-X Highway
Open -X Highway on the Atlas →
- Dimension
- Nether
- Category
- Axis
- Width
- 6 blocks
- Surface
- Obsidian
The HWU-linked May 2025 highway map records this route as 6 blocks wide and 4 blocks high. These are the map's dated construction dimensions. MEG's April 2023 project report also records these dimensions for the full route. MEG reported completing the 6-wide, 4-high tunnel to the Nether world border on June 20, 2022. Credited diggers: Justen and Duke. The completion dates were published in MEG's January 1, 2023 announcement; they describe the tunnel excavation, not the later paving work.
Stable Atlas highway ID: 2. Live JSON · Explore this route on the map
Recorded status: Complete. Geometry: 2 recorded points. Historical geometry, construction reports and status do not establish current in-game survival or passability.
Direction from the origin: west (derived from the recorded geometry).
Recorded route coordinates
The recorded geometry for -X Highway starts at X 0, Z 0 and ends at X -30,000,000, Z 0 in the Nether. These are native Nether coordinates. Intermediate turns and points appear in the complete geometry below. This recorded extent does not establish the distance of continuous paving or current passability.
Clearance: 4 blocks
Builders and maintainers
- Highway Workers Union (HWU)Primary builder and current steward
https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t/comments/1ldirek/; https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t/comments/1ob2ow8/
- -X DiggersHistorical builder
https://2b2t.wikioasis.org/wiki/-X_Diggers
- Independent Interstate Society (IIS)Predecessor builder
https://2b2t.wikioasis.org/wiki/Independent_Interstate_Society
- Motorway Extension Gurus (MEG)Contributor
https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t/comments/lj0slq/; https://discord.com/channels/679242511545270285/679997183130337298/1059066152799698974
Sources and attachments
- MEG project roundup (2023)
Dated construction milestones, dimensions, builder credits and photographs for named axis, diagonal and ring-road projects.
Motorway Extension Gurus (MEG) - HWU: cardinal highway rail completion (2025)
June 2025 update on finishing the cardinal routes to the Overworld border, including the final -X rail work and contributors.
OffsetPanda701 / Highway Workers Union (HWU) - HWU-linked Nether highway map (May 2025)
Source for 6 by 4 dimensions: Cardinals (6x4) + Diagonals (7x4) dug. Saved map table 1404; matched in native Nether coordinates.
EnigmA_008 / HWU-linked Desmos map - MEG cardinal tunnel completion announcement (2023)
January 1, 2023 announcement gives 2022 completion dates and individual digger credits for all four 6-wide, 4-high cardinal tunnels.
GATECRASH / Motorway Extension Gurus; announcement preparation credited to Mr. Potato. 
2b2t Wiki
Geometry
Native-dimension Minecraft X/Z block coordinates. Recorded geometry and status do not guarantee current passability.
[{"x":0,"z":0},{"x":-30000000,"z":0}]Locations near the recorded route
Up to 12 catalog locations within 2,048 native-dimension blocks of the recorded polyline, ordered by planar distance then name/ID. No cross-dimension projection. Proximity is not evidence of a road connection or a visit.
- Nether -X 2.525M Milestone — 0 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- Nether -X 420k Milestone — 0 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- Orbis Terrarum (Nether -X 30M) — 0 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- SBA Nether Spawn Build — 45 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- The l23w03 Temple of molten rock Spawnmason lodge — 195 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- south nether highway — 245 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- Fight Club Reboot: Notre Dame (Nether) — 1158 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
- SBA 23: Nether Edition — 1624 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
Explore daily World Pulse along this route. Daily tiles show loaded-chunk observations; the directional summary below remains in its original 30-day buckets and does not provide daily traveler counts.
Historical NoCom directional observations
The released Nether west corridor aggregate contains 36,206,138 observations across 17 consecutive 30-day periods, from 2020-03-09 to 2021-08-01 (exclusive).
Historical observations for this dimension and direction, not a count of travelers, visits to individual locations, or observations confined to this Atlas polyline. They do not establish present traffic, survival or passability.
Directional observations by period · World Pulse context and methodology
Authors published temporary highway aggregate; no server_id column. Historical query notes filter 2b2t.org, but their month offset differs from the released table. Dates here use released Unix 30-day bucket IDs 611-627, matching the World Pulse periods.
Original NoCom release: Nerds Inc and contributors. Source SHA-256: bfd8a77ae6a051187bbe24061a08ec632996a5538b2eda872502b28467b368f1.