BarrenDome – 2b2t – Map Art

Hey Vsauce Baron dome here sorry sorry I couldn’t help myself Here I am on to b2t org Minecrafts most infamous Anarchy server the world’s worst minecraft server mostly known for its spectacular builders and relentless griefers today though I want to talk about another group of players and their

Unique creations players who create art or more specifically map art for those of you don’t know what a minecraft map is it’s an item and when first use it will draw a top-down view of the current players surroundings measuring 128 by 128 blocks in size and maps can also be

Adjusted to different zoom levels reaching as big as 2048 by 2048 blocks in size now when looking at a new 128 528th map each map pixel represents one block in the Minecraft world and using this mechanic players can place blocks of various colors to create anything from simple pixel art to extremely

Detailed pieces of art even play some blocks at various Heights can change the color ever so slightly to add an extra level of detail to b2t orc has a rich history of map art I mean the server has been online since December of 2010 no one really knows for sure the total

Number of map art out there some estimates that I’ve been told are in the couple hundred I myself have seen several pieces of map art on to b2t I’ve made videos on some others I’ve kept private in fact I even got to make up my

Part myself this is the first map art I ever made on to b2t back in June of 2017 it’s of a bleach bottle I called it three glasses per day I really hope you understand that reference it’s a pretty simple map art using just carpet for

Colors and I built a flat in 2d since it didn’t require much detail now a few weeks ago I was exploring around to be as I usually do and I stumbled upon a few pieces of matte Bart by Bravin in case you don’t know who he is he’s the

One that built the fit victorious statue that I did a video on almost two years ago I contact Braden and we talked for a bit and he invited me to the map artists of to be to tea discord this discord is for players of to be

That make and collect map art on to be and though I say players of to be really anybody can join this discord if you want to see that map art these players are making now warning to my viewers if you go to this discord you could potentially see inappropriate and not

Safe for work images so just be warned now I ain’t stopped collecting map art a long time ago due to to be to tease concept map resets if you don’t know what I mean by map reset I will link in the video description a video by antvenom that explains it in great

Detail now after talking to Braden and seeing the work of lots of the other players in the map artists of to be 2t discord I became interested again in creating another map art this time though I wanted to put a little bit more effort into creating it now there are

Several programs out there that can help you create map art there’s map generator sprite craft schematic ax mcedit and more and I will leave the links of these programs in my video description below now as I get started working on my next piece of map bar for to be let’s hear

From some of the other players of the map artists of to be 2t discord regarding map art alright I’m here with Bravin as I’ve been mentioning him in my video and we’re gonna ask him a couple questions about some map art on to be 2t

So welcome glad to be here thank you for joining me so to start off when did you start playing on to be 2t well I first joined in June of 2016 but I didn’t really start playing until like spring of 2017 did you join because of Russia or you

Just happenstance joint at the exact same time I joined because of Russia’s good enough okay so for when you really started playing how long did you start getting into the whole map art builds a little over a year before I did my first map art you’ve been churning them out pretty quickly lately

Yeah the last like 2 or 3 months that’s all I’ve been doing now you put out some pretty good ones so how many total pieces of map art have you put out so far I think it’s like 12 pieces of art and it’s like 20-something maps IDs

Wow that’s a lot so of those the ones that you made which is your most favorite and which is the one that you like the least I mean like half of them are my favorite but probably say the thorns map mm-hm because of the detail and it’s like I

Just love that book in my mouth so actually like means something to me yeah that’s a really good map is is that a 2d one or is that a 3d one that’s 2d is it straight just 128 because what is it a 2×3 yeah and that’s just a straight you

Didn’t like shrink maps down that’s just the straight 128 by 128 yeah okay which are your least favorite one I mean that’s probably the last one I did it’s like a void Mason one just because it’s super simple I didn’t put any effort into it it’s kind of like a joke one I

Already skipped over this question but what was it what was the the first map art you ever did it was a it was like a texture of a pig spike and an item frame with a white background what was your reasoning for create creating that one

Is pretty much just a prank my face mate make them think I got spawning stuff yeah I could see that that’s actually pretty good I like that that’s a good idea from a distance it actually looks pretty good no I can imagine like seeing that

For the first time you’re like oh my god you got one and then nope of all the map art that you’ve seen on TV I’m sure you’ve seen a ton of them which one are you most impressed with and why well I’ve seen a lot of maps there’s a couple

That come to my one is like a it’s like a stormtrooper from Star Wars it was made like years ago but it’s the detail is amazing yeah I think I’ve seen that one oh when you’re making the map Bart what kind of a method to use you do

Freehand schematic ax or do you prefer some other some other way pretty much always use schematic ax all right sometimes I build it in white by hand in a single-player world and then take a schematic other times I just straight take an image and turn that into a

Schematic and I know you mentioned that this chord you you do the printer method or do you just do because I mean you to do it onto B you have to actually be looking at the block to do the printer method or if you just sometimes you just

Place it by hand if it’s easier sometimes well if there’s like large parts where it’s all the same block I just use scaffold mm-hmm where it’s like dithered I use the place by hand but now I usually use printer okay why do you like making matte part onto B it just

Looks super good up on a wall like being with us have any image you want a Minecraft mm-hmm not with a texture pack so like everyone else can see it – are you looking forward to when like when 1.13 comes out and you can put map art

On the floors or on the ceilings yeah I’ve been waiting for that forever you have some ideas that you particular maps that you want to do for that I already have one all done and set up ready to go oh nice I can’t wait to see that one for

Anyone on to be or anywhere is also within Minecraft what would be one thing that you would recommend when making map part of a couple things one is when you’re starting out start out like simple you don’t try like you know a 3d map or a huge one right away and only

Really make maps of things you’re interested in they’re really boring to make so if you’re not super interested in the image the outcome it’s not really worth it right yeah I can see that well that’s pretty much all I had man I want to just thank you for sitting down with

Me for a little bit and just talking about some a part on to be I have no problem all right now I’m joined with arias and he’s got some uh some questions to answer for me for to be specifically how long ago did you start playing on to be well I started

Playing on to be in March 2015 okay but then I just kind of lost interest until I saw youtube videos about it popping up again in June 2016 and that’s when I really started playing again also I had two accounts with veteran q which which helped me a lot

With getting a lot of online time okay that’s pretty good and from when you started playing on TV when did you start making your first map art it was pretty much a plan from the start but then the Fourth Reich reset the map so no new ins could be created so then I

Just kind of build a base and until until Kino Rana reset the maps for the first time and then maps could be created again that’s when I started making Maps what was your first map wow I didn’t really know I think it was Walter White you can get a picture on my reddit

Account it’s just a pretty simple one but I like it still was it a 2d or was that a 3d one it was a flat one or two teeth okay kind of a tough question I guess you just since you’ve been doing it for a while how many total pieces of

Map art have you made due to maps that are bigger than one by one count as separate or s1 let’s go with ya if it’s like a total piece I guess we’ll go with that so like if it’s a two by two count that as one piece or

Even one then it’s four okay it’s not that much I know but I started new ones but then the basis that I built that could grieved and yeah or any of your Maps briefed well the one that I started got grief food and now finished ones did you ever rebuild it you just

Just let it grieved I had plans to rebuild it but I haven’t started yet okay of the the pieces that you’ve made which one do you like the most and which one do you think yeah is not your best work the 3×3 is definitely my favorite but my least favorite is an

Advertisement I made for the map artists discord it’s really simple it’s really plain and I just built it up in like three hours or so what’s the what was the the 3×3 that you made what was it yeah it was an anime girl it’s it’s not

Really it’s an OC so this she doesn’t really have much of a name or a backstory or something but I just write like the picture and of all the the map art that you’ve ever seen on to be to t which one are you most impressed with and why hmm

That’s a tough question I guess I’d say any map made by a map art machine by bonito and general banner because not because it’s a really impressive mapper so but because I like the history behind it like they made a map part machine which could automate automatically make

Maps and I think that really shows the creativity and the ingenuity that goes into making maps yeah I’m ever hearing about that one when you when you perceive personally make map art do you do freehand to use schematic or to use a combination or some other tools for

Making your map art I use schematic ax it would I built them by hand okay so you just whenever you see there’s an empty spot you just can’t put a block down or whatever there’s there yeah executed okay what do you make map art I’ve been doing pixel art for years

I think it’s really really relaxing and on to be it’s just making map art is is a way of showing you Peaks a lot to people without actually giving out the location so it can’t get grieved so I think that’s that’s my reason for for anyone

On to be or anywhere else that plays minecraft what would be one thing you’d recommend when making map art join a map are lists of two v2t the discard and read through the how-to because I see a lot of questions that get asked over and

Over and they are all or pretty much all of them are answered in the how-to I typed up also if you have any questions that are not answered feel free to ask exactly yeah for those of you don’t know arrays this is the guy that created the map artist

Of to be 2d discord so it’s gonna have a lot of good information there and a lot of good archives of all the different map parts that are available for everybody to see and there are lives do you have you any idea of the total number of pieces of map art that’s out

There or what’s your neste mate it’s really hard to guess because of all the map resets that happen or do you so I don’t know which maps got lost or which ones still exist but there are probably a few hundred there’s a lot yes it’s a fortunate is probably lots of pieces of

Map that have been lost the time and they’ll never be seen again yeah well cool well thanks that’s the kind of the other questions I had for you and I really appreciate you taking time out of your day and answering some questions for me yeah sure no problem

Okay so I’m joined here with the gender-bender needs hefter I love you I love your your picture man it’s hilarious from the Futurama episode a bender being the wrestler so to get right started how long have you been playing on to be to T January 2017 I

Started what kind of brought you there basically I was watching looking for new youtubers found fits endless ocean I was actually watching that for a lot of you know a long time before I actually started watching his to be stuff in that brought me to it because I’ve never

Played any multiplayer minecraft servers up until to be this kind of a big jump to go from nothing right to to be huh yeah just vanilla survival to you this so from when you started playing when was the first map art that you made and

What was it I think it was my [ __ ] map art its benders face and it says compare yours compare your lives to mine and kill yourself that was my first map awesome so you’ve been off for a little while how many total pieces of map art have you made

Six seven seven or eight I made them pretty close to each other like I once I made one I was pretty much I was hooked for a while and I haven’t made a map art in probably almost a year been a while I have lots of schematics

And images that I want to do but I’ve been waiting for 113 like everyone else so you can do like I’m on the ceilings of the grounds things like that and I could use the same plot nice good I don’t think anyone’s gonna reset the maps

Oh yeah that’s sure cuz it’s gonna be a lot more after that yeah so of all the the map arts that you’ve made which is the one that you’re most proud of and which is your least favorite my what I’m most proud of I think is the one where

Benders having sex with Weaver I won’t be able to show that on my youtube channel so I’ll just that’s I’ll put a black box there or something it’s my personal favorite the MC Escher map the 2×2 in the staircase that’s a close second i echo made one pickle Rick you

Might have seen it I think that’s my least favorite just because it was made in sprite craft it’s not the best image I was thinking about remastering that one day yeah and I there was a temp map last year that 4k by 4k I made a map art on that as well

Oh that’s right I remember that I was quite the challenge I can imagine just a limit amount of time to have to do that yeah and having people come by of all the map art that you see I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of map art onto B which one

Are you most impressed with and why hmm that’s a good question I’ll have to come around to that a I don’t have a good answer on the top of my head here kind of a side question though being impressed with a map I know that you had

Started working on a movable map with bonito tortellini yeah automatic map machine mm-hmm we built a machine and it was a zoom dope map and it was all run by Pistons into position so you were able to take an image make it to colors and then you

Turn that into a binary file and then you run a autohotkey script and you basically you could afk make maps Wow but bonito is the brains behind all that I I’m more or less just help them build that we we made a few maps on it but the

Only way that would really work is in 1:13 where you can use the same plot again and again right because if maps get reset then all the maps you made her our garbage but that was a pretty aggressive project we did we had to redo

It a few times because uh to be plugins would change right there was a couple different reworks and as of now it’s on hold until we actually get one 13 because who knows what it’s actually gonna work or not I’ll be impressive to see it once uh once we ever get around

To 113 and you guys actually get that working that’d be really sweet to see when you’re making map art what method do you prefer to do it do you do freehand schematic ax or to use some other tool or automation no I’ll take an image I’ll run it

Through a program which will give me a schematic ax and then I’ll just manually place the blocks do use the printer you just place it by hand or use the baritone I try printer sometimes it works on a works on good days mm-hmm for the most part I’ll just hand place the

Blocks if there’s big open areas of the same color I will usually use scaffold and just walk along and fill those spots in I’ve yet to try baritone seems like it’s a lot of work to get going I played with a little bit and I think you mean

We have to have all the different blocks in your inventory for it to work because if it detects that you don’t have a block it kind of just stops yeah like some of my maps have over 30 blocks so it’d be a little hard to do those why do

You like making map art I find it relaxing it’s I like doing my part better than doing big builds you don’t worry about the fine details so much you can take an image you like and basically share it with everyone on the server when you’re done too right yeah exactly

So you can’t really show off your bases on TV because everything’s exploitable mapper it’s the one safe thing you could actually build on to be and share with the community I agree with you on that for anyone on to be or any other minecraft player what would be one thing

You’d recommend one making map art I don’t rush it like a lot of people will find an image and I will use sprite craft or some other knockoff program and just try to get a map out try to do it in a day or two and usually turns out

Like [ __ ] they’ll have the noob line on the top because they didn’t build 129 throw I was guilty of that not done that you know to be honest I did it on my first Matthew but a lot of people rush it and they do a shitty first map but for the

Most part a lot of those guys come back and we’ll really while you with the second laird map yeah just a learning curve awesome well thank you for all that information yeah not a problem I really appreciate everybody that talked with me and provided me with information

And I hope all of you that are watching really enjoyed hearing from them with my map are done it’s time for you guys to see this is Vincent van Gogh with a gray felt hat I think I did pretty good for my second attempt at making a piece of

Map art soon I will be handing these out to people at spawn and leaving them at random places for people to find with that it’s time for me to pack up my gear and head out I hope you liked the video please like and subscribe and thanks again for watching everybody I’ll catch

You all later see ya