2b2t’s Nether World Border Has Been REACHED (30 Million Minecraft Blocks)

The netherworld border is considered the loneliest place in all of minecraft located 30 million blocks away from the center of the nether you would have to be insane to try and dig a tunnel all the way out there well for the past 13 months on the oldest anarchy server in minecraft

Two separate accounts have been racing each other to become the first to make it to the nether border legitimately they’ve broken millions of blocks of netherrack and in the process have set the record for the longest tunnel ever built in minecraft history you’re probably already wondering

Why would people spend over one year of their lives digging a straight line in minecraft well traveling to the netherworld border was considered the last true milestone that had not yet been achieved on 2b2t so today we’ll discuss the history of the nether border dig project the challenges that were faced

Along the way how it eventually turned into a race and the surprising ending that no one expected you won’t believe the result this expedition was a crazy topic to document so as always if you hit that subscribe button i appreciate your support now it all started in april of 2020

At a base on the server called hopin two of the players that were living there at the time were named zanga and family pumpkin both of them had grown bored and with much of the world going into lockdown they had a lot of spare time at their disposal they wanted to accomplish

A massive project that no one had ever done before the idea of digging all the way to the nether’s world border was brought up as a joke both the overworld and end dimension borders had already been reached legitimately in 2017 but the nether border had not it was long considered a fool’s errand

While glitching onto the nether roof and just walking was the easiest way to get there in single player on 2b2t plugins prevent the roof from being traveled on so to get there without the use of exploits you would have to dig a tunnel that was at least

30 million blocks long that’s the real life equivalent of eighteen thousand miles or thirty thousand kilometers after doing some math they realized that while it would take an absolutely absurd amount of time to dig it wouldn’t be as improbable as they originally thought if they had access to enough diamond pickaxes and took

Turns using the same minecraft account it was actually doable so it was decided they were going to do the impossible and travel all the way to the nether world border they made their way to point nemo which was where the overworld border was reached by the original

X highway group in 2017 once there they quietly began recruiting people that were willing to help with the expedition by starting at point nemo’s nether coordinates they would need to travel another 26 million blocks to reach their destination one of the people recruited was named jordanelle666

In 2018 he had attempted to travel to the border using an exploit called boat phase it allowed someone to fly through solid nether chunks so quickly that they wouldn’t even properly load appearing completely invisible he managed to make it 20 million blocks out before the exploit was fixed and he

Ended up back at spawn this meant that he held the verified record for farthest distance traveled in the nether with him on board and the rest of the team assembled they obtained the coordinates to one of the stashes used by the original x highway group they would use these

Materials to gear up for the journey and in mid-april the expedition finally began an account was chosen that would be shared between them so they could take turns using it while other members were sleeping while they had prepared for digging a tunnel it was decided that fireworks in elytra

Would be used to fly there but navigating around nether terrain constantly proved to be incredibly frustrating after one month of travel they had gone over one million blocks when they hit their first major obstacle the account had glitched and accidentally died in lava causing it to go back to the overworld border

This death was a huge inconvenience so it was decided that instead of risking another glitch they would just bite the bullet and dig a tunnel all the way to the border so in may of 2020 the nether border tunnel project was officially started the group members would take turns digging the tunnel

Repairing the pickaxes and occasionally resupplying if necessary it didn’t take long for them to catch up to where the account had originally died as they continued on they began to find blocks that jordan had left behind from his previous boat phase expedition in august of 2020 after three months of digging

They managed to make it eight million blocks in the nether at this point they were still the only ones attempting to reach the border so it wasn’t a race at least not yet but not long after this milestone tragedy would strike one of the members of the team had used

A backdoored hack client which stole the login credentials of the shared account the hacker logged in expecting to find a base or an item stash but when he realized it was just a simple nether tunnel he threw the account into lava he didn’t just send it back to the overworld border

He sent it back to spawn this meant that the account would have to walk 8 million blocks just to resume progress this was a major blow to the dig team’s morale and it would take months for them to return to where they left off by january of 2021 the team had recovered

And had managed to reach 10 million blocks they found a sign that jordan had previously left with the boat phase exploit this motivated the group and progress started accelerating just one month later they managed to reach 15 million blocks the official halfway point to the nether border they built a milestone to celebrate

Their achievement but little did they know that this secret project was about to turn into a race enter harehari yukai a 2b2t player with an interest in automation he was a member of the group meg or the motorway extension gurus who had done a lot of work building

Roads in the nether he had been experimenting with baritone to make a completely self-sufficient mining bot it was capable of digging tunnels and repairing its own gear without the need for user input to put it to the ultimate test he decided he would automatically dig all the way to the eastern nether border

Having no idea that the dig team was trying to reach the exact same one he had spent months preparing the account with the proper gear and since he was worried about the bot being killed by pvpers he decided to start a completely fresh tunnel thirty thousand blocks off the axis so

It would run parallel to the highway despite starting the tunnel near spawn he calculated that if conditions were optimal and he left his computer running the entire time the bot could reach the border in 1500 hours or 63 days of non-stop mining so in late february the bot began its long journey and

Unknown to both parties they were now racing each other to the nether border the dig team continued to make steady progress breaking millions of blocks of netherrack every few weeks but hare’s bot was able to stay logged in 24 7 without getting kicked and only disconnected for server restarts

Because it was constantly digging and repairing its gear without breaks it was slowly able to catch up in early april the bot actually managed to take the lead with the dig team being blissfully unaware that their achievement could potentially be stolen from them regardless they continued working at the regular pace

On may 5th 2021 the team managed to make it to 20 million blocks in the nether and built another milestone the hype within the group was very strong at this point it seemed certain that they would reach their goals sooner than expected but on may 14th 2021 everything changed hari’s bot

Had made it to the border in just 77 days only two weeks longer than the original calculation his account was now the first ever to dig a tunnel all the way when news of the milestone began to spread the dig team didn’t believe it one of the members dug a side tunnel 30

000 blocks north and to their complete shock there was indeed a second tunnel it was real and the dig team was crushed by the news a goal they had been working on for an entire year had been stolen right under their noses feeling bad hari got into contact with the group and apologized

He had no idea the dig team was attempting to reach the border and his bot was merely a proof of concept at this point he actually encouraged the team to continue since their tunnel was directly on the x highway it meant completing the dig would technically break the record

For the longest tunnel ever built in minecraft history this prospect reinvigorated the group and with hari joining forces with them they continued their dig to the border it’s a good thing they did because what they would end up finding was truly bizarre at around 25 million blocks the team came across

Signs at a pre-built rest stop despite there being no tunnels connected to it these signs were dated 2017 the same year that the overworld border was reached they quickly realized that it was actually a replica of one of the original rest stops on the x highway

But how did it get here and why was it here the dig team was puzzled and they knew something wasn’t quite right they took note of the rest stop and continued digging as they got closer to the border and built more milestones the group’s hype was at an all-time high

Finally on june 22nd 2021 zonga live streamed himself completing the journey to the world border stretching almost 34 million blocks the dig team’s tunnel was now the longest in minecraft history the primary account that had been used for the dig had a completely wacky statistics page

And had dug so much netherrack that it couldn’t even show the entire number but at the border the truth was finally confirmed neither hare or the dig team had been the first to see the border with their own eyes signs were found from 2020 left by a player named iron exception it

Turned out that iron was one of a few players that had used a teleport exploit to travel to the border a month before the team had even started their dig he had won the race before it even began iron had also been responsible for creating the replica rest stop

As he thought it’d be a funny way to troll anyone crazy enough to dig all the way to the border when questioned about the teleport exploit all iron said was can’t say so the race to the nether border was finally over and the longest tunnel in minecraft history was completed

All three borders had now been reached through traditional means without the use of exploits absolute insanity now after a long journey like this you better be hitting that subscribe button and leave a like and don’t forget to follow my socials so take it easy fit fam

And if you plan to go all the way to the border stay alive out there