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People say that new map events bring the weirdest alliances. And I have to agree with that. It was thanks to a temporary map on 2b2t that my life on this server changed, but not just mine. 22 players life were changed by it as well. This temp map made possible the encounter of 2 groups. Hinderj crew, with Coldwave, Zach, KnightVista. And our crew with me, Pyrobyte, Drew and Angry_baby.

This temp map was a completely mess. People killing each other and thieves surrounding bases from all directions. The server was on fire, and in the middle of that battle I made contact with Hinder. While we were established in a stupid underground mineshaft, they recruited more people and also were about to build a base. I wanted to be part of that base, so I started a talk with him. At the start both of us were a little suspicious.

This was the result:

I was well received and well treated. They all gave me a warm welcome. I was immediately accepted. And I also accepted them immediately. That was a good day with experiences that brought us together. I remember when Hausemaster arrived to summon hundreds of zombies, creepers and Endermen, everyone acted like a team. We were like a small army. Obviously each had their independence, but there was also the teamwork and sharing.

That day I not only met the hinder friends, but also other people who joined us, but they were not necessarily part of one of the two groups. It was after this event  - momentary chaos on the server - that I started planning a new meeting.

I, like Pyro, Drew and Angry, we were living in a village of NPC's since our last house had the coordinates accidentally exposed.  And it was a nice ice palace, I must say. We were homeless in the "old map". So I ventured into something new. I started talking to all the people who were with us that day and talked about a possible meeting of the group.

Not a surprise to know that they all agreed with that, but the problem was the location. Nobody wanted to use their base as a meeting point. They left me responsible for choosing the meeting point. A good place to build and secure, but not so far from spawn.

The first picture ever taken of Valkyria's natural terrain.

Using the map seed, I was able to find a place with a nice landscape, but also with good resources. A land of hills close to the sea, with a forest not too far away as well as a desert. And at this new location, the meeting started. This place would receive, in the next weeks, many names. The Facepunch Reich, The Black Flag Republic, Niggertown. But since nobody would reunite to come to a decision, I had to also pick a name for the base: Valkyria. Inspired by the angels of the north mythology. Their mission was to rescue the fallen warriors in battle and to take them to heaven.

- Stay Tuned for Part 2 -
The new republic simply started as an idea that I had one day while tending to my crops alone at my first base (15k 15k). At the time I had only Zach3397 living with me and we both were getting very bored of the game in general, I proposed the idea of leaving our first base to Zach, he had heard the stories of the old republic and agreed that it was time to leave and try to forge out a name for ourselves. Before leaving we left a simple memorial to the old republic and all her glory.

Coldwave's first base

The Memorial

We moved to capture the old capital of the republic first, 2k2k, a place close to spawn that we could use to gather our members before moving out further from spawn to build the new republic. Zach was the one to make a post calling for any and all help with forming the new Republic on the thread for 2b2t. A very risky move looking back at it but a move that was crucial to our development. The first two folks to message Zach were the big black man himself, Hinderjd and a man going by the name Dorquemada. By the time they had both arrived at 2k2k we had gathered even more new faces for the republic such as Lostmygun, Sveargieth and Devon54321. Our strong force of six set out into the wilds looking for a place to settle the new republic. Our first real base was a simple staircase going to bedrock and good sized foyer containing a hall for rooms and all the things we would need to survive and even thrive. The new republic had made great headway, Fort Cosby Doop Dop Jello Pudding was a success.


Fort Cosby

Farm

Eventually the base was leaked to x0XP by a visitor and he ransacked it, killing a few members and destroying our base. The spirits of the new republic were not broken however, we began anew and set out even further this time with a couple of new members including Joezep5, Ginger23 and Parthicus. A new base was formed that never even had the chance to be named before it was leaked by Parthicus (unbeknownst to us) and wiped out by x0 once more.

Unnamed Base

For a time the new republic was crushed, Zach and I fell back to a hideout without any of the other members so we could try and figure out who was leaking. We even turned against each other for a moment and almost fell apart entirely, but we held together after finding out that Parthicus was the one responsible for leaking to x0. A week went by before we once more called upon our members to regroup at a small village we had found far out from spawn. A place that we would build off from and turn into the last and greatest new republic base. Hitlerwood.

Earliest image of Hitlerwood

Construction continued

The sign was erected

Hitlerwoods near final form

There the new republic settled in with its final cluster of those we deemed the most trustworthy on 2b2t, we had been through a lot together over the span of a year and finally could grow together. Eventually the fun at Hitlerwood did dry up and we saw fewer members online everyday. Soon enough though Hause implemented a new map and we met with Sato86 and his group of players. The New Republic merged with Sato's group to form a new base, a base that would go down as one of the most successful bases in 2b2t history.

Valkyria

With that the story of the FP republic comes to a close and a new adventure began, a story for another day perhaps.

List of all the members that made it possible
Coldwave
Zach3397
Joezep5
Ginger23
Dorquemada
Hinderjd
Lostmygun
Otto
Devon54321
Sveargieth
Misschihiro
Parthicus
Knightvista


- Coldwave


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
DS

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
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