The New Netherhub!

For a quick and easy way to travel over long-distances, please feel free to use our new netherhub!

Special thanks to camel*, cpt_cannibal, erinnight, miss_spiccy, and others for helping build this so quickly! (only took 3 days!)

There are no linked portals yet but it will operate in the same way the old one did. Just make a track to your properly placed portal.

maybe we should give people which slot they are in so we dont have criss-crossing rails like last time.

Looks nice

Looks good!

I think if you allocate slots, you'll end up with people having to criss-cross tracks.
I think everyone is sensible enough to work out which side they'll be on, and keep it neat

Man this looks awesome! I've took a look at it in the server, and it is just a very awesome build, better and nicer looking then the old one!

Looks most succulent. Yeah people need to be groovier with their placement else all sorts of anarchy will break loose like last time.

The spots on the wall are for doorways to the portals. Please choose appropriately in the proper direction to your portal. Always dig out the larger number first!

Looks very nice! Roomy, too. Will get a shop set up as soon as I get a location for my town, link in a nether portal, etc......so it may be a while, but still!
Looks great!

Finished building my tunnel. Needed 5 stacks of rail so went caving. Had about 30 diamonds, 6 stacks of iron ore, my U3F3E4 pick and a whole lot more. Went afk for 5 seconds and got creeper bombed, lost it all!

cpt_cannibal wrote:

Finished building my tunnel. Needed 5 stacks of rail so went caving. Had about 30 diamonds, 6 stacks of iron ore, my U3F3E4 pick and a whole lot more. Went afk for 5 seconds and got creeper bombed, lost it all!

Probably should have built yourself into a wall before you left.

I replaced the entire netherhub floor with sandstone halfslabs. The only normal blocks left are the ones immediately lining the glass (lava pit) because with slabs you could easily see them, and they looked bad.

At one point a ghast floating below the floor shot up at me through an opening, blew out the floor, and I fell into the lava lake. RIP freshly enchanted diamond gear! Again.

Anyways, lets see if that stops ghasts from spawning in the hub.

The latest snapshots before the 1.3 release mobs could spawn on half slabs. They changed it back?

Hm yeah I think you're right, except only when the slab is in the upper half. We could put them as lower half slabs, but might look a little funky where they meet up with normal blocks.

Mobs will spawn on upper slabs because its a whole number (feet on 11.000). They still will not spawn on lower half slabs because its not a whole number (feet on 11.5, I believe).

Lower half slab floors are not bad looking, imo. And I think it won't clash with this theme of a nether hub at all. Since the columns and portal all gradually meet with the floor and ceiling already, it will just be like wide stairs instead of normal ones.