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Gamers compress 80TB Minecraft server map to 15TB using custom format · 2 sources tracked

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A team of Minecraft players has successfully mapped and compressed the 80TB data of the game's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, down to a 15TB download. This monumental preservation effort, named 2b2tplace, took 22 months and involved 28 bot accounts to map over a million blocks across all three Minecraft dimensions. To achieve this, the team developed a custom compression format called .zvcr, which utilizes the Zstandard algorithm for superior compression ratios compared to standard Minecraft formats. AI

IMPACT Niche tooling improvement; minimal industry-wide impact.

RANK_REASON This is a user-driven project involving game data compression and archiving, not a release from a frontier AI lab or a significant industry event.

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  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhiye Liu ·

    Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server

    Minecraft enthusiasts come together to archive Minecraft's 2b2t server, which currently weighs over 80TB but is compressed to a mere 15TB.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infa

    Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t server Minecraft enthusiasts come together to archive Minecraft's 2b2t server, which currently weighs over 80T…

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