-X,-Z Diagonal Highway

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Dimension: Nether
Category: Diagonal
Width: 7 blocks
Surface: Obsidian

The HWU-linked May 2025 highway map records this route as 7 blocks wide and 4 blocks high. These are the map's dated construction dimensions. HWU later reported 9-block-wide paving from spawn to the Overworld border (3.75M Nether coordinates) in October 2025; that partial-route widening is not applied to the full 30M route.

Stable Atlas highway ID: 8. 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: northwest (derived from the recorded geometry).

Recorded route coordinates

The recorded geometry for -X,-Z Diagonal Highway starts at X 0, Z 0 and ends at X -30,000,000, Z -30,000,000 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/
Motorway Extension Gurus (MEG)Predecessor builder
https://2b2t.wikioasis.org/wiki/Motorway_Extension_Gurus

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)
Original source
HWU-linked Nether highway map (May 2025)
Source for 7 by 4 dimensions: Cardinals (6x4) + Diagonals (7x4) dug. Saved map table 1404; matched in native Nether coordinates.
EnigmA_008 / HWU-linked Desmos map
Original source
HWU diagonal paving (October 2025)
Reports 9-block-wide paving to the Overworld border at 3.75M Nether coordinates; does not describe the entire 30M route.
Highway Workers Union
Original source
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":-30000000}]

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.

-3.125m, -3.125m Nether Milestone — 0 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
HWU + MEG -1m, -1m Monument — 0 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
SBA Nether Spawn Build — 63.6 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) — 1342.9 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
SBA 23: Nether Edition — 1569.8 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
The l23w03 Temple of molten rock Spawnmason lodge — 1629.2 blocks from the recorded polyline in the Nether.
Pit Fight 7 — 1632 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 northwest corridor aggregate contains 281,879,286 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.