History of 2b2t

The History of 2b2t is one of the most interesting and entertaining stories that Minecraft servers could ever have. Over the 10 years of the server's existence, 2b2t has survived as many as 3 backdoors, the Creation of Many bases, the coming of many players. The server has had ups and downs over the years. Players mainly came from 4chan, Reddit, YouTube and other places.

Pre-Minecraft Era
In February 2008, Hausemaster started playing on the Team Fortress 2 server known as "2fort2furious", or 2f2f for short. There, he became friends with a player named Kalash. However, Kalash was banned from the server in August 2008, so Hause made a steam group named 2builders2tools, aimed at hosting video game anarchy servers, including a Garry's Mod server. This server ran from August 2008 to sometime between April 2009 and December 2010.

Minecraft 2b2t's First Years
Georgebush420, who ran the Garry’s Mod server, started a Minecraft server on November 2010 for his friends to play on, with the same premise that you could do anything you wanted. Then, around December 2010, they decided to start advertising on forums such as SomethingAwful, Reddit, Facepunch, DeviantArt, and 4chan boards: /v/ and /b/, to see how much destruction could be made. The first several months had estimated player counts from 50 to over 100. Hausemaster occasionally teleported to random players to check the progress of his server. He would sometimes give players random items.

Facepunch War
Members from different forums raided each other and their bases on the server. Around late April 2011, Chezhead saw George and Hause's 2b2t post, who then posted about it on the Facepunch forums, leading to a giant boost in the player count. Due to the chaos of the server (mainly stemming from the 4channers), the Facepunchers decided to start a republic to bring order to the server. The two groups survived relatively peacefully until April 28, 2011, when luke2thebun, a 4chan spy, griefed the base known as Camp Facepunch, retroactively named Greyskull's Last Stand. Chezhead later declared war on the 4channers.

After the start of the war, the 4channers started destroying the Facepuncher's numerous bases using cheat clients and spying in the forums. Seeing the bad situation, the Facepunchers left the server day by day. While the war Facepunchers were building their bases and battling 4channers, Offtopia and THEJudgeHolden founded The Judge's Group. This group was the pioneer of group bases, most known being Oldtown. They were also the first players to ever make it to 1 million blocks away from Spawn. Judge also made a comic about 2b2t called 1 Million. By October 2011, the leader of the Facepunch Republic, Chezhead, left the server for good. The last group of Facepunchers held out in 2k2k. But 4channers found the base due to its proximity to spawn and demolished it to the point where it was unrecognizable.

Post-War Period
After the war, the average player count gradually decreased, they were idle and did not know what to do. After that, the other players of the server started to leave little by little. The server was in bad condition and could've died. It was also during the beginning of this period which saw the first backdoor the server with a decent amount of information. Popbob, being a facepuncher (not part of the republic), also gave access to his backdoor to several friends (i.e. xcc2), which allowed them to use an infinite amount of blocks and items to build some of the most notable and iconic towns (i.e. Ziggy Town and Plugin Town) .After version 1.4.2 was released, spawn was wrecked due to withers created near bedrock, spawning wither caves. Hausemaster also started flattening spawn due to lava casts around this time. This along with server lag problems, the IP change from .net to .org, and the server being down for three months caused many players to quit 2b2t. This time is most well known for its low player count. Due to the lack of players, griefings and battles became less common, creating a twisted version of peace, basically completing the Facepunch initiative in an ironic way. Sometimes, only 10 people were playing on the server at the same time.

Server Resurgence
On April 2013, a group named Valkyria was created. Black Flag Group and Hitlerwood merged together to build a city named Valkyria. The group quickly grew into the biggest 2b2t group since the Facepunchers and was a giant influence in 2b2t's culture for the next 2-3 years due to the low amount of other groups and low player count.

First incursion
The incursions started from 2013. Nothing interesting was happening at that time. So one of the founders of Valkyria, Hinderjd, came up with the idea of ​​attacking the spawn. However, some of Valkyria disliked the idea and decided to stay at the base.The First Incursion, organized by Valkyria, began in June 2013. It lasted 1 week. First, Hindejd and Drewbookman came to spawn and began preparations by making farms. They killed newfags, people they disliked, and withers. Their base was created in the ruins of the symbolic 2k2k, as most of the Valkyria participants were from Facepunch. In 2k2k they met Trodam. Sato ordered him not to be killed, but Drewbookman said, "Either you are from Valkyria or we will kill you" and killed Trodam. After that incident, an argument started and Drewbookman left the group. After the removal of Drewbookman, chaos started in the group. Everyone was doing something and the group members became uncontrollable. The incursion was a failure and the group became disorganized and unstable.

Second incursion
Second incursion started on August 2013, 2 months after the first and it's currently the longest incursion on 2b2t. The incursion started after a popular r/Minecraft post about 2b2t and a IGN video on YouTube where 2b2t was mentioned, went viral. This brought a big wave of newcomers. Dissatisfied with that, Valkyria, whose base had recently been destroyed, decided to attack the spawn again. Fubster built a dirt house, which became temporary headquarters. A few days later, it became a fortress where the Valkyrians could recover. Every week, they killed more newfags. Many were forgiven, but most were killed. But this incursion gave Valkyria new participants and saved from collapse.

Pre-Youtube Period
This was the period that spanned about 2 years before TheCampingRusher's video on 2b2t. During this time, Hausemaster left the server and georgebush420 became the head admin, as well as the construction of The Southern Canal. The End was re-enabled during this time period and the Ender Dragon was slain in May of 2013. That time 2b2t was also in an era of stagnation which created a sort of peace on the server due to the lack of activity and low amount of players; except for the 2 Spawn Incursions, the second used to prevent players from IGN and Reddit from invading the server. Valkyria then wanted to make another base called Asgard, but the plans were cancelled because Asgard was griefed before it was finished. After the Asgard failure, most Valk members went into solo goals or joined minor groups and initiatives, such as Gape 1, Gape 2 and Judge's Oldcity project. On the contrary the Legion of Shenandoah became stronger in numbers and more known at this period as well.

Third incursion
The Third Incursion began in April 2015. The reason was the leaking and destruction of Asgard II. The members of Valkyria were angry that the base was destroyed, so to stop the group from breaking apart, they started the Third Incursion. Valkyria first repaired spawn and erected several obsidian monuments. They also used leftover obsidian from the 1.4.7 dupe from 2013 and glitched obsidian blocks with negative values to build Wrath Outpost and killed everyone who attempted to grief it. Pyrobyte also used his "666 Sword", a sword made from the past backdoor with a sharpness level of 666, to kill newfags.

The Third Backdoor
By early 2016, the server's average player count had rebounded over 3 years from 10 players to 50-60 players online at once. However, the group known as Nerds Inc manipulated server admin georgebush420 to give them items and started griefing numerous bases. Because of this, most of the server temporarily left the server and migrated to Constantiam around early May. Sometimes, there was only 1 player online, but the player count eventually jumped back up again by the time Rusher made his video.

The Youtube Invasion
On June 1, 2016, TheCampingRusher uploaded a Youtube video named "OLDEST SERVER IN MINECRAFT", which brought a huge wave of newfags. Seeing this situation, the old participants decided to put aside their differences and unite against the Rushers. Two groups were created: "Team Rusher" and "Team Veteran".

Rusher War
Team Veteran was not effective as there were so many newfags and it was impossible to defeat them all. As a result, they started recruiting newfriends to cause infighting and to help them defeat the Rushers. They also started projects that would slow down the Rushers' advance. This included making lava walls about 500 blocks from 0,0, filling all of spawn with water, and using flying TNT bombers to make giant trenches. However, these projects failed as they were both sabotaged and easy to bypass. A group known as the Resistance appeared, which consisted of newfags, but they were against Rusher, fighting as a separate force. Resistance became famous as they started killing individual Veterans with superior numbers and their grief of the Valley of Wheat. On July 24th, the Fourth Incursion was founded, which was pretty much Team Veteran without newfags. On the first day, it destroyed numerous stashes and bases, some which were owned by the Resistance. This angered CorruptedUnicorn, it was clear that someone in the group was a spy, who turned out to be NedaT. After several large fights at spawn, the Resistance soon faded into irrelevance. This did not end the fight, as Team Rusher still existed.

Due to the Rushers, the server started lagging intensely, so Hausemaster added a queue to prevent so many people from joining the server at once. TheCampingRusher was unable to join the server and offered Hausemaster to sell the server to him, but Hausemaster declined the offer. Obviously, the old participants did not like it, so Hausemaster made a priority queue for everyone who joined the server before June 1. Others had to pay $19․99 a month to receive priority. Speaking of the queue, a Veteran named Torogadude was kicked from prio queue by Rusher after an incident revolving around a youtuber named LandonMC being hacked, as the queue was at the time, run by the Archon, AKA TheCampingRusher's minecraft server. This caused many to believe that the server was now owned by Rusher, and due to the controversy, Torogadude was added back into the queue.

Controversies during the Rusher War
On July 15th, Rusher uploaded a video visiting a base known as the Crystal Islands, a veteran base. It was later griefed by an unknown player. It was also later discovered that Fit had given the coordinates, in exchange for Rusher giving him fame. Most of the oldfags and midfags turned on Fit, and by the end of the war, "Team Veteran" was just a community meme and wasn't taken seriously. To this day, he is still disliked by a majority of the community as they believe that Fit's main focus on Youtube is making money rather than making accurate videos.

Meanwhile, a Veteran named SnackyNorph fell in love with a Rusher named CancerChan, who tricked Snacky into believing he was a girl. He trusted him so much, that he leaked to him the coordinates of the base known as, Aureus City. CancerChan then gave the coordinates to the leader of the Resistance, CorruptedUnicorn. So, on July 31st, the inhabitants of Aureus City were forced to self-grief the entire base.

Ending
On October 9th, 2016, after more than 4 months of warfare, the war was declared over. Over 10 thousand rushers were reported dead, but this is an over-exaggeration as some players were killed more than once. Team Veteran and Fit were just community jokes at this point, but the player count had considerably dropped and Rusher only made 2 more 2b2t videos after this point. This war radically changed the course of the server and is one of the most defining moments of the server's history.

Post-Youtube Invasion
After the war, most players began to lose interest in the server, and others remained to repair damaged monuments (such as the Valley of Wheat). However, large events also occurred shortly after the end of the Rusher War.

On the 11th of November there was a new massive dupe in 2b2t. It was much more productive than the Nether Portal dupe, and so players began to spam the dupe until the server would reach critical lag spikes. This also caused a massive increase in item stock. Everyone received so many items that they were extremely powerful with the amounts of god sets and god apples they had procured. Some state that even Rushers were able to get hold of the dupe. The dupe was so popular that a hacked client spread around the 2b2t Subreddit. The hacked client made doing the dupe much easier, however this is backdoored and most players lost their dupe stashes because of it.

Fifth Incursion
The Fifth Incursion was started by jared2013 on November 23rd, 2016 due to the massive 11/11 Dupe. Its goals were levelling spawn and building an obsidian wall about 400 blocks away from 0,0. They also attempted to hunt for more 11/11 dupe stashes for more resources. However, there were many problems, especially due to a terrible hierarchal system, jared leaving the server constantly for no reason whatsoever, NedaT's Team Aurora destroying the 5th Incursion's progress, and a giant wave of newfags coming from youtuber AgentGB, who had recently made a video on 2b2t. On December 11th, 2016, the incursion ended as a failure, and was treated like a meme by most of the community.

Interwar Period
Many things happened in this period between December 2016 and March 2018. The average server population dropped to the point where queue was sometimes non-existent. On November 11th, 2016, a duplication glitch known as the 11/11 Dupe was leaked by a player named RusherIsAutistic, leading to mass duping in levels that had never been seen on the server before. Due to how easy the dupe was and the fact that it took 17 days to patch, the amount of items made from the dupe multiplied exponentially, resulting in hyperinflation that ruined the 2b2t economy in ways that are still seen today. One item mass duped into oblivion were maps. Before 1.13, if more than 32,767 maps were made, all maps would turn blank and the next 32,767 maps were blank and had negative ids. The group known as The 4th Reich mass duped maparts to the point where all of them went blank. Around February 2017, a player named Kinorana found out that after 32,767 maps with negative ids were made, he could overwrite positive existing map ids. On February 25th, 2017, Kino overwrites all existing maparts with is anime map id. This caused an uproar around the server, and on February 28th, protests and harassment campaigns began against Kinorana, with deathspammers spamming "SEND KINO TO ISIS." This went on into March, when another reset allowed new maps to made.

Meanwhile, a player named Byrnsy got bored and decided to tunnel to the world border on the +X Axis Highway, which only went up to 100k at the time (800k in the overworld) Every 25k blocks in the nether, he would make a milestone, and every 10% of the journey, he would make a reddit post. These posts attracted new players who wanted to help Byrnsy, which eventually organized themselves as the Nether Highway Group. It took many months, but on March 26th, 2017, the group reached the border. After this, they made a base there known as Point Nemo, which didn't last a week. Afterwards, they relocated and set up a base over 240k blocks from the axis called Point Dory. But due to drama with a past member, and FitMC's video where he toured the base without permission, the base was leaked and eventually griefed after 2 months. The next 3 main nether highways would eventually reach the world border in this period.