2b2t Times

The 2b2t Times was a weekly community newspaper mapart that ran from August 2021 to February 2022. Forceken founded and led the newspaper in its operations. The newspaper covered current events as well as other historical events that may be of significance. All of the articles were made on the same map ID (#5275), so if you found one on the server, it would automatically update to a new story every week. During its operation, it distributed over 750,000 unique maps containing the current newspaper story all over the server, even more than 100k from spawn. Over 1500 people have joined the Discord from the invite linked on the newspaper.

The weekly topic for each story was voted on democratically by the Editors in the 2b2t Times, and the general public were able to suggest topics as well. The operation was run partly from the 2b2t Times Discord server, which also served as an archive for all of the older stories.

Distribution
The 2b2t Times HQ was a giant, self-sustainable newspaper factory which provided all of the materials needed for making the newspaper. It was built by Franknificant and Forceken and contained auto sugarcane farms, auto cow farms, and auto wheat farms (to feed the cows). Multiple players were tasked with distributing the mapart in large quantities across vast areas, both near and far away from spawn. You could find maparts of the newspaper almost anywhere near a major highway/road on the server, especially in the Nether.

News Issues
The formatting on the 2b2t Times newspaper has been carried over to this page, including spelling, grammar, punctuation, and text color. However, for your ease of reading, the ALL CAPS text of the newspaper has been converted to sentence case. Any errors marked with (sic.) are from the original text and should not be corrected.

Issue 28 - 10 Rules
Contrary to popular belief, 2b2t does have rules. Below is a list of things that you may be punished for on 2b2t.


 * 1) Advertising in chat
 * 2) Talking about Walden
 * 3) Using lag exploits
 * 4) Talking about doxxing
 * 5) Speaking unkindly about Hausemaster in chat
 * 6) Duping items
 * 7) Spamming chat
 * 8) Using exploits to ban large amounts of players
 * 9) Refunding your priority Q (sic.)
 * 10) Talking about the rules and punishments in chat

Past
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Issue 27 - Test Server
2b2t admin recently opened a test server that runs on 1.18.1, on an old copy of the actual 2b2t map. The test server only allowed 100 people on at once and the server render distance was turned down very low. Even in this setting, there were issues with lag, but this could be due to choices made by the admin, for this test. Plans are to continue testing soon, so maybe the next test will tell us what the real chances for update are. Server IP - test.2b2t.org.

Issue 26 - Spawn Taxi
A new public service called '2Beep2t', a 2b2t taxi, was created earlier this year by 'SteveEatsBread', with the goal of helping random people. This service has evolved into a project with multiple taxi drivers. These 'taxi' drivers use boats to pick up passengers and shuttle them around spawn. There is a Discord server that is used as the dispatch service for you to "order your taxi" as well. Check out #affiliates in our Discord for their info!

Issue 25 - Pit Fight
Over the past 10 months an event called 'Pit Fight' has had monthly events and they give away $200 or more in prize money some months. At the most recent event, an anarchy bedwars style build, the event got over 70 people to show up concurrently. Pit Fight is a battle royale crystal PvP tournament that continues to have a huge turnout each month. Have you been to a pitfight yet? You can check our affiliates channel in our Discord for their info!

Issue 24 - Six Months
For six months, this mapart has brought you the news, on a weekly basis. As long as you have this map, it will automatically update to the newest article. On 2b2t, however, the maps are being reset and overwritten all the time. We have been able to keep the same map ID# for six months, through several resets. We have also spread over 750,000 newspapers throughout the server! Join the Discord below to see older articles and to tell us if you like the new logo!

Issue 23 - Farlands
In 2019 Fit made 2 videos about the Farlands and also ended up offering a 2000 dollar reward, which is yet unclaimed. Between the two videos, there are a few clues to the Farlands(sic.) alleged location; Firstly, there was a claim that it was more likely to be in the (-,+) quad. It was later stated that the Farlands were found using a teleport exploit, so no chunk trail. Have you tried to find them yet?

Downfall
On February 5th, 2022 the 2b2t Times updated to a new article, covering the rules of 2b2t. The next day, Forceken logged onto 2b2t, only to find that all of his accounts had been priority banned and muted, along with all of the maps being reset. Following this, Forceken announced on the 2b2t Times Discord server that Hausemaster caused the newspaper to go on an indefinite hiatus and that the project would be shut down. The coordinates to the 2b2t Times HQ were also made public, leading to the destruction of the base and the newspaper map itself.