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No Server November was a 2b2t event that involved making the server unplayable for the entirety of November in 2019. Some other 2b2t YouTubers have talked about No Server November briefly, but what exactly is it? How did it actually go down, what parties were involved, and what were the motives? What is the future of No Server November?
In this video, I will be explaining everything that went down involving No Server November from the beginning up until now. This is the first time that I’m making a video like this, so please let me know if you enjoy this style.
Part 1: The Bible
Our story begins on October 22nd, 2019. It was generally a pretty fun time on the server as most things ran stably. A newer group called Elysium had been working on a base since June of that year. It was pretty established, and in addition to building, they loved making memes and practical jokes at their base.
For example, one member, Linkiie, joked about making an entire Bible in Minecraft, so Carl, the group leader, took it upon himself to use a hack called Bookbot to write the entire thing. He packaged the books up in shulkers and put them into a chest.
take it upon yourself to do sth
to accept responsibility for doing something without being asked to
自發/主動地做某事
He took it upon himself to personally thank each person at the meeting.
他主動向與會的每個人表示感謝。
Later that day, another Elysium member named Redstoner logged onto the server to see Carl’s Bible. After opening the chest, he noticed something weird: the server would lag for 10 seconds trying to load all the books. Trying this repeatedly, Redstoner discovered that he could crash the server in a matter of minutes. He had accidentally discovered one of the most powerful exploits at the time. I was actually online when Redstoner found the crash exploit.
After 23 hours of constant crashes, Hausemaster patched Redstoner’s exploit, and the server ran smoothly again without crashes. However, when Carl logged on with a copy of the Bible books in his inventory, he was instantly kicked from the server. Upon further investigation, they realized that in order to patch the crash exploit, Hausemaster had returned the book banning feature.
Part 2: The Book Club
With the new information about book bans, Redstoner contacted his old friend Househousehouse1, a player known for lagging and exploiting the server. They gathered a few friends, including members of Point Zenith and Team Godmode, and headed to spawn to test the book bans.
By October 26th, they had banned up to 700 people, and their group, which nicknamed themselves The Book Club, was growing. The Book Club kept a list of all the players they had banned, and people with the most bans or those in charge received special roles in the Book Club Discord.
It’s suspected that Hausemaster or another server operator joined this Discord, as soon after, many players were banned from purchasing 2b2t priority queue. Interestingly, some people who never participated in book banning were banned simply because they held roles in the Discord.
Part 3: The Brownmen
On November 2nd, Househousehouse1 created a group chat with a few other Book Club members, marking the origin of an exploiting group called The Brownmen. Later that day, they traveled to Redstoner’s 300k stash and began building lag machines, one of which was called the Househousehouse1 machine, a design that had been used for years to lag the server.
They discovered other exploits along the way, including the Snow Cone method, which kicked players from the server using old Minecraft snowballs. Around mid-November, player dq6 leaked the original Snow Cone method to Hausemaster, reportedly in exchange for infinite priority queue.
On November 6th, the Brownmen created a powerful lag machine at overworld spawn, reducing the server’s TPS (ticks per second) from 20 to below 1. This significantly slowed the server, making it almost unplayable.
Part 4: Chunk Bans
On November 9th, a Reddit post revealed that the famous Bedrock Comet build had been reverted to stone. When players went to investigate, they were kicked from the server. This turned out to be the result of chunk bans, a method where too much data in a Minecraft chunk caused the server to kick anyone entering the area. The Brownmen used illegal player heads from an earlier server backdoor to create these chunk bans.
Part 5: Closing the Server
With chunk bans, the Brownmen aimed to close the End dimension by placing a chunk ban at the end portal, preventing anyone from entering the End. They established a base at End spawn called Brown Town and continued spreading chunk bans across the server, closing off highways in the Nether.
Part 6: Denouement
By the end of November, the Brownmen had created a practically indestructible base, Brown Town 2, surrounded by chunk bans. The Book Club and the Brownmen ended the month having achieved their goal: many players feared going to spawn, and the queue was down to just 80 players. The group continued to work on other projects, including The Bakery in April 2020.
Part 7: Epilogue
With the beginning of November 2020, the Brownmen are reportedly planning No Server November 2, which may make the server even more difficult to play than the previous year. Good luck going to spawn.
Thanks for watching!