1M² WDL - 2b2t.place

The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/20260712013000/https://2b2t.place/1million The 1,024,000² 2b2t World Download Project (1M²). And More. It's finally here. The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB (13.7 TiB) of highly compressed world data of the Minecraft server 2b2t, which includes the following: a 1,024,000² (1M²) area of the Overworld (Dec 25 2025 - Apr 13 2026), a 512,000² (512k²) area of the Overworld (Nov 11 2024 - Dec 12 2024), a 256,000² (256k²) area of the End (Jan 23 2026 - Feb 15 2026), a 100,000² (100k²) area of the Nether (Jun 9 2025 - Jun 14 2025) TLDR: A group of autists preserve their favorite Minecraft server to a sidelength of 1 million blocks in a large public archive for anyone to download, using 28 bot accounts that fly around the map, storing all world data sent by the server locally. Torrent and Info: https://2b2t.place/1million YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/HDyze1YlOrI GitHub: https://github.com/2b2tplace Discord: https://discord.2b2t.place Patreon: https://patreon.com/2b2tplace Stripe: https://donate.2b2t.place Reddit Post (r/2b2t_Uncensored):

https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t_Uncensored/comments/1utjkik Reddit Post (r/DataHoarder): https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1uto9h2 This wasn't easy to accomplish in the slightest, and took over a year of constant development and stress testing. With severe weaponized autism, the help of several people involved, thousands of dollars spent, and countless hours wasted, we present you the largest world download project ever, on 2b2t, and in Minecraft. Let's break down what exactly happened. Watch the SalC1 video about the topic here or timelapse videos of our bots downloading this area on our YouTube channel. This has been brought to you by crayne (me), Fuch, mahan, Steve3, and many more. Created by the 2b2t.place Team If you are interested in world downloads, you can join the 2b2t.place Discord, which is our extension project dedicated to archiving as much of 2b2t as possible before it turns into a boring, censored SMP, or if it shuts down. You can support the project by beta testing, helping the moderation team, providing data, making cool software, or simply being part of the community. More large-scale world downloads are yet to come, and they will be posted in our Discord server. Data-mining also isn't ever complete, and we are open to your ideas to search the data for even more interesting things. You can also support the 2b2t.place project by donating via our Patreon. Your donation helps the 2b2t.place project keep up with ongoing server costs, enabling us to provide large-scale data archival to the public. You may choose any of our Tiers, but you will receive the same benefits regardless of your donation amount. Alternatively, you can directly donate a specific sum via our Stripe. 2b2t.place is an independent and unofficial community-maintained project and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by 2b2t, Mojang or Microsoft.

Overview TLDR of what went down (See the full story in STORY.md) Download and setting it up locally See it for yourself (Visit the Minecraft server (wayback.2b2t.place) or 2D Map website) Clarifications Credits Notice TLDR of what went down Context "2b2t" (2builders2tools, or 2b2t.org) is a multiplayer vanilla survival Minecraft server (Java Edition) founded in December 2010 that is always online and historically had no rules, no map resets, and little modifications to vanilla Minecraft. With no rules (anarchy), the server constantly sees players using hacks and exploits to gain an advantage over others. With no map resets, players all around the world have connected to this server and accumulated over a decade of digital history in a single Minecraft world, with the map now measuring 80 TB according to the official 2b2t website. Many other Minecraft servers reset their map occasionally to restart from a blank state and 'clean up' the mess created by the players and all builds, changes to terrain, progress is erased in doing so. On 2b2t, the map has not, and will never, reset. Combine this with the aspect of having no rules and you get a post-apocalyptic hell that looks like 2b2t. Given how interesting this premise is, the server constantly sees hundreds of players online, and many more hundreds of players sitting in a queue, with the option to pay $20 monthly to skip that queue instantly (priority queue), which is how the server funds itself. This server has been the oldest Minecraft server with a promise of complete freedom and to keep running on the same map forever. Downfall That promise has already been broken. In 2023, the server updated to the latest Minecraft version, which was highly anticipated by all players as the server has been stuck on Minecraft version 1.12.2 for a very long time, jumping to 1.19 in a single update.

As soon as it updated, it also brought along some changes: A "soft item economy reset" which deleted and limited a long list of items in all inventories, "bad items" that were snuck in using backdoors in the past have been completely wiped from existence, old chunks from older game versions with little player interaction deleted. And finally, official rules have been added, with one of the rules disallowing the "use of exploits, bugs or flawed game mechanics to cause server disruption or lag" (see more here). Naturally, the playerbase protested against these changes, storming the server owners with requests to refund their $20 priority queue, and chargebacks in some cases. After two weeks of running on 1.19, the owners finally complied, and rolled back the map to the state it was in prior to the update after a vote, now without some of the most controversial changes. The new rules remained (renamed to "terms"). As more time passed, older players quit, newer players joined and the server continued as usual. Then, the 2b2t owners decided to implement support for Minecraft Bedrock Edition players to join as well. This may seem like a good change at first glance, allowing a wider audience to experience the server, but it had catastrophic consequences for the server. Unlike the Java Edition of the game, Bedrock Edition is heavily moderated by Microslop, so of course they could not turn a blind eye on 2b2t. The server now became stricter, censoring hateful symbols, hate speech and obscene language on signs and in chat, including swear words such as "hoe" (an actual item in the game, e.g. "Diamond Hoe" would be censored). Again, players protested against these changes, this time by placing large amounts of hateful symbols and hate speech on signs all around the server, going as far as building large NSFW pixel art in the sky, with the goal of the 2b2t admins unable to keep up and eventually have the server blacklisted by Microslop. This event ended in all symbols being removed by the server owners afterwards, with manual methods combined with automatic detections. Archival Project The community doesn't like the direction the server is moving in, so we decided to archive it.

The owners of 2b2t can no longer be trusted to operate the server the same way it has historically been. It is no longer anarchy, and it is no longer no-reset. Considering we had already broken the largest world download record a year before, we felt confident enough to break it again. Here is the full recap: In June of 2024, Fuch and I started a project to download a large area of the server. I created a custom file format to save on storage, along with a custom world download server, and a basic autopilot. At the end of 2024, we launched 28 bot accounts on BMProxy to download a 512k² Overworld area, with the intent to find bases. This was achieved within 17 days. In June of 2025, 2b2t finally updated to 1.21.4, and the nether roof was accidentally left enabled. We decided to use this while it was possible, and promptly launched 6 accounts to download a 100k² Nether area, finishing in under a week. Right after Christmas Eve of 2025, we launched a new project to download a 1M² Overworld area of the server. We also went and manually gapfilled some missing parts of the Nether. Lastly, we downloaded a 256k² area of the End at the same time. This final project took 109 days to complete, finishing in April 2026. You can read the full story about this project in STORY.md. See all discoveries made using the data gathered from this project in DISCOVERIES.md. Download Note This world download is stored in the zvcr file format (version 1.0.0.0), which made storage extremely efficient. The data provided is NOT a single playable Minecraft world, but rather a highly compressed collection of several world downloads of 2b2t. All data is from Minecraft version 1.21.4. Blocks, biomes, and block entities included, but entities were not downloaded. Short on storage? You do not have to download the entire data dump to see this for yourself locally. It is split up for you to have the option to download a smaller area.

See self hosting setup for more information. Torrent Torrent: https://2b2t.place/7ebd1291770e88ce41fa250463fac8e8610ebcb2.torrent Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7ebd1291770e88ce41fa250463fac8e8610ebcb2&dn=1million_2b2t&xl=15072382418944&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publictracker.xyz%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.auctor.tv%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.qu.ax%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3

A%2F%2Ftracker.ducks.party%3A1984%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittor.pw%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.corpscorp.online%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker-udp.gbitt.info%3A80%2Fannounce The public data dump contains not only the 2026 1M² Overworld, but also the 2024 512k² Overworld, 256k² End, as well as 100k² Nether. Additionally, the Nether spawn area has been downloaded around 700 times (hourly) from December 30 2025 to January 21 2026 showing an extremely interesting progression. Overworld spawn has been downloaded up to a sidelength of 15000 blocks once or sometimes twice daily from November 12 2024 to December 11 2024. And lastly, the areas where the owner(s) of 2b2t world-edited spawn (around the start of 2026) have also been captured, with before and after snapshots. Everyone is free to do anything (as long as permittable by law, see Notice) with this dataset, whether it's data mining, finding dupe stashes and bases, self-hosting, simply archiving, or literally anything else. We encourage everyone to use the world download to its full potential. There are instructions below, demonstrating how to stitch together the data in a structure that official zvcr-related tooling expects. You can use the following tools to do various things with the data: PlaceViewer, to view the world in-game. This world is not playable, and only acts as a read-only view, with the option to see historical data. zvcr command line, to convert the world download to MCA format, and create a playable Minecraft Singleplayer world for a specific timestamp. The command line has many more features, however this would be a common use case.