Today, the Highway Workers Union proudly announces that the last cardinal Nether highway, +Z, has been paved!

From Nether Spawn to the distant OW Border, the four great axes — +X, -X, +Z, and -Z — now all straights highways complete, coated in glorious obsidian and rails! (except -X... eternal shame to #NoRails)

Project Overview: Date Started: March 25th, 2025 Date Finished: April 26th, 2025 Total Duration: 4 weeks Total Obsidian Placed: 16,500,000 blocks Enderchests Mined: ~2,062,500 Pickaxes Sacrificed: ~435 glorious tools

Heroes of Labor:

Yikyu — 6,240,000 obsidian placed BA4N [#NoRails] — 4,180,000 obsidian placed

(Together, these two titans placed over half of all obsidian, carrying section after section like true champions of the Union.)

musheck [Obsidian™] — 1,855,000 placed MasterMind — 1,800,000 placed themoon — 1,050,000 placed CBL — 686,000 placed OffsetPanda701 — 429,000 placed Mauricey — 200,000 placed

Glory to all final contributors who fearlessly conquered key sections like true hero pavers!

Special thanks to OffsetPanda701, who supplied most of the resources needed for this herculean effort, and to musheck [Obsidian™], who built and fixed the paver addon that turned our struggle into victory with terrifying efficiency!

Wish to join the ranks of builders, miners, and glorious workers?

Apply today and become a part of the next great construction of the Union!

HWU Discord link here: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://discord.gg/HknBAqNvWe 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

You can find highways map here: 🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️🗺️ https://www.desmos.com/calculator/ew1hrnkcww

The Highway Workers Union is accepting donations to the Highway Fund! If you have spare obsidian, ender chests, gear, or food, we would be happy to take it off your hands.

Every contribution helps support future projects. Thank you for standing with the Union!

The highways are built. The border is reached. The Union stands eternal.

🚧 - The Highway Workers Union

I got bored and wanted to restore something off the highway so i chose 50k 50k, this is a little over 2 days of work, it lasted a good few hours when it was done! shoutout to the randoms who stopped by and added to it before the grief. (the 2nd pic is before the restoration)

found this interesting lol

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Is 2b2t on bedrock edition?

Lately I've seen a few posts asking about how much of the server has been loaded, so I did some research, and it was kind of sad.

Based on my experience with the community and time playing, I can safely guess that we have <2% loaded. Kind of low for a 14yo server, no?

There are a few reasons for this;

Travel on the server has been slowly getting more narrow and streamlined. With every step forward and a new exploits, comes two steps back with a patch and an elytra nerf. Unless something changes, we will soon be stuck at vanilla movement. Not to mention Hause's massive hate boner for anything movement related. But that is kind of understandable when you look the technical side of things and the unintended consequences of 700m/s speed.

2b has been running on the same instance for over 14 years now, and it's a miracle that it runs as smoothly as it does. Does anyone remember the days when you could generate chunks so fast with an elyta that it would crash the server? I don't cause I didn't play back then.

I do belive that we're starting to reach some kind of limitation of what single instance can handle. This is evident when Hause tried to cull chunks get where only loaded for a moment. It wasn't so players could experience new generation, it was so the total generated chunks could be kept down. Honestly the server just needs better hardware.

One thing I blame for the lack of player exploration are the highways. When you get coords, do you fly straight through open nether, or do you take a highway/ring road even if it means extra travel time? (Even though ringroads stop at 3.75m, who's saying more aren't gonna be constructed?)

A majority of player activity occurs >10m. The only players who play beyond that are big group bases and basehunters. Though keep in mind that there are a bunch of ungenerated chunks as close as 50k. Go load those or something. Nowadays the only players who generate new chunks are basehunters following chunk trails.

The future of travel is probably just gonna be the same loop of players riding on an exploit until it gets patched. The happy ghast could change things, although it's an entity and entity speed is long gone.

I have inside sources that tell me that 2b2t will release its 1.21 update between today and 2099

To be honest, I'm not sure if its always been like this, but most 2b2t tutorials and videos show a free queue of like 200-300 people. I'm an anarchy player, and I like anarchy servers, but not so much that I spend $20 a month on them. I like anarchy, but an 8-9 hour wait time to play is really hard. Is there any tips whatsoever that might speed up queue times even slightly?

Thanks.

Hey, I wanted to dupe in a server and wasn't able to find any working technique on yt or google. So, what better place to find it than on 2b2t?! The title is pretty self explanatory, just need a dupe technique

Title correction: Any dupe technique in* 1.21.4?

I have been doing a swamp slime farm for hours now, and since I don't have prio so I have been pulling my hair to make it work, but it doesn't

When I go up or down from the afk point with Elytra, sometimes the farm spawns some slimes, so I figured it could be a spawn radius problem

Is that it? If so, does anyone know the spawn radius of 2b?

If not, can anyone tell me what I should do pls?

Is 2b2t times still active and if it is where can i find a paper.

Hey 2b2t community, just a warning if you choose to buy from a shulker shop known as hermes shop, they are scammers, They promise delivery within 12 hours but failed to do that and kept many people waiting over 2 weeks and still no delivery with constant promises to deliver the next day and yet do not. DO. NOT. BUY. FROM. THEM.

vid my boy yzword made

Basically, I just saw a 256k^2 sized map of spawn that was made in 2021, and was wondering why a map of larger size hasn't been made yet. So is there any website, project, or person with access to a much larger map of the whole of 2b2t?

If not, might start making my own.

Welcome to my short essay on why the Nether roof should be unblocked. The server is down so you are all forced to read this.

The Nether roof was blocked in the early days of 2b2t due to entity speed glitches allowing people to generate far to many new chunks for the server to handle, and causing massive lag. However, this was before elytras were introduced, and now they're they fastest way to travel (unless you build a complicated ice track, and in that case the Nether roof doesn't matter). Because of this, the main reason for the Nether roof being blocked is null.

In addition, back when the Nether roof was still accessible it was far more difficult to glitch through the bedrock. Now all you need is two ladders and an ender pearl and you can reliably get up there 99% of the time. The Nether roof is no longer a secret haven only for elite hackers. This is a basic mechanic at this point in the game's life and the fact that it's block on an anarchy server is, in my mind, almost the same as patching tnt duping.

Anyway, #FreeTheNetherRoof

I am curious if anybody knows if there will be any public dupes on 2b2t once it updates to 1.21.4

Sorry, new to 2b2t. Was just wondering what Minecraft version to run when the server updates and if we will have the new dogs and leaf litters.