Chunk bans

Chunk bans are a family of exploits where players cannot log into a server due to chunks containing too much data. The client cannot load more than 3 MB of data in a chunk. Although many servers have patched this exploit, it was temporarily active on 9b6t. The most common methods of chunk banning include using books (patched) and renaming a container to a long screen of characters and then filling a chunk with them (also patched).

June 18th 2020
The first known chunk ban was conducted by Danimania and Hokindo9000 on June 18th 2020 using 41,000 furnaces near spawn (about 2k2k). This caused about 15 players not being able to log in for about 20 hours. A lot of other players were involved in the chunk ban by funneling new players to its location with the promise of kits and an outpost. Neobenedict unbanned the players by resetting the chunks between X=+1900 Z=+1900 to X=+2000 Z=+2000. This also caused Neo to patch the most common methods of creating chunk bans.

June 20th 2020
Danimania and Hokindo9000 chunk banned 0 0 (the origin of the coordinate system) on June 20th 2020 at around 1:00 UTC using banners. At 6:52 UTC Neobenedict announced that Danimania was banned. For unknown reasons Hokindo9000 never got banned. The chunk at 0 0 was then reset. Neobenedict said that Danimania will be stay banned until he "patched all methods of chunk banning".

June 22nd 2020
Danimania is unbanned by Neobenedict. Chunk banning is now patched.