Facepunch Republic

The Facepunch Republic, also known as the Facepunch Alliance, was a group of players that joined in early 2011. They consisted out of www.facepunch.com users thus giving them their name. Their leader was known as Chezhead. Facepunch came to 2b2t to play and create cities where their forum members could build and bring a bit of order among the tides of anarchy by creating a perfect civilization where people had jobs and whatnot. Their initiate failed horribly as their actions were seen as an insult to the whole server, beginning a hunt for facepunchers on the server. Their forum was still essential to 2b2t to server as a media and a memory book of the server. One of their main (and most notable) spawn bases was 2k2k located at approximately X: -2000 Z: -2000. Since their base was close to spawn, it was griefed multiple times, but it didn't stop the Facepunchers to keep repairing it. Eventually more and more Facepunchers gave up on repairing 2k2k and either went to live somewhere else or left the server. 2k2k is currently a giant lava cast with some of its former structure still buried under its stony grave.The last Facepunch thread was closed on the 7th June, 2015.

History
It all started when a Facepuncher called Chezhead rallied other Minecraft players from the same forum to join him on the server to make a ‘Facepunch Republic’ on April 27th, 2011. The short-term goal was just to have a base for the Facepunch community to play on. However, the 4channers took notice of this. A day later, Camp Facepunch, their first base, was destroyed at the battle of Greyskull's stand.

The Facepunchers realized that 2b2t was not as easy as they thought it was when the Facepunch Castle was greifed by Luke2TheBun, a hacker who was using speed and flying hacks. The Facepunchers continued to make bases, but Chezhead was too naive to realize that the bases were incredibly close to spawn (This was a common occurrence during this period). Chezhead was even stupid enough to show the coordinates to one of his bases on a youtube video in 2011. The Facepunchers attempted to counter attack the 4channers, but were unable to since they took up around 70% of the 2b2t population at the time and were largely disorganized and had no central bases. The Facepunch Republic was also weak in the materials department until the dupe glitch of Beta 1.7.2, in which several members of the Republic duped diamond. However, they continued to be no match for the 4channers due to them being more knowledgeable in the ways of hacking.

Eventually, Chezhead himself gave up on the republic and more and more Facepunchers quit 2b2t, and the Republic died in February of 2012. With the Republic gone, the last band of players who continued to be dedicated to the fallen Republic were led by Phagocytic, who eventually moved on to create Zion (2k2k). At Zion, the group hoped to constantly rebuild the base in order for the griefers to give up. However, this was griefed to oblivion by the 4channers and the facepunchers could not keep up with the rebuilding and so they eventually gave up, putting the final nail in the coffin for the old Republic.

Post Facepunch Eras
Despite the republic being disbanded and several facepunchers leaving after 2k2k, there were still facepunchers who remained (similar to how Rushers still roam the server despite Team Rusher disbanding). These facepunchers either fused into new groups, went solo, or never advertised their facepunch origin and secretly made new bases (ie Hitlerwood).

The most notable group of facepunchers still remaining after the Rupublic's fall was the group started by Coldwave, in which he hoped to create a new Republic. He founded Hitlerwood which later fused with Anatolia (aka the Black Flag Group) to create Valkyria. So essentially Valkyria was the Facepunch Republic 2.0 due to their facepunch ancestry. Knightvista created the last facepunch base, Fort Avril, which was griefed. People still come to 2b2t from Facepunch to this day, despite very minimal, however obviously do not have any association with the Republic that existed years ago.

Trivia

 * Facepunchers still roam the server today such as popbob, xcc2, lemler33 and few others.
 * The term Facepuncher is similar to Rusher as it is used in the exact same way. It was used to generalize a group of players and not necessarily mean they were part of the Republic (while most were) but just to refer to them that they came from facepunch
 * The Republic named their bases federation shelters, outposts, camps, forts, and towns.
 * The group had a system of social classes, which included (but not limited to) the President, advisors, mayors and citizens. Chezhead was the President of the Republic, which essentially meant he was the leader and had full power over it. He made the ultimate decisions. Advisors were put in place to keep bases in check and were required to arrange meetings with all advisors online in order to agree with large decisions, with Chezhead having the final say. Mayors ran towns and shelters and kept the citizens of the town in line. The citizens were basic builders and common players.
 * The group undoubtedly left a legacy that is still seen today. Their failed attempts to create a sort of peace and order in anarchy changed the way players played 2b2t for years to come through creating base groups and just groups in general, seeking a system and a sort of order, good or bad, despite the ruthlessness and lawlessness of anarchy.

Notable Members

 * Chezhead (Leader)
 * SoiledCold (He never was online much but he did help)

Several others
 * Mattyyy
 * Askaris
 * ArsonBoy5996
 * Asrue2
 * Bisousbisous
 * BlueAVS
 * Bob4life10
 * Cameron_Stroub
 * Cellular
 * ChrisDom
 * Popbob (Until his rampage)
 * passie05
 * policemike55
 * polly_the_parrot
 * xcc2
 * chase101
 * assassin_raptor
 * The7DeadlySyns
 * Shnitzelkiller
 * repins1acitcat
 * moshspegetti
 * TentricCon
 * BreakfastBuddy
 * Isak
 * Phagocytic (Took leadership after Chezhead's departure)
 * Tark
 * stewe231
 * Dachande
 * Mexican (Yes, ure not dreamin)
 * Computrix
 * Coolguy13511
 * Coolity
 * Crommissar
 * DeandreT
 * Devonwargod
 * Fizzlecleave
 * Frustum
 * GiggleBlizzard
 * Hellborg
 * Hinderjd
 * Horsedrowner
 * IcyTruth
 * Joshirw54
 * Jackald
 * KarvaBopi
 * Leleko_765
 * Livelion
 * TylerCB
 * LucanC
 * Mariodude146
 * MrFoxer
 * Neos300
 * Ninjarooster
 * Prezshadow
 * PrinnyGenocide
 * Rabbittt
 * RagamuffinJoe
 * Rauthr
 * Ricaaado
 * Robotito
 * RobotBanana
 * Ryfry
 * Slag
 * Soccerskyman
 * Startoad
 * TayG0
 * Teacakes
 * Velguador
 * Zeos
 * ZombieDawgs
 * PootisSpencer
 * uitham