Timeline

The following is a timeline of events relating to the 2b2t Minecraft server, including relevant events that take place in and out of the server. Events in bold denote server–wide and/or technical changes or events, usually made by the server owner, rather than in–server events.

Note: This timeline is a work–in–progress and can be added to. Please take an extra moment to check your grammar if you decide to add or edit an event.

Pre–Minecraft server
See also: Hausemaster § Early history, 2b2t § Origin, 2fort2furious, and 2b2t (Garry's Mod server)

This time concerns all relevant events that lead up to 2b2t's creation as a Minecraft server.


 * November 7, 2005 – Hausemaster creates his Steam account.
 * February 2008 – 2009 – Hausemaster is active on the Team Fortress 2 server 2fort2furious (2f2f). He also creates an account on the 2f2f forum on February 20, 2008.
 * Hausemaster meets Kalash (Reima) on 2f2f, who invites him to a Team Fortress 2 group called the "Axeassins".
 * August 29, 2008 – Hausemaster starts the 2b2t Steam group with the aim to host game servers, titled "2builders2tools (2b2t)", a parody of 2f2f. 
 * 'August 2008 – between April 2009 and December 2010 – 2b2t's Garry's Mod server begins after Kalash is banned from 2f2f for exploits. After creating the Minecraft server, the group is still active and continues hosting servers, although none are as significant as the Garry's Mod and Minecraft'' servers. The group was deleted by Hause in 2019 or 2020.
 * August 3, 2010 – Minecraft survival multiplayer is released.

2010
Player Count: 50–70 (Accounts vary)

''Nothing much is known about the early days of 2b2t, except that the server began in December this year. According to pYr01v1aniac, the server was on update Alpha 1.7. There are rumors that the server began months earlier than this (due to Hausemaster's wording in a Facepunch thread) but they are little more than rumors.''


 * December – Hausemaster and/or georgebush420, the two server operators, begin 2b2t's current map. 2b2t is populated by people in the already existing 2b2t Garry's Mod community (such as Rage639 and BennyGun)
 * Late December – Spawn is griefed, according to accounts. pYr01v1aniac claims that most of the damage at Spawn was caused by creeper explosions in "the first couple of days", as well as lavacasts.

2011
Player Count: 50–80

''During 2011, several events occurred, the most significant being the formation and rise of the Facepunch Republic. This year was one of the most active in the server's history prior to 2016.''
 * Early 2011 – the owners advertise 2b2t on 4chan and SomethingAwful
 * Early 2011 – Hausemaster teleports to random players to check the progress of his server. He would sometimes give players random items.
 * Early 2011 – Swastika Base is created by members of the /v/idya; it is griefed by April 2011
 * April 2011 – The Facepunch Republic begins; 4channers, who are the majority and on 2b2t previously to Facepunchers, take notice of this and try to stop them.
 * April 26 – Chezhead joins 2b2t and discovers the ruins of a griefed castle. He creates a small base with Mattyyy and Coolity.
 * April 27 – At 4:57 PM UTC, Chezhead advertises 2b2t on Facepunch's forums, and he becomes the leader of the brand new Facepunch Republic. Facepunchers apply for membership in this thread, including one user known as Luke2thebun. Chezhead moves out of his first base, citing proximity to spawn, and establishes Camp Facepunch, probably on the same castle ruins he had discovered.
 * April 28 – At 12:45 AM UTC a player named Luke2thebun on his alt mweorz attacks Camp Facepunch. Starting the Facepunch War. Later that day a temporary castle built by the Facepunchers is also attacked and destroyed.
 * April 28 – Hausemaster makes the first known server stats post, stating that there had been 8,164 unique players, and the map size 9.36 gigabytes in size.
 * April 29 – Chezhead leaves a memorial at the remains of Camp Facepunch: "Here lies the ruins of a proud nation, made by blood, sweat, and tears. R.I.P. Camp Facepunch. Love, Chezhead."
 * May 2011 – Player data corruption and change of world generation cause spawn to look strange.
 * July 2011 – First post of the 2b2t Comic by THEJudgeHolden. The base known as Zion is also built.
 * July 7 – Within creates the second Facepunch 2b2t thread, titled "2b2t V2: there is no FP republic". The Facepunch Republic begins to decline. By now, 37856 players have joined and the map size is 29.7GB.
 * July 29 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the first two chapters of his 2b2t comic series.
 * August 2011
 * August 14 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the third chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * September 2011
 * Construction of Boatmurdered begins.
 * September 6 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the fourth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * October 2011
 * October 9 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the fifth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * November 2011
 * Old Town is griefed by popbob.
 * November 16 – Boatmurdered is completed and abandoned.
 * December 2011 – The Second Backdoor of 2b2t occurs. popbob created a plugin for Hausemaster, and using this backdoor, gave himself permission to use the TooManyItems mod. He also gives a number of Facepunchers permissions too, including xcc2 and policemike55, meaning that they were virtually working in Creative Mode with an endless supply of blocks.
 * December 16 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the sixth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * December 25 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the seventh chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * December 29 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the eighth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * Late December – Plugin Town is constructed in the wake of the destruction of PassieTown. The town is built using backdoor access.
 * 2011 – The first dupe on 2b2t, the Piston Dupe, was discovered a posted on YouTube. This involved pushing the piston real fast to duplicate items.
 * Sometime before December 2011 – The First Backdoor occurs when Hausemaster installs a plugin made by popbob that would allow her to teleport around the server.

2012
Player Count: 20–50

''This year 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 which caused many players to believe that the server shut down for good.''


 * January 2012
 * ZiggyBase is constructed. popbob's backdoor allows builders to construct bedrock structures, such as the Bedrock Dam and the Bedrock Comet. popbob then uses the backdoor to teleport to many bases and grief them, as well as creating hacked items. Hausemaster disables/patches the plugin, ending the Second Backdoor.
 * January 3 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the ninth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * January 13 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the tenth chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * February 2012
 * The Facepunch Republic ends. A revived republic is raised from the ground by Phagocytic. Judge's group base at 1 million / 1 million is griefed by x0XP.
 * February 6 – THEJudgeHolden uploads the eleventh chapter of his 2b2t comic series.
 * February 27 – xcc2 captures footage of Hausemaster experimenting with thunderstorms at spawn. A similar storm occurred on July 20th of that year.
 * March 2012
 * Construction of 2k2k begins.
 * March 25 – the 2b2t subreddit is created by Qasaur
 * April 2012
 * ImperatorTerrae finds Viking base and 'reforms' it.
 * April 1 – The first April Fools Map is released. Every ten minutes, Hausemaster changes the map. He also spawns shitloads of mobs.
 * April 4 – Zion is raided and destroyed. It turns out that Phagocytic had given the coordinates to Zion to xarviar. Initially unaware that Phagocytic was now the leader of the Facepunch Republic and was promoting 2b2t on Facepunch, the discovery of the fact convinces him to leak the coordinates. He ends up on Phagocytic's exclusive "TOTAL FUCKING FAGGOT LIST". Phagocytic moves the Facepunchers to 2k2k, which is later renamed Zion (though many still call it 2k2k).
 * May 2012
 * May 23 – 2b2t.net website is set up and Hausemaster demands donations to keep the server up. 
 * June 2012
 * Around the middle of the year, Chrisleighton, the self–proclaimed "king" of 2b2t, is doxxed by x0XP and SionThePhion after SnackyNorph (a friend of chris in real life) sends chris's mobile number to x0XP. Chrisleighton leaves 2b2t forever.
 * 2k2k is founded.
 * The Facepunch Republic fully collapses.
 * Mid 2012 – x0XP and popbob attempt to backdoor 2b2t again, but they failed when Benjojo (one of the moderators) caught them.
 * July 2012
 * 2k2k is obliterated and lavacasted.
 * July 20 – Hausemaster creates the second known spawn lightning storm. The strikes are no longer focused precisely on 0,0 but strike all around the immediate surroundings. ComputerTechie captures footage of this storm. It is unknown if Hausemaster ever tested other lightning storms.
 * October 2012
 * The Crystal Islands are founded by Offtopia and two unknown Australians. Offtopia invites CytotoxicTcell to help with construction.
 * Late 2012 – The first wither is spawned in by Rickenman, and then the second is spawned in by Shougun
 * 2b2t is shut down for three months and changes the IP address from 2b2t.net to 2b2t.org.

2013
Player Count: 10–30

2013 is mostly painted by Valkyria, as most other groups of this period have all been forgotten.


 * February 2013
 * Hitlerwood is founded by Coldwave, Zach3397 and Hinderjd.
 * March 2013
 * Anatolia is founded by Sato86, Drewbookman, and Pyrobyte.
 * March 3 – Doctrzombie joins 2b2t and uploads his first 2b2t video.
 * April 2013
 * April 1 – The second April Fools Map is released. It was basically the same as the first one, but the server spams retarded announcements in the chat.
 * April 29 – Valkyria is founded by the members of Hitlerwood and Anatolia (Black Flag Group), and construction begins on their base of the same name.
 * May 2013
 * 1.4.7 Dupe, The Ender Dragon is slain.
 * June 2013
 * June 11 – A Twitter account documenting all death–messages is set up and lasts for 9 days.
 * June 20 – The First Incursion takes place. After one week, the Incursion ends.
 * June 20 – IGN video is released, but causes no notable increase in player count.
 * August 2013
 * The Second Incursion begins.
 * October 2013
 * Somewhere around this time, Asgard I begins construction in anticipation of Java Edition 1.7.
 * The Second Incursion concludes.
 * October/November 2013 – Shenandoah is founded by jesse_number6.
 * December 2013
 * The Second Backdoor takes place. iTristan and Pyrobyte develop a plugin that blocks access to the roof of the Nether, but they use the plugin as their backdoor. Pyrobyte and iTristan reached the World Border.
 * (Unknown month) 2013
 * Construction of HardHat's Pyramid has started.

2014
Player Count: 20–30

''During 2014, Valkyria broke up into a few smaller groups. These include the Gape Group and the Legion of Shenandoah.''


 * January 2014
 * Asgard is abandoned after popbob is sighted at the base.
 * March 2014
 * March 12th – first recorded instance of the 2014 new map
 * March 31st – The third April Fools Map is released.
 * May 2014
 * 2k2k is buried in lavacasts and many ancient bases are annihilated by Withers (Including the NFE and Plugin Town).
 * May 15th – First Citable evidence that the 2 month new map ended
 * June 2014
 * Legion of Shenandoah begins and Gape 1 is founded.
 * July 2014
 * July 31, 2014 – Infamous message shows up on the server website stating that Hausemaster has left the server forever, leaving it in the care of "an anonymous friend." The owner's personality changes immediately after this post.
 * August 2014
 * September 2014
 * Fenrir is founded.
 * October 2014
 * Nova is founded on 3b3t.
 * December 2014
 * Southern Canal Project is started by ThebesAndSound.
 * December 15 – James Rustles posts the first entry on the 2b2t blog.


 * Unknown
 * The +Z Axis Highway reaches one million blocks.

2015
Player Count: 20–40

''A large population boost happened during this year, mostly from the numerous articles and a massive Reddit post. However, most of the newer players did not stay for long.''


 * January 2015
 * 2b2t is updated to 1.8.
 * February 2015
 * Fenrir is abandoned.
 * March 2015
 * Asgard II is founded.
 * April 2015
 * Asgard II is destroyed, the Third Incursion begins.
 * April 1 – The fourth April Fools Map is released. With it being a Jihad/Islamic theme. iTristan also shows some signs of having backdoor access during this event.
 * May 2015
 * The Third Incursion ends.
 * Wrath Outpost constructed.
 * May 31 – Aureus is founded.
 * June 2015
 * King's Landing is founded.
 * Vortex Coalition founded.
 * June 7 – The last 2b2t Facepunch thread closes.
 * 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
 * October 5 – the Vice 2b2t Article is released.
 * VICE mini incursion begins and ends.
 * Late 2015 – Using the Second Backdoor, iTristan and Pyrobyte develop the first Super Weapons. These weapons were enchanted to level 32768, or 2^15, and could one–shot any unprepared players if the Sharpness enchantment was used.
 * December 2015
 * Imperator's Base is destroyed by jared2013. Around this time, the server website shuts down.
 * The Third Backdoor takes place. More hacked items are created and kept in a stash by iTristan.

2016
Player Count (pre–June): 1–10

Player Count (post–June): up to 2500 or more

The birth of modern 2b2t, this was caused when TheCampingRusher made a video series and posted it onto Youtube.


 * February 2016
 * RPS Article released.
 * March 2016
 * BedTP Exploit surfaces.
 * The Lands is destroyed by The Tyranny.
 * April 2016
 * April 1 – The fifth April Fools Map is hosted on a separate server made by Spartan512. The server is updated to 1.9 on the same day.
 * Space Valkyria 2 destroyed by the Tyranny.
 * KGB destroyed by the Tyranny.
 * May 2016
 * The player count plummets, sometimes as low as 1–5 players online, although the player count eventually bounces back up.
 * The second phase of The Vortex Coalition begins.
 * June 2016
 * June 1 – TheCampingRusher begins his series on 2b2t. In the coming days, 2b2t becomes flooded with his fans. This day is often considered to be the end of the "old" 2b2t and the beginning of the "new" (Similar to BC and AD)
 * June 4 – TheCampingRusher declares war on "OGs," a reference to players who have been on the server longer than him, starting the Rusher War.
 * June 13 – Fit uploads a video of him griefing a large Rusher sanctuary with Babbaj and jared2013, which contained over 40 Rushers. This often considered to be the first Battle of the Rusher War.
 * June 16 – Fit becomes leader of Team Veteran, which is supposedly meant to contain the rusher onslaught and preserve the server's pre–rusher culture. This is disputed by others.
 * June – A lava wall is made around the 500x500 area of spawn, in hopes of keeping Rushers trapped in spawn, the project fails.
 * June 17 – Omega City is founded.
 * June 17 – Team Veteran’s oldfags hold a war meeting to discuss how to fight for the Veteran initiative.
 * June 22 – Team Veteran comes across TheCampingRusher’s first attempt at a base and lavacasts it.
 * July 2016
 * July 2 – TheCampingRusher visits an old base known as the Crystal Islands, which were known to have been owned by Team Veteran. Following this information, the islands are griefed. Offtopia later claimed that Fit intentionally leaked the base’s coordinates, which Fit denied.
 * July 16 – The Valley of Wheat is griefed. TheCampingRusher is originally blamed, but it is later found that the grief was done by CorruptedUnicorn and the Resistance, as well as a few Rushers.
 * July 21 – The 2b2t.press WordPress is created.
 * July 22 – The Minecart Dupe Glitch is patched.
 * July 24 – The Fourth Incursion begins with the Veterans raiding Napkin0fTruth's base.
 * July 27 – The bypass of the Minecart Dupe Glitch is patched.
 * July 28 – 2nd largest battle in 2b2t history (19 players).
 * July 31 – Aureus City is destroyed by its members after it is leaked
 * July – Hardware upgrade, temporary map.
 * The queue is set up around this time.
 * August 2016
 * The +Z Axis Highway has been extended to three million blocks at this point.
 * August 5 – Fit duels TheCampingRusher at Dark Souls Castle.
 * August 19 – Torogadude gets stripped of his Veteran/OG priority queue.
 * September 2016
 * September – Expansion on the +Z Axis Highway is undertaken by gRiNdLoRd between Z: 125000 and Z: 350000
 * September 15 – Newsweek Article released.
 * September 16 – Largest Battle of the Rusher War takes place. Team Veteran allies with CorruptedUnicorn to take down TheCampingRusher.The battle ends in a draw, and TheCampingRusher is able to escape.
 * September 19 – TheCampingRusher leaves 2b2t for the first time for about a month.
 * September 22 – Valley of Wheat destroyed.
 * September 26 – CancerChan and Da99thWolf grief Nightingale.
 * September – Fourth Incursion ends.
 * October 2016
 * October 9 – The Rusher War ends. The Veterans say that about 10,400 Rushers had been killed, this account is disputed. Fit ends Team Veteran.
 * October 14 – CaptainHardHat's Pyramid's coordinates are leaked by Lifeisgood72, who destroys it gradually over time during the –X, –Z highway expansion.
 * October 15 –TheCampingRushe r returns and makes 3 more videos on 2b2t before he leaves.
 * October 17 – The 4th Reich griefs a Peacekeeper spawn base.
 * October 22 – TheCampingRusher leaves and The Rusher War ends. A large residual presence of Rushers and newfags remains, forever changing 2b2t.
 * October – The Drain is destroyed by the 4th Reich after Fit makes a video touring the base.


 * November 2016
 * November 11 – The 11/11 Dupe, otherwise known as the Drop Dupe, is discovered and leaked by RusherIsAutistic (xxq). The dupe worked by simply throwing the chosen item out of your inventory, immediately disconnecting, and then reconnecting, which would leave the item in your inventory and create a thrown dupe on the ground. Mass–duping takes place across the server.
 * November 19 – Kinorana develops a client that simplified the 11/11 Dupe, allowing players to dupe their entire inventory. Later, it was found out that the client was backdoored, leading to many leaked stashes being raided. Other clients, such as Impact and Wurst, still enable duplication without backdooring.
 * November 25 – AgentGB makes a video on 2b2t. He later states that is will not be a series.
 * November 28 – The Fifth Incursion is organized by jared2013, however, this fails, and now widely recognized to have been a meme. 2b2t is updated to version 1.11, killing the 11/11 Dupe.
 * November – The Bedrock exploit is discovered and used to find Fitlantis.
 * November – Large battle at Fitlantis.
 * December 2016
 * December – The 2b2t.press domain is shut down. A Change.org petition created by the press, claiming that Verizon shut them down for endorsing at the time President–elect Donald Trump.
 * December – AntVenom considers making a video on the history of 2b2t. He asks for the consent of the playerbase and the &quot;admins&quot;.
 * December 1 – Emperium is founded.
 * December 4 – The 2b2tdotonline bot goes live, created by 086.
 * December 8 – Dark Souls Castle is griefed by Lifeisgood72 and Sevorus.
 * December 9 – Byrnsy leaves Spawn to begin an expedition to the +X World Border.
 * December 11 – The 10th City of DonFuer, one of many "capital cities" the DonFuer group had formed on many Minecraft servers, is founded on 2b2t.
 * December 14 – Byrnsy details his +X World Border expedition on /r/2b2t. At the time, he was 10% of the way in the Nether (Ov. X: 3000000). The 2x3 horse highway ended at X: 108250 at this time.
 * December 20 – Byrnsy reaches 20% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 6000000).
 * December 27 – Negative_Entropy comes across the intact remains of Castle Hatehart and begins to repair it.

2017
Player Count: 80–200 (50–100 during Temp Maps)

''The server population lowered, and the Rushers that stayed became a part of the regular playerbase. This year was marked by the first highways being dug all the way to the World Border of the Overworld.''


 * January 2017
 * January 1 – Fit returns to 2b2t, with more kid–friendly content (starting with Minecraft world records by boat). The impact from this kept the 2b2t playerbase in its 200s.
 * January 1 – Byrnsy and his new group, the +X Diggers reaches 30% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 9000000).
 * January 1 – Block Game Mecca is founded by GanjMeisterBlock and AutismBot.
 * January 14 – Coltsnid leaks the coordinates of the 10th City of DonFuer. Within half an hour, Babbaj obliterates it. The 11th City of DonFuer begins construction, but it is later abandoned when HermeticLock started the SpawnMasons.
 * Mid January – SpawnMasons are founded.
 * January 23rd – Singularity is founded.
 * January 28/29 – Byrnsy and crew make it 40% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 12000000)..
 * February 2017
 * HermeticLock's World Famous 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 Million Town is built by the nether highway group.
 * Highland is founded by The_Grand_Lotus and CasparovJR.
 * Construction on Toro's Theater begins.
 * 2b2t logo is rebranded.
 * Kinorana resets all maps in 2b2t. Protests against Kinorana begin.
 * February 11 – Byrnsy and crew make it 50% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 15000000). The 15 Million Base begins construction.
 * February 27 – Byrnsy and crew 60% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 18000000).
 * March 2017
 * The Llama Dupe, an alternative to the Donkey Dupe, is discovered.
 * Early March – The 4th Reich is disbanded.
 * March 3 – Maps are reset and old maps are deleted off 2b2t. The death spam protest takes a short ceasefire.
 * March 9 – Byrnsy and crew make it 70% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 21000000).
 * March 13 – Byrnsy and crew is make it 80% into his journey to the +X World Borde r (Ov. X: 24000000). 24 Million Cave is constructed.
 * March 15 – The Donkey Dupe is leaked to the 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.
 * March 23 – Around this time, players continue to complain about maps being broken. Many spambots flooded chat with phrases to demand Kinorana to fix this.
 * March 26 – The +X World Border is reached legitimately through the +X Highway. xxq, rasqi, MiningMinecraft, househousehouse1, and Auion are the first players to arrive. The +X Highway is completed, and Point Nemo is founded.
 * March 27 – At 2:42 PM local time, Byrnsy made it 90% into his journey to the +X World Border (Ov. X: 27000000). At 11:44 PM local time, Byrnsy finally reaches the +X World Border (Ov. X: 30000000), the site of Point Nemo. Dozens of signs have been placed to greet Byrnsy. Point Nemo is expanded for a whole week, and Point Dory is constructed later.
 * March 29 – Point Nemo is griefed.
 * March – A coded bot by the name of PriorityQueue is seen at nether spawn floating and not taking any damage, it was initially thought that he backdoored the server, however, this was later proved to be incorrect (possibly the usage of MineChat).
 * April 2017
 * The Llama Dupe is patched.
 * April 1st – The April Fools' Map 2017 is put into place, and the queue is removed. The server's message of the day is a flashing green and cyan line that says "HACKED BY #TEAMRUSHER". The world border is set to just 400x400 and mob loot tables are altered to drop things such as spawn eggs and ender pearls.
 * April 2 – The Highland group is formed.
 * April 3 – The April Fools' map is taken down, and 2b2t goes back to normal.
 * April 9 – Apocalypse Exploit patched, /kill temporarily disabled.
 * April 13/24 – Fit makes the journey to the +X World Border.
 * May 2017
 * May 15 – AntVenom uses a clip of 2b2t in his video titled "HOW MANY MAPS will BREAK MINECRAFT?!", and states "there are some very large–scale anarchy survival servers out there" when speaking about servers and whatnot that have reached the map limit with a clip of him entering a nether portal at spawn, hinting at the video about 2b2t that he made a year later.
 * May 18 – Fit visits Point Dory without the permission of its builders.
 * May 20 – Point Dory is griefed.
 * May 25 – Torogadude leaks the coordinates of his own theater by accident. It is destroyed almost instantly.
 * May 31 – mrking039 griefs what is left of the Crystal Islands, leaving it unrecognizable.
 * June 2017
 * June 1– First anniversary of Rusher's Invasion. The server is flooded with lag machines and various shitposts to celebrate.
 * June 4 – Battles between the SpawnMasons and the Peacekeepers start.
 * June 9 –The +Z Highway is completed to the +Z World Border.
 * June 18 – Omega City is destroyed.
 * June 29th – HermeticLock announced the &quot;second season&quot; of hanging around at his spawnbase.
 * July 2017
 * July 6–7 – Server shut down, as a preparation for the 1.12 update and the addition of new plugins.
 * July 8–21 – A new tempmap starts with the goal of transferring the server to 1.12.
 * July 10th – The 12th City of DonFuer is completed.
 * July 21st/23 – The original map returns. The owner announces the deletion of all non–vanilla items. In the process he also accidentally deleted sharpness off axes, efficiency on shears, and all dungeon spawners. The crafting dupe (also known as the stacking dupe), was also discovered, which involved spamming in the crafting book.
 * 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 6 – SpawnMasons disband after internal tensions.
 * August 7 – gRiNdLoRd flies under the Nether floor all the way to Z: –3750000, then builds a portal and reaches the –Z World Border.
 * August 9 – After gRiNdLoRd’s feat from two days earlier, a plugin is installed to prevent players from flying under the Nether floor.
 * August 11 – The Chunk Dupe is discovered by MiningMinecraft and Auion.
 * August 17 – Armorsmith reaches the End World Border Corner and builds Armorland.
 * September 2017
 * September 9 – The 12th DonFuer is griefed by Llane.
 * September 15 – A Spanish YouTuber, ElRichMC makes a video on the server, causing his fans to join and fill the chat with Spanish. Despite the video being quite popular, ElRichMC decides not to make another video and the server returns to normal in a matter of a few weeks.
 * September 17 – SpawnMasons are revived with members assembling once again.
 * Mid September – Project Obsidian Sky is completed. The 500x500 region of spawn now has an obsidian roof at Y256.
 * Late September – Elytra are disabled due to large amounts of chunks being loaded in a short amount of time, causing both lag and the server file size to grow much too quickly. Elytra remain disabled for almost two years.


 * October 2017
 * The 2b2t Press returns for a brief time.
 * The Emperium begins construction of Empire's Edge.
 * October 8 – The Nether Highway Group completes the tunnel to the +X,+Z world corner.
 * October 13 – The owner announces the removal of pre June 1st queue.
 * October 13/20 – Bots fill the server in a vain attempt to kill it off, Drachenstien buys about a dozen old players 2 months of priority.
 * October 20th – The first phase of Infrared, known as Inferno, is founded by RetronautX.
 * November 2017
 * November 6 – Metrez makes a post on /r/2b2t to gather people willing to dig the –X Axis Highway in the Nether. This leads to the creation of the –X Diggers.
 * November 10 – The –X Diggers begin to dig the –X Axis Highway in the Nether at X: –850000.
 * December 11 – Foundation of the Shortbus Caliphate as a meme and smokescreen for the actions of Block Game Mecca
 * November 18 – The Cactus Dupe is discovered.
 * November 19-20 – TwinkleTard posts a render of 2b2t on r/gaming and r/minecraft, bringing more attention to the server.
 * November 22 – The –X Diggers team arrives at the –X World Border.
 * The Asylum is founded by cityboss1.
 * December 2017
 * December 11 – The Shortbus Caliphate is founded
 * December 19 – Construction on the Cerulean Islands begins.
 * December 20 – Astral Order is founded by LordGalvatronMC and jay_monroe.
 * December 2 – The Vortex Coalition declares war on Emperium, starting the the Vo–Perium war.
 * December 22 – The –X Axis Highway is completed.
 * December 22 – The cult of Armorsmith’s Followers is created.

2018
Player Count: 100–250

''This year is most known for two incursions (Sixth and Seventh Incursions) as a result of the player influxes caused by AntVenom and Fuze III. and the grief of Block Game Mecca. Most of the major factions in the server also attempted to unite in the United Group Embassy. This year is also known for the major duplication glitches, which caused the 2b2t server economy to deteriorate rapidly.''


 * January 2018
 * January – The second Donkey Dupe is discovered, but not immediately leaked.
 * Early in the year – 0xymoron passes on ownership of 2b2t.online to Drachenstien, who also recruits HermeticLock as project manager.
 * January – Team Inferno reforms into Infrared.
 * January 10 – United Group Embassy is formed, an initial 15 groups join.
 * January 11 – The Vo–Perium war ends in a stalemate after both sides fail to gain any significant ground.
 * February 4 – The Decoy ViperBase is griefed by Fit and his crew.
 * February 7 – 2b2t Media Archive is founded by xyzvp.
 * February 8 – The Old Spawn Road is griefed by Armorsmith.
 * February 9 – Up to 17 U.G.E. representatives arrive at spawn and begin renovating.
 * February 13 – 16 U.G.E. representatives fight 4 members of Infrared and Highland at spawn. Renovations continue.
 * February 18 – The Astral Order's base Malachor is greifed by IHackedWalmart, Retronautx, and Armorsmith.
 * February 19 – Astral Order's The Monastery is founded by LordGalvatronMC, jay_monroe, and SuperViperMan.
 * Late February – The Alpha Alliance is formed in retaliation to the formation of the United Group Embassy. The alliances consist of the groups Infrared, Highland, and the Peacekeepers.
 * March 2018
 * March 20th – Temp map begins while the main map is being transferred from a 4 Terabyte HDD to a 6 TB SSD, as it was rapidly approaching the upper size limit of its current hardware. Server traffic is lower than usual but still high. The TPS range is around 10 to 13.
 * March 27th – Main map returns.
 * March 28th – Severe rubberbanding and lag occurs at high TPS as well as several plugins being removed temporarily which allowed for people to use illegal items for a short amount of time, as well as being able to use the Nether roof while taking heavy amounts of damage.
 * April 2018
 * March 31/April 2 – An unnamed April Fools' tempmap starts on March 31st, 2018, and ends April 2nd, 2018. During this period, AntVenom confirms he will be releasing his video on April 3rd. The Sixth Incursion is declared by Sato86 on the temp map (aka, the sixth April Fools Map).
 * April 2/6 – 2nd tempmap after the failure of reverting back the world.
 * April 3 – The highly anticipated &quot;Face of Minecraft Anarchy&quot; video is released by AntVenom. New players flood the server.
 * April 6 – The main map comes back, and the owner adds AAC to the server, which causes frequent disconnects and problems in general.
 * April 8 – ArchQuantum extends the overworld –Z Axis Highway to Z: –719000.
 * April 9 – The 2b2t.online alpha is launched by HermeticLock.
 * April 12– 14 million subscriber YouTuber PopularMMOs is seen logging onto the server and is geared by an unknown player. He is later seen at nether spawn and killed with an end crystal. He claims he is not making a video on the server.
 * April 16 – 24th – The Great Spawn Wall, surrounding 1000 cubic meters of spawn is constructed and finished by Sixth Incursion members with the use of slave labor.
 * April 26 – The obsidian wall fails since it was being destroyed faster than it could be repaired.
 * May 2018
 * May 1 – jared2013 starts "31Days31Griefs".
 * May 3 – Sixth Incursion ends and is deemed a success.
 * May 5 – Construction of Mokuzai Island starts.
 * May 10 – FitMC reveals secrets about the Age of Tyranny to the general public. However, much of the video is inaccurate.
 * May 14 – The 2b2t.online closed beta is launched.
 * May 17 – The Empire's Edge is leaked and griefed.
 * May 25 – The Builders Haven project is founded by Beardler.
 * May 26 – Beardler leaks jared2013's IP address on Discord.
 * May 28 – The Map Artists of 2b2t reset all maps on the server, due to a rumor that jared2013 could find bases with maps.
 * May 30 – The Boedecken is griefed by Beardler.


 * June 2018
 * June 1 – Block Game Mecca is griefed by Beardler, starting the BoeMeccan Witch Trials.
 * June 1 – Purgatory is griefed.
 * June 1 – 700k subscriber Spanish–speaking YouTuber TheDaarickPartner starts a series on 2b2t.
 * June 7 – The server reaches 50,000 in–game days.
 * June 16 – Purgatory 2 is griefed as revenge against Beardler. Beardler quits 2b2t, and the BoeMeccan Witch Trials end.
 * June 23 – Quj leaks the coordinates to Eagles Rock, an Astral Order base. The base is griefed.
 * June 25 – The End base Space 2k2k is leaked.
 * June 28 – 2b2t.online is officially launched


 * July 2018
 * Mid July – Third Donkey Dupe is discovered.
 * July 19th – The first Spawn Sky Symbol on the server was constructed by Armorsmith's Followers.
 * Late July/Early August – The second Donkey Dupe is leaked by an unknown player.
 * August 2018
 * Mid August – The server's economy is at a point that anything is worthless, including Hacked Items.
 * August 1st – The pathfinding bot Baritone is created by Leijurv.
 * August 22 – Builders Haven is griefed and disbanded.
 * September 2018
 * September 9 – /r/2b2t_uncensored is created.
 * September 20 – FuzeIII joins 2b2t and begins a series.
 * September 21 – The Seventh Incursion begins.
 * September 21 – Third Donkey Dupe is patched.
 * September 27 – FuzeIII declares the foundation of Team Baguette and "War on Team Veteran and the Americans".
 * October 2018
 * October – New nether roof access exploit discovered with minecarts.
 * October 8 – jared2013 is demoted from the head of the Seventh Incursion due to internal drama.
 * October 13 – The Seventh Incursion is called off by _Henry_ due to a lack of leadership initiative.
 * October 13 – jared2013 makes a new discord and an Incursion revival initiative to complete the original goals of the Incursion.
 * October 30 – jared2013's Incursion Reloaded revival officially ends a day earlier than the initial deadline of the October 31st due to an inside attempt on the Emperium.
 * October 31 – The 1st 2b2t Halloween party is hosted.
 * October – Fit is kicked out of the Seventh Incursion due to drama between him and jared2013.
 * October – Book Banning is discovered.
 * November 2018
 * November 11 – The Chunk Dupe is leaked to the public.
 * November 15 – Coordinates to the Valley of Armorsmith are leaked.
 * November 17 – Many of the builds at Block Game Mecca are found to be schematics.
 * November 23 – 1.13 is announced for 2b2t coming “soon”.
 * November 29 – FuzeIII duels Fit at the Ruins of Aureus City. Fit wins.
 * December 2018
 * December 23 – Coordinates for planned Christmas party is leaked.
 * December 27 – Iridium is disbanded.
 * December – U.G.E is dissolved after a long period of inactivity.

2019
Player Count: 200–800

''The server's largest activity boom since 2016, as the YouTube algorithm began to recommend 2b2t–related videos. Hausemaster threw down the gauntlet on many long time exploits and reverts a whole bunch of illegals too.''


 * January 2019
 * January – Lag and queue issues are getting worse. SpawnMasons revive after a long pause of inactivity.
 * January 12 – The Astral Republic is founded.
 * January 19 – Around 18 Vo–Perium members fight 6 Highland members at spawn, making this the largest battle to unfold since the Sixth Incursion.
 * January 30 – The owner changes the [[Media:2018January-MOTD-update.png|server message on the player board]], saying "1.13 and temporary map expected in February 2019, with new server hardware. Elytras planned to be re–added. Death messages and end portals re–added."
 * January 30 – End portals re–disabled.
 * January 30 – CorruptedUnicorn attempts a revival of the Resistance.
 * February 2019
 * February 3 – It is rumored that jared2013 was arrested in real life.
 * February 10 – jared2013 returns with the allegations proven false.
 * February 20 – Indonesian YouTuber with 187k subscribers, Kurus, makes a video about 2b2t. Nothing comes of the video besides a minuscule, if not nonexistent, influx.
 * February 23 – The owner changes server message on the tab screen, stating "1.13 expected in late March, Book Duplication now Patched due to an update of Waterfall."
 * February 27 – Player bflyza uses thousands of signs at Nether 0,0 to create a Chunk Ban.


 * March 2019
 * March – YouTube algorithm promotes Minecraft videos due to "nostalgia craze" and as a byproduct, promotes 2b2t videos, flooding the server with new players and extending queue to wait times last seen during the post–Rusher era. Queue issues persist. Potential incursion discussion begins to arise throughout the community.
 * Early March – Chunk ban using signs patched.
 * March 7t– In response to the queue overload of the algorithm, Gambino begins an "Eighth Incursion". This "incursion" was not taken as legitimate by the community though. YotoGamer makes a meme "Ninth Incursion" in response.
 * March 20 – Astral Order unofficially disbands.


 * April 2019
 * April – The Godmode exploit is discovered by Satisfaction.
 * April 1st – The April Fools temporary map is released. The event was shorter than previous maps, only lasting for 12 hours. Admin claims to have used the map for 1.13 testing, making an announcement that main map transfer to 1.13 is still an unattainable option.
 * April 6th – "Eighth Incursion" fails due to insiders, and much of the community viewing the Incursion as legitmate.
 * April 23– The Resistance is officially disbanded following a leadership crisis.


 * May 2019
 * May – Nerds Inc. hosts another 31days31griefs.
 * May 24 – 200 thousand YouTuber PrivateFearless begins a series on 2b2t..
 * May 25 – Etika joins 2b2t for the first time and streams his attempts to escape Spawn.
 * May 27 – The Purge is created in response to the Etika Invasion..
 * May 30 – TheCampingRusher is seen online again for the first time in 3 years.
 * May 30 – The Second Anti–Incursion begins
 * May 31 – The server is continually lagged to stop the 9 Gang and other new players, including Etika.
 * June 2019
 * June 3 – The owner makes an announcement discussing multiple things regarding the server such as the limited amount of slots and the server updating to newer versions. Book banning is reported to be officially patched. 2b2t may stay on 1.12 indefinitely due to the consecutive versions being too unstable for the server, however, future tests will continue.
 * June 5 – 5 million YouTuber AtlanticCraft makes a general video on anarchy servers. Purge members Jumpyblazeftw and Nifty successfully convince him not to continue making videos about anarchy and to take down his video.
 * June 5 – YouTuber ShotGunPlays was spotted on 2b2t.
 * June 6 – GS Trading Co. spams clicks on End Portals, creating loud sounds that can be heard across the entire server.
 * June 10 – Members of the Anti–Incursion attempt to rebuild Wrath Outpost, but they are thwarted by members of The Purge.
 * June 12 – Lightning was heard for the first time after it was disabled due to the coordinate exploit.
 * June 14 – Elysium 1 is founded by Kyr0.
 * June 16 – First phase of the Purge concludes, as the queue significantly drops due to the lack of Etika streams.
 * June 16 – The Etika Invasion effectively ends.
 * June 17 – The Anti–Incursion disbands.
 * June 18 – 1 million Fortnite YouTuber Insanity is spotted on 2b2t.
 * June 20 – It is reported that Etika has gone missing in real life.
 * June 25 – Etika is found dead in real life by the NYPD in New York City. His death was confirmed to be suicide the following day.
 * June 25 – Various memorials are built across 2b2t in honor of Etika. Most are griefed within a few hours and or days.
 * June 29 – The server is temporarily offline due to the server provider upgrading and migrating their network.


 * July 2019
 * July – A major influx of Taiwanese players comes from the website "ref.gamer.com.tw ".
 * July – An "Eighth Incursion" is created by Armorsmith and jared2013.
 * July 1 – The valley of statues made in honor of Etika is griefed.
 * July 22 – Valerian is griefed.
 * July 29 – Entity speed is patched.
 * July 29 – Eldorado, is constructed by Leuphou.
 * July 30 – IIS is formed.
 * August 2019
 * August – Entityspeed is patched, and VHop starts to become a popular alternative, but it gets patched too.
 * August 8 – TheCampingRusher officially comes back to 2b2t with a new video and plans on making more. He never posted again after his first video.
 * August 10 – BachiBachBach starts The Infinity Incursion as a replacement for the failed Armorsmith's and jared2013's "Eighth incursion."
 * August 14 – Elytra are reenabled once again. "Elytra time.png"
 * August 18 – The Cloud Club is constructed by the SpawnMasons and other people.
 * August 25 – Fit claims that Pyrobyte, one of the builders of Asgard II, accidentally leaked the coordinates of the base, but managed to hide it.
 * August 26 – The Cloud Club is griefed by FarmerJoe.
 * September 2019
 * Early September – Small YouTuber BobbyBoJanglles joins 2b2t and brings a small influx of players
 * September 1st – Hausemaster opens a new test server called test.2b2t.org, intended for testing new plugins like a new anti-illegals plugin along with testing a new backup solution.
 * September 13th – test.2b2t.org changes maps to the 2b2t one.
 * September 21st – A version of the Donkey Dupe used by the Inertia Client's freecam is patched.
 * September 25th – Hausemaster patches entity speed hacks, making them unusable.
 * October 2019
 * October 6 – Lotus City III is griefed by the Backstreet Boys.
 * October 24 – Carl2b2t, Linkiie, and Redstoner write the entire Bible into 2b2t, then discover that the chest can obliterate the TPS and crash the server in 10 seconds. The patch for this causes bookbanning to be re–enabled.
 * October 25 – The Book Club is created by Steve3 and househousehouse1.
 * October 29 – Hausemaster priority bans a few accounts from the book club for book–banning players.
 * October 29 – No Server November is created.
 * October 30 – Hausemaster patches bookbanning by disabling shulker peek info.
 * October 31 – Hausemaster removes the priority queue from fifteen members of The Book Club.
 * November 2019
 * Chezhead returns to 2b2t after Armorsmith contacted him through reddit. Immediately, the New Facepunch Republic is formed.
 * Yet another Donkey Dupe, this time using End Portals, is discovered.
 * November 4 – The Brownmen are formed
 * November 5 – The Book Club splits up due to player dq6 selling out to Hausemaster.
 * November 7 – The Astral Republic officially disbands after a long bout of inactivity.
 * November 10 – Infinity Incursion completes construction on the then–largest spawn symbol.
 * November 16 – SpawnMasons hold their 100th lodge.
 * November 22 – 100K mapping project goes public.
 * November 23 – The 2b2t Wikipedia article is made official.
 * November 25 – #TeamNoTrees is created to destroy all dirt and trees within 10k blocks of 0, 0
 * November 26 – Leuphou attempts to leak the coordinates of his project, Eldorado, to /r/2b2t in the form of a puzzle, severely overestimating the intelligence of the subreddit. Nobody gets it right.
 * November 29 – jared2013, _Courier6_, Steve3, and Househousehouse1 take over r/2b2t temporarily through a hacked reddit account.R-2b2t backdoor.png


 * December 2019
 * December 5 – The Last Templar abandon and grief their main base, Argonath, after Emperium create a base ~1500 blocks away.
 * December 7 – 2b2t's 9th birthday party spawn event lasts for all of 10 minutes.
 * December 8 – Elysium 1 is griefed by its own members after being compromised due to its terrain showing up on maps caused by a map reset.
 * December 9 – End water cube by SkullerG and Gsmack is finished.
 * December 18 – The donkey dupe is patched
 * December 20 – The tab list displays “NINE YEARS” at the top of it. Hausemaster introduces a patch removing all illegals from the game permanently, including unbreakables and 32k’s. Death messages are brought back. The Book club / The Brownmen ceases player head chunkbans, #NoServerNovember ends.
 * December 20 – jared2013 griefs Omega II shortly after Fit makes a video of him and AlphaComputer stealing historical artifacts from the base.
 * December 25 – The Masonic Eclipse is completed.

2020
Player Count: 500–1400

''What seemed like a new Youtuber every week following COVID–19 pandemic and many individuals in quarantine. Fit reached one million YouTube subscribers. Hausemaster was on autopilot for the entire year as the server got hit hard by the authentication exploit. This year hosted multiple of the largest community projects on the server. ever.''


 * January 2020
 * Further repairs to 2k2k are done by the New Facepunch Republic.
 * January 13 – SpawnMason base Smibville is griefed by jared2013.
 * January 14 – Leuphou gives up on leaking the coordinates of Eldorado through puzzles and posts them on /r/2b2t. Days later, it is griefed by an unknown player.
 * January 31 – Sato86 makes a video exposing multiple players for being perverts and alleged pedophiles.
 * February 2020
 * Yet another version of the Donkey Dupe (the one involving End Portals) is leaked to Team Wao, who leaks it publicly. The dupe is patched.
 * February 15 – TapL makes a video on 2b2t.
 * February 16 – One of the oldest surviving bases, The Monastery (also known as Gape Haven), is griefed by The Backstreet Boys after lasting eight years from 2012 to 2020.
 * February 21 – Russian YouTuber Zackviel makes a video about 2b2t following TapL's video.
 * February 25 – The 2b2t Video Archive is founded as a branch of the 2b2t Media Archive.
 * February 28 – X–Topia is griefed by The Backstreet Boys.
 * February 28/March 1 – Nerds Inc uses the Authentication Exploit, which is quickly patched my Mojang. Many high profile bases like Mu are griefed along with countless inventories and ender chests dumped.
 * March 2020 – Beginning of quarantine hype period
 * March 3 – The Backstreet Boys hack the Emperium YouTube account and post a meme video of The Backstreet Boys griefing an Emperium dupe stash, and delete all other videos on the channel.
 * March 3–4 – The Nether World Border is reached by IronException and l_amp with the help of an exploit.
 * March 9 – COVID–2147 is constructed by the SpawnMasons.
 * March 11 – Sato86 updates the 2b2t timeline.
 * March 11 – After the Authentication exploit from February 28, many bases are griefed in the next couple of weeks, including Mu, Equilibrium II and Poseidon.
 * March 22 – Mu Megabase is revealed to the general public. The base lasted from 2017 to 2020.
 * late March – IP limit is reduced to 2 to stop bots filling up the player slots
 * April 2020
 * April 1 – The ninth April Fools Map is released, consisting of fireballs raining from the sky.
 * April 7 – The Bakery is created by Redstoner___ to chunkban as many new players as possible and, is migrated from the Book Club server by Steve3.
 * April 10 – Hundreds get banned by Redstoner and Steve3's new chunkban method.
 * April 20 – Hausemaster patches chunkbans.
 * late April – Construction of 8k8k by the New Facepunch Republic begins.
 * May 2020
 * May 4 – FitMC reaches one million subscribers. 2b2t becomes evermore prevalent on YouTube.
 * May 20 – ElytraFlight is nerfed. However, clients find bypasses for it in mere minutes.
 * May 25 – popbob and iTristan have been seen on the server. popbob and 0x22 grief The Brownmen's chunkban stash, HAUSEVULT's private stash, and others for "misgendering".
 * May 26 – The Motorway Extension Gurus complete the diagonal –X, –Z Nether Highway, the first completed diagonal Nether highway on 2b2t.
 * May 29 – COVID–2147 (labeled by Fit as DonFuer 18), is griefed by D_loaded, HermeticLock, AlphaComputer, and Fit. The griefing is initially not a big deal until Fit makes a video on the subject, stirring controversy.
 * June 2020
 * June 24 – A crash exploit using scaffolding and fast–breaking at build limit is discovered.
 * June 27 – Redstoner builds auto priority ban machines around 0,0 in the overworld. Many players, including streamer Jakethasnake52, are prio banned.
 * June 28 – Hausemaster unbans the majority of priority banned accounts due to innocent people being banned.
 * June 28 – Popular YouTuber TommyInnit makes another video on 2b2t. It racks up over 200,000 views.
 * July 2020 – Quarantine hype ends, and queue times fall drastically compared to previous months
 * July 6 – Spawn lava wall operation completed by The Infinity Incursion at a 2000 block radius.
 * July 20 – All Emperium chat logs in the Zeta ranked channel are leaked.
 * July 30 – The Brownmen boat donkey dupe is discovered by Steve3, it would remain private for another 2 months and used to supply the Infinity Incursion Watercube project and No Server November.
 * August 2020
 * August 7 – Hopen is griefed by its builders after the base is discovered.
 * August 14 – The Guardsmen co–host the first Fight Club location dubbed "The Labyrinth".
 * August 20 – The last piece of bedrock at the ZiggyBase bedrock marker is destroyed.
 * August 21 – Krobar's Endcursion is found by Jakethasnake52 during his 7 day stream and is subsequently griefed by jared2013, 39Y, and tomad at Krobar's request.
 * September 2020
 * September 2–3 – Anti–speed plugins on 2b2t break, allowing players to go at very high speeds on elytra. For the first time in years, the nether roof and void are accessible.
 * September 3 – A stricter plugin against elytra cheats is implemented. All blocks located above the bedrock in the Nether are deleted if the chunks are loaded.
 * September 4 – Elytra become buggy, unreliable, and virtually unusable, even with rockets. Average TPS dramatically increases as a result.
 * September 10 – The 2b2t Media Archive discord is nuked by The_Grand_Lotus. The 2b2t Discord Archive is created in its place.
 * September 11 – Two unrelated 9/11 events take place. First, a slime block powered aircraft was crashed into a large replica of the twin towers. Later in the day, at 6:09 PM, Ground Zero was set off by members of the Shortbus Caliphate.
 * September 17 – The /kill command is disabled.
 * September 23 – The Infinity Incursion completes the 0 0 water cube project after 18 days. It spans 1000x1000 blocks and is the largest operation in 2b2t history with 250,000,000 (250 million) sources of water.
 * September 28 – Brownmen dupe leaked by ionar, required Pyro Client.
 * October 2020
 * October 8 – Priority queue is completely disabled from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST. Every account with priority queue is unable to join the server.
 * October 12 – MrBeast and 3 of his friends join the server for about an hour or more (2 to 3 PM EST), staying at 0,0. Within minutes, the Tenth Incursion was prepared to combat the millions of people the video would've exposed the server to. Fit then confirmed MrBeast would not make a video on 2b2t due to toxicity and hatred on the server.
 * October 12/31 – The Tenth Incursion continues operations to make sure MrBeast doesn't return.
 * October 21 – The client Phobos is discovered to be backdoored, as well as the cracked version of the Pyro client.
 * October 31 – The Tenth Incursion ends.
 * October 31 – The third annual 2b2t Halloween Party is held, and lasts for just over two hours before being self griefed. Only one player attempts to grief the party before that, and they were driven off by the attendees.
 * November 2020
 * November 1 – No Server November begins, Boat bans released publicly and abused. Redstone is disabled the same day.
 * November 12 – The 2b2t Wikipedia article appears on the front page of Wikipedia.
 * November 13 – E.M.P machine used to completely freeze server for the first time, player invincibility exploit discovered.
 * November 21 – Hausemaster attempts to patch placing boats in the nether .
 * November 22 – Boatfly patched. Brownmen Boat Dupe patched
 * December 2020
 * December 2 – Hausemaster's PayPal account is suspended. It was under investigation from November 24 in relation to over 40 chargebacks. During this time, priority queue was unable to be purchased.
 * December 3 – Hausemaster's PayPal account is reenabled, and priority queue is able to be purchased again.
 * December 14 – The Spanish Youtuber ElRichMC returns to 2b2t and starts a new series on the server with his friend Farfadox, called "PvP Server 3", where they pretend to start a faction and attack the server. This goes ignored by the community due to his small viewerbase.
 * December 17 – The Autumn Drain, the server's largest reconstruction project of a griefed base, is leaked by Armorsmith and destroyed.
 * December 18 – The third annual 2b2t Christmas Party is held, doubling as a 10th anniversary celebration for 2b2t. 140 players visited the same area in a period of 7 hours (78 in a mere 15 minutes), setting a new record for the most players in one location at one time.
 * December 31 – The Infinity Incursion and Brownmen create a cube of over 1 million blocks of TNT in under 24 hours for New Year's Eve. This sets a new world record for the largest number of TNT blocks placed on the server, taking the record from Ground Zero.

2021
Player Count: 2020 but with no dupes, 1.16 if we are on good behavior.


 * January 2021
 * January 22 – Endromeda, a large end base, is self–griefed after the base is discovered.
 * February 2021
 * February 12 – The Motorway Extension Gurus completes the final diagonal highway, marking the completion of all highways to the world border.
 * February 14 – The second Space Valkyria 3 is griefed.
 * February 16 – Packet Elytraflight is patched.
 * February 24 – The Terminal Base on the Old Spawn Road is griefed and made public.
 * March 2021
 * March 6 – Popular Minecraft Twitch Streamer "Tubbo" joins and streams 2b2t with popular streamer Ranboo.
 * March 9 – Hausemaster secretly launches a new 2b2t test map on test.2b2t.org, testing version 1.16, which is discovered by players.
 * March 10 – The Vortex Coalition is disbanded.
 * March 13 – .peek is reenabled, some books are also wiped by a glitch with a plugin.
 * March 27 – "Block 36" is leaked to the wider public by FitMC and Forceken, with the method of creation and ability to fly through them being shown. The creation of them is patched the following day.
 * April 2021
 * April 3–11 – The Bakery v2 event runs, banning 1300 people (cumulative) utilizing mass player client crashers.
 * April 12 – test.2b2t.org goes offline and is marveled for the high TPS it had maintained; many expect the main server to update to 1.16.
 * April 16 – Avalysium is griefed by the Backstreet Boys.
 * May 2021
 * Early May – The Watchmen disband.
 * Early May – FitMC hits 2 million subscribers.
 * May 12 – The Motorway Extension Gurus reach the Nether world border.
 * May 17 – The map marker exploit discovered by cityboss1 goes public after a group of new players found one of the maps near spawn and placed it everywhere, many people get kicked and banned from it.
 * May 29/30 – Imps 2 is griefed by jared2013, Orsond, and HermeticLock. Due to the sheer size of the base, the grief lasts several more days into June.
 * June 2021
 * June 6 – Acheron, a 4 1/2 year old Goodwill Trading base/stash, gets griefed through use of NoCom.
 * June 16 – Block Game Jerusalem is griefed by the SpawnMasons at the request of the base builders, due to jared2013 leaking the coordinates.
 * June 16 – Whitehaven is self griefed by the base members after the coordinates are leaked by jared2013.
 * June 18 – The server is subject to a DDoS attack and shuts down along with many other Minecraft servers, including Hypixel and GommeHD by Twitter user TheTalkingBear
 * June 18 – Hausemaster relaunches test.2b2t.org, the 1.16 testing server, and makes his first reddit post in over a year. The test server is also subjected to multiple DDoS attacks and is brought offline repeatedly.
 * June 20 – 2b2t comes back online at 2:55 PM EST, after being down for over 60 hours.
 * June 22 – The Nether World Border is reached by the +X Nether Border Diggers on the 0z axis, completing the highway.
 * July 2021
 * July 5 – Boat Phase and Portal God Mode are patched by Hausemaster after a short downtime.
 * July 11 – The test server restarts after five days of uptime.
 * July 15-16 - The Nocom exploit is leaked publicly and a barebones client is sold and mass distributed to many dozens of players, it is widely used on the server for 16 hours. (Priority queue peaks at a record low of 15 players during this day)
 * July 16 - Nocom is patched by Hausemaster, after paper had patched it 4 hours prior.
 * July 18 - Yggdrasil is self-griefed.
 * July 18 - Server experiences a huge influx of players due to knowledge of Nocom's death being widespread. Priority Queue times double overnight