History of the Overworld Highways | Purity Vanilla: Minecraft 1.18 Anarchy (No Hacks!)

So dude Uh Although the nether is naturally the primary medium of travel on purity vanilla lesser traveled overworld highways have existed on the server for almost two years these highways are commonly used by new players as an outlet from spawn and are useful for navigating under the giant ruins of lava casts ever present there

Walking along the highway is an interesting experience enticing players both poor and rich new and old as they pass by the ruins of old inns signs outposts and farms that once sustained other players in today’s video we’ll explore the tumultuous story of purity vanilla’s over world highways We begin with the southern highway which was the first highway in the overworld a player called melofurs began work on it in august of 2019 going 2 000 blocks from spawn by august 21st taking note of this road splash another player began adding to it himself splash managed to take the highway

Another two thousand blocks in september meaning the highway now extended four thousand blocks from spawn during splash’s expansion he also constructed small outposts his first called alpha was built 000 blocks out over the location of a free food station founded by peter 2015 and the beta outpost was later built 3.6

000 blocks out splash also renovated the look of the highways changing it from cobblestone to grass block sandwiched between stone bricks and this design would carry on down the line when melafurs the original highway builder noticed the work that had been done and signs around the highway dubbing it splash highway he

Left a sign at the beta outpost asking splash to contact him on discord the two players came together to form the overworld highway corporation or ohc on october 1st the small group quickly expanded due to an alliance with the vardhan an old and prestigious faction at the time bringing

Players such as murska 999 onto the project and supplying pickaxes to the builders the ohc expanded the highways to ten thousand blocks building outpost gamma at 7.5 k and mellifers began a ring road 100 blocks around spawn however nothing lasts forever in anarchy cauda morta an infamous griefer

Destroyed the alpha beta and gamma outposts with all outposts destroyed the ohc vowed to never build an outpost again additionally splash started to become bored and sided with valhalla the vardhan’s greatest rival faction and melafurs had to leave the server in december of 2019 due to computer problems

It seemed as though the group was falling apart at the seams life however always seems to find a way murska a vardhan member assisting the ohc stepped in to fill the void of leadership left by milliphars and splash’s departures murska single-handedly created the first thousand blocks of the eastern highway

And was joined by others in extending the highway to 5k after this point a player named ahri loosely expanded the highway to 7khz by digging out 3×3 tunnels through mountains and cliffs and using slabs to follow the terrain notably such terrain following is no longer the standard on purity and

Nowadays highway stays solidly on y equals 64. here things began to change away from the typical highway format as player misha tg decided to begin work on a canal extending from where ari left off in the spring of 2020 misha began work near a small town built by unknown

Players at x equals seven thousand as he went misha would build small rest stops every one thousand blocks where reary boaters could stop restock and rest misha would take his canal all the way to x equals eleven thousand one hundred eleven before stopping as time went on this canal would start

To crumble as various players griefed it and it would be another year before the canal would be worked on once more help came through the players jalapeno 690 and hexe82 who found the canals torn apart by player activity on the 18th of april 2021 the pair would expand the canal to

14 000 blocks out and hexe would set up a farm to help players escape even further from the dangerous ruins of spawn as with all things anarchy growth and destruction chase each other in circles only four months later an operation dubbed project allah began started by grandma pepe acne christ and

Various other pvpers in august of 2020 this project aimed to give griefers and pvpers something to do as they had become bored recently this was accomplished by griefing spawn at large both in the overworld and the nether over the span of about a week project allah decimated the nether hub turning

It into the vast openness that it is today additionally the project targeted the overworld highways massive amounts of tnt end crystals and withers were used dioxane who participated in project allah estimates that 20 shulkers of tnt were used in the overworld alone Enter the gray one of the best known factions on purity come to think of it a video on the grey’s history would be fascinating anyway the gray wanted to start making the overworld highways a more feasible method of transportation up to this point the highways were fairly scrambled

Being done by many different individuals in their own style and method the gray sought to organize highway construction and in september of 2020 they rebuilt the southern highway making it all on the same y level using stone bricks and smooth stone two months later they would do the same

Along the western highway with the help of mad skipper as the gray began working more on these highways they formed a subgroup called the spawn infrastructure project or sip on november 8th i asked jamul a council member of the grey why they made an entirely new group rather

Than working on this project as the grey and he told me a fascinating story of griefs and betrayal worthy of its own video for now it’s sufficient to say that the gray was in a period of distrust but had a strong desire to work on spawn projects

Creating sip allowed them to keep the gray bases safe while continuing work at spawn they may not have known it at the time but sip would go on to change the very nature of highways and become an integral part of the server’s history as 2020 drew to a close and 2021 began sip

Continued work on highway-related projects players outside of sip would sometimes try to build similar structures such as a highway going southwest or a ring road at 20k but these roads were not maintained nor finished sip and sip only had the dedication and collaborative planning necessary to build and maintain such large-scale projects

In march of 2021 players from sip namely clue barrick and paffa cubes would build a network of two block wide obsidian squares in a 500 by 500 area around spawn each square was 100 by 100 blocks this project would come to be known as the spawn grid

Despite attempts to grief it the grid was constantly repaired with the help of the sole player that made obsidian highways possible in the first place Let’s jump backwards a few months to december of 2020. dikka dikka a member of the gray and sip suggested the idea of creating an afk obsidian farm that would allow highways to be made entirely out of obsidian instead of the stone blocks which have been used thus far

Obsidian is commonly used for highways due to its high blast resistance and the fact that it is extremely difficult to grief especially for new players without diamond or netherrite pickaxes at this point the nether highways which were and are used much more frequently due to movement in the nether being

Eight times faster than in the overworld were being converted to obsidian but the process was extremely slow due to how expensive it was to buy obsidian from other players before building an obsidian farm dikka sold 48 elytras and six stacks of shulker shells in order to purchase abi for the highways

However in early january of 2021 the need to buy obsidian would become a thing of the past the farm dicca built is widely known as the best obsidian farm on the server generating 1.5 shulkers of obsidian per hour an estimated 2.5 thousand shulkers of obsidian or approximately 4.3 million

Blocks have been produced since the farm was built using obsidian generated by the farm sip was able to start hitting the highways like never before within the next few months all highways were made into three wide obsidian roads stretching 10 000 blocks save the eastern one due to the canal

The western highway was completed by maximus demeridius and festo the southern highway was completed by maximus and the eastern road was built to 7k by maximus where it met the canal the northern highway was built by raghav mc and pafa cubes at build limit due to

There being a canal starting at 1 000 blocks from spawn finally sip’s goal of making 10k long three wide obsidian roads in each direction was accomplished today sip consistently maintains and polishes the highways up to 10k although they are very often griefed or obstructed sip has perfected a team

Environment where many active players are regularly patching up the roads nothing past 10k is up to the standard of quality because it is not officially part of sap’s roads but there certainly are highways past 10k for example the players philippine jack obs and burger balls built the southern highway

Built the southern highway from 60k to 350k using stone bricks additionally jalapeno 690 is working on building the eastern canal which currently reaches 20 000 blocks although some members of sip would eventually leave minecraft or be forcibly removed from sip due to leaking sip and the highways still stand strong

The official sip highways are used constantly in both the nether and the overworld by both new and old players due to the efforts of this group countless players have been able to escape spawn with relative ease and begin adventures of their own will sip’s obsidian highways eventually be expanded

Just how far do the highways go well there’s only one way to find out You