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, so if you found one on the server, it would automatically update to the 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 Discord and all of the older stories are archived in the newspaper's server as well.

Distribution
The 2b2t Times HQ (Headquarters) 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 in vast areas 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
On the newspaper itself, all text is in ALL CAPS. Here, text has been brought into sentence capitalization for your ease of reading. Color markdown has been carried over. Any appearances of (sic.) indicate that the error was made originally by the 2b2t Times writers.

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 queue
 * 10) Talking about the rules and punishments in chat

Past
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Issue 23 - Farlands
In 2019, Fit made 2 videos about the Farlands and also ended up offering a $2000 dollar reward, which is yet to be claimed. 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 the 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. In result, 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.