Nether Hub

### Coordinates

X: -111, Y: 71, Z:-74 (via The Exchange in the Overworld)X: -14, Y: 70, Z: -7 (The Nether)

The Nether Hub, more commonly referred to as the Central Nether Hub, is a location in The Nether that is accessible through a portal at The Exchange. Many popular destinations throughout The Old World can be reached via the tunnels stemming from this location.

## History

There were talks of establishing a nether hub/highway system as soon as the realm opened in August 2019. When several realm members began to comment on the poor shape of The Nether, WhiteLikePaste decided to prioritize the project.

After the completion of The Exchange, he determined that it's location would make a good spot to house the primary nether portal. He began looking online for inspiration and ideas and came across a compass design that he wanted to implement into the layout of the hub.

Unfortunately, the location of the portal within The Nether proved to be a challenge and required extensive amounts of demolition. In the mean time, realm members began to establish temporary paths to make navigating The Nether easier while the hub was being constructed.

Initially the intention was for the glass flooring of the hub to cover a layer of wool, but several issues with Ghasts causing fires led to the modification resulting in the flames that exist in the hub today.

In October 2020, with the Nether Hub still under construction after several delays and setbacks, WhiteLikePaste debated resetting The Nether in an attempt to clean it up and also bring new chunks closer to the hub. Since by this point the Nether Hub was nearing completion, and not wanting to lose all of the work he had put into it up to that point, he chose to delete all of the chunks surrounding the Nether Hub using MCC ToolChest.

The Nether Hub was the final major project completed by WhiteLikePaste before The Island event. After the world merge brought The Island into The Old World, the first path built connected The Island to the Central Nether Hub.

### 1st Incarnation

Although it was completed in October 2020, WhiteLikePaste was never truly satisfied with the outcome. The original design was very bland looking with white walls and little decoration to distinguish between the different paths. The need for a revision became clear when realm members appeared visibly confused while attempting to navigate the hub. Markers were being placed at entrances to the different paths to aide in finding the desired location. Eventually WhiteLikePaste changed the borders around the most frequently used paths while he tried to come up with a better solution.

### 2nd Incarnation

In January 2021, WhiteLikePaste came up with a plan to completely revise the existing hub. All of the walls were changed from quartz to a unique block type for each path. Many of these were references to builds that could be reached by traveling along that path. For instance, the stone brick path leading to The Dome was a reference to the base of The Dome structure itself. The floor which had previously consisted of white stained glass was completely redone to include stained glass of all different colors. This was a throwback to the original design for the hub that featured wool in the same pattern. EliteXxX worked on the glass while WhiteLikePaste raised the ceiling of the hub to give it a more grand look overall. Rather than restoring the lava ceiling, a more decorative design was chosen.

### Auto-Smelter

In an effort to make pathing easier for players, an auto-smelter was added below the main nether portal to speed up the production of nether brick. The nether brick slabs will be placed in a chest near the main portal for players to use when making paths to and from the hub. However, the auto-smelter is available for a community use and can be used for any large scale smelting projects as needed.

The story of the Nether Hub was featured in the video "Evolution of the Nether Hub."

### Donators

The Nether Hub was made possible thanks to the donations of several different Oldies.