Valley of Wheat

The Valley of Wheat was the largest known sanctuary ever to exist on 2b2t. The wheat covered almost every block of grass around the area, spanning over one thousand blocks from end to end in places. In addition, the Valley also contained many Ancient Egypt-style structures such as large pyramids, pillars, and sphinxes, built using sandstone and netherrack. It is currently thought to be the most griefed landmark.

History
The Valley of Wheat was built by Jaang, a player who did not really like to interact with other players. Jaang was the sole builder of the entire sanctuary. He spent his entire time on 2b2t building and expanding the Valley in both of its constructional phases (2011–2012 and late 2013–2014). To gather more players to visit his Valley, Jaang built a pyramid in The Nether, which would lead players through a portal and into the Valley of Wheat. Jaang let players take food from the Valley but never allowed them to build in it.

During a trip through the Nether, Jaang was attacked by another player but was saved by Offtopia, who was one of the only players Jaang ever interacted with. Offtopia would give Jaang gifts and would protect the Valley of Wheat at all costs, killing anyone who did not replant the wheat. Offtopia also invited other known players to the Valley, such as; xcc2, passie05, zxcwbz1, and others. They all helped replant and remove any minor damage, such as lavacasts and TNT craters. Offtopia would continue to defend the Valley, with "tooth and nail" according to Fit, up until the Rusher invasion.

The base's existence was nearly universally respected, no one would destroy the base. Even popbob once killed Jaang in The Valley, but did not grief it. One of the most notorious griefs on the Valley of Wheat (before the Rusher War) was committed by an oldfag known as IMBJR. The Valley was eventually restored by xcc2, Offtopia, and others. However, the destruction following IMBJR's grief caused Jaang to leave 2b2t. Eventually, xcc2 and others left in early 2016, leaving Offtopia to defend The Valley. Despite these events, many other nonaligned players contributed to restoring the Valley.

Rusher War
During the events of The Rusher War, the Valley of Wheat was griefed once again by The Resistance, some Team Rusher members, and independent Rusher newfags. The griefing of the Valley was a major event of The Rusher War as it escalated the Veteran frustration against the Rushers and pissed off several oldfags. During the war and after, the Valley was restored by Team Aurora, and several other nonpartisan players.

Various Repair Attempts
Ever since the Valley of Wheat was griefed it has become a very popular repair destination. Most were unsuccessful. In November 2020 Guardians of Andromeda decided to bomb all lavacasts within the valley. After this, several groups repaired the valley and claimed credit.

Post-Soviet Invasion
Popular Russian youtuber BULDZHAT, popularizer of all sorts of MMO stories and 2b2t in the Russian-speaking segment - returned to the server. He decided to go on his spawn journey, and one of the stops was the Valley of Wheat. There he found the work of the unknown restorers and wanted to "help" them. BULDZHAT gathered people from the New Baikal, but there were not many of them, having decided to invite a little more. Through friends of friends, BULDZHAT has gathered as many as 30 people. But, there were some problems, in the early days, the construction and restoration of parts of the Valley did not really go on. Everyone was sorting out the relationship, who got whom when, and so on. BULDZHAT personally communicated with each representative of the drama, analyzed situations, reminding that everyone had gathered here for the restoration of the Valley. By the third day, everything came to peace and the players began to work together, forgetting about their past dramas and conflicts. By the fifth day, New Baikal, Golden Dawn, The Fish Club (former The Prismatic), Nitrous Mafia, Zip Club participated in the project - they worked together, without conflicts and dramas. The Fish Club clan formally joined, but only the creator came from it - OffeeX. Also, youtuber Denis Filin joined. As a result, some buildings were restored, two whole pyramids. Also, they decided to do something else. A Huge Pyramid, 256 blocks height, Converging The Main Lavacast.

Two whole weeks passed, and the Russians decided to stop for a while. They made a general screen where most of the people helping in the construction were. This is how the Russian invasion of the Wheat Valley ended.

After BULDZHAT released his video about the valley, it was discovered that the unknown restorers were part of the group called The Luminous Sandclave. They decided to destroy what the Russians have built because The Luminous Sandclave were restoring according to the original Jaang's valley. But after some negotiations between groups, it was decided to keep the obsidian pyramid.

On May 15, 2021 Fit released a video documenting the Valley of Wheat's Repair.