DSMP canon lore

Badlands part 2

As the date of the Manberg vs Pogtopia War was announced, Bad and Sam both claimed that the Badlands would support the Pogtopian effort against Manberg. However, a few days later, while the members searched for pandas, Bad discussed their faction's true plans for the war on November 16. He stated that they would only fight on the side of Pogtopia to keep the conflict going, and would switch to Manberg's side if they began to appear weak. Their main goal was to continue the war for as long as possible and cause eternal chaos between both factions. Their secondary goal was to have their claimed land officially recognized by the King of the Dream SMP, who was Eret at that point in time. Bad designed a banner for their faction, and the members placed these banners at the entrances of Ant’s animal sanctuary, Skeppy and Bad's mansion, and Sam’s mountain base, to mark their territory.

Hours before the battle was set to begin, Skeppy officially joined the other three members in the Badlands and helped them gear up for the war. During the war, the four members followed the Pogtopians closely, but did not directly interact with them. As the war concluded, and the Badlands members witnessed L'Manberg form their new government, they switched to Dream’s side, after he revealed his plans to continue the destruction of L'Manberg using his two withers. Together with Techno, and the Dream SMP's main military force (consisting of Dream, Sapnap and Punz), they wreaked havoc within the borders of the re-established L'Manberg, destroying the land further and attacking the citizens who tried to fight the withers.

After the withers were killed and Technoblade began to retreat from the area, the Badlands members gathered together and declared victory for their faction. Their reasoning was that they had achieved their primary goal, and now, there was an entirely new conflict forming between New L'Manberg and the anarchists.

The Badlands then tried to recruit Eret, saying that the king's help would go a long way to help them legitimize their claims, since they wanted to use his castle. They were then informed by Dream that Eret had already been dethroned and George was the new king. Bad suggested that they could kill George and then ownership of the castle would move to Eret who might then want to join the Badlands. They abandoned the plan later on.

They then tried to convince George instead to formally acknowledge the Badlands' independence and land ownership, but George refused their offer. Later on, Bad discussed with Dream, where he agreed to recognize George's kingship in exchange for Dream giving the Badlands technical independence, by which the Dream SMP faction still recognized the Badlands' territory as their own, but would call it the Badlands to avoid conflict for now, in a similar way to L'Manberg.

The Dethronement Fallout
Following George's dethronement at the hands of Dream, the members of the newly formed nation of Mexican L'Manberg, Quackity, George, and Sapnap, met up with Bad to discuss a possible alliance with the Badlands to help dethrone Eret and reinstate George as king.

Bad stated that the Badlands would only support Mexican L'Manberg if their faction and territories were officially honored by George. Bad reiterated his faction's initial objective, which was to be granted all of the lands beyond Eret's castle and Skeppy and Bad’s mansion. Their land would be two infinitely long strips of the entire server, that enclose the central warring nations from two different sides. Bad claimed that he would maintain peace in their own territory, as a neutral third party.

Quackity, George, and Sapnap rejected Bad's offer, stating that he was being unreasonable and asking for too much land. They mention that even the current king, Eret would share the same opinion as them. They tried to compromise by suggesting that Bad could take half of the proposed land, either the area past the castle or the area past the mansion. However, Bad replied that he wanted no less than 100% of the land, saying that “Trying for all is better than settling for half”.

As Quackity and Bad continued to negotiate, their meeting was interrupted by Dream, who attacked Quackity, forcing the others to flee. Bad ultimately decided not to side with Mexican L'Manberg, planning to find an alternative option to get the Badlands recognized.

a document was written by Ant and Sam, after they had collected two mooshrooms that they claimed were "origin cows", which they planned to offer to the Dream SMP's current king, Eret.

The document's contents included terms and conditions that Eret would have to comply with when signed. Ant and Sam planned to ask Bad and Skeppy to review and sign the document before handing it to Eret. The date on which the document was given to Eret remains unknown.

Skeppy left the Badlands on January because he wanted to move out of his mansion and because he felt left out of the server's wars after missing the Doomsday War. More on that later.

The Badlands are currently completely inactive.

The L'Sandberg storyline which takes place weeks in the future includes the Badlands as well. The Badlands have stopped being inactive and seem to be free from the Egg's control as well. Skeppy also rejoined the Badlands. They are currently planning to annex L'Sandberg into the Badlands as an outpost, since all members of the Badlands are already related to the BadBoyHalo administration.