2b2t’s FIRST War – 4chan vs. Facepunch (2011-2012)

Over the past decade on the oldest anarchy server in minecraft there have been countless conflicts in this digital wasteland ranging from small skirmishes to all-out war when you have a minecraft server with no rules there’s bound to be groups of players that attempt to take control of it

Either through force or influence in 2011 an entire decade ago the server saw its first war where the original community attempted to stop an influx of new players that had invaded the server the 4chan vs face punch war was an event that would drastically alter the course of the server’s history

And helped shape 2b2t into the notorious toxic anarchy server full of history that it is today so what exactly was this war how did the conflict start and who was involved today we are doing a deep dive into the history of the face punch war and by the end of today’s video you’ll

Have a greater understanding of why 2b2t is the way it is after all these years there’s a lot to unpack today so let’s get started as i mentioned in a video long ago the server’s original community members in 2010 had come to minecraft from the two builders two tools gmod server

And its team fortress 2 community 242 furious but after a couple of months many of the server regulars were mainly from 4chan’s v board where the server was heavily advertised the 4channers brought their culture with them which began giving the server its toxic reputation a lawless land where you could say

Anything in chat without being banned naturally a server like this even in the early days became a spectacle and would begin to draw interest from outside communities enter cheesehead a 2b2t player that joined the server in april of 2011 after seeing an advertisement on facepunch.com after surviving for a while and

Chronicling his experiences he began telling other members of face punch about his adventure and encouraged more of them to join in cheesehead would form the facepunch republic a group dedicated to helping new players survive in the harsh environment but also bringing a form of order the republic would assign specific jobs to

New players so that they could form an actual community that worked together on a server with no rules it was strange to see players attempting to form what could be considered a government the first base they called home was camp face punch a simple castle made out of cobblestone

That served as shelter for the republic eventually the influx grew and the face puncher’s activity became very noticeable it didn’t take long for the 4channers to notice this new influx of players and one of them decided to send a message a player named luke to the bund would end up griefing camp

Face punch attempting to provoke them into a conflict that would eliminate them from the server lo and behold it worked the spark at camp face punch was enough to ignite a fire other four channers applauded luke’s grief and began hunting down bases as well cheesehead knew he would have to be the figurehead

That would lead his newfound republic to victory or defeat so he readied the troops the face punch war was about to begin and it wasn’t going to be pretty at the start of the war the republic had built a new base that would serve as their headquarters for a time

Fork creationism corner cheese had uploaded footage of the base to his youtube channel which to this day is some of the oldest known footage of 2b2t that actually exists much of the fighting took place over a four-month period where over 35 bases were built by the face punchers

And then eventually griefed by the 4channers despite having some 2b2t legends in their ranks such as xcc2 pop bob and police mike the face punchers found themselves at a disadvantage many of the 4channers used hack clients so killing them was no easy task it would take several vanilla players

Just to take down one hacker another issue was that the four channers didn’t have any centralized bases that could be targeted essentially making them guerrilla fighters while the facepunch republic was able to fend off many of the attacks it ended up costing them a lot of their gear such as food

Armor and weapons they prayed for some sort of advantage so they could properly fight back against their enemy those prayers were answered in the most unexpected way when for the first time in 2b2t history an item duplication exploit was discovered and it just so happened to be the face punchers to utilize it

It was called the piston dupe and it allowed copies of solid blocks to be created while it doesn’t work in the modern versions of minecraft i’ll do my best to explain it you’d put a valuable block such as diamond or gold into a contraption made with regular and sticky pistons

By having them alternate it was possible to generate duplicate lines of the solid block you put in this allowed the face punchers to re-gear and stay well stocked even if their bases were grieved this new exploit gave a huge boost of morale to the face punchers and it seemed that things were finally

Looking up for the republic but the 4channers had been hiding something or rather hiding someone luke to the bun who had previously grieved camp face punch had actually joined the face punch republic on an alt account in order to spy on them his alt was named

Murs and he would act like a completely different person while using it in cheesehead’s original footage you can actually see him walking around the facepunch headquarters completely incognito he had successfully insided the republic and was able to give the four chanters coordinates to face punch bases as well as instructions on how to

Perform the piston dupe when it was discovered that luke had been spying on them the face punchers realized the lengths their enemies were willing to go just to eliminate them from the server luke’s act of using an alt account to pretend to be someone else

Is a tactic that is still used on the server today so in a way he pioneered it on 2b2t by the end of the summer of 2011 morale sharply declined in the republic many members gave up and began quitting 2b2t they had never seen players take minecraft as seriously as the 4channers did

In october of 2011 six months after forming the republic cheesehead stepped down as leader he had done what he could to keep the republic standing and passed the torch to his good friend and loyal ally phagocytic who would continue leading the republic against the 4channers it would be another eight

Years before cheesehead would log into 2b2t again with their leader gone faygo seidec tried his best to keep the republic together but it was an uphill battle bases continued to fall the piston dupe no longer worked meaning supplies were not as easy to replace and morale was at an all-time low

In february of 2012 four months after the departure of cheesehead the facepunch republic collapsed many that had once called themselves members had joined other groups gone lone wolf or simply quit the server with only a handful of face punchers left phagocytic came up with an idea

As a final act of defiance towards the 4channers they would build a base very close to spawn and rebuild it no matter how many times it was griefed they decided on the location of negative two thousand negative two thousand nicknamed 2k 2k with the war coming to a close this is

Where they would make their final stand as expected 2k 2k would be the target of griefs constantly both by four chanters and by travelers passing by each grief was more severe than the last the face punchers quickly realized how tedious it was to keep rebuilding grief after grief

They couldn’t keep it up eventually the base was lava casted so severely that it was beyond normal repair by june of 2012 after defending 2k 2k for months they just couldn’t take it anymore the four channers dedication was unmatched in the minecraft community the face punchers were defeated and almost

All of them left 2b2t for good a war that had started 14 months ago had finally come to a close with the fall of the republic the culture of the 4channers became the server norm which is still seen to this day but we have to fast forward now

In 2019 after being gone for eight years cheese had finally returned to 2b2t to find it a completely different place but with his return he was able to provide information about the early days of the server that had previously been lost to time much of the info in today’s video was

Provided directly by the man himself the face punch war was the first major conflict in 2b2t’s history and helped influence what the server is today after all we’ve covered you better be hitting that like and subscribe button also make sure to follow me on my socials but that’s it

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