Backdoors

Backdoors are events on 2b2t when a player, or a group of players, bypass the server's normal operations to gain access to exploits in which the particular players can abuse. Currently, there have been three major backdoors in 2b's history, among many other minor ones. All these backdoors have been patched by HauseMaster.

First Backdoor (Popbob's Reign of Terror)
The first major backdoor of 2b2t, also known as the Dark Times and Popbob's Reign of Terror, has had two intervals. The first interval of the backdoor began sometime in December of 2011 and ended in January of 2012. This is when popbob became one of the most feared players on the server due to his iconic thunder hack. The thunder hack operated as a sort of tracking device that tracked where lightning would strike. The mechanic of lightning in minecraft only works around chunks that are being loaded by players. By tracking the lightning, popbob essentially was able to track players in a span of months, weeks, or even days and found and destroyed several bases. Popbob, during this first interval of the backdoor, also had access to creative mode, in which he gave to many of his fellow facepunchers, including xcc2, policemike55, and others. This access to creative mode and the backdoor allowed for the creation of Ziggy Town's bedrock comet and Plugin Town. Hause eventually ended this backdoor interval by removing Popbob's access to some of his powers and creative mode.

Despite the first interval ending, popbob continuously found new exploits and still had access to his thunderhack, which brought about the second interval that lasted from January, 2012, to May, 2013. Popbob also made himself invincible with his backdoor powers, allowing him to kill any player he encountered. Accounts have stated that popbob's sword swing was so fast, that you could barely see his arm or sword. Popbob also used his backdoor access to create hacked items. Eventually the backdoor was patched by Hausemaster, disabling thunder from 2b2t for more than five years in the process. Popbob eventually took a break from 2b when he logged against Third Incursion members.

Second Backdoor (The Arms Race)
The second major backdoor of 2b2t occurred during December of 2013. The backdoor involved iTristan and Pyrobyte in which they used their excessive knowledge of Java to create a plugin. They used this backdoor plugin to spawn in several hacked items such as player heads and the infamous 32K weapons.

They also used it to get to the world border. The 2b2t Arms Race, alwas a time period in 2b2t history that lasted for 3 years, from December of 2013 during the First Valkyrian Period and ended in the spring of 2016, during the Pre-Hype Period, right before The Age of Hype. This event was a large scale search for the ominous super weapons created by Pyrobyte and iTristan during the second backdoor of 2b2t. The weapons were known as the 32K weapons as they had enchantment levels of 32767, which would essentially render the wielder of these weapons invincible. These weapons were reserved to a select few, however, as time went on, the weapons were traded, donated, lost, and acquired through death.

These weapons included:


 * sharpness levels that could kill anything in a single hit
 * knockback levels that could kick a player for flying
 * thorns levels so high that if an opponent touched the wearer, they would die instantly
 * fortune levels that could cause so much loot to spawn from either mobs or ores that it could crash the server
 * efficiency levels that could instantly break anything, no matter the tps of the server.
 * Splash potions with infinite stacking
 * Several others with varying abilities

The weapons were mass produced during the third backdoor by the Backdoor Crew. The Arms Race ended when Hause returned most of these items to their normal stats and patched the third backdoor of 2b. However, legend has it that some weapons survived Hause's purge with many 32k weapons being duplicated and one weapon that has been confirmed to exist and now resides beyond the world border.

Third Backdoor (The Hacked Account Crisis)
The third major backdoor was probably the most severe backdoor to this date and occurred sometime during the end of 2015 and ended in April, 2016. The backdoor involved the hacking of georgebush420's OP (operator) account and the use of the /a exploit in which allowed players to triangulate people’s coords, causing the destruction of several bases. The Tyranny used the account to grief bases, create more hacked items, and duplicate their 32K weapons. The backdoor was patched when Hause and George gained the account back. Many players either migrated to Constantium or left the server entirely due to the chaos caused by it. Many players continue to argue over this event to this day.

Cause Of Backdoors
Most of the backdoor access to the server not only involved a knowledge of coding, but also the foolishness of HauseMaster. Many of the players involved in these backdoors have experience with Java and computer engineering in general and were known to have been able to create their own modifications and plugins for Minecraft. Hause would incautiously ask these players for them to make plugins in order to fix issues and bugs. These players would obviously add in code to give themselves access to a backdoor of the server once Hause implemented the plugin. There are two rules you want to follow when backdooring: one is to make sure your back door only does one thing, two is to make sure the backdoor is related to the plugin you are creating. While many of the backdoors worked like this, in the case of the third major backdoor, the Tyranny, with membership of most of these skilled coders, the group instead managed to get the login credentials of an OP account.