Archive for December 2014

Shenandoah, a thriving base amidst the turmoil that is called 2b2t. Shenandoah first began in early 2014 by Jesse_number6. Seeking refuge after having his base griefed, he decided to create a new safe haven. Construction began first on the Great reception Hall, then on The Castle.

The beginning was rough, never enough torches to light the way, never enough supplies and most importantly, never enough people. Then, something miraculous happened. The castle began to grow and as the castle grew, the population grew.

Starting with EXODISS, one of the bases primary founders, many more people began to come. Suddenly things began to grow. A market for trading was built, more houses, an iron golem farm, a larger barn, and so much more began. With the appearance of many more people, a group needed to be formed. A name for the people who reside within the walls of the safe heaven of Shenandoah.

The Legion of Shenandoah it was named. A group of people dedicated to maintaining peace and order in the anarchy of 2b2t. All are welcome. All are invited. All will survive.

Shenandoah.

- Jesse_number6

Hi Everyone, today I want to share with you a base called Fenrir.

It has been around for around 6 months and is composed of many players. Although there are around 23 unique players in the group chat (36 accounts in total), only around 8-10 are still based there.

The group comprises of many well know names such as Victor96, Lueesy, xarviar, Pyrobyte, Coldwave, Caleesii, Kino and of course, the founder Sato86.

Hi everyone, hope you've all had a nice holiday!

Today I'm writing a fairly brief post as I have had an extremely busy weekend and haven't really had a chance to '2b2t it up' at all. I just finished rendering a montage for the second gape, 'Gape 2.0' A.K.A 'Caleesii's Gape'.

I hope you find it entertaining!

It all began after Gape 1.0 was lavacasted for a second, more destructive kind.

New terrain was scoped out, far away from spawn.

The square was marked out at around 128 x 128 and it was estimated that we had around 1,400,000 blocks to dig out. As you can see, it all went very well with a lot of the area dug out.

After a couple of months though, with a pigfarm, rail duplicator and horse breeding centre all created and more, interest was in decline.

This is when an invitation came to some of the players at Gape 2.0 about a new, upcoming base featuring many old well-known players. After some time other players from the Gape 2.0 were also invited.

This is most likely the last post of 2014 so I wish you all the best and see you in January where I will be posting more frequently (roughly every 2 days) and a lot of video content of my current travels.

- James

Hello, 2b2t. I have been given the honor of posting this blog post by James. I just wanted to take the opportunity and wish you lot a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years. I certainly hope you lot will stay on 2b2t in 2015, and that we will share a lot of new memories with eachother; Be they more of swastikas or bases getting burnt; Either way, I am sure 2015 will prove to be as much of fun as we have had in past years.

Don't let 2b2t die, make sure you donate and keep the server running! I sincerely doubt there is any place like 2b2t, where anarchy truly can rule. And just keep on staying awesome, 2b2t! Really, you guys truly do rock.

Sincerely,

The_fox

P.S >lel u made bruh xd

Hello boys and girls. I'd like to tell you the story of two wonderful, magical places known as 'The Gapes'. Or in layman's terms: a really big hole.

Around February 2014, Victor96 began digging a hole to bedrock. Some players joined him but due to being close to an ocean, progress stopped. The small group of well known players banded together tocreate a gape in a better location, about 100 meters away.

It started with the hole being dug, with some chests as storage. As more players joined, a three storey castle-themed fort was built around X:1000 Y:-1000 that held the players and their items. The hole being dug was around 128 metres by 128.

But in true 2b2t fashion, a mix of betrayal, attacks and lavacasts ended the project reasonably quickly. The Gape lay dormant for many, many months.

One day, I was at 700 Base and decided to explore. Upon my approach to The Gape, a players name appeared on my radar. I approached with caution, as my current base was mere seconds away.

Here I met the self-named player '2b2t' (Who to this day we still don't know their true identity) who explained to me that he had been working on restoring the base.

Before long, there were around 9 players at The Gape, breathing life onto it.

The base did eventually end up being lavacasted, filling most of the hole with cobble.

This did not stop us though, as we picked up our belongings and moved on, far from spawn.

There is where we set out to create a bigger, better gape. The sequel that is known as Gape 2.0

I'll be writing about the second Gape in an upcoming post.

- James

So for the next few weeks or possible months, this patch of terrain is my new home.

You can just about make out the dirt cage I made to trap my horse in temporarily right in the distance.

Why go it alone?

Well I have based with many players and teams in the past on 2b2t, none have really ended up very well. They usually end up looking like the photo below, the end result of a promising base with around 10 others (left) and one from a relatively well known spawn base that I tried to restore.

I'm not saying 100% of the time the bases didn't go well as I am currently basing with people on an alt, but historically speaking it could have been better. Such is life on 2b2t.

Off I went into the nether to scope out an area still fairly close to spawn but at the same time far enough to be reasonably safe. I'm hoping to build a city out here. Well OK, maybe a small town. My plan is to bring in the style of my favourite base, '700Base' and some of my own ideas and blend them into something quite interesting.

Stay tuned as in the next few days I'll be writing a post on a little base group we like to call Gape 1 and 2.0

P.S: Apologies if this is fairly short, I decided to write it at 1AM

- James

"And so as the sun rises on another day, may it forever bathe in light those deep in the ravines and those upon the shoulders of giants."

Hello reader and welcome to my 2b2t blog.

For those of you that are unaware of what 2b2t is, I can't give you the definitive answer I'm afraid. From a basic standpoint, 2b2t is simply a ~4 year old completely rule-less Minecraft dimension. Around 62,000 people have visited this unique server (2b2t.org) at least once since its inception.

Only a handful have stayed.

So what's the point of a blog?

Over the course of time, providing the server doesn't finally keel over for its last time, I will be posting some screenshots and stories of my time spent here. I am doing it mainly as a personal 'journal' as it were. But I think it will be beneficial to have a record of this interesting place.

My main IGN is James_Rustles but I am known by many names. Playing since October 2012, I have experienced many exciting, happy, frustrating and angry times in the ecosystem that is 2b2t.

I hope you enjoy what is to come.

- James