2b2tplace/1m_release

This repository is the public release page for what its authors claim is the largest world download project ever done on 2b2t, an old long-running Minecraft server, and in Minecraft as a whole. The release is around 24 terabytes of data captured from 2b2t between November 2024 and April 2026. It is not software in the usual sense, it is a giant archive of in-game terrain, with the README acting as the announcement post and roadmap. The captured data covers four areas. A 1,024,000 by 1,024,000 block area of the Overworld was downloaded between December 25 2025 and April 13 2026. A 512,000 squared area of the Overworld was downloaded in late 2024. A 256,000 squared area of the End was captured in early 2026, and a 100,000 squared area of the Nether was grabbed in June 2025, while a Nether roof exploit was accidentally still enabled after the server updated to 1.21.4. The credits list crayne, Fuch, mahan, Steve3, and others, and the README notes that priority queue purchases and server rental added up to more than $3000. A torrent of all the data is promised but not yet released at the time the README was written. The authors explain the delay: a chunk of the backend software does not yet handle tile entities (block-level metadata in Minecraft), so they are reimporting missing tile entities into both the in-game wayback server and the region files, and they are also upgrading the 2024 download from Minecraft 1.20.4 to 1.21.4 so it can be merged into the main archive. The final torrent will likely ship as a Squashfs container holding all four world downloads as organized zvcr files, zvcr being a custom file format the team built to save storage. In the meantime they have published roughly 8 GB of map renders, timelapses, and spreadsheets exported from data-mining the worlds, hosted on buzzheavier. They also run two live services: a 2b2t Wayback Machine accessible at the Minecraft server address wayback.2b2t.place, and a map viewer at 2b2t.place. Both are in public beta. Discussion and updates happen in the 2b2t.place Discord, and the project takes donations through Patreon to cover ongoing server costs. The README also lists open-source tools that will follow: PlaceProxy, the world download server, and the zvcr file format, all to be published under the 2b2tplace GitHub organization. The author notes that progress is slowed by university exams and asks readers to be patient.