the entire history of 2b2t’s End, i guess

The End: 2b2t’s least populated dimension. Not many players have traversed it due to its dangers, the lack of portals to reach it, and the general scarcity of content. A player looks out from the end island and probably wonders, “What’s out there?” For over

10 years of the server being online, many bases, events, and torment have occurred in this massive void of islands, but most people don’t know the whole story. This is the entire history of 2b2t’s End dimension… In late 2010, 2b2t began, and as players traveled through chunks for a year, Minecraft entered

Its 1.0 release phase in late 2011, including the End. Since 2b2t was around a year old and the spawn chunks were already loaded, the strongholds and their portals were missing. Players asked the owner of 2b2t, Hausemaster, if he would add End portals, but he insisted

That 2b2t can continue without admin interference and an End dimension. But near the end of 2011, 2b2t was backdoored, giving select players access to every block in the game, including End portal frames. These players were popbob and policemike55,

And they would travel to NFE, the most established spawn base at the time. Deep underground, they attempted to activate a portal, but when they inserted the eyes of Ender into the portal frame, nothing happened. They thought Hausemaster disabled End portals entirely, so they gave

Up entering the End and abandoned their portal. In March 2012, a player named xcc2 possessed a stack of portal frames. He believed that a stronghold’s portal room had to be recreated block-for-block for the portal to activate, so he went below NFE, invited policemike55,

And built a replica of a stronghold’s portal room. After placing all the blocks correctly and asserting the eyes of Ender into the frames, the portal ignited. In shock, xcc2 and policemike55 stepped into the portal and became the first players in

2b2t’s history to generate the End dimension. After standing around and watching the Ender Dragon fly, they realized they had jumped into the portal without the proper gear to fight, so they jumped off the End island. Now armed, xcc2 invited jdw99666 to help,

And together they entered the portal and fought the dragon. After a long-fought battle, the dragon was defeated, and jdw99666 managed to grab the Dragon egg before leaving. Following the Ender Dragon’s demise, many more End portals were constructed at bases

All throughout 2b2t, and the Dragon egg was duped. In May 2012, after asking around for an end portal location, xcc2 gave the players BarnardWiseman, Suedo, and Jacktherippa coordinates to the End portal under NFE. They wanted to build an End base as they did on another server.

However, Suedo’s account was cracked and disabled by Mojang during an account migration leak. Due to Suadeo’s absence, Barnard didn’t want to play 2b2t anymore, so Jack ventured and built the End base for two and half months by himself and used his brother’s account

As mobile storage. Not much happened out there, as a void surrounded the base in the middle of nowhere. To Jack, it was peaceful. But one day, Jack logs into his base to find a nether rack bridge coming into his base. Frantically, Jack searched around his base only to find a player named rupturedKidney

AFK at Jack’s enderman farm. As Jack got closer, Kidney returned to life and told Jack he had the same idea to build a base in the End. Eventually, they became close friends, and Kidney bridged off and made his own platform next door. From that day, Jack kept all his

Valuables in his two accounts and logged out. While Jack was building his base, jdw99666 had duped the dragon egg. In early Minecraft, it was possible to use pistons to make copies of any block affected by gravity, such as

Gravel or sand. Dragon eggs happened to be affected by gravity as well, and duping machines were used to make multiple copies of them. Hundreds of eggs were produced daily and distributed amongst 2b2t players. One day, Jack logs on only to see himself suffocating in stone.

He thinks they were found. As Jack mined the blocks around him, he found himself in the overworld but at the exact coordinates as the end base. Confused, Jack asked around, and xcc2 told him that Hausemaster had shut down the End. Hausemaster had been inactive for several months, so all these events were happening

Without his knowledge. When Hausemaster realized the End had been generated illegally, he became furious. He went around the server, deleting every end portal created and removing portal frames from player inventories. He also deleted the endstone that had been brought back from

The End and made it so that any endstone that got placed would instantly vanish from here on out. A plugin was installed so that right-clicking on a portal frame would make it disappear, and finally, Hausemaster deleted 2b2t’s End dimension.

After a year of the End being deleted, players started to complain. Xcc2 contacted Hausemaster and suggested that he get to the spots that should have been generated on 2b2t’s map and use the ‘/regenerate’ command to create fresh chunks that would include strongholds

And portals. Hausemaster listened and officially re-opened the End in May 2013, and players could finally enter. The players iTristan, taylo112, and a few others slayed the second Ender Dragon. For the following months, the End would be used frequently. Players rushed

Into the End, creating dirt and stone bridges leading out from End spawn, and everyone wanted to build an End base. Players like Omaliymix, x0XP and others tried to grass over the End island with infinite grass blocks to make it more like the overworld. Hausemaster spawned

In massive obsidian towers and a gigantic endstone and cobblestone torus. The torus was rumored that Hausemaster was trying to make more islands and make it look more natural, but players never got a clear answer. A player named Levi12 made an end base on the island, and by the end of 2013, popbob

Created a secret base not too far from spawn but was eventually found, and a player named Atrika built a base as well. By this point, End spawn was covered by a massive cobblestone monster created by Fuzzypuffball. He used a giant lava cast maker device called “S.

C. A. M. P.” By 2014, most players didn’t care much about the End due to its dangers, the lack of portals to reach it, and the general scarcity of content. This was the perfect time for Jack to build a new end base.

From March 10th to May 16th of 2014, the server was on a temp map due to the server lagging. By June, Jack had made several friends on the server and was part of Valkyria. The group

Decided that their next base should be in the End as no one had done it before, so Jack bridged off a kilometer and a half over the void and made a gigantic platform with every farm he could get. They knew it would be a temp map, but they got the basic idea for

Their base. When the server eventually returned to the main map, the whole End base idea was postponed for a while. In August 2014, Hausemaster installed a plugin to patch holes in the Nether roof. But this also patched holes in the End at Y level 0. If a player walked out anywhere

Or placed a block, it would update the chunk and generate a giant plot of bedrock. One of Jack’s Valkyrian friends, Stupidwalrus[a], asked him how to build an End base. Jack would tell him about the bedrock platforms and told him to travel a few thousand blocks out, make

An island out of bedrock, and build whatever was on top of that, which he did. By late 2014, few players lived in the End, but some players like Kinorana, Carl_Plemens, and Pyrobyte did. Pyrobyte made a large bedrock floor near the End island to house a small base with an ender pearl farm.

After the self-grief of Asgard II in 2015, Jack gathered materials and decided that since the End had been open for a couple of years and nobody cared for it, why not start an End base? So he walked back to spawn through the Nether and crossed an old highway he dug

With his friends – the ones who would be at the first original End base. Jack asked Stupidwalrus where he built his End base, and he gave Jack the coordinates. After traveling on the bedrock path, Jack arrived at Stupidwalrus’ chateau on the edge of nothing. Stupidwalrus

Got all the hard work of wrangling the mobs and the common essentials to make a base there, but the massive bedrock path leading right to it was a problem. Jack couldn’t live there directly, but he could bridge off a few hundred blocks into

The void, lay the foundation, and bring two of each animal. At the time, he didn’t know what it would look like, but he had an idea from a gigantic stone temple floating at The Lands called “The Sky Temple of Autism.” So he decided to build that, but it would

Have every amenity possible over the void. As Jack started laying the foundation, xcc2 told Jack that infinite blocks were back. Jack gathered infinite blocks from xcc2 and Pyrobyte. Slowly, Jack built from the bottom to the top, eventually shaping the structure

Into a gigantic tower, its real name being “The Sky Pillar of Autism,” a homage to the structure at The Lands. The name was later changed to Space Valkyria.[b] After the third incursion, a player named Fit wasn’t sure what to do with himself.

He made a pilgrimage to the End and went as far out as possible. Using a piston airship, he accidentally found Space Valkyria and looked around. He was awestruck and used it as a launching pad to continue traveling. From there, he went out over 15,000 blocks in the

End, farther than anyone else had been at the time. Using his airship as a starting point, he started creating a base known as DFC. In May 2015, Pyrobyte was AFK at Space Valkyria, and someone used the ‘/msg’ coordinate

Exploit on him. Soon after, the players Jared2013 and taylo112 came to Space Valkyria to grief it. The base members caught Jared2013 in the act, and Jared jumped into the void to escape. Before the griefers would arrive again, Jack decided to bridge off a kilometer and build

What is now commonly referred to as Space Valkyria 2, but officially called “The Island.” Due to Space Valkyria’s grief, Jack knew that many players wanted to visit it, which would bring attention to the End. Jack figured that if he somehow deleted all of the End portals,

He could build even if they knew where he was and couldn’t get to him. Around this time, taylo112 taught Jack how to destroy End portals with buckets of water or lava and then went on his alternate account and broke all the End portals before anyone

Could realize it. This officially shut down the End, and nobody could go into the End for the rest of 2015. For around 9 months, Jack’s group held down the End, and in that time, Jack built an entire island in the style of the overworld and planned to make many

More, but got bored of the project. Instead, he opted to make a palace almost entirely out of quartz. It wasn’t until late 2015, when Mojang announced Minecraft version 1.9, that the End would be updated with new structures and items. By then, Jack was already situated, and it

Was too late to change course. On the bright side, he would first have access to the update’s contents. On the downside, players were going to come back into the End. When the update was introduced to 2b2t, elytra were the go-to item to get. The End was semi-shutdown at

This point, and players would use boat-fly to travel to end cities for elytra’s. Jack was the first player to get an Elytra and named it “Elantra.” He now had an easy way to get back and forth from “The Island,” but soon after the End re-opened, the group

Nerds Inc. arrived at the base and griefed it. By this time, a player named Offtopia decided to head into the End with Carl_Plemens. When they arrived, there were already player-made scaffold bridges to the newly generated islands. Offtopia traveled to Pyrobyte’s now-griefed ender pearl farm, took some new chorus flowers

And one elytra, and then left the End. With the introduction of generated end islands, the End would have strips of the void left over from the loaded chunks from past players loading chunks using redstone airships. In 2016, some more players would naturally explore the End and would grief the portals

Anytime they could. By November, 2b2t was updated to Minecraft version 1.11, and a new dupe was leaked to the public called the Drop dupe. The update brought shulker boxes to the server, which caused another rush of exploration in the End. Hausemaster implemented 9 end

Portals around spawn but without the end portal frames. Some players had end portal frame blocks from a backdoor still in their ender chests during that time, and some would be placed around the overworld. He would travel around and delete any illegal end portals

He would locate close to player bases, some of which have even survived to this day. Jack would dupe materials with another player named AlphaComputer, and together they would find a location in the End to build Space Valkyria 3. He decided to make it around a

Single End gateway, and a few members would be invited to the base. But one of the members, monaxide, accidentally used a hacked client that was thought to be backdoored, possibly releasing the coordinates to the base. Only a little was built at this location, so the

Group quickly relocated about a kilometer away to another site. Some bases would be built around the end of 2016, like Endlosung, created by HairyNugget and his friends, and Torogadude’s Death Star Soup Bowl. By the middle of 2017, a player named Barrendome would build a base called Nexus. After getting

His lag machine deleted by Hausemaster, a player named Armorsmith set out on a journey to become the first player to see the world border at the End. Using an Elytra PacketFly hack, he went on a trip that lasted an entire week. But on August 16th, Barrendome reached

The -Z End world border, and the next day, Armorsmith reached the -,- End world border and built a base – Armorland. This was eventually griefed by 2v2t. By September 2017, elytra were disabled due to this hack as it was lagging the server. Around this time, a player named

Krobar01 started building a base known as Endcursion. As months passed, Space Valkyria 3’s construction went smoothly, but the rainbow road was misaligned, making Jack take a break for a few months as he was burnt out. A few months later, Jack

Returned and was informed by Offtopia that a former Spawn Mason member, Llane, had heard of Space Valkyria 3’s construction and was actively trying to find it. Chunk trailing was already a well-known exploit, so Jack relocated about 13,000 blocks away. This time

Construction didn’t take as long as the design had already been accomplished earlier. Jack perfected his method and added many more details to the build that the first one lacked. The release of the chunk dupe also helped with the base’s expansion, mainly with the

Construction of the rings. The plan was to fill this space to house an entire city. By early 2018, the End spawn had changed compared to 2014. The massive lava cast created by Fuzzypuffball was gone and was replaced by floating water pillars and blocks. The End

Island was still intact, but lava casts surrounded the island. New highways emerged, one being an ice highway created by 1i_. Players would build structures near spawn like dr_frankfurt, who made a Black Freighter. Another base near spawn was Space 2k2k, created by Armorsmith’s

Followers, at the exact coordinates of the famous Facepunch base 2k2k in the overworld. Offtopia and Llane would create a base in the End. Llane used a duplication glitch to get shulkers, while Offtopia moved some shulkers with stacked armor and other things to the location.

Sometime in 2018, Endcursion went public due to a museum leak. After a few months, Krobar went back to have a look as he got someone else to grief it, but all the materials were still there. Since there were no tourists and elytra was disabled, Krobar decided to

Start building there again. He made many things here, like the Isles, Void Rider, Cthulu, etc. Until January 2019, Hausemaster announced in the server’s tab menu that the server would be updating to 1.13 soon, and end portals were re-added. Some players built bases around

This time, like P529. By this point, Nerds Inc. had created an exploit called NOCOM, which allowed them to ask 2b2t, “Is the block at this coordinate in a currently loaded chunk?” and get an immediate yes or no answer.

On May 9th, 2019, while Jack was waiting in the queue, he got online, just made dinner, and was building and placing blocks on the outermost ring of Space Valkyria 3. Jack saw iTristan online, and in chat, it showed Tristan was placing TNT through the ‘Announcer’

Module. It wasn’t unusual, but Jack felt something was odd. He looked around, and nothing was immediately out of place, but there was TNT when he checked the central pillar. Jack thought maybe this was AlphaComputer trolling him, but after speed hacking around the ring,

He saw Nerds Inc. members placing TNT. Jack retreated and quickly tried to get ender crystals and gear for combat, but it was useless. It was a 5v1, and there was no way to win. On August 14th, 2019, elytra were re-enabled. The End’s spawn island was blown up and

Replaced with a circular obsidian platform, but other than that, it remained the same. Fr1kin released his world download of Space Valkyria 3 on the 2b2t subreddit, which made many players travel to see the ruins in person. Space Valkyria was no more, or was it?

Out of curiosity, Jack checked on the original Space Valkyria 3, 13,000 blocks away. It was untouched. Jacked decided to return to work on it as it wasn’t complete. Jack rebuilt everything from scratch and brought a donkey that survived the grief, which would be used

To dupe and resupply materials. Many months went by, and the base was still unfound and intact. Jack took a break and joined Offtopia and Llane at their location in the End. By this time, the site already had a few structures, and Jack began creating his structure there.

Eventually, Jack returned to Space Valkyria 3, but before he left, he and Llane would name this location Endtopia. On December 8th, 2019, the players Gsmack, SkullerG, and others started working on a giant water cube over End spawn. They would flatten out the platform of the End using

The bedrock floor to help assist in the process. To avoid players ruining their project, they used their controversial overworld water cube project to lure players away from the end, making chunk bans to prevent enemies from the End. Later, Gsmack realized they could

Use an exploit to place unbreakable end crystals at the End platform, disabling it from spawning, so anyone who walked into a portal would fall into the void. Hausemaster eventually intervened, restarting the server and deleting the unbreakable end crystals. On December 10th, they had the

Water cube at Y level 109, and 5 days later, they finished the water cube by adding 106 layers of water in one day and, in total, placed over 150,000 ice blocks to get it done. Not soon after, a player named TheTroll2001 found an exploit using end portals to dupe

Items. It worked by pushing a donkey with a chest filled with shulkers that only had half a heart into an end portal, making it die from fall damage. The donkey would die twice as it entered the End, doubling a player’s items. By the beginning of 2020, Endcursion

Would be griefed. By the middle of 2020, there was an authentication exploit, which made the players at Endtopia too afraid to build there. Still, once it was fixed, the group kept finding excuses not to do much of anything and had grown tired of 2b2t. Krobar decided

To move to Endtopia to start constructing a bridge. In May 2020, a Turkish Twitch streamer was casually flying in the End to see the remains of Space Valkyria 3 that was griefed. At some point on his journey, he took a wrong turn

And found himself at the original intact Space Valkyria 3. It was a matter of time before others found it, which eventually happened. This finally marked the end of Space Valkyria 3, at least on 2b2t.[c] Shortly after it was found, Jack would find a new space known as

Space Valkyria 4 with a couple of friends, but Jack got bored of 2b2t, and it would be abandoned not soon after. [d] By late 2020, End spawn was still covered in a massive water cube. Bases built during this time were Endromeda, created by SkullerG, Goujon, Gsmack, 4Pilot, and Redbaron1991.

Another end base made by H4A had many signs from travelers. From November 5th to the 21st, the players Goujon and Duke_Arktouros would try to rebuild Space Valkyria 1. They were successful, and many players visited, but it was eventually griefed. A player named

Amin0Acid attempted to go the -X world border in November using boatfly but was patched 13 million blocks out, so he created a milestone there. By September 4th, 2021, Krobar had built a massive bridge. Every house, market, and storage room was filled with decorations. Eventually, a player named Durkaaqt accidentally found

It using a travel exploit while live-streaming with the coordinates on Discord, leading to its destruction on December 21st, 2021. Around this time, a player named Harrissssonn spent much time in the End, testing and exploring. After discovering how broken End Gateways were with players from the Spawn Builders Association, they learned how to teleport

Players with boats using the gateways. To work, a player simply went to an End gateway and piloted a boat into it. The boat would then appear at End spawn for a fraction of a second, during which time the player being teleported would enter the boat and be transported

Back to the starting location of the teleporting player. On March 22nd, 2022, Harrisssonn started his trip to the -,- End world border corner, the exact location as Armorland. He finally reached it a few months later, on June 12th, 2022.

When he arrived, he noticed Armorland was altered into a Spawn Masons lodge. After this, he founded Corner Base and teleported many friends using the gateways. This group, “The Ancients,” were teleported out here to find a spot in the millions to set up a replica of r/place, but on 2b2t called ‘Our/Place.’

As more players were teleported, a base began to take shape at the world border due to builders including smz19, P529, Joey_Coconut, Negative_Entropy, bread_loafs, and _m_o_t_h_r_a_, among others. These players were from the Ancients, Astral Brotherhood, Spawn Masons, and Spawn Base

Association. This base didn’t have a name but was known as ‘Corner Base.’ Many events occurred here, and even I was teleported in July. The constant public discussion and streaming of the Corner Base resulted in groups like the Fifth Column attempting to close off the

End to prevent teleportation to the base. They would park accounts at End spawn with crystal aura, conducted mainly through maksitaxi’s Interdimensional Customs Control group. Not soon after, Corner Base was griefed. By November 2022, Krobar started building a new End base. As months passed, he created

A black hole surrounded by a ring with buildings on top and finished at the beginning of January 2023. By the end of January, a project was started by ZipBagLockGuy to remove the End’s water cube entirely, and his friends joined him a day later. They officially began on

January 30th, and with sponges and flying TNT machines created by the project’s leader, cumerman, they could accomplish this rather quickly. ZipBagLockGuy removed around 50% of the water cube all by himself. Pockyboi donated all the resources used for the project by stash hunting.

It wasn’t all smooth, though, as many PvPers were griefing the flying TNT machines and killing members that were draining 0,0. So Aviasales and Cumerman made a trap on the End’s spawn platform that killed players who entered the End and defended the project

From griefers. Dextras and elusour broke all the End gateways using a bug that only works in the End. PolarBigBob, scoobystain, 1ahr, and xdom1405x helped drain. Finally, on February 15th, 2023, the project was completed. After the End water cube’s drainage, a player named _xque would go into the End to check

It out. He started flying in the -X region for about 100,000 blocks, and for whatever reason, he decided to start going diagonal for a while, then back to going straight. Suddenly, he got hit with beacon effects, so he flew back and found Space Valkyria 4.

Today, the End is still very vacant, but who knows how many bases are out there. With the rise of discussion of the End, more players will traverse the void and find amazing things, and even future projects will emerge.