Highways

**Highways** are a way for players to travel across long distances in singular directions, either through the Overworld or Nether. Like most servers, Purity Vanilla has many man-made highways for players to travel on.

## Build Info

### Builder(s)

* StarBaron and DouuG1
* PaCo (Pathfinder Coalition)
* Nether Highway Construction Team
* PaCo 2
* Spawn Infrastructure Project

## Public Information

### Coordinates

* x:-125,000 to 125,000 at z:-1 to 1
* y:116
* z:-125,000 to 125,000 at x:-1 to 1

in the nether

### Connected Locations

Spawn, World Border

The **Nether Highways** are the highways in the Nether (wow!). All orthogonal and diagonal highways lead, as of 4th Jan 2023, all the way to the World Border which is 125k blocks out in the nether. There are also lesser-used ring highways: the furthest completed ring is the one at 12.5k, there are also ring highways at 5k, 2.5k, 2k, 1k, 500 and 250 blocks from nether hub. Some established groups use their own secret highways that start further from spawn and lead close to their base, to be able to quickly travel while preventing their bases from being griefed.

### Some history

First highways were mainly constructed by StarBaron and his teammate DouuG1, with the help of the public by trading various in-demand items such as elytra, shulker boxes, and mending books in return for obsidian. This is what caused the obsidian economy to rise (see Server Economy). Rich helped by making a "Nether fly-way" (the highway's fly as hell), which probably means that he dug the ceiling of these highways to make them easier to fly through with elytra.

Then, the tunnel group PaCo (pathfinder coalition) has helped with digging the highways. Besides extending existing highways, PaCo was responsible for the construction of a square shaped ring-road at 2.5k blocks out in the nether.

During mid-November 2019, the user POPCAT started a group known as the Nether Highway Construction Team. The goal of the group was to repair and extend all highways to 60k, and make a ring-road at 30k. An optional task was making diagonal highways reaching 60k. The group has since been inactive, with no public recruitment, nor any expectation to do so. As far as anybody's concerned, NHCT has died.

In March 2020, PaCo was revived by StarBaron as PaCo 2. PaCo 2 placed ice in the center of the 3x3 axis nether highways, allowing any player to travel incredibly fast using boats, and also began paving the highways with cobblestone slabs. PaCo 2 members also created an obsidian nether hub in April 2020 and a ring-road 200 blocks from nether spawn.

### Reconstruction and extension

Between January and February 2021, Spawn Infrastructure Project lead by The Grey built all the orthogonal highways from nether hub to 62.5k, which was at the time the world border, entirely from obsidian at y=116. During the rest of 2021, SIP also finished all diagonal highways to 62.5k. When world borders expanded in May 2022, SIP also started the expansion of nether highways, and by the end of 2022, all orthogonal and diagonal highways were finished to new world border.

### More information

Read SIP page or watch NerdieBirdie's Nether Highway video to learn more about their construction.

## General Info

### Affiliation

Spawn Infrastructure ProjectOverworld Highway Corporation

## Build Info

### Builder(s)

* Spawn Infrastructure Project
* Melofors
* Jake7625
* Splash
* Mrska999

## Public Information

### Coordinates

z: -50,000 to 50,000 at x:-1 to 1y=63x: -50,000 to 50,000 at z:-1 to 1(just the obbified parts)

### Connected Locations

Spawn

The **Overworld Highways** are the highways in the overworld (insane!). These highways are most commonly traveled by new players or for short-distance travel. The first overworld highway was the +Z dug by Melofors in August 2019.

Early overworld highways have been constructed by the Overworld Highway Corporation, founded by Melofors and Splash in October 2019. The project went inactive in late 2019 and was revived slightly in late 2020.

In March 2021 Spawn Infrastructure Project lead by The Grey built orthogonal overworld highways (except the parts that were canals) from obsidian at y=63, up to 10k. Later, around February 2022, SIP obsidian-ified all orthogonal highways to 50k, including the -X highway, where the canal stopped around -21k, and the +X highway, where canals stopped around +25k.

### Axis highways

Obsidian parts of axis highways are all 3-wide and run mostly on y=63. Four highways are listed from the longest to shortest.

#### +Z (South)

Paved with obsidian to 50k, the path continues to 360.1k (as of 9th Jan 2023). It was the first axis highway in the server's overworld and it currently is the longest. Mined by Melofors from spawn to 2k and later expanded to 10k by Splash and other members of the Overworld Highway Corporation. The highway was known as the **Splash Highway** during its expansion in September 2019 by Splash. There were three outposts along that highway, all of which have been griefed by Caudimorda. Extended to absurd length by few other players, big contributors include Filipen17 and burgerballs. The highway experienced a few extensions along the way, most recently SIP members HT0027, KalebT103, EveQ, and PickledP0thead, as they have as of the 28th Nov, 2023 expanded the highway to 77k.

* Alpha Outpost at 2.6k
* Beta Outpost, floating\_helium's Arch at 3.6k
* Gamma Outpost at 7.5k
* Obby tower, ruined house in the sky with obby roof at 8k
* Small town at 10.1k
* Project Massive Farm - from 11.8k to 13.4k (main area at 12.4k)
* Another small town at 19.4k. This place must be special since obby path goes over the hill instead of through it...
* Very cool badlands town at 30k, there are Eroded Badlands nearby (one of the rarest biomes) if anyone needs for Adventuring Time advancement
* Ruins of a base "Flatside" at 43.9k
* Lots of player-made signs at 48.1k
* Remains of 50k Castle,
* The end of obby path at 77k
* Bunch of random structures at 80k
* Massive player-made canyon at 83.4k
* Only some lavacasts and ruins at 100k
* 160-meter high mountain right next to the highway at 122.4k (dope view)
* Mushroom island at 134.4k
* Elmo outpost at 135.4k
* Random ruins at 160k
* Highway goes through a village cut by a chunk border at 181.6k, some signs of player activity
* Ruins of 200k milestone by M4ximus
* Very strange cobble structure built by marijuana42069 at 212.1k, highway goes in the sky up to 215.3k
* "eulo was here" sign at 246.5k
* Small ruin and some roads at 250k milestone
* Highway breaks through a desert shipwreck (yes, a shipwreck in the middle of the desert) at 270.4k
* Desert village/temple merger at 291k
* Another milestone by M4ximus at 300k

#### -X (West)

Paved with obsidian to -50k, stretches long after that, up to -208.1k (as of 6th Jan 2023).

The **-X Axis Canal** (aka the Western Canal) was built mostly by player VelvetFalcon and his group called Falconists - both parts, closer to spawn and at -200k. The plan was to join these two ends together, but group sadly went inactive. Much of the highway beyond 50k was done by the "Highroad Mission Society" and le\_chat\_pardeur.

* floating\_helium's Arch at -4.6k
* Canal starts at -5k. For some time the highway and canal go in parallel
* Another floating\_helium's Arch at -5.4k
* Ruined town at -8.3k
* Milestone at -10k heavily lavacasted. Obby path ends, now it's only the canal
* Sandstone pyramid at -13.4k
* Milestone at -20k also lavacasted but less than the previous one
* Canal ends at -21.1k and turns back into a highway
* Small castle at -32k
* Milestone at -40k has a giant obsidian sign
* At -50k the obby ends
* Very cool bridge at -54k. A well-built part of the highway begins in here and ends at -55.7k in a small town
* Walled off proto-base at -64.5k
* Highway briefly turns into an iceboat path from -71.3k to -71.5k
* Milestone at -80k slightly lavacasted
* Pillager outpost visible from the highway at -84.8k
* Small house at -91.5k
* Large, destroyed city at -100k
* Amethyst geode visible from the highway at -103k (thus meaning 1.17+ terrain)
* Old mob farm at -109.8k
* Funnily glitched pillager outpost at -117.6k
* Village base at -149.2k
* Castle-like lavacast at -166.3k
* Mushroom island at -171.5k
* Small house at -187.1k
* Highway turns back into a canal at -188.7k
* Few houses and lots of lavacasts at -200k. Canal ends at -200.1k

#### +X (East)

Paved with obsidian to 100k (as of 28th Nov 2023). The first 1k was mined by Mrska999, and the highway leading up to 5k was dug by several people. From 5k outwards, 3x3 tunnels have been mined by Ari.

The **+X Axis canal** stretches from around 7k to 25k. The first section from 7000 to 11111 was built by player MishaTG in spring of 2020. It originated in small settlement of random buildings built by unorganized group of players at X=7000. MishaTG then built small stops on the canal every 1k blocks to allow travelers to rest and resupply. The player Jalapeno690 found the canal in poor shape on the 18th of April 2021 and extended it from 11k to 14k+, he was expanding it going roughly 1k blocks a day, compared to other projects the materials used were mostly stone and cobble. The highway went unaltered for nearly 2 1/2 years until recently, when SIP members including (but not limited to) HT0027, KalebT103, JimJam, Kriesen, and TimberKoi (the ladder two only very briefly).

* Highway goes directly above an ocean monument at 2250
* floating\_helium's Arch at 2.8k
* Large bridge and lighthouse at 3.8k. Lots of random builds, farms and lavacasts from this point onward
* Giant, destroyed town at 7k. Highway turns into a canal at 7040
* Huge lavacast at 10k
* Side highway goes off the canal at 10.9k
* Small town at 23.3k (slightly towards +z)
* Lavacasted gp farm at 24k
* Canal ends at 25k and turns back into a highway
* Large ruins around 25.9k
* Farm area at 39.5k
* Massive city-like area at 45k, lavacasted
* Small destroyed base on an iceberg at 61.6k
* "Lymphocyte" sign at 64.5k
* Side path goes off the main highway at 70.2k
* Obby ends at 100k

#### -Z (North)

Paved with obsidian to 50k. Path extends only about 400 blocks further (as of 4th Jan 2023).

* floating\_helium's Arch at -2.5k
* Weird structure at -11.4k (slightly towards -x)
* Obby house at -13.2k
* Lavacasted gp farm at -15.5k
* Medium size town at -26.8k
* Farm area at -34.6k (slightly towards +x)
* Small castle at -44.8k
* Very sus build at -47.8k

### Other highways

Diagonal overworld highways are less developed, although Christian\_man and other members of SIP are trying to change this.

###### +X, +Z (South-east)

Obby path goes to 10k as of 16th Apr 2023.

##### +X, -Z (North-east)

Obby path goes to 10k as of 27th Mar 2023.

##### -X, -Z (North-west)

Obby path goes to 10k as of 26th May 2023.

#### -X, +Z (South-west)

Obby path goes to 10k as of 20th May 2023.

* -20k, 20k - tower (built before 7/15/19)
* -40k, 40k - small griefed building, melon farm

There also exists the 20K highway and, as its name suggest, it is located at 20 000 blocks from spawn. It was meant to be a square highway, but it remains unfinished.