Nether Highways

Main highways length:
x+: 669k

x-: 255k

z+: 260k

z-: 3.75mil

(last update: 22nd February 2023)

Early days:
The highway system started to be developed after The Great Fall of the Nether Roof.

The 0 0 platform was quickly made and axis highways have been digging. LegendsAngels was known for being a main highway builder at that time. He was also rewarding players that improved the highways.

The 28th of June 2020, all axis highways were blown up from 0 to 1k in each direction. However, they were quickly rebuilt with obsidian.

Main builders:
Many people contributed to highways and it’s hard to keep track of everyone. It’s even harder when many highways are hidden for personal purpose. Moreover, some people dig highways whereas others are repairing. So be aware that this wiki can’t represent all the work that has been done by all the players.

-x+ highway: LegendAngel, badmines, …

- x- highway: badmines, …

- z+ highway: Tetedemile, badmines, …

- z- highway: LegendAngel, Amethyst, HazMattMC, Headshot, badmines, …

- 1k ring: Amethyst

- 12.5k ring: Frozentime_m

First highway to reach world border:
This highway isn't at a particular axis. It start at 26769 119 26769 and goes to the east until 30m 26769.

This is a 1 by 2 tunnel but people are encouraged to use elytras and to dig on the ground to jump and fly. Plans are being made by Oasis to make the early sections ice highway.

History:
One of the Oasis member's projects was to build a highway to world border, but they never found the motivation and the people to start it. However, after finishing his spawn stuff, Frozentime_m decided to start his travel to the world border. DervenOmega already made it with elytras, so to do something new, Frozentime_m decided to start a highway. He asked Oasis members to join him in order to make the travel faster and to bring back activity in the group (due to Cloud betrayal and The tree war, a lot of members started to become inactive). Amethyst, Fallen star and GoogleSerg replied to the call. Frozentime_m, as a leader of this project chose the direction (east) and the start of the highway, (right after the end of his previous highway). Some coordinate details have been chosen by Oasis members.

The digging part started the 12th January 2021. Amethyst helped with a lot digging at the start while others members were gathering supplies. However after x=250k, Frozentime_m did all alone because he was more active and prepared way more resources, and Amethyst and Fallen had decided to take a break from the server. Right before x=1m, the server got a hardware upgrade. Due to his parallel project, Frozentime_m had to stop every month to update the Spawn map. So at 1/3 he did a break. However, when he used the highway to come back to his digging position, lot of chunks got reset (around 40%). Indeed, during the hardware upgrade, "useless chunks" have been deleted by Edok to reduce the size of the server map. So all had to be dug again. To this day, due to the underestimation of useless chunks, this highway between 300k-1m is compromised and some chunks in this area might have a reset again (basalt deltas are definitively safe). A second break happened at 2/3. And finally the world border have been achieved the 14th April 2021.

Generally speaking, the tunnel had been done by Frozentime_m and is considered to be his project and not an Oasis project (due to the work ratio). But the support in the discord during each achievement helped a lot to keep Frozentime_m motivated. The build of the highway was supposed to be secret but there have been some leaks.

For his 1 year birthday in this server, Frozentime_m decided to make this highway public.

Oasis Ring Road Project and the Highway War
After a long period of mostly inactivity, Oasis decided to come back strong. The plan was to employ people to dig a series of ring roads which would improve travel and find dedicated members for future projects. At the time, the group had 7 members, most of them inactive. Amethyst and Fallen came back from their breaks and along with the other members, decided to make a public server and advertise though maparts and a shop on the exchange server. Amethyst, Fallen, GoogleSerg, Pingulentes, and DrSalt made a base and began buying kits to give out to the diggers, however Fallen stole all of the kits and went to the world border highway. At first, the rest of the group thought someone had found the base and took the stuff, however Fallen was acting strange, and did not announce that he was leaving until after the damage had been discovered. Later, Fallen accidentally showed a kit in a screenshot during a conversation about the 1.13 support on Uneasy. Fallen was then kicked from the group, and Amethyst was left as the last founding member. Fallen left Uneasy after this. The base was compromised, so the group had to move out.

The 1k Ring Road
Amethyst returned to spawn and with the help of DrSalt, opened a shop on the trading server. They quickly got more members, and the two kept working on the new discord server. Amethyst was a nomad during this period of time, and he had nothing to do, so he decided to make a model highway, specifically the 1k ring road, which would have obsidian paving and ice. He began digging and after a few days, had it all ready for obsidian. A few days later, the obsidian and ice were done, and the highway was ready to be used.

Conflict
After the ring was completed, members of Sankri's group began mining out the obsidian from the highways. Most of the ring was mined, and more info is yet to come out. It is believed that TheSlavicPig is paying Sankri to do this, however it is too early to tell what is really going on. More info about this will be posted soon.

Map of highways:
Concept tested by Frozentime_m. A mapart of highways was realized in order to keep track of improvement done by the community. A 12.5k map in order to keep a zoom for highways close to spawn and a 125k map for a full scale of known highways (world border not taken into account).