Highway Workers Union

"Stop making highways easier for new players" - Team Sexy

The " Highway Workers Union" or the HWU is a group dedicated to constructing and repairing highways, all whilst making them easier to navigate and traverse. The group is one of the most active nether highway repair groups on 2b2t. Their main goal is to extend all obsidian highways to 125k (nether). A big amount of IIS members came to help the HWU, IIS OG's as Adam supplied them with obsidian.

Usually, Highway paving was done by hand and scaffold back in the days when IIS made every Highway to 50k nether. The HWU started to work with baritone as it was a huge step towards automation and made the whole process easier and faster. Getting every Highway to 125k nether was actually a possible goal now, so the HWU started to work on it and finish this on the 21 of October 2020 which was something that years before seems impossible and got the HWU, a large amount of attention on the server.

The roads the HWU builds are made with automated walking and mining, and they are built so it would be very difficult to grief, meaning they are meant to be spacious and unobstructed (the group does not concern itself with Overworld highways).

Activities
The group builds and maintains the roads in the 8 regular directions, portals, and other obstructions on the road such as banners, and random blocks are removed during routine repair runs. The group also put obsidian where it's missing if less than 125k blocks out in the Nether.

History
The group was founded on September 11th, 2020 by the users Save_G and Anni H.S. They created the group because they wanted to have a better highway group that learned from the mistakes that the IIS made, and came to the conclusion that it is better to have more than one group leader. They have created a new Discord server and even a website. They work together with the IIS and Motorway Extension Gurus. The group had a big project in which they placed obsidian on all of the dignals highways all the way to 125k nether which is 1m overworld and by this getting there self more famous and quite known by the community. On the 16 of November IIS merged with the HWU for unknown reasons.

X+ Obsidian Highway to 1m
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All Highways to 125k
The project Intent was to have all diagonal highways safer and easier to navigate for new and old players. The way of doing it is to have an obsidian highway all the way to 1m overworld or 125k nether. It is 5 obsidian Flatt and 2 on the sides to make it safe, so 7 obsidian per block.

This project was initially created/executed by the IIS but was forwarded to the HWU eventually, and executed in a good team effort. The HWU was responsible for the completion of the Southeast and the Northeast Highway Sections, as well as some miscellaneous paving and infrastructure corrections on some areas along these axes.

The HWU used more than  800k  obsidian to finish this project which requires a lot of resupply for her workers and they weren't supplying them obsidian but ender chest so they would supply less and the work will be more efficient. On the 21 of October, the HWU completed the SouthWest highway, and by this finished the project after more than one month and a lot of time put into it. Workers involved: (It doesn't include the IIS people)
 * Comrade Anni H.S
 * apheroine
 * Bluoe
 * charlesathon
 * Constructor
 * Enderlover3
 * FuzzyRussian
 * GATECRASH
 * gubbygub
 * Horatio
 * Isolatism
 * jedao
 * Natan515
 * Promptt
 * Darian444
 * Save_G
 * Spider
 * Yesnik

NorthWest Highway
The Northwest Highway or the (x- z-) highway, this is some statistics about this:
 * Start: 52.804 (18 September 2020)
 * Finish: 125.000 (14 October 2020)
 * Finished in 27 days

SouthWest Highway
The SouthWest Highway or the (x- z+) highway, this is some statistics about this
 * Start: 84.900 (18 October 2020)
 * Finish: 125.000 (21 October 2020)
 * Finished in 4 days

Relations
The Highway Workers Union has strong ties with the Motorway Extension Gurus. Even though there are no publicly known groups that are officely against the HWU, there are still some grief attempts on the highways and the group is doing her best to stop them. The Highway Workers Union's official statement on their relationship with other groups: "We hope to maintain a decent (or at least, neutral) relation with as many groups as possible, our focus is solemnly to do highway work." A YouTube video shows how they are making the diagonal highways and how you can do this too can be found here. Another one that shows how to do the same with a straight highway can be found here.