Throughout the entirety of 2b2t, there have
been many unknown groups. Many of their stories, conflicts, and friendships
- lost forever. However, with the rise of 2b2t’s popularity,
preservation of ancient bases, and recollections from old players, some of
these unknown groups can be brought to light and their stories can finally be told. Today in
this video, I will share THREE unknown groups that share ONE thing in common and how their
existence played a key part in 2b2t's history. The first unknown group is ‘The Brotherhood
of Diamonds’. This Brotherhood is one of the oldest 2b2t groups, with early issues of
THEJudgeHolden's comic describing them. The Brotherhood existed from late 2011 to the
middle of 2012. Their story is barely documented, and the only information available comes from
a few sign logs they wrote on their walls... The story begins in late 2011. A
player named Urue_101 was looking for anarchy-enabled Minecraft servers because he
wanted something more challenging to build in, but most of the servers had some set
of regulations and safe zones. After finding a 4chan post about 2b2t, Urue made
his way onto the server. As he spawned in, he was encircled by a hellscape. The
entirety of spawn was covered in mobs. TNT had blown up the ground to such an extent that
only four paths led out of spawn. On each path, there were aggressive players and mobs blocking
the way. Parkour was essential and it took Urue three respawns to get beyond the aggressive
players and make his way towards the unknown. As Urue traveled further from spawn, he
saw his first tree. As he got closer, he saw a base that looked active and had a lot
of supplies. He needed food and items to survive, so he sneakily cut down a tree and took food from
their farms. After walking a few thousand blocks from spawn, Urue found an abandoned base inside a
mountain. It wasn’t vandalized too badly, but it was looted. A row of signs made by a player named
Caveman was discovered, but the words he wrote are long forgotten. It seemed like no one had plans
to come back, so Urue made this base his new home. About two weeks later, Urue would talk
to his friends on their mumble server. He would tell them about 2b2t, how there
were no rules, and how unique it was. His friends MasterV and Flamereaper666 were the
first to join. While they made their way to the base, Urue had to save them from starvation.
As the group entered the door to the base, they began to build a wheat farm. Because
of the bounty of wheat they had made, the group would name this base Bounty Mountain
(also named ‘The Vault’). Flamereaper666 accidentally destroyed part of “Caveman’s”
log during construction. In memory of Caveman and the base he made, MasterV created a
room for the group to store future logs. The next day, Flamereaper666 informs the group
that someone looted them the night before, but only took a little amount of their
belongings. Urue went to reset his bed just to make sure the player
couldn’t respawn at the base, but as he was about to, he stepped on a
TNT pressure plate trap. Urue barely got out of the room when the TNT ignited. Whoever
created this trap wanted the group to leave. Urue and MasterV spent the day disguising the
base by tearing down the exterior mountain wall's steps, hiding their door with dirt blocks, and
removing torches from the top of the mountain. The group knew this base would eventually be
destroyed, so they made plans to create a new base farther from spawn. However, they needed more
players to accomplish this. They invited their friend sleeprocket to join them and the group
would start their journey. Urue would stay at Bounty Mountain to keep expanding their farms.
Along the group's journey, MasterV eventually finds multiple abandoned bases, but gets blown
up by a creeper and loses all of his items. The group would then meet at Bounty Mountain to gear
themselves with diamond armor and call it a day. Outside 2b2t, MasterV and Urue had big
plans. They came up with the idea of terraforming spawn to improve the server. Their
goal was simple: provide new players with food, housing, and protection. On a chalkboard,
they drew a 10,000 by 10,000 spawn region. MasterV mentions that around 2,000 blocks from
spawn, there was an abandoned tower that they could take control of. They would call it
‘The Trade Tower’, their first outpost, and quickly filled their ranks with
allies and friends from other servers. During this time, their base inside Bounty
Mountain expanded, as did the golden fields and the network of mining tunnels beneath.
Supply groups traveled to spawn with the hopes of distributing supplies. It was then that
the group encountered their first foes. Raiders, without a sense of right and wrong, and
without morals, devastated spawn mercilessly. The Brotherhood now had a new objective:
protect the weak and eliminate the raiders. MasterV and Urue would then visit Changels, a
player in the server's south region who had a safe base and told them to visit. MasterV and Urue
believed something wasn't quite right, but when they arrived, they discovered a nice above-ground
base with crops. After spending some time there, MasterV and Urue_101 return to Bounty Mountain
through the Nether, but Urue would fall into lava and barely manage to get out. He would shortly
burn to death, so MasterV would gather his stuff. While MasterV was on his way to Bounty Mountain,
he was attacked by the, at the time, famous Nether killer LovesTwoSplodge. MasterV almost died,
but got lucky and turned the battle around in his favor by pushing Splodge into the lava and
escaping. After that, MasterV would decide that the group needed a name, and since he was a fan
of the game Fallout: New Vegas, he would name the group ‘The Brotherhood of Diamonds’ as a reference
to ‘The Brotherhood of Steel' in the game. The next day, the group had big plans for the
future of this Brotherhood by creating new rules and improving Bounty Mountain.
Urue would then spend the day exploring the local area with MasterV and
they would find nether portals and a few abandoned bases. Nothing much would happen the
following day, but MasterV would add his friends Arkandy and Mestari to the Brotherhood.
They would live at the trading post 2,000 blocks from spawn. Not much else
happened and things were getting slower… On the next day, the Brotherhood is
called to assist a base against the Dutch, A.K.A. The Vikings. It was a player named xcc2
who owned this base near spawn. When the group got there, the front tower of the base had
lava on it, but it was otherwise well-defended. Urue felt that something was familiar about this
base and then realized that this was the base that helped him gather resources and food when he
first started. The Dutch claimed to have an ally grinding gunpowder so that TNT could be used
to demolish the base, but no one knew who this mysterious group was. As things settled down, The
Brotherhood of Diamonds returned to their base, but before they did, xcc2 rewarded them
with 10 level two splash potions of harm as a token of his gratitude. With only two of
these potions could kill anyone on the server. And that's the end of the logs. Both MasterV and
Urue's memories of what transpired next are hazy, but Urue recalls that they used the potions
against hackers at spawn roughly two weeks later. They were eventually able to terraform
spawn, however for only a few moments. But they were successful in assisting a large number
of new players to escape spawn and prosper on the server. The Brotherhood of Diamonds would
experience a number of base losses, including Bounty Mountain and following bases built further
and further away from spawn. This became one of the major factors in the group's gradual decline,
and the Brotherhood eventually disbanded. The next unknown group is Pylland.
They would have a massive grief war that would ultimately affect a very well-known
base. Their story was lost in time as the players who were involved had lost interest in the
server. However, with the leader of the group coming back to 2b2t recently, I was able to
contact him and tell the story of Pylland. The Story begins in the summer of 2011. The
players Arthur_McGuire, Poerisija, Vaquera, and Flencer had their own private Minecraft
SMP that had around a dozen players and they would play on it occasionally. The name of their
group was ‘Pylland’, which is a Finnish butt joke. Eventually, Poerisija found 2b2t through some
forums. He would tell Arthur_McGuire and instantly was intrigued. The group would gather a few
real-life friends from the SMP and then join 2b2t. Their first base was a well-hidden underwater
base near spawn. They would start to gather resources and slowly get richer. During one of
the group's scouts, they came across a base. The base had a cobblestone castle
that was surrounded by trees and other structures. They didn’t know who
created it or what the name of the base was, but they saw a player named Alex walking
around, so they referred to it as, ‘Alex’s Castle’. If they were able to get enough
materials, they would be able to trash the place. With the plan to raid Alex’s Castle, the group
would start to build their first mob grinder and scout the castle daily. Arthur_McGuire would
use Vaquera’s account to spy on the castle or get food from the players at the
base. In order to grief Alex’s Castle, the group needed the supplies for TNT.
A mob grinder would allow them to gather gunpowder, so Arthur_McGuire would start
construction of the mob grinder. Things were going really well as players AFk’d the
mob grinder and gathered supplies for TNT, but before the mob grinder was fully finished,
someone had already griefed Alex’s Castle. The group was disappointed but didn’t give
up as there were other bases to find. However, something was different about this
base. They would start to notice that Alex’s Castle would be repaired again and again, grief
after grief. They would also notice the shoddy nature of the griefs. Most of the time it was
just someone pouring lava or water over the base, removing all the torches, or detonating
some pieces of TNT around. The Pylland team were not impressed and had standards.
They wanted to grief this base properly. Another obstacle would come in Pylland’s way.
After a few days of their base being made, it was griefed unexpectedly. Most of the group
got fed up and left, but Arthur_McGuire and his friends continued. For their next base, their
main focus was to gather supplies to grief Alex’s Castle. In order for their next base to not
get griefed, they would need to find a location that would be able to hold a massive mob grinder
that would not gain attention. The group would split up and search for a location. After
traveling a few thousand blocks from spawn, Arthur_McGuire came upon a desert that had a
hill. For a number of reasons, this was the ideal location. It could get a ton of sand if needed,
it didn't attract attention from other players, and the desert hill could hide a huge mob
grinder from the eyes of vanilla players. Construction of the mob grinder would commence.
It was a simple square room with cross-shaped water streams. The mobs would fall into the
water stream and die from lava at the bottom. An AFK spot was made nearby since, at the time,
hoppers were not a thing in Minecraft so a player would have to just be near it to collect the
mob drops. When the mob grinder was ready, Arthur_McGuire grinded for a
few days and went for a test run to see how much TNT they would need to
blow up the entirety of Alex’s Castle. For the first attempt, the group would
bring two and a half inventories of TNT. However, this wasn’t enough as they
could only blow up the main castle and one of the towers. For
that first batch of TNT, the group had to use manual labor to shovel all
of the sand, but soon after the first attempt, one of the players in the group found out about
the piston dupe. This dupe would allow them to duplicate sand quickly and made it easy to grind
several inventories of TNT in a matter of days. After a few days of the first attempt, NFE was
rebuilt, but the Pylland group had a ton of new explosives. For their second attempt, they would
bring four inventories. At the time, there were no shulker boxes or even ender chests, so the group
had to carry all of the TNT in their inventories. Every player had only a sword, some food, flint
and steel, and as much TNT they could fit in their inventory. It was a really risky situation, but at
the same time it was fun to carry the TNT as the “enemy” could at any moment login and kill them
or one single hacker could undo many days of work. Their second attempt was a success. They were
able to completely destroy Alex’s castle and the surrounding structures. When xcc2, the
owner of Alex’s Castle, or also known as NFE, returned later to the base, he was faced with
complete destruction. The castle was completely demolished, and all that was left was a massive
hole. The Pylland crew told him that they were the ones who created the mess. With nothing left
at NFE for xcc2, he eventually left and joined a new base with a player named passie05.
After a few days, the Pylland team would venture around the greater spawn region to
find new targets, but at that point, nobody built anything to the scale of NFE near spawn.
Arthur_McGuire found a couple of intact builds, but they were deserted, and to him griefing
loses its meaning if there are no victims around. Eventually, NFE was rebuilt. The various friends
of NFE that xcc2 met over the years would keep the base living on. After each grief, Xcc2 would
spend months defending and rebuilding the base, typically none as badly created by the Pyyland
team, but they would ultimately discover that NFE had been repaired and grief it once more. Pylland
would grief NFE another three times until one day when speaking with a player named policemike55,
he mentioned that they must be grinding gunpowder somewhere nearby. On that day, policemike55
found the grinder and the players from Pylland AFK while the mob grinder collected gunpowder.
Xcc2 met policemike55 there, slayed them all, and blew up their grinder, stopping
them from their final grief of NFE. The grief war had come to an end. In the
beginning, Arthur_McGuire decided that he would continue until either the players at NFE stopped
rebuilding or his mob grinder was found. Either way, it was time to move on. Arthur_McGuire
would explore the server for a while, but 2b2t would start having long server downtime and
thought it would never come back online. In 2015, Arthur_McGuire heard that the server was still
online. He would return, travel through the Nether highways, found some bases, and started
to build a new mob grinder. His friends didn’t have time or interest to join again, so
Arthur_McGuire eventually lost interest as well. When Arthur_McGuire returned to Minecraft in
2020, he saw that 2b2t had grown in popularity. He watched all of the 2b2t history
videos and read THEJudgeHolden's comic before returning to the server in August of
2021. After speaking with xcc2 and Arthur McGuire about the griefs, they both agree
that they have no malicious rivalry. They were simply having a good time in 2b2t's chaotic
setting and have no resentment for what happened. Now, the last unknown group on 2b2t.
This group was known to many old players, but their story has rarely been talked about.
Their story is unique, to say the least, and what they were trying to achieve was seen as
impossible. This is the story of Team UberSlugCake and how DEDICATION, MOTIVATION, and ACCELERATION
made their impossible situation into a reality... UBERSLUGCAKE joined 2b2t in late 2013. As
he observed all of the destroyed landscape surrounding him, he was filled with disgust.
“How could anyone let the spawn fall into such disrepair?” he wondered. He shook his
head and realized he needed to take action. He escaped spawn and founded the first Uber base.
At this base, UBERSLUGCAKE established the mantra: DEDICATION, MOTIVATION, ACCELERATION, and gathered
new players from spawn to join his following. As the group grew, UBERSLUGCAKE’s
trust of the new recruits grew as well. They were a formidable crew
and could not be stopped. UBERSLUGCAKE only recruited new players who
shared his ambition of restoring spawn to its former glory. He had heard when the server
first started that mostly everyone on 2b2t lived in one huge peaceful community at spawn,
and he wished for it to return to its glory days. With this, UBERSLUGCAKE sent his
recruits to create their own uber bases. UBERSLUGCAKE packed his bags and traveled
down the nether highway to create the most permanent of uber bases. He understood that
he needed to build a strong, solid base in the high coordinate region so that his team
could restore spawn. UBERSLUGCAKE traveled far into the center of 2b2t, not knowing what
to expect, while his men gathered supplies at the uber bases near spawn
in preparation for the rebuild. After a long journey, UBERSLUGCAKE had
finally arrived at the coordinates he thought were acceptable. This base would serve
as the central hub for all uber bases on 2b2t and it would house all of the power. UBERSLUGCAKE
had to construct it with purpose and pride. As the group prepared for the rebuild, his recruits
were filled with DEDICATION, MOTIVATION, and ACCELERATION. There would be players
who would defy them, but the group knew they would prevail. No one on the server could
believe what they were about to achieve, but that didn't matter to UBERSLUGCAKE since the
group had each other and knew they would succeed. The group rebuilt for months on end,
destroying lava casts and creating melon farms. They repaired spawn as best they
could for as long as they could, but little did they know that their rebuild was about to
end a lot sooner than what they had hoped. UBERSLUGCAKE became increasingly concerned
as April 2016 approached. On the server, things were no longer adding up. To him,
it seemed that the spirit of Hausemaster, the owner of 2b2t, as the server knew him left
completely. UBERSLUGCAKE began consulting with old players and had discovered a horrible secret.
The server had been backdoored. UBERSLUGCAKE knew he had to do something to stop this - it
was the Team UBERSLUGCAKE way - but all of their uber bases had been destroyed and
were no longer there before he realized it. While the group was sleeping, the backdoor
crew discovered and destroyed all of their uber bases using coordinate exploits. Team
UBERSLUGCAKE had nowhere else to turn, so they had no choice but to abandon
2b2t forever, hoping that one day, someone would beat the backdoor crew and allow
them to return to their beloved home in peace. All of these groups share one thing in
common: They all had a goal and they were able to achieve it in their own unique way.
The Brotherhood of Diamonds was able to help many players escape spawn and help other
groups defend their bases, Pylland were able to achieve their goal of destroying NFE,
and Team UBERSLUGCAKE was able to repair spawn. Their determination to thrive on a server
where everything is stacked against them is inspiring and many players can learn
from their example. If there is one thing to learn from this video, it’s that with hard
work and dedication, anything is possible.
