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Collecting is one of the more common activities on 2b2t. Player’s have collected a wide variety of items throughout the years, ranging from normal blocks to blocks that were obtained through backdoors or exploits. Many items are considered a ‘collectible’, although their history, value and rarity vary greatly. Many players are also not aware of their differences and collectively describe these items as ‘rare’, ‘glitched’ or ‘hacked in’. Different categories of ‘collectibles’ can be distuingished. Interest in 'collecting' often overlaps with interests in the 'technical' side of Minecraft.<ref/[Interest in 'collecting' often overlaps with interests in the 'technical' side of Minecraft.[1]
Oddities
‘Oddities’ consist of normal Minecraft items, which are still obtainable. They are easily obtainable, reproducible and overall just considered an ‘oddity’ to collect. These include:
- Chainmail armor pieces
- Enchantment books
- Naturally generated banners
- Music discs
- Enchanted pumpkins
- Cakes
- Dyed armor sets
- Map id’s
- Mob heads.
The Dragon Egg also belongs to this category. Although it is arguably the most rare item in a normal Minecraft world, it has become extremely common due to it being duplicated.
Unobtainable items
Unobtainable items’ consist of Minecraft items or mobs which at some point in the past were craftable or obtainable in the game, but can no longer be obtained due to changes in Minecraft itself or server plugins. They are often not necessarily rare due to being duplicated a lot, but are not reproducible. Some items disappeared when the server updated to Java Edition 1.19.4 in August 2023. The category includes items such as:
- Alpha slabs
- Shrubs
- Alpha Leaves
- Silk Touch Shears
- No Flight Duration Fireworks
- Infinity-Mending Bows
- Double Protection helmets
- Altered NBT-tag items, including glass, golden apples, totems, End Crystals, Wither heads, XP-bottles and TNT.
- Skeleton Horses with up to 26 health hearts
- Furnaces containing mushroom blocks in their fuel slots
- Cobblestone or Mossy Walls containing empty spaces
- Floating ladders
- Endermen holding snowy grass blocks
- Armor stands containing shield.
Glitched items
‘Glitched items’, consist of items that were obtained using exploits and glitches that were later patched. These include:
- Max enchanted books
- Stacked’ items - created during the Crafting Dupe - ,
- Unbreakables
- The ‘invisible’ block-36
- Floating gravity-blocks
These items often need special treatment to stay in existence, due to server plugins automatically removing them if interacted with. ‘Illegals’ were permanently removed from the server in August 2023. The community interested in these items overlap with a Minecraft community that is overall interested in ‘discontinued features’ in Minecraft.
Hacked-in items
‘Hacked-in items’ consists of Minecraft items which could only be introduced to the game by a player having admin-powers. Players like iTristan, popbob and Pyrobyte used their backdoors to spawn ‘hacked items’, including
- Pig Spawners
- 32K Weapons, tools and armor sets
- Spawn Eggs
- Seamless Double Stone Slabs
- Alpha Snowballs
- Textureless Iron Horse Armor
- Locked chests
- Barrier blocks
- Water blocks
- Fire blocks
- Bedrock
- End Portal frames
- Enchanted glass
- Books with the copy status ‘tattered
- Infinite blocks
Written books
Books are unique in the sense that they are connected to specific IGN’s. If a player keeps a book to himself, it could remain a truly unique and rare item. It became common for players to collect books and over time an entire subculture revolving around collecting, sharing and trading them developed. Known books include ‘jared2013’s diary’ or a book Etika wrote for FitMC.
Custom collectibles
‘Custom Collectibles’ consist of items that are ‘created’ by players but impossible to differentiate from potential replicas or copies. This category includes the wide variety of banners players have created over the years. Banners can easily be copied and their crafting recipes are often public. In this museum up to 1350 individual banners have been collected. ‘Blocks’ that Players have created themselves or collected or obtained from old base ruins or other prominent locations, also belong to this category. An example of that is the Rusher shield FitMC obtained from TheCampingRusher. Specific ‘kits’ related to players or groups also belong to this category.