Tp exploit

The Tp, rubberband or portal **tp exploit**, was a exploit that abused rubberbanding mechanics to teleport. This method was used in different ways, allowing for a lot of variations of this exploit, which explains the different names given to it.

This exploit was probably created when TVE updated to 1.18.2 (in December 2021) or when anticheat and flight mechanics were altered in February/start of March of 2022, due to player abuse creating massive lag). Thought the first seems more plausible, given that NaiHaz allegedly knew about it since January.

And while NaiHaz found out about it in January, the use he gave to it is unknown (but probably very limited, given that not a single nether corner was already generated when the tp exploits were further explored). That's why, the next players that found out, and documented their findings, researching methods and strategies to use it were the Cat Guardians.

In this group, EficaciousMig47, Mirovski and ZogThePro(ZogIsBad) researched the uses of this tp exploit, as well as maintaining it a secret from the chaos that it could bring to TVE, if found out by more players.

The first version of Cat Guardian's version of the exploit, seen in this video, was created on the 24th of March, mostly by Mirovski, who found out accidentally about it, and decided to make a prototype to recreate it, using beds or respawn anchors, as Mirovski observed it rubberbanding after dying.

It also used a nether portal, to multiply by 8 the position and coordinates of the original location from where it was started. This led to chains of portals all linked together, to reach distances very far away. This idea is what lead to the new world border visits, and, 1 or 2 days later, also the end borders being visited, as a way to use it in the end was also made. The first chains of portals to reach bases were created in this time.

Still, some big problems appeared with this strategy, which were the creation of new portals, and the death of the player every time the glitch had to be done. Both were fixed with enough time.

Small developments were done on the next weeks, trying new ideas and attempting to recreate what seemed like an even more powerful exploit (that didn't work out). But it all changed when a bunch of new players appeared on april 2022, and their stay at the spawn base. One of these players who stayed was gite, who ,soon after joining, also found out accidentally about the **exploit**, but in a different way.

He saw that, using just a nether portal and a specific flight speed, he unknowingly recreated what the Cat Guardians did, but without needing a respawn point, or the death of the player.

The Cat Guardians (mostly Mirovski and Eficacious) joined/founded the spawn nomads soon after the discovery made by gite, and, since Zog stopped playing, Mirovski and Eficacious now kept researching about this exploit with gite, creating a new version of the portal tp, which ended up being used for a long time due to its simplicity and accesibility. During this time, Mirovski and Eficacious also tried to keep the tp exploit secret, something hard to do because of the accidental discovery of the exploit by some users (that either joined or stopped playing) and disagreements with gite about the secrecy of the exploit.

In this time, a new player, Feb29, walked to the world border manually, with just speed hacks. To cover a difficult situation (signs from a player that knew about the exploit), portal tp methods were used shortly before he reached the world border, in a tense situation that was conmemorated in the picture on the right. This monument was done at the last portal in the chain before the world border, and conmemorated how the server was "saved" since the secrets of the exploit were stopped from being revealed in the last minute.

This occurence, along with the introduction of forestbot, a player that acted as a chat bot, and saved every conversation posted on tve on its own discord channel, made the Cat Guardians be even more secretive on the exploit, (and sometimes Gite, thought he wasn't as secretive on it).

But all this effort proved worthless, as after a month, the tp exploit was already known, as other players started figuring out how to teleport using portals, or were starting to do so (partially because of players finding out rubberbanding to where they died, by accidentally rubberbanding)

Still, not everything was lost, as on the next months, a completely different method was created, that, by using the same rubberband exploit, achieved a teleportation on any part of the world, without needing anything else than the chat bar, and some mods, created by Gite.

This is what would be known as the tp exploit, and it was only used by the Spawn Nomads, working for an impressively long time until the update to 1.19 in december 2022. Around the last months of the exploit, a new player, named ItsJan, joined the Spawn Nomads, by being the only other player to have figured out how the rubberband exploit worked on his own, and on the last months, he contributed to the research and finds of spawn nomads, along with the rest of the group.

Finally, the **Tp exploit**, and all its variations, stopped working on the 15th of December 2022, when the server was updated to 1.19, with a completely different anticheat that fixed the rubberband issues, as the server was now being managed by NaiHaz. Since then, players just stuck to flying and speed hacks.