Highway Workers Union

"stop making highways easiar 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 one million (Overworld). 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 that is still worked on by the HWU to this day.

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 one million blocks out in the Overworld.

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.

projects
The South East (x+ z+) and North East (x+ z-) projects were already completed by the IIS.

North West (x- z-) obsidian highway
The project is still at work and should be done by December, and more details will be open for the public soon.

people involved:
 * Save_G
 * Natan515
 * horatio
 * Bluoe
 * Apheroine

South West (x- z+) obsidian highway
An upcoming project planned to be around January, more details will be open for the public soon.

Relations
The Highway Workers Union has strong ties with the Motorway Extension Gurus. Even there are no publicly known groups that are against the HWU there are some griefing attempts. 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. " An epic video show 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.