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The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t

FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as the original, accurate account of the Nocom exploit, a story of years of player tracking and impressive technical work.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
FitMC
Topic
minecraft 2b2t exploit
Format
commentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Hi, this was me. That article has a lot of inaccuracies, typos, and general mistakes due to it being a summary of a YouTube video. I recommend instead looking at: The video it is summarizing [VIDEO] My explanation [LINK] The 2b2t wiki page about it …

    leijurv on Hacker News · 2021-07
    In Minecraft’s 'Worst' Server Was Exploited So Hard, Griefers Could See the Future
  • Perhaps the most impressive feat I've seen out of 2B2T was an exploit called "Nocom". It began with 2B2T being hit with a lag exploit, then that exploit being fixed in a 3-line patch - that patch subtly introduced another exploit that allowed the author …

    xcdzvyn on Hacker News · 2023-11
    In Minecraft rewritten from scratch in Kotlin, hypixel works

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