Why 2b2t’s Bats Are Going Extinct

The bat the flying mammal they’re a pretty common sight in caves both in minecraft and real life but on 2b2t the oldest anarchy server in minecraft bats are on the brink of extinction for a variety of reasons the server hasn’t spawned them in the world for many years to the point

That even name-tagged bats have become incredibly rare but their extinction has gone unnoticed because they’re one of those mobs you don’t really go out of your way to find they don’t drop anything you can’t breed them and the only thing they’re good at is potentially getting you killed by a

Warden so i wanted to investigate why don’t bats spawn anymore on 2v2t is it still possible to find any in the wild and the biggest question of all exactly how many are left well through personal exploration gathering player testimony and collaborating with a massive data collection project we were able to find

Out and the number was even lower than i was expecting so let’s talk about why bats are facing extinction on 2b2t before we get started i’d like to thank honey for sponsoring today’s video online shopping is meant to be easy so why is finding coupon codes that

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Remember the last time i saw a bat on the server the first thing i did was explore the wilderness for a few hours to make sure my suspicion was correct i looked all over in both old chunks and new ones even with tracers on leading me

To passive mobs i couldn’t find a single bat after many hours of searching in a single player world you’d be able to find bats pretty much instantly so i knew this was something i had to get to the bottom of when i started looking into it more i found that others had

Noticed this phenomenon as well i quickly got into contact with two of the server’s most experienced base hunters scholar g and courier six both of them have traveled far and wide across the server for many years in search of old bases with the amount of chunks they’ve

Traveled through they had to have seen a bat sculler g got back to me first and said the last time he saw one was 2017 five years ago and hadn’t seen one since courier six mentioned that the last time he saw a bat was in a mob museum that he

Managed to discover at an old base but the entire thing was destroyed in 2018 so it’s safe to assume the bat perished during the grief it was starting to sound like there were no bats left on the server at all and based on the testimony this has been a problem for many years

There had to be a reason they no longer spawned now there’s a few theories as to why because 2b2t is such an old server and the map file size is measured in terabytes it requires some insane plug-ins to continue working the server’s admin house master has been

Known to limit mob spawning in the past such as preventing more than four withers from spawning in a single chunk and even having passive mobs like mooshrooms spawn in lower numbers the most common theory is that a plug-in prevents bats from spawning in order to eliminate lag in the java edition of

Minecraft bats actually have a higher spawn rate around halloween due to requiring less darkness but even this has not been enough for them to spawn because the inner workings of 2b2t are kept very hush hush it’s hard to find out more but it was clear that bats had

Not been spawning for at least the past five years and i knew i wasn’t going to find my answer by just searching chunks on the server so i got into contact with the 256k project one of the largest data collection programs ever done to study 2b2t a while back a group of players

Working together managed to archive download and analyze every single chunk surrounding the spawn region going out 128 000 blocks in each direction by using flight exploits they were able to world download all the terrain they flew over in a grid pattern and much of this was done by programs automatically the

Data they’ve managed to compile from these chunks has been fascinating not only could they tell me which version of minecraft specific terrain was generated in but they managed to find some really odd things as well such as a wither skull that had traveled over one million blocks straight up in the air without

Despawning and random gassed fireballs out in the middle of nowhere but what i was interested in was the tally of every single mob that they found they could actually tell me how many bats were still out there now out of millions and millions of chunks downloaded how many

Bats do you think were found in all of them just take a guess right now as a casual viewer well the answer shocked me 13. out of millions of chunks 13 bats and that’s it i knew bats were facing extinction but i didn’t think the number would be that

Low now here’s where it gets really bizarre almost all of these bats were found in the same specific conditions in an ocean biome underground near a mine shaft specifically with chests in them not mine cart chests the last time these types of mine shafts generated was java version 1.4 10 years ago

Called the pretty scary update at release 1.4 is when bats were first introduced into the game so this implies all 13 of these bats were a decade old one of the leaders of the project lamp told me the group had a few theories regarding this low number of bats it’s possible that bats

Generated during this time had a special property that prevented them from despawning like other passive mobs it also might be that bats just stopped spawning entirely once the server updated to version 1.5 but here is where things take a tragic turn after this discovery was made members of

The group traveled to the coordinates of each of the 13 bats to name tag them preserve them and keep them safe but when they arrived at the mine shafts the bats were gone they had despawned even though they had originally been recorded in the world downloads all 13 had vanished except for one

Dingbat the only one that was name tagged which prevented it from despawning as it stands right now dingbat is the last known surviving bat on 2b2t and the only thing standing between its species and extinction many years ago an unknown player found it and probably name-tagged it in a mine

Shaft as a joke not realizing it would eventually become the oldest surviving bat on the server the group rejoiced that they hadn’t gone fully extinct but it was bittersweet even if two had survived it wouldn’t do any good since bats cannot produce offspring in minecraft this major discovery led to a very

Important question is dingbat truly the last one on the server there had to be others out there right well assuming there isn’t an undiscovered base out there with a mob museum similar to the one courier found there is still hope for the flying mammal outside of the recorded area of

The 256k world download there are plenty of chunks that exist that were generated in version 1.4 if you travel farther out hypothetically some should still exist in the conditions we mentioned under an ocean and near a mine shaft with chests in it not mine cart chests but keep in

Mind that finding one even in these conditions will still be incredibly rare so i’m calling on all 2b2t players to do their part if you stumble across old 1.4 chunks and you happen to find a bat name tag it immediately and keep it safe there’s a chance housemaster may tweak

Mob spawning in the future allowing them to return but it seems unlikely the bat is not fully extinct on 2b2t yet but without conservation efforts by the community it will be if you enjoyed today’s video make sure to leave a like hit that subscribe button and follow my socials only

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