1533 Highway
The 1533 Highway, also known as the Starving Road, 1534 Highway, or Starved Road is a West (-X) Highway beginning at roughly -1,800 X and 1533 Z, continuing along 1533 Z. The highway is 2 blocks wide until it goes to 1 block wide at around -40,000 X. It was expanded on from an early hut griefed in 2016 very close to spawn. As of April 2020, the highway is being maintained and expanded by the 1533 Highway Gang and Maintenance, and reaches to about -72,000 X, with a segment at around -250,000 spanning for 5,000 blocks. It is currently one of, if not the, longest overworld highways.
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History[edit | edit source]
At the original end of the highway (-50,000 X), the original highway maintenance individuals and travelers claim that a build griefed in 2016 (a small house at around -1000 X) made a small path resembling a dirt road due to it extending slightly beyond the ruins. The path would be expanded on in later years, mainly in 2018 and 2019. The 1533 Highway starts at -1,800 X (due to a grief in the earlier path) and goes one block wide before consistently maintaining a 2 block wide status. Due to a construction accident as well as unknown shifts, some large parts of the road shift to as far as 1519 Z in early portions of the road, especially between 20-30 thousand. It goes back to 1 block at around -40,000 X. The highway receives heavy traffic from newfags (especially in 2019/2020) and is generally unknown to the 2b2t community. Since the 1533 Highway originally started at -1,000 X and was assumed to be accidentally griefed within various spawn grief, large and small remains of the highway leading up to -1,800 are very visible. The highway crosses threw multiple known and unknown Western, Southern and Northern Highways, including the Old Spawn Road (~-13,000), Flower Trail (~-9,000), and the 32k Alpha Bridge (name from signs, at -32,000).
Reason for the Highway[edit | edit source]
The highway is thought to have been used for early travel to Eldorado, a large terrain mound built with gold and diamond blocks. It is unknown, however, as even original highway sources claim they're not too sure.
Major Griefs[edit | edit source]
Most players believe the highway ends at -30,000 X. However, this is due to a break in the highway spanning about 10-15,000 blocks. This break was created by demolition from griefers. Original highway travelers thought this break was due to a large base at -47,000 X, and that the base members didn't want the base discovered. A former member of the 1533 HGM has fixed all highway destruction up to its original end at -50,000 X, and it's current expansion.
Notable Locations[edit | edit source]
- Ruins of Castle Hatehart, an important base used in the 4th Incursion and a meetup by Veterans.[1] (-8.3k)
- -26k Harbor and Rest (the location of the original highway grief and break)
- -27k Fishing Bay and Mob Spawner
- (Judging from signs) 2014 Facepunch Base (-45.1k)
- Original -50k History Board (along with a new one)
- Dava Industrial Park (as of April 2020) (-51k)
- 2012 Base used by WishMKR and others, visited by SalC1 and others, was subject of a sign thought to be written by Fit but later it was later discovered it was fitquaser (-52.1k)
Notable Highway Workers[edit | edit source]
- Fredmodulars (~20,000 blocks)
- fishface231 (~15,000 Blocks)
- urmadk1d (~6,000 blocks)
- Publius_Sextus (known as a traveler who added guardrails and repaired long parts of broken highway)
- Capw
- Sapa_Inca (presumed)
- Wunked (Repaired damaged Wither parts)
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Capw
