on.

Q. My art got deleted! Why?

A. Sorry to hear that! This might have happened because one of a few different reasons:

- It was one of the disliked arts (see previous question)

- It was built in an outline of a pre-claimed art, meaning there was art that was gonna be built there already. You can tell a pre-claim by an outline of a single color. It's easier to spot them if you zoom out. (If you want to preclaim an art, you have to do that kinda early during a new canvas)

- It was built in a lattice, which is usually fine but sometimes the faction is against it.

You can always ask in chat if you have any further questions.

**A big tip is if you want your art to last, you should build an outline around it. **

Preferably with one solid pixel of color, this is really recommended because if your art has jagged pixels, an outline will smooth it out, making it both look better with a lattice behind it and giving it a “polish”. The clueless bot has a command to auto make an outline if your image is a png with a clear background.  ex. >outline green Image or link

Q. How are big pieces of art made?

A. Usually big arts would have their faction's name and a unique lattice around it. If the art doesn't have a name around it then it's either a solo build, the faction doesn't want a name or they forgor. 

Q. What are factions?

A. Factions are groups of people who place together, either because they have a shared interest or goal. You can join as many as you want but you can only display one name. You can access that setting by clicking on your name at the bottom left and selecting factions.

The big factions are Osu, Green lattice, Legion, Mane, and many many others. They can be found in the factions channel in the main pxls discord.

Fun fact, bigger number = better person

Q. How do I make art?

A. Use this, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NEX_O1TeyprmHE7QZobkJhRZ5L2vwjSNHYk4oCTI4HY/edit#heading=h.vgbblrt5qmkm

If you want to make something big (above 2.5k or so), you should generally check with either chat or the #plans channel in the discord. Remember, if the canvas is already past about 2 weeks that means most of the big areas have been filled, so you'll have to wait until the next canvas. Each canvas lasts from 25-40 days.

Don’t forget to add an outline around it, in fact it's recommended to start with one!

Q. Things to do while placing? 

A. A lot of people do things like listening to music, watching videos, or only placing like 6 pixels every hour, your call.

However, I would recommend checking out an idle game, such as: Antimatter dimensions, Clicker heroes, Kittens game, Cookie clicker, Realm Grinder, Synergism, NGU idle, Idle Skilling, Transporter defender, Idle research, Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms,Time Clickers, Unnamed Space Idle, IdleOn, The Perfect Tower II, Idle Spiral, Chillquarium, Kiwi Clicker, Trimps, Idle Wizard, Idling to Rule the Gods, Card Storm Idle, Tap Ninja, My Life as an Archeologist, Incremental Adventures, Universal Paper Clips, Idle Bouncer, Idle Dice 2, Plantera 1 and 2, CompactO Idle, Soda Dungeon, Wizard and Minion Idle, Shonen Idle Z, Crafting Idle Clicker, Orb of Creation, Melvor Idle, Cell to Singularity, Idle Slayer, Farmer Against Potatoes Idle, Grim Clicker, or Underworld Idle. 

Q. Recommended settings?

A. Green means it's recommended to have it on, blue means you should play around with it if you like it or not. Obviously it's up to you but this is what I find to work the best.