Timeline

''Note: There are individual pages for these time periods that you can see for more detail. Please be advised however that many contain Sato bias and if you know anything else from those periods, feel free to change things up.''

The history of 2b2t is one of the most diverse, most interesting, and one of the largest that was kept for a digital game. It is written by over hundreds of thousands of players, and spanned over six years.

The 4chan Period
For more details, go to The 4Chan Period

Player Count: 50-70

Nothing is much known about the early days of 2b2t, except that the server began on December of 2010. This was the earliest point of 2b2t, and only a few of the players from the 4chan Period stayed until the recent eras. These players are often called Ancientfags.

The Forum Massacre Period/Facepunch Republic Era
For more details, go to Forum Massacre Period and the Facepunch War

Player Count: 50-70

In April 2011, users of Facepunch found out about 2b2t, and decided to take control of the server. They built lots of monuments, however 2k2k is the most famous out of all of them. This republic eventually ends a year later, in February 2012 (however some ripples of Facepunch continued into 2013).


 * April 2011 - Facepunch Republic begins, 4channers take notice of this and tries to stop them.
 * May 2011 - Player data corruption
 * July 2011 - First post of the 2b2t Comic by Judge Holden
 * December 2011 - January 2012 - 2b2t gets backdoored
 * February 2012 - Facepunch Republic ends

The Server Decay
For more details, go to Great Server Decay

Player Count: 20-50

This period marked one of the most barren times on the server. The server faced drastic player loss during this time due to several facepunchers leaving, the IP changing, and the server being down for three months, causing players to believe that the server shut down for good.
 * February 2012 - Base in 1 million is griefed.
 * April 2012 - Imperator's Base is founded
 * June 2012 - 2k2k becomes last home for Facepunchers
 * 2b2t is shut down for three months and changes the IP address from 2b2t.net to 2b2t.org
 * February 2013 - Hitlerwood is founded
 * March 2013 - Anatolia is founded

The First Valkyrian Period/Age of Popbob
For more details, go to First Valkyrian Period

Player Count: 10-30

This symbolizes the formation of Valkyria. They are led by famous and well-known players of 2b2t. This is also the era where Popbob is extremely prominent with his thunder hacks.
 * April 2013 - Valkyria is founded
 * May 2013 - 1.4.7 Dupe, The End Dragon is slain
 * June 2013 - 1st Incursion, IGN video (does not generate hype)
 * August - October 2013 - 2nd Incursion
 * October/November 2013 - Shenandoah is founded
 * December 2013 - 2b2t gets backdoored, Pyrobyte has reached the World Border.

Legion-Gape Interlude Period
For more details, go to Legion-Gape Interlude

Player Count: 30-20

This period is sparked by the abandonment of Asgard, and a small decrease in player size.
 * January 2014 - Asgard is abandoned
 * May 2014 - 2k2k is buried in lavacasts.
 * June 2014 - Legion of Shenandoah begins, Gape 1 is founded, Fenrir is founded.

Second Valkyrian Period
For more details, go to Second Valkyrian Period

This period begins with the creation of Fenrir. It ends in the chaos of the third incursion.

Player Count: 20-40
 * September 2014 - Fenrir Project begins
 * October 2014 - Nova is founded in 3b3t.
 * December 2014 - Southern Canal Project begins
 * January 2015 - 2b2t is updated to 1.8
 * February 2015 - Fenrir Project ends
 * March 2015 - Asgard II is founded
 * April 2015 - Asgard II is destroyed, the 3rd Incursion begins

Pre-Hype Period/Age of Consolidation/Age of Tyranny
For more details, go to Pre-Hype Period

This age is known for its relatively peaceful beginnings and chaotic ending.

Player Count: 60-90
 * May 2015
 * Aureus is founded
 * 3rd Incursion ends
 * Wrath constructed
 * June 2015
 * Kings Landing is founded
 * The last Facepunch thread closes
 * Vortex Coalition founded
 * August 2015
 * Project Vault, a project determined to keep every single monument in 2b2t untouched and left as a museum to other players, begins.
 * October 2015
 * Motherboard Article is released
 * VICE mini incursion begins and ends
 * December 2015
 * Imperator's Base is destroyed
 * February 2016
 * RPS Article released
 * March 2016
 * BedTP Exploit
 * April 2016
 * Space Valkyria destroyed
 * KGB destroyed
 * Land of Norphs destroyed
 * March - April 2016
 * OP Account stolen, Arms Race begins

Age of Hype/The Rusher Era
Player Count: 150-2000

For more details, go to The Rusher War and Age of Hype

The summer of 2016 gives 2b2t its unwanted fame, in the form of TheCampingRusher, a YouTuber with 1 million subscribers (roughly 800k on June 1st, 2016). He leads his fanbase to 2b2t, causing player rates to overflow, and numerous monuments to fall. It is the most documented period in 2b2t, and is a period that will change the server's history and future, forever.

A lot of groups spawned from this war, most notably Team Rusher, Team Veteran, The 4th Reich, the Peacekeepers, the Resistance, and Team Aurora.

Notable events: The 4th Incursion, The Rusher War, The 11/11 Dupe, The French Crisis

The Rusher War

 * June 2016
 * June 1st - Rusher begins his series on 2b2t
 * June 4th - Rusher declares war on "OGs".
 * June 13th - Fit becomes "leader" of Team Veteran
 * June 17th - Omega City Founded
 * July 2016
 * July 24th - Fourth Incursion begins with the Veterans raiding Napkin0fTruth's base
 * July 28th - 2nd largest battle in 2b2t History (19 players)
 * July 31st - Aureus is destroyed by the base members themselves.
 * July - Hardware upgrade, temporary map
 * August 2016
 * August 5th - Fit versus Rusher duel, Fit wins.
 * August 19th - Torogadude gets stripped of his priority queue.
 * September 2016
 * September 16 - Largest Battle in 2b2t History: Team Veteran allies with CorruptedUnicorn to take down Rusher. The battle ends in a draw, and Rusher is able to escape.
 * September 19th - Rusher leaves 2b2t for the first time for about a month.
 * September 22 - Valley of Wheat destroyed
 * September - 4th Incursion ends, Newsweek Article released
 * October 2016
 * October 9 - The Rusher War ends. The Rusher Massacre ends with 10,400 documented deaths.
 * October 15 -TheCampingRusher returns and makes 3 more videos on 2b2t before he leaves.
 * October 22 - Rusher leaves and The Rusher War officially ends. A small presence of Rushers/Newfags remain.
 * October - Offtopia's Drain is destroyed after FitMC made a tour of his base.

Post Rusher War

 * November 2016
 * November 11 - 11/11 Dupe leaked to public
 * November 22 - Jonathan5454 starts 6Garden. But major construction started sometime in January 2017.
 * November 25 - AgentGB makes a video on 2b2t. However, he does not make a video afterwards, and states that 2b2t won't be a series.
 * November 28 - The Fifth Incursion is organized by jared2013, however this fails, and barely makes any attention, and now reconized as a meme.
 * New coord exploit. Fitlantis is found.
 * Large battle in Fitlantis
 * 2b2t is updated to 1.11, ending the 11/11 Dupe
 * December 2016
 * AntVenom considers making a video on the history of 2b2t. He asks for the consent of the playerbase and the "admins".
 * Byrnsy begins his journey to the 2b2t World Border, with hopes of completing the +x Nether Highway. The Nether Highway Expedition group is formed.
 * The Emperium is founded by TheDark_Emperor.

Grand Deceleration Period/Post-Hype Period
Player Count: 80-200 (50-100 during Temp Maps)

Note: This period is ongoing, it is recommended to edit this part if a new major event occurs in the server.

For more details, go to Grand Retard Period

Shortly after the end of the Rusher War, the server goes on a slow decay. Most players gave up on 2b2t after the Rusher War, such as most Rushers giving up in the queue, and oldfags getting bored of the server. However, the queue still exists at a lesser extent. The amount of factions in 2b2t also decreased.
 * January 2017
 * The Vortex Coalition gets "disbanded".
 * Fit returns to 2b2t, with new jewtuber, kid friendly content. This increases the player count from 20-30 players.
 * February 2017
 * The 4th Reich is disbanded.
 * HermeticLock's Spawn Base is constructed and The Third Largest Battle of 2b2t History occurs there. The base was constantly rebuilt and lavacasted over and over
 * 15 milliontown is built by the nether highway group*
 * Highland is founded by The_Grand_Lotus
 * Toro's Theater begins construction
 * 2b2t logo rebranded
 * Kinorana hacks all maps in 2b2t. Protests against Kinorana begin.
 * SpawnMasons founded by Hermeticlock.
 * March 2017
 * March 3 - Maps are reset and old maps are deleted off 2b2t. The deathspam protest takes a short ceasefire.
 * March 15 - The Donkey Dupe is leaked to public.
 * March 18 - The Donkey Dupe has been patched.
 * March 21 - Wintermelon is griefed
 * March 22 - fr1kin discovers an exploit that can bring the server below 1tps. This had normal attention until Fit claims that the lag could crash the server.
 * March 26 - World Border reached legitimately through the +X Highway. The +X Highway has been completed. Point Nemo is founded.
 * March 29 - Point Nemo is griefed
 * April 2017
 * April 1 - 2017 April fools map. This lasted a few days. The queue was also disabled during the uptime of the map
 * April 9 - Apocalypse Exploit patched, /kill disabled
 * April 13-24 - Fit's journey to the World Border
 * May 2017
 * May 18 - Fit visits Point Dory without the permission of its builders
 * May 20 - Point Dory is griefed
 * Rumors go around 2b2t subreddit about the return of Rusher.
 * Drama involving Fit occurs after the incident of Point Dory.
 * May 25 - Torogadude leaks the coordinates of his own theater by accident. It got destroyed almost instantly.
 * June 2017
 * June 1 - 1st Anniversary of Rusher's Invasion in 2b2t. 2b2t is flooded with lag machines and various shitposts to celebrate the anniversary.
 * June 3 - +X +Z World Border reached
 * June 4 - Battle between Spawn Masons and Peacekeepers
 * June 9 - The +Z Highway has been completed.
 * June 18 - Omega City Destoryed
 * June 23 - The first server crash
 * June 29 - HermeticLock announced the "second season" of hanging around at his spawnbase


 * July 2017
 * July 6 - The second server crash
 * July 6-7 - Server shut down, as a preparation for the 1.12 update.
 * July 8-22  - 1.12 tempmap
 * July 23 - The original map returns. Hausemaster announces the deletion of all non-vanilla items. However, Hause accidently deleted Axe enchantments, player heads, efficiency on shears, and all duengon spawners. The 1.12 dupe was also discovered.
 * July 24 - Dupe patched sometime around 10:00 AM (EST)
 * July 28 - Summermelon griefed by Fit and his crew
 * July 29 - Fit is exposed by Offtopia in the 2b2t Subreddit for making stuff up just to get a reason to grief Summermelon.
 * August 2017
 * August 1 - Server restarted by hause twice at 12:00 AM August 1st (EST)
 * August 2 - The 3rd Major crash causes 2b2t down for a while. (Most likely low tps)
 * August 5 - Armorsmith lags the server down to 1tps. Causing the playercount to drop to 50-80 players. Queue virtualy dosent exist.
 * August 6 - Riot on the wiki and subreddit to demote jared2013 and niftyrobo for the removal of pages.
 * August 7 - Wiki is restored. Subreddit explodes with wiki rants.
 * September 2017
 * September 15 - A Spanish youtuber called EIRichMC makes a video about 2b2t. This causes some player influx and even more panic. Elrich never made another video afterwards.
 * October 2017
 * October 13 - Hausemaster announces removal of pre - June 1st queue.
 * October 13 - 20 - Bots fill the server in a vain attempt to kill it off, Drachenstein buys oldfags 2 months of priority
 * November 2017
 * November 19-20 A redditor named PM_ME_YOUR_TITS_GIRL posted a render of 2b2t on r/gaming and r/minecraft
 * December 2017
 * December 19, 2017 - Construction on the Cerulean Islands begins
 * December 21, 2017 - Voco declares the "Vo-Perium" war
 * December 25, 2017 - Armorsmith and Co. planned to lag the server to 0 tps, and succeded to get it down to 0.5 before Hausemaster personally destroyed the machine.
 * January 2018
 * January 10, 2018 - United Group Embassy is formed, an initial 15 groups joining.
 * January 28, 2018 - Spanish Inquisition grows bigger: half of the players are Spanish-speaking.


 * February 2018
 * February 4, 2018 - Viper Base griefed, led by Fit.
 * February 9, 2018 - Up to 17 U.G.E. representatives arrive at spawn and begin renovating.