Team archived ~24 TB of 2b2t Minecraft world data across four dimensions using custom tooling, bots, and $3000+ in funding over 1.5 years.
Key Takeaways
Overworld capture covers a 1,024,000² block area (Dec 2025 - Apr 2026, 109 days) plus a 512,000² snapshot from late 2024; End and Nether areas also archived.
Custom stack built from scratch: zvcr file format for compressed storage, PlaceProxy world download server, Pitch40 elytra autopilot, and a datamining program.
28 bot accounts via BMProxy executed the 512k² run; cover story used a fake coordinate exploit larp to avoid detection during the 2024 phase.
Services now live: 2b2t Wayback Machine (wayback.2b2t.place), map viewer (2b2t.place), and open-source tool releases pending including PlaceProxy and zvcr.
Torrent of the full 24 TB dataset not yet available; renders and datamining spreadsheets releasing first via Discord.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters flagged the coincidental same-week release of a separate 200k² world download by CrisisSheep/pawstar, noting the timing collision was unintentional.
Discussion surfaced 2b2t’s broader technical exploit history, with the Nocom tracking exploit cited as a benchmark for the server’s vulnerability research culture.
Some commenters questioned what “Providing a Torrent for this amount of data is not easy” actually means technically, suspecting bandwidth cost rather than a BitTorrent complexity issue.
Notable Comments
@arboles: Pushes back on torrent difficulty claim, noting a 24 TiB torrent is mechanically straightforward and bandwidth cost is likely the real constraint.
@Tiberium: Points to the Nocom exploit wiki as essential context for 2b2t’s history of deep technical attacks.
