FitMC – The History of 2b2t Speedrunning

It’s no secret that speedrunning minecraft or attempting to beat the game as fast as possible has become very popular over the past year it’s exciting to see how quickly the game can actually be beaten but would you be surprised to learn that there’s a speedrunning community on the oldest

Anarchy server in minecraft now i know what you’re thinking how can you possibly speedrun minecraft on an anarchy server the dragon’s already dead the world is constantly changing there are hackers everywhere what is there to speed run well it turns out there’s a lot more than you might realize several different

Types of speed run actually originated on 2b2t with one category really starting to take off recently so today we’ll be discussing the history of speedrunning on 2b2t now then let’s get started the year is 2017. the server at the time had just gotten through its first major surge of popularity

Leading to a period of declining player activity no major events were happening on the server so it was up to the player base to make their own fun a 2b2t youtuber at the time taragadu was trying to think of new content that he could create on the server he enjoyed watching

Speedruns in his spare time and he wondered if any sort of speedrun challenge could work on an anarchy server so we ended up creating the very first one in the server’s history the proc 4 speed run the goal was to go from completely unarmed at spawn to obtaining one piece of protection for

Diamond armor as fast as possible the reasoning behind this challenge was that on anarchy servers prop 4 was seen as the bare minimum to survive all of the dangers you’d encounter in such a harsh environment the rules were simple timer starts when clicking respawn which would put you near 0-0

And the timer ends when applying protection 4 to a piece of diamond armor hack clients were allowed but using speed hacks of any kind were not a runner could only use materials created first hand looting bases other players or even finding enchanted books in dungeons were not allowed if you died or were

Killed by another player it effectively ended the run most runs had a very linear progression you started at spawn found another portal traveled out far enough to find trees gathered materials such as wood sugar cane and diamonds and then finally you’d gather enough xp to start enchanting armor

Taragadude ended up with a time of about 1 hour 36 minutes which was quite impressive in order for the prop 4 speed run to be seen as legitimate someone was going to have to step up to try and beat taragadude’s time which is exactly what happened and the first

Speed running rivalry on 2v2t would begin a youtuber at the time minds began running the prop 4 challenge and on february 14 2017 he set the world record for the category at one hour and eight minutes beating teragodude’s previous record by about 28 minutes mines had a very clean run

After going into the nether he was able to find a portal off the highway very quickly and in general just got luckier finding materials overall it was an impressive run and it seemed that times under one hour would be very possible people began following both runners to see how low

The time could go taragadude spent the summer attempting to bring his time lower and lower then on october 19 2017 he clocked a personal best and world record of 43 minutes and 8 seconds 25 minutes faster than mine’s world record and 53 minutes faster than his original time taragadu got incredibly lucky finding

Another portal and was able to locate a tree 10 minutes faster than mine’s from there he found even more luck by having plenty of sugar cane nearby he optimized his xp distribution onto his multiple diamond boots and found an excellent combination of diamond and redstone oars underground allowing him to create the

Armor in record time the creator of the prop 4 challenge ended up taking back his record but this victory would mark taragadude’s retirement from speedrunning 2b2t and he would eventually move on to pursue other interests for seven months the record remained at 43 minutes but in july of 2018 a relatively unknown

Player named none again ended up beating taragadu’s world record with a run of 40 minutes 29 seconds nanagan found a tree more quickly than taragadu had which gave him an overall edge and allowed him to take the record but after 40 minutes had been achieved interest in the speedrun

Greatly declined 2018 marked the start of a very turbulent era in 2b2t history with many conflicts going on much of the nether infrastructure used in the challenge was destroyed or drastically altered so faster times became much harder to accomplish another issue became the variables that runners had to deal with

Such as lag and disconnects the prop 4 speed run just wasn’t fun to run anymore but this would not be the end of the speedrunning community as near the end of 2019 like a phoenix rising from the ashes speedrunning would be reborn on 2b2t meet bgp an actual speedrunner for video

Games and also a casual 2b2t player he wanted to create a new category of speedrun on 2v2t that would be more accessible and fun to do than the previous pro4 run so we thought what is the most iconic activity you can do on an anarchy server and the answer

Is escaping spawn working together with minecraft mods of speedrun.com bgp managed to officially create two new categories of speedrun the 10k escape with hacks and the 10k escape with vanilla the goal was simple get 10 000 blocks away from zero zero in any direction as fast as possible

10k blocks overworld is considered far enough away from spawn for a new player to have temporary safety and start gathering supplies you can use a hack client if you wanted but you could also try the vanilla category for the extra challenge but this marked the first time that categories relating to 2v2t speedrunning

Were officially tracked rather than relying on just youtube videos on december 27 2019 french runner cac 64 set the first world record for the 10k escape at 3 minutes 55 seconds after this record was set it stood for seven months on july 11 2020 a runner named nooner would shave 20

Seconds off the original record bringing it down to 3 minutes 35 seconds his runs garnered enough attention for others to attempt runs around the same time a week later an american runner named paul would claim the hacked record with three minutes and 23 seconds and would also take the vanilla record

At 4 minutes 28 seconds both of his runs used very good movement and he found ideal nether portals in both scenarios as of making this video he still holds both records what we are witnessing right now is a rebirth of 2v2t speedrunning with players trying to get the categories under 3 minutes

And 4 minutes respectively what started in 2017 as a challenge out of boredom has led to officially tracked categories years later and now the real competition is about to begin who knows maybe i’ll try to set a world record but if you enjoyed this history lesson

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