Chezhead

Chezhead is the founder and the former President (leader) of the Facepunch Republic. Chezhead was, undoubtedly, one of the most influential players that ever played on 2b2t, and his legacy continues in almost every cooperative base that you see on 2b today. Chezhead invisioned a peaceful and cooperative anarchy server and, despite his initiate failing horribly, players continue to be cooperative in the ruthless server. He was definitely the more prominent President before the old republic ended and the current President of the NFPR.

​History
Chezhead joined 2b2t on April 27, 2011 after seeing an advertisement on facepunch.com promoting 2b2t. Chezhead envisioned a peaceful anarchy and built Camp Facepunch the day he joined. He rallied the facepunchers on the server and they based at Camp Facepunch. The next day, the battle of grey skulls took place and the Facepunch War began. Camp Facepunch was griefed by Luke2thebun after only one day. Chezhead would then make more bases during the war and they would usually get griefed by 4channers. Despite being one of the most influential players, Chezhead led the facepunch republic poorly, and this caused bases to get griefed within weeks after their construction. Around August, the facepunch idea began to wane and decline and the facepunch republic began to lose the war. In October 2011, Chezhead had seemed to have left 2b2t for good. However, in November 2019, out of nowhere, Chezhead returned to the server. Chezhead came back to revive the group and build bases with friends.

Authentic Posts from Chezhead (More to come)
This was retrieved by James_Rustles from the depths of the facepunch forums. There were pictures.

☀http://www.jamesrustles.com/2015/05/2b2t-facepunch-history.html

In the far reaches of the minecraft community, there is a server called 2b2t.net. It’s open for many forums including Facepunch, 4chan, and Something Awful. I decided to head over to it one day to see what it was all about.

This is the spawn. The entire area around 1000 blocks of the spawn feels like a nuclear apocalypse, with ruined buildings, giant craters, and nothing surviving for more than a few days. It’s pretty much a cesspool of griefing and destruction. That’s what I loved about it, however. There was a raw feel of survival. No rules, no admins, full strategy and PvP action.

I joined this server, and some buddies of mine joined on as well, Mattyyy and Coolity. We took refuge underneath this.

We later met with the creator of this “castle” and learned of its history, but for then, we just hid in the expansive mines underneath it. There were thousands of tunnels under it, and led to many areas around the spawn. It was a true set of catacombs.

After a little bit, a thread of mine about this server gained popularity, and many other facepunchers joined in the fun. We eventually had a bustling area simply built around a single staircase.

Eventually, we moved out to a separate castle due to the lack of space and being too close to the spawn. This castle was an amazing fortress of solitude and happiness. We eventually got a working system of government (for the most part), jobs, and a decent infrastructure of facepunchers. Here’s a picture of a meeting. (I’m the one at the front of the room)

Sadly, all things had to come to an end. Base number two was destroyed by hackers with their hacked in TNT.

We found another base the next day. It was a bustling castle with a wide open courtyard. Some 4channers with hacks shortly destroyed this too.

Facepunchers are persistent, so we moved onto another area. After a brief struggle with two separate bases, we moved into a cave system, led again by me. We made a nice courtyard, fountain, and other fun things.

This base lasted a while. I moved from it for a bit, and let Icytruth take control of it in place of me. Sadly, it was taken by creepers. Numerous explosions near the entrance flooded it, and creepers were swept in by the water, making it inhabitable. It was lost and forgotten.

Base number 5 was found completely by accident. After the creeper invasion, I moved elsewhere to find a nice area for a sweet underground base. After digging down a bit, I fell into this:

This base was the best of them all. We inhabited it and changed it to our needs. I’m not exactly sure how the base fell, but I think it was a friendly hacker turning evil after someone hurt him. Not too sure, but it was later inhabited again. Not sure if people still live there. The location was later told over chat by KombatDoctor, and the location compromised. It’s likely being griefed and looted right now.

Eventually, we moved and created base number six. I put Startoad in charge of this one, and he ran it pretty well with the exception of a bit of bickering between him and Dachande. It was named Camp General Discussion, and another camp was made into Camp Creationism Corner. This is when I worked on a secret project, “Project Arsenal”, a mob trap hidden in a desert, made to provide military equipment to our military to ward off hackers and other potental threats.

From here on out, the history gets muddled. There’s multiple bases used to house people from different camps. Life is pretty well, except for two mysterious people in diamond armor that scared us near spawn.

Camp Creationism Corner Flourishes, and mweorz helps us out a bit. He ends up being a great friend and helper. Sadly, this comes to an end like all bases. I logged off for the night, and all or items were gone (Still wondering if that was some FP members, taking it to the new base?), the place trashed, and the place deserted. Bennyhill and rage639 take the base to attempt to look for materials, but obviously fail. I hit them with some lava and a sword, and die valiantly after attempting to run away and logging off.

This is a brief history of the Facepunch campaign in this server. Tell me if you have pictures or more info! When this is all over (server shutdown, ultimate destruction of facepunchers, total conquering of the entire server), I’ll make a thread about it, much like the Wurm Online story that always seems to be around on GD.

Upon the Shoulders of Giants was a Facepunch Republic post created on April 27th, 2011 by chezhead. This later created a large group and retroactively became the first post of the Facepunch Republic. It can alternatively and commonly be seen as one of the first times a large influx of players joined due to a form of media tracking attention. It is archived here, and is similar to the Rusher War in how the 4channers attempted to stop the Facepunchers, similar to the Team Veteran > Rusher fiasco.