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, 10 Incursions, the Creation of Many bases, the coming of many players. The server has had ups and downs over the years. People came from different platforms, different websites and channels and fought for their survival. Players mainly came from 4chan, Reddit, YouTube and other places. Every time when the server became popular and people filled the server, the old players came together, unite and organized incursions.

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. The End was re-enabled during this time period and the Ender Dragon was slain in May of 2013.

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 ignored him 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 this, Valkyria, whose base had recently been destroyed, decided to attack spawn again. Fubster built a dirt house, a few days later, became a fortress where the Valkyrians could recover. Every week, they killed more newfags. Many were spared, but most were killed. However, this incursion gave Valkyria new participants and saved the group 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. 2b2t also entered an era of stagnation where a lack of newfag invasions caused the population to slowly decrease. Valkyria then wanted to make another base called Asgard, but the plans were cancelled as Asgard was found by popbob before it was finished. After the failure at Asgard, most Valk members went into solo goals or joined minor groups and initiatives, such as Gape 1, Gape 2 and Judge's Old City project. On the contrary the group known as the Legion of Shenandoah became stronger in numbers and more known at this period as well. Around March 2015, some of the most prominent groups came together to create one of the biggest bases for its time, known as Asgard II. This base had one of the biggest population of members living there, especially for its time. However, the base was found by a player named OreMonger, a player who despised a large proportion of the server's playerbase due to them trolling him incessantly. This caused the members of Asgard 2 to grief the entire base before anyone could have the satisfaction of destroying it.

Third incursion
The members of Valkyria were angry that their base had to be destroyed, so to stop the group from breaking apart, they started the Third Incursion in April 2015. 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.

Rusher Invasion
On June 1, 2016, TheCampingRusher uploaded a Youtube video named "OLDEST SERVER IN MINECRAFT", which brought a huge wave of newfags, the likes of which had never been seen before. Seeing this situation, the old players 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-war period
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 Slappnbadkids and jared2013, being publicly announced 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 and the +X +Z diagonal highway would eventually reach the world border in this period. The End's World Border was also reached back then, on August 2017, when a player named Armorsmith used an Elytra exploit to reach it.

Many different exploits and dupes took place on the server after the Rusher War. Around March 2017, Kinorana discovered a dupe known as the Donkey Dupe, where you put shulker boxes filled with items in a donkey with half-a-heard remaining, push them into a portal, and they would die when they came out the other end due to a cactus. This however, was patched on March 18th, 2017, but a new dupe was found called the Llama Dupe, which was basically the Donkey Dupe, but with llamas. However, that was also patched in a short amount of time. It would only take 3 months for another massive dupe to go public. Meanwhile, a player named Fr1kin discovered the Apocalypse Exploit, which was an exploit which used /kill to appear in 2 chunks at once, causing the server to crash multiple times. Powerful lag machines built by players such as Armorsmith, househousehouse1 and Gr1f, caused the server's TPS to drop to unplayable levels, forcing Hausemaster to act by starting to delete lag machines and removing the priority queue access of laggers (such as Gr1f). On July 23rd, 2017, the Crafting Dupe took place, using crafting tables in the new 1.12 update to dupe your item into a stack of 64. Despite the fact that it took a very short amount of time for Hause to fix the dupe after it was leaked publicly, it still became the biggest dupe to ever hit the server for its time, especially due to how easy it was and how little resources you needed to use it. After this event, no dupes were made public for almost 4 months, until a group named Team Pepsi discovered the cactus dupe, which was an infamously slow dupe which revolved around a cactus that was patched quickly by Hausemaster. (WIP)

AntVenom Invasion
On April 4, 2018, AntVenom uploaded a video about 2b2t. This brought back the big wave of newfags. The oldfags decided to join again and fight against the newfags. Vortex Coalition, DonFuer, Asylum, Emperium, SpawnMasons, Communist Party of 2b2t, Team Veteran, The Fursecutioners united to build a wall. This time the wall had to be 1000 blocks away from the zero point. In preparing for this incursion, the organizers did not repeat the mistakes of the fifth incursion in order for this invasion to be successful. The newfags were killed as usual, but then, realizing that their forces were not enough, the invaders decided to use the newfags to build that huge wall. All the newfags were offered either to be killed or to join the construction of the wall. Those who agreed began to follow so that they would not run away and tell all their plans to others. Every day they breaking ender-chests and gave the obsidian they received to the builders. During the construction of the wall, a new Anti-Incursion movement was formed by Armorsmith's Followers, they did not stop the construction of the wall, but heavily damaged its progress and prevented it from achieving its original goal of keeping players within spawn. Despite this, the incursion was titled a success by most of the community.

After the end of the Sixth Incursion, Armorsmith's Followers constructed the first Spawn Sky Symbol, starting a trend on the server.

FuzeIII Invasion
In September of the same year, the French FuzeIII YouTuber uploaded his video about 2b2t. This time, in order to limit the large wave of newfags, it was decided to build a wall of lava, because the newfags would soon open holes in the wall from the obsidian. Some of the participants in the incursion killed newcomers, others built the wall. On the other side, FuzeIII formed a group of newfags and they tried to prevent the construction of the wall. Many problems arose during the incursion. Many opposed the intrusion and also obstructed the construction of the wall. But the incursion was fading little by little. The number of people participating was decreasing every day and finally on October 31 the invasion ended.

Obsolescence of Incursions
The number of YouTubers uploading videos about 2b2t on 2019 has grown dramatically. The number of newfags has grown tremendously, aus Hausemaster has limited the number of server players. The incursions became meaningless because nothing changed on the server after that. Sato declared that the tradition of incursions was dead and on the server, noting that there were only 7 incursions on the server, and all other spawn attacks were not incursions. Like was the eighth and more famous Ninth incursions.

The Eighth incursion was organized by Armorsmith and his group. Tired of the Incursions that took place every few months, the Eighth Incursion was severely criticized. And as everyone expected, the incursion ended very badly, finally killing the term "Incursion".

The Purge (Ninth Incursion)
On May 26, Etika joined the server. He started a YouTube stream, where he was trying to escape from the server. This time the goal was to prevent Etika from escaping the spawn. The Purge started as usual, with killing all newfags after Etika declared war on the server community. The purgers were divided into regiments, first building a wall 2,000 blocks from the spawn, but then the regiment was instructed to dry all the lakes and waters near the spawn. The second regiment was destroying the highways near the spawn. The third regiment built lag-machines, making the game impossible on the server for newcomers and Etika. The fourth regiment was dedicated to spawn patrol, the killing of newfags, general pvp encounters with the later Anti-Incursion, and the destruction of Nether portals around spawn. The fifth regiment, which was added later during the Phase, was dedicated to the searching and destruction of any farms or bases that would benefit new players within a 10K spawn radius.

The Purge started successfully. Due to the combined work of the regiments, it became almost impossible to escape from the spawn, and Etika had so many problems that she was already thinking of leaving the server. However, on May 30, a second anti-incursion was started against them. They successfully repelled the purgers and helped newfags. The intruders quickly took action: first, they began negotiations, second, they asked AtlanticCraft to delete its video about server, and third, they separated SIG from anti-incursion, thereby weakening the adversary. An information war broke out when the anti-incursion first uploaded videos showing that they were successfully resisting, and in response the Purge began uploading their own videos showing that the intrusion was successful. The Purge then tried to restore Wrath Outpost, and the anti-incursion tried to disrupt, and they held their positions for an hour. Eventually the turn was reduced twice and the first round of The Purge ended successfully.

Problems started with the second stage. The participants of The Purge were waiting for the potential second YouTuber, and then people started accusing them that The Purge had become the advertising platform of The Emperium and many people left. Eventually VoPerium, an alliance between the Vortex Coalition and Emperium, collapsed and VoCo deleted the discord server.

Tenth Incursion
On October 12, MrBeast and his friend joined the server. Fearing that up to 50 million people could join the server, the old players started posting negative comments on Beast videos and asking him not to upload any more videos about 2b2t. However, the Beast refused their request and Joey_Coconut announced the tenth invasion. The plan was to go spawn, demolish the infrastructure there and not allow newcomers to escape. MrBeast offered Fit to participate in his video, but Fit turned down the offer because the rampant toxicity on the server, as well as various issues recording. After that, MrBeast canceled the video server. Joey_Coconut declared the intrusion canceled and offered to build a skybase over the Valley of Wheat, and then called the incursion off. The base was griefed by Team WAO not long after. The decision to suspend incursion operations proved unpopular within the incursion's membership.

Joey_Coconut resumed the intrusion on October 13 after consulting with the intruders. This time the goal was to make crystal PvP impossible on the bottom of the nther. It was decided that they would use the enchanting table to achieve that goal. Since they did not have so many tables, they first decided to create hundreds of withers in the spawn called "Shrek". They decided to go to the Valley of Enchanting Tables and pick up the tables.

With a delay, but the work started. Anti-Incursion soon appeared and they built a camp at 0․0. Because of the tables, the server started to slow down a lot. Early in the morning of October 17, Hausemaster deleted all tables from spawn. After that, the goal changed. It was decided to build huge buildings on the tables, from which it would be impossible to play on the server. Work resumed, but on October 19, Hausemaster deleted all tables. But on October 23, the car created by rockeZZergon started working, which led to the fact that the TPS dropped from 20 to 13. However, on October 24, Hausemaster deleted the tables for the third time. After that, the invasion was extinguished and on October 31, Joey_Coconut announced that the invasion was stopped.