Ancients

The Ancients are a group of friends known for their events, such as: our/place, Squid Games 2 and Squid Games 3. They also work closely with and have contributed to bases with several groups including Astral Brotherhood, Spawn Builders Association and the SpawnMasons.

History
Originally, the Ancients didn't start as a group, but as a friendship. It began in late 2021 when minecraft_simon and Hovecs met on the Nether highway. From there, Hovecs invited minecraft_simon to build the second event of 2b2t Squid Games. Approximately a month later, YoMoBoYo became friends with minecraft_simon and Hovecs, and helped build the third Squid Games. In the same period, xrayessay and Harrrissonn joined as well. At the end of the construction, chiekn helped out with the final touches, which led him to also be invited. Afterwards, the group Ancients was officially formed. In the next following weeks, they started building together at different group bases.

Through friendship with chiekn, the player Rules_Off also joined the group. Around this time, minecraft_simon came up with the idea of making a replica of r/place, but on 2b2t. This was made at a base called SBA 30. After this, the group decided to make our/place on 2b2t, and let everyone with a Minecraft account place pixels on a map utilising an external website made by minecraft_simon, which would then get placed on a map in-game on 2b2t. Rulesoff started making bots and connected to the website made for the event. The bots then placed blocks indicated by users on the website, meaning the mapart was updated in real time. Roles and jobs were distributed amongst the group, and work was set to find location for the map, and also build it. Location was decided to be in the end, around 14 million blocks out. This was accomplished because of the help of Harrisssonn, who was flying out to the end worldborder corner. They then used a teleport exploit to get everyone in the group out there to start on building the our/place base. They decided to make a design, that made it look like it was built in the overworld, and also used real terrain from 2b2t. This was done so that the place would be almost impossible to find.

After a few weeks of working together, they launched first a stress test with the help of the youtuber IceBlueBird and his fans. After a successful stress test, they cleared the canvas, and launched the event. The event turned out very successful, with over 267,732 pixels placed, and over 847 players registered.

After our/place, _Genetics_, joined the group after helping in the project. Since the project ended, they have been joined by BIKMUNNI.

Projects
First project that the Ancients were apart of was Squid Games 2. This is where the friendship of minecraft_simon and Hovecs started, and the idea of making a friends group started.

The second event was Squid Games 3, which was joined by YoMoBoYo, xrayessay and Harrrissonn. This is where the group really started to spark, and the Ancients was finally formed. Squid Games 3 was one of the post popular events, and was joined by a lot of close friends. (to be added more of)

The Our/Place would be the most serious project to be taken in for by the Ancients. When the planning of this were in the doing, it had to be perfect and up to standards of what they wanted. This event was based on an event which was held on reddit, r/place. The idea was made first on one of the SBA bases (SBA 30), and was called r/sbaplace. After this, they decided to make it as our/place. This took a while to get started, but was a very popular project, with over 847 players registered, and 267,732 pixels placed.

Today
Today the group is still active and have plans for future events.

Ranks
All ancients are equal. All group decisions will have to be unanimous.

The group is driven and run by the friendship between all members. No ancient member is forced to any commitment, and can do whatever they want outside of the group. In quote: “There is absolutely no need to set any ground rules in the group, because all members are not gonna do anything bad to the group with the existing internal friendship and respect between all members.”

The only way to join the group is through invitation. Invitation also has to be a unanimous vote between all Ancients members. Invitations is decided by two factors:

- Friendship with every single member in the group is very important and needed to join.

- Talent in any useful area is needed to contribute to the high standards that are expected.

Members
minecraft_simon

Hovecs

YoMoBoYo

xrayessay

Harrrissonn

chiekn

Rules_Off

_Genetics_

BIKMUNNI