2b2t archivists release 24TB world download covering 1M-block Minecraft area

A team led by ‘crayne’ and funded largely by collaborator ‘Fuch’ has published roughly 24TB of world data scraped from 2b2t, the long-running anarchy Minecraft server. The haul covers a 1,024,000-block-square Overworld region captured between December 2025 and April 2026, plus smaller pulls from the End, Nether, and an earlier 512k Overworld sweep. The group says it is the largest Minecraft world download ever assembled.

The operation ran on custom infrastructure: a bespoke compact file format (zvcr), a dedicated world-download server, an autopilot, and 28 bot accounts routed through BMProxy. The 512k sweep in late 2024 was disguised as a fake ‘coord exploit’ larp to mask the real archival goal, while the Nether pull exploited a brief window after the 1.21.4 update when the nether-roof access was accidentally left enabled. Total spend topped $3,000, mostly on priority-queue purchases and server rentals.

Distribution is still being worked out — a torrent of the full dataset is weeks away — but renders, datamined spreadsheets, and a ‘wayback’ server (wayback.2b2t.place) and map viewer are already available. The team also plans to open-source PlaceProxy, the download server, and the zvcr format, framing the project as preservation work before 2b2t is either shut down or, in their view, sanitized into a conventional SMP.