Blog:2b2t

Note: Because this page covers a Minecraft server (and not the game), it is forever in the Blog namespace.

2builders2tools (2b2t) is a mh:awesomegames:Minecraft server founded in December 2010. 2b2t is the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft, as well as one of the oldest running Minecraft servers of any variety.

The server was advertised shortly after its creation on online forums such as 4chan, Facepunch Studios, and Reddit, whose users populated the server by the hundreds due to the total freedom it offered.

As of August 2021, according to 2b2t's official subreddit, the file size of the server's map is more than 10.3 terabytes from over 639,000 unique players who have joined the server.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Because 2b2t is basically an anarchy server, just like 4chan, there is no moderation, rule or authority whatsoever. Players are free to do whatever they please, which includes hacking, griefing, etc.
 * 2) The spawnpoint (known as "0-0" by the 2b2t community) is heavily destroyed and lavacasted that it makes new players difficult to escape. Furthermore, the spawn is surrounded by numerous artifacts like lava walls, water cubes, obsidian walls. Additionally, the perimeter of spawn spans more than thousands of blocks and even with nether portals, it is still difficult to escape due to some portals leading to dead ends or traps for hunters to kill travellers.
 * 3) * Even if one somehow could travel through spawn, they would occasionally get killed by armed players.
 * 4) As stated in WIS#1, due to 2b2t's nature, nothing is safe. Players can be easily killed, bases can be griefed (if the coordinate of the base is leaked), resources can be looted, etc. Not to mention there are also death threats, insults and slurs from the toxic playerbase as well.
 * 5) * Hundreds of players' creations on 2b2t are griefed to the fact that it has become a tradition on the server. Even some creators have resorted to griefing their own creations themselves to avoid humilation by other notorious griefers.
 * 6) * Even players' beds/spawnpoints are easily compromised by creating traps on it, thus disabling the victim's activity on the server in any capacity.
 * 7) * Items like furnaces, books, breads, and even maps can be repurposed into weapons that ban players and/or crash their game instantly, by taking advantages of the weakness/loopholes of the server's plugins or vanilla Minecraft.
 * 8) Hacked clients are very popular, so if you play in vanilla, you would be disadvantaged when playing on this server.
 * 9) * That being said, there are a few hacked clients that are capable of obtaining player's data.
 * 10) Since 2016, due to the increasing number of players playing on 2b2t, a queue system was implemented by the server's admin Hausemaster. Virtually all players are forced to wait in the normal queue before they can join the server, and it takes hours due to the massive number of players in the normal queue. Fortunately, you can circumvent this by paying 20$ to get a slot in the priority queue.
 * 11) The server has suffered through a lot of controversies.
 * 12) * There have been 4 backdoor attempts, the fourth backdoor (also known as the 2016 backdoor crisis) being the most severe of all. A legendary player on 2b2t known as iTristan was given access to 2b2t's web server which was hosted on the same system as 2b2t's Minecraft server, resulting in direct access to all server files.
 * 13) * In 2020, a hacked client that was useful for PvP started gaining attention from the playerbase. However, the client was discovered to be capable of obtaining Discord tokens, Minecraft username information, and Google Chrome data. Soon afterwards, the developers of the client removed the malicious code to wipe out all evidences and was able to obtain numerous bases' coordinates, which they used to grief over 15 bases.
 * 14) * A base named mh:2b2t:Avalysium was griefed, after a base member's IRL friend used a USB flash drive to RAT his PC, obtaining the coordinates.
 * 15) YouTubers are hated by the community due to the fact their fanbase would try to join the server and end up clogging up the queue, making the server unstable. Two notable examples are TheCampingRusher's first appearance on 2b2t, which led to mh:2b2t:Rusher War, and AntVenom's video about 2b2t, which also led to the mh:2b2t:Sixth Incursion.
 * 16) * FitMC, who is a long-time active player on the server even before the 2016 YouTube invasion, is sometimes criticised by the community due to his growing YouTube fame.
 * 17) From July 2018 to July 2021, a group named mh:2b2t:Nerds Inc discovered an oversight in the 196th patch to PaperMC (2b2t's upstream server software) for Minecraft 1.12.2, which would allow them to track players from far-away terrain which players cannot normally view. They called this new exploit "mh:2b2t:Nocom", short for "No comment". Using this exploit, they managed to gather 2 terabytes of chunk data, which they used to grief bases and loot items. Eventually, the secret behind the exploit was revealed. Hausemaster immediately contacted PaperMC developers, who later changed the behaviour of the plugin so that Nocom could no longer work for good.
 * 18) * Even though the server is safe from Nocom, its impact on the server is so large that many players have left 2b2t due to fear of being tracked by Nocom.
 * 19) Another notorious group named Fifth Column; using a homemade program called "Copenheimer", that can search for any un-whitelisted Minecraft servers with little to no protection; started griefing thousands of these in Minecraft. Many players, both 2b2t and non-2b2t players, have condemned their actions, considering it borderline vandalism. And while 2b2t is no stranger to vandalism, doing it outside of 2b2t is just outright heinous. Even if the group claimed that "it's just a block game" and they'd only done it for fun, it probably wouldn't help much, and the victims would still consider otherwise.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite having no rules whatsoever, 2b2t does have some specific rules that forbids players from harming the server and making it unplayable.
 * 2) * In fact, lag machines are forbidden on the server. Should you attempt to build one, your priority queue privilege will be revoked. This is known by the community as "priority ban".
 * 3) * Superweapons like the 32k weapons are deleted, because players who own one of these could become absurdly and unequally invincible.
 * 4) The server has tons of attractions, many of which are very impressive and artistic.
 * 5) * The spawn sky symbols are considered one of the most honorable structures on 2b2t.
 * 6) ** The two largest spawn symbols are the Masonic Eclipse, with over 20 million obsidian blocks placed by Baritone bots, not humans; and the giant Pekora symbol, with over 2 million obsidian blocks placed by actual humans.
 * 7) * Because the rules on exploits are much more lenient compared to other servers, gigantic bases such as the Boedecken, Monastery, and Space Valkyria were built thanks to the use of hacked items, dupe glitches and bots. While these bases have been griefed, they are preserved in the community's world downloads, which shows the dedication of preserving such monuments and history of the server. A museum server was even made to preserve all known and notable structures of the server.
 * 8) Even though TheCampingRusher has gained a lot of hate from the old players on the server, many of them (including FitMC) admit that he saved 2b2t as it gave the server a long-needed "revival", as many players quit or migrated to other anarchy servers like Constantiam after the early 2016 backdoor crisis.
 * 9) The server gives programmers a lot of opportunity to fulfill their potentials. Thanks to them, the community has lots of cool utilities like Baritone, and Nocom.
 * 10) Plenty of notable players like mh:2b2t:Pyrobyte, mh:2b2t:HermeticLock, mh:2b2t:Fit, mh:2b2t:AlphaComputer, mh:2b2t:CainesLaw, mh:2b2t:popbob, just to name a few.
 * 11) There exists a small service that allows you to purchase in-game items and have them delivered to anywhere on the server, using Baritone bots. While it does work and is very convenient, as you can see, this is very concerning since a service like this is likely to violate Minecrafts EULA'.
 * 12) Fortunately, for builders, there are a few ways to protect bases from being griefed.
 * 13) * An effective way is submerging the whole base with water. Even though the process can take hours, it makes griefing harder. Mu Megabase is a prime example.

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