Viper Base

history
The Viper Ruse was a conspiracy on 2b2t formulated by the members of Viper Base to trick Fit into giving them 32k swords and to stop looking for Viper Base in late 2017.

In around mid 2017, Llane joined Viper base, and was approached by Fit, asking him to give coordinates and World Download of the base, in exchange for 32k swords, which at the

time where incredibly rare. Fit wanted to grief Viper Base, as one of it's main inhabitants was Offtopia. Who Fit wanted revenge on, as well as several other members such as jddinger (also known as Tomah), and TF4U.

Upon receiving this offer by Fit, The Viper Base residents formulated a plan to create a fake Viper Base, send the coordinates and a World Download of it to Fit, in order to obtain 32k swords, and

so Fit would stop looking for their base, believing it to be destroyed. Llane went out and found a new location similar to the real Viper Base, and began to build. He brought out 2 alternate accounts so

other members of Viper Base could help as well. Due to some of the builds at Viper Base had been shown in the past on r/2b2t, they had to be rebuilt, such as the Rainbow swastika, and Genome type spiral.

Within only 5 days, an entire artificial base had been completed. Around January 2nd of 2018, the coordinates, and a World Download was sent to Fit, and the long wait began.

grief
almost a month later, on Super Bowl Sunday, February 4th of 2018 Fit, ChromeCrusher, bigdon50, ChickenFox7, youreflawless, and buzr proceeded to grief the fake Viper Base, believing it be the real one.

However Fit never gave the 32k swords to Llane after the grief, due him disliking Llane for past events. However between the time of the coordinates being sent and the fake base's destruction, he had gotten

32k swords and 32k pickaxes through alternative means.

discloser
In early 2019, a random player found the real Viper Base by complete accident due to him having his own base near by. He made a post on r/2b2t exposing the real Viper Base. However most players did not believe this, despite the fact that ufocrossing also confirmed the post to be true. It did not become accepted that the base was fake by the wider community until mid 2019, when the real Viper Base was griefied by iTristan, and jared2013. Confirming that the base Fit and his crew blew up was indeed a fake.