Travel

Travel is a very important part of every 2b2t player's life. It is what pretty much every player does at some point or another. Players have made great travels throughout their time on the server whether it be just to simply explore or to build as far as possible from spawn. People have already reached all the way out to the world border while back in 2011 (using hacks or exploits), but back then even 100k away from spawn was already considered very far.

Methods of Travel
There are several methods of travel used by players on 2b2t. Some of them being exploits and other being natural minecraft methods.

Highways and Speed Hacks
The main way of travel is to use speed hacks on the main highways (obsidian paths that extend from spawn all the way out to the edges of the map). Many players tend to use the Nether highways rather than the overworld ones as travelling one block in the Nether equivalates to travelling 8 blocks in the overworld, which cuts the travel times greatly.

Animals
Players on 2b2t also use animals in order to get around the server. In fact, some players prefer the use of horses to the standard speed hacks as horses do not get glitched out due to anti cheat and can easily traverse block tall ledges. Some horses are even faster than basic speed hacks on flat surfaces. Many players have bred horses to be the fastest that they can possibly be in vanilla Minecraft. Travel using horses and pigs was the dominant form of movement across large distances using an exploit called EntitySpeed, which allowed players to travel extremely fast on animals. Entityspeed has been patched since 2019, however, making animals largely useless for transport and causing them to lose popularity in favor of other methods.

Boats
Boats are an often, especially when escaping spawn for the first time, as you can travel tens or even hundreds of thousands of blocks thanks to 2b2t's enormous oceans and the Southern Canal. Boat travel used to be a fairly common form of travel. However, with 2b2t's often laggy performance, a player riding a boat is often kicked off, crippling the viability of boats as a transportation method and causing them, too, to decline in popularity as a transportation method.

Flight
Flight is an extremely popular method for getting around on 2b2t. Rather than use flyhacks, players use elytras in combination with fireworks to glide along nether highways. Elytra flight is also automated by many clients, allowing for a player to AFK as they fly down the highway. It can be somewhat glitchy, given 2b2t's sluggish performance, and there are many dangers posed by flight. However, due to the incredibly fast pace of elytra flight, many players now use it to travel on 2b2t.

Airships
Airships have also been used to fly around, though not as commonly. Usually, airships are used in the end due to the vast chasms of void which could prove difficult to travel otherwise, but players have flown in the overworld as well. The most well-known pilot of airships is Fit, who broke the server's flight record. James Rustles has given him the title of the "pilot of 2b2t". BastiVC is also known to have been a pilot of airships as he invented his signature bomber. Fit has also said Basti is a better pilot than himself.

Bed Travel
The most notorious travel exploit was the Bed Godmode exploit, which allowed players to leave their beds (while in bed) and go through Nether portals to teleport to the nearest bed (which could be millions of blocks out). This exploit, however, has been patched.

Another version of this exploit was found by househousehouse1 by setting up a nether portal next to the bed. Wait until night time. Then go in the portal. Before teleporting to the Nether, the player sleep in the bed and they will automatically jump out of the bed in the Nether at the coordinates of the bed in the Overworld. This was also patched before it was released to the public, but was involved in the grief of The Lands by Nerds Inc.

AFK Travel
When highways get clear (usually when the player is out of the range of spawn) players eventually get tired of physically staying on their computer using speed hacks. Luckily, a project called Baritone has brought real-time pathfinding to almost all hacked clients, allowing players to type in some coordinates and sit back as Baritone walks to their destination. Baritone can parkour, mine blocks, and perform other cool tricks; however, it is not 100% safe, and the lag conditions on 2b2t can leave it struggling to make its next move, perhaps dooming a player to a death in lava. However, as mentioned previously, on well-maintained highways, this shouldn't be an issue.

Many clients now also integrate automated Elytra Flight, which is even quicker than walking but is a bit more dangerous.