8b8t Item Meta

The 8b8t item meta refers to the normal items of combat that a normal player has throughout the timeline of 8b8t history.

2018
Very quickly after 8b8t started, in merely just three hours, they had 12-18 players online. Owner Severe_Autism blew his "no abusive owner" rule and teleported to the end to get shulker boxes for everyone and randomly teleported to players to give them illegals, kill them, or do something else. Already, players were exploiting the enabled 1.12 dupe to duplicate normal items. In the first few weeks/months of 8b8t, many players still used regular survival weapons, like Iron/Diamonds swords, and crystals, though these were quite hard to craft if no dupes were used. Regular armor was also used.

2019
By 2019, shulkers full of illegals/32k items were being duped. Stacked totems were starting to make a stand as a very useful item, as they can save a player from death. Even when wearing 32k protection armor, 32k offensive weapons can still 1sk (Barring 32k bows). Totems started to be duped into stacks, and that became an item almost everybody with gear had in their inventory. It wasn't common to see someone with their inventory completely full with around 1.000 totems or so. Items originally given by Severe and/or possible backdoors were duped heavily.

2020
8b8t's economy by 2020 stagnated. The server was overflown with 32k items, illegals, player heads, blocks, and many, many totems. 32k's were the only weapons used in confrontations between players as Enchantment.Lvl.15 armor was created, with Protection 15. Having on this armor would not take it out of your inventory like 32k armor did. 32k armor had no benefits compared to this armor in terms of protection because Protection values in Minecraft: Java Edition are maxed out at 10, and it wont add more protection if you go higher. 32k Bows were also patched. On 8/6 a massive backdoor happened, bringing out even more kits that can still be found occasionally full at spawn, and flooded in the nether hub.

2021
After 2020, the economy of 8b8t is in shambles. It is past the point of no return. Thousands upon thousands of copied kits can be found around the server. Just before/during 2021, Efficiency 35 pickaxes were reverted, as were some enchants on some shovels. The big thing that happened was that Protection enchants were reverted to 4, the maximum vanilla enchants. Elytra are no longer unbreakable.