Eastern Overworld Highway

View of the EOH in an uninhabited part of the map

The **Eastern Overworld Highway (EOH)** was a highway in the 1.16 server that was not built to completion.

The Eastern Overworld Highway was planned to connect the entire eastern portion of the map to many other towns connecting links that existed in places other than the nether, much like the Western Overworld Highway on the western side of the map. Since the Eastern Overworld Highway connected to less towns as its current course, multiple overhead and ground exits were planned in the future to connect routes to towns that were bypassed by the highway entirely, along with multiple spur routes.

The highway itself was completed by 1.16's end, signage, exits, and the desired highway plans were not.

## History

The idea of the Eastern Overworld Highway was thought out by BlitzIR in early February 2021. After travelling the entire length of the Western Overworld Highway, Blitz proceeded to travel to the western end of Bacon Town where a dual-track railway existed. He travelled the railroad until it abruptly ended about 600 blocks outside of Bacon. Tunnels and flat terrain existed where the railway would've been however, tracks were not present. BlitzIR found out that LakuTheDark was constructing the Eastern Railway. Blitz asked to create highway, Laku and dti131 explained that Blitz could just use the the one block space between the two tracks. After using this confirmation as a basis, Blitz wanted to polish the one block gap by using spruce wood to symbolize the highway portion of the railroad. However in the process, Blitz kept accidentally breaking the rails while constructing the path. Blitz then placed spruce blocks under where the rails used to be. After a span of a week, Blitz silently demolished all of the rails on the Eastern Railway as the Eastern Overworld Highway tunnels and planned route were already expanding. After removing the railroad, Blitz widened the highway to three blocks and kept expanding tunnels until he reached an Iceberg biome where he polished odd bits along the highway. After polishing the odd bits of the highway, Blitz extended the highway to Safargentina, bypassing Eterna City in the process, leaving many portions of the highway unpaved. Without hesitation, Blitz proceeded to extend the highway to Bruhtown but instead of using spruce wood, he made the highway match the texture of the biomes it went through. During this time, he contacted exgodstatus about building the highway through a most likely forgotten claim (this soon was to be a megaproject by the Astral Group), ex gave him the go around and the highway trotted through the claim. However, this failed as a portion of the highway within the current Astral wall was multi-colored. The highway was temporarily completed by the end of March 2021. The Highway was known as "Saf-Bac Memorial Highway"

After a short amount of days, Blitz tidied up a portion highway by making the palette opposite of the Western Overworld Highway with spruce planks in the middle rather than the edges. This did make the highway look odd as it looked worse throughout every biome it went through, blitz stopped changing the color of the highway after reaching an inlet. After stopping the color change of the highway, Blitz flew to Bruhtown to extend the highway to Surfer Rosa where it remained for a long time, constructing the highway through an abandoned base outside of Surfer Rosa in the process. In early April 2021, Blitz decided to continue work on the EOH, changing the palette of the highway to match the WOH, this process did take nearly a month however due to blitz not having good internet. Also during this time, the EOH at the Astral Wall received a tunnel entrance (most likely built by exgodstatus) to not interfere with the wall. The highway was re-palleted to the western end of Safargentina where the portion past Safargentina was highly neglected and forgotten as Blitz took care of other plans.

In late May and Early June of 2021, the highway received major renovations, it was extended past Bacon Town, tunnels were created, the highway bypassed old portions, and was completely redone all the way to Bruh Town. However during May of 2021, the highway was heavily untouched past Bruhtown due to the Overworld End Island above it making the portion from Bruhtown to Surfer Rosa heavily mob-prone. This issue was later fixed in June when the highway was heavily redone within the Astral Wall. Near mid-June, the Eastern Overworld Highway was expanded to the world border, beginning segmented off from the original highway in a spruce forest. The highway passed by a few random basses before reaching Townsville. Having previously contacted the leader of Townsville about constructing the highway through the town, Blitz decided it wasn't worth the hassle and built the highway on the exact edge of Townsville, bypassing it entirely. After reaching the acacia biome where the eastern axis world border is, he took a day off and continued work on the following. The highway finally reached the border after trial and error constructing the highway on a very rapid grade. A few days later, the highway was improved to match the palette of the existing highway and flowed more with the odd grade it was constructed on.

On June 19th, BlitzIR was banned for constructing the highway through Bruh Isles. A presumed dead town by BlitzIR as he wanted to connect the highway to Infinity. The ban was later revoked as the owner of the town realized it was Blitz who constructed it and got him unbanned. Two days later, the highway within Bruh Isles and Surfer Rosa were completely bulldozed, along with a short portion outside of Bruh Isles. After the highway was bulldozed, Blitz took screenshot to document the old route. Blitz then bypassed the two towns, constructing the highway south of both towns and finally reaching Infinity.

On June 28th, the highway was extended past Infinity, reaching Aeoria before progress was continued a day later to extend the highway to spawn. When the highway reached the spawn claim however, BlitzIR noticed that the highway would start at a random statue of OGBUBBY over an ocean. The highway was then extended to bypass spawn northbound to hopefully meet the Western Overworld Highway. This process didn't work however as Spawnstead blocked that oppurtunity, instead of truncating the highway, blitz precisely built the highway on the edges of claims which bypassed Spawnstead. On June 30th, the highway was extended to meet the Western Overworld Highway at the Arecibo Mines.

## Route

### WOH to Astral Wall

The Eastern Overworld Highway began at the Arecibo Mines & Pines Bamboo Forest along the Western Overworld Highway. When exiting the mines, the highway narrowed and continued through a mountains biome eventually reaching the ocean where it had an exit towards Seatown. After passing Seatown, the highway passed by two maparts and an array of overwater builds and reached Spawnstead where the highway had an exit road to. Once it passed Spawnstead, the highway reached an unfinished rocket where it then turned southbound on the Spawn Border. After reaching a quarter of the way to the east-central spawn border, the highway coursed eastward bypassing Aeoria where it then widened to two blocks wide, the Public Gold Farm, Kalmar TGLF, and Femboy Hooters Town before reaching the Astral Wall. The EOH was the only highway in TG to extend past its designated axis. During the route, the highway also narrowed in widens at multiple places between the WOH & Astral Wall portion.

Adjustments: Sometime in 2021, the highway was later re-routed to not end in Surfer Rosa. The highway was later routed through Bruh Isles. In May-June 2021, the highway was decommissioned and demolished within Surfer Rosa and Bruh Isles, the highway later bypassed both of these towns.

### Astral Wall - West Entrance

The Eastern Overworld Highway entered the Astral Wall and Infinity via a tunnel entrance. The highway used prebuilt streets within Astral until it exited eastward via a coastline where the highway then widened to three blocks wide. The EOH coursed eastbound bypassing Bruh Isles, Surfer Rosa, and Bruhtown. After bypassing Bruhtown, the highway took a gradual elevation change through tunnels and exited the Astral Wall near one the walls eastern bends.

Adjustments: By late April or May 2021, the highway was extended westward towards Aeoria.

### Safargentina to Bacon Town

After exiting the Astral Wall, the highway ran eastbound to Safargentina across a bridge. Inside Safargentina, the highway used pre-made streets within the town, exiting Safargentina near a small castle. After exiting Safargentina, the highway took a slight southern angle and entered the edge of Eterna City's city limits. The highway had an exit at a 90 degree corner to Eterna City, the EOH returned to its Eastern Course within the highway exit. Outside of Eterna City, the highway was very rural and stretched through unsettled terrain, with only a few structures, and unnamed town, and rest stops along the course. The EOH then entered Bacon Town via a bridge near X: 7200.

Adjustments: In March 2021, the highway was removed from an old alignment near the Coastal Pavilion rest area. In March-April 2021, the highway was repaved. In April 2021, the highway was constructed over an unfinished bridge, this bridge would have been on the same level as the river it was crossing. In April 2021, the Eterna exit was rebuilt to feature a T intersection rather than the former diamond interchange. After the eastern edge of Astral Wall was constructed, the highway was cut off by the wall. The route was adjusted to travel underneath. In April 2021, the highway bypassed one of its old alignments. In April 2021, the highway was rebuilt on a new alignment north of Bruhtown, the original alignment was decommissioned but was never demolished.

### Bacon Town and Onward

The EOH entered Bacon Town via an old Eastern Railway tunnel, after exiting the tunnel, the highway used Bacon's pre-made streets and the highway becomes Frontier Boulevard. After reaching the intersection of Frontier Boulevard and North Street, the highway turned south onto North Street and then eastbound onto Central Boulevard. At the intersection of Central Boulevard and Riverside Drive, the highway headed northbound onto Riverside Drive and exited Bacon Town through a spruce forest. The Highway then traveled eastbound and traversed through vast terrain with a few bases along the highway. Around X + 8200, the highway scaled the edge of Townsville's border. After stretching off of Townsville's border, the highway rolled through dense, rugged, snowy forests. After exiting a snow plains biome, the highway crossed a large ocean and reached World's Edge. After scraping the boundary of World's Edge, the highway traveled up a steep grade and entered a world border town where the highway then ended at X + 10000.

Adjustments: In May 2021, the highway was rerouted in Bacon Town. The highway used to end at a bridge which was later demolished, the highway was rerouted to end at the north side of Bacon Town; the highway was later extended to bypass Townsville. In June 2021, the EOH was extended to the Eastern world border.

## Decommissioned Portions, Demolished Portions, & Old Termini

The Eastern Overworld Highway had a few portions of the highway that were constructed and later demolished/decommissioned. Along with termini where the highway used to end.

### Decommissioned & Demolished Portions

#### Coastal Pavilion to Inlet - Bypass Route

The original Eastern Overworld Highway was at a higher elevation than the current course and is currently one block wide. Half of the entire portion is still visible and for travel with the other half being filled in, blocking off travel. This would've made the highway have significantly more elevation changes and 2 tunnels to run through. However this was changed due to a tunnel being mined out by a random player who presumably passed by and wanted to help construction of the EOH. The highway now currently bypasses the original route and receives less elevation change.

#### Bruhtown

Before the highway was redone, the EOH used to reach to nearly Y: 100 outside of Bruhtown before rapidly descending to Y:66 at the Bruhtown exit. This stretch of highway was never demolished but decommissioned.

#### Bruh Isles - Demolished

The EOH formerly entered southbound through Surfer Rosa. This stretch of highway was later demolished as BlitzIR received a permanent-ban for extreme griefing as he constructed the highway through it without permission. BlitzIR's ban was later revoked and the highway was removed.

#### Surfer Rosa - Demolished

The EOH formerly entered Surfer Rosa travelling west via a hill. It would've dug into a hill but then curved around it, this entrance was later abandoned. The highway was originally spruce planks and cobblestone before it was improved to match the style of the Western Overworld Highway. This stretch of highway was later removed as BlitzIR did not want to take anymore chances with constructing highways through any claims or dead towns.

### Old Termini

The EOH used to end in a few different places during its construction. In Bacon Town, the highway ended at multiple places before expansion: at the western edge of Bacon Town, at the end of Riverside Drive, and at the base of a hill in the outskirts of Bacon. In Surfer Rosa, the highway ended at the apex of a hill where the streets of Surfer Rosa became cobblestone paths, and later oak planks. Before its complete construction, the highway ended as far west as to outside of Spawnstead before work was continued.

### Random Bridge

In March-April 2021, the EOH was rerouted over an unfinished bridge.

## Legislative

* Astral Overworld Highway | Astral Wall to the Western Overworld Highway
* Triple East Highway | Infinity to Safargentina
* Saf-Bac Memorial Highway | Safargentina to World Border

## Eastern Railway

The Eastern Railway was a planned railway planning to connect the eastern area of the 1.16 map for rail travel by LakuTheDark. The Railway was torn up however to make priority for the already progressing Eastern Overworld Highway.

## Locations

* Western Overworld Highway at Arecibo Mines & Pines Bamboo Forest exit. - BEGINNING/ Western Terminus
* Seatown
* Spawnstead
* Aeoria
* Public Gold Farm
* Kalmar TGLF
* Femboy Hooters Town
* Infinity
* Bruhtown
* Astral Wall
* Surfer Rosa
* Safargentina
* Eterna City
* Bacon Town
* Townsville
* World's Edge - ENDING/Eastern Terminus

Old Alignment (Feb-Early May) of the Eastern Overworld HighwayEOH in Bacon Town (Central Boulevard)EOH passing by a baseOld EOH (Feb-Early May 2021) alignment through Surfer RosaOlder entrance to Surfer Rosa. This entrance was later abandoned