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 infrastructural buildings (i.e. nether highways), all whilst making them easier to navigate and traverse. The group is one of the most active nether highway groups on 2b2t.

Usually, highway paving was done by hand and scaffold hacks back in the days when Independent Interstate Society (IIS) made every highway to 50k nether (project finished on January 30, 2020). 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 (the first main project of the HWU) was actually a possible goal now, so the HWU started to work on it and finished it on October 21, 2020, which was something that years before seems impossible and got the HWU a large amount of attention on the server.

The highways the HWU build are made using automation in walking, mining, and block placing. They are made out of obsidian so that it is very difficult to grief them. They are meant to be spacious and unobstructed. The group worked on multiple nether highway projects but the project scope is not limited to the nether dimension.

History
The group was founded on September 11, 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. The group is lead by the Workers Syndicate, which function is to decide together what will be done next and also vote the suggestions of the other highway workers, aiming to listen to every single one of them. They have created a new Discord server and even a website.

On November 18, 2020 IIS merged with the HWU.

Relations
The HWU has strong ties with the Motorway Extension Gurus (MEG). They hope to maintain a decent (or at least, neutral) relation with as many groups as possible, their focus is solemnly to do highway work.

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. The highways are made of 4 obsidian flat for the main axes and 2-3 on the diagonals with rails on both sides.

This project was initially created/executed by the IIS but was eventually forwarded to the HWU 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 (in form of ender chests that can be mined for obsidian). On October 21, 2020 the HWU completed the southwest highway (-X +Z) and by this finished the whole project after more than one month and a lot of time put into it.

Workers involved:

(This doesn't include IIS members)
 * Comrade Anni H.S
 * apheroine
 * Bluoe
 * charlesathon
 * Constructor
 * Enderlover3
 * FuzzyRussian
 * GATECRASH
 * gubbygub
 * Horatio
 * Isolatism
 * jedao
 * Natan515
 * Promptt
 * Darian444
 * Save_G
 * Spider
 * Yesnik

Northwest Highway (-X -Z)

 * Start: 52.804 (September 18, 2020)
 * Finish: 125.000 (October 14, 2020)
 * Finished in 27 days

Southwest Highway (-X +Z)

 * Start: 84.900 (October 18, 2020)
 * Finish: 125.000 (October 21, 2020)
 * Finished in 4 days

X+ to 1 million nether
The main goal of this project is to expand the western nether highway (+X) to 1 million. This is the first project where automation on a new level is used. The HWU started using special custom modules in KAMI Blue so that it is almost possible to build completely afk. These modules cover the automatic mining of ender chests and placing the blocks in the correct way. Currently, the modules are tested by the HWU and not yet released publicly in KAMI Blue.

The project started on November 1, 2020, at 178k nether.

Milestones:


 * 178k (Start, November 1, 2020)
 * 250k (November 10, 2020)
 * 500k (November 24, 2020)
 * 750k (December 6, 2020)
 * 1m  (December 14, 2020)