Boat Routes
 Boat Routes
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 The pier at Temple Of Supreme Fishiness | |
| About | |
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| Owner |  nosefish
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| Contributors | Glen Team, shypixel, 14mRh4X0r, thesprazzzler, Anna_28
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| Category | Infrastructure |
| Public? | Yes |
| Started | August 2011 |
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| Coordinates | X=N/A Y=N/A Z=N/A |
| Dimension | Overworld |
| Map link | |
nosefish loves to explore by boat. After countless hours of sailing, he realized that he could make a large part of the map accessible from his Temple Of Supreme Fishiness by digging just a few short canals to connect major bodies of water. Players have since marked several interesting routes with buoys and plans to expand the network over time.
After finishing the Great Circle and Lothendal routes, as well as some branches, nosefish undertook an epic voyage to navigate their whole extent. Read his account of the journey here.
Notes:
Dear builders, when building roads or rails across water, make sure to leave spaces at least 3 blocks wide and 2 blocks high to allow boats to pass.
- In order to be able to successfully navigate these routes, your render distance should be set to at least 4. When making, make sure to place buoys every 64m or less.
- Blocking the boat routes or meddling with the buoys is grief. Should you find any kind of damage on your travels, please tell a mod or admin about it.
Completed Routes
Great Circle Route (Green/White)
Why would you warp to the sights of central Freedonia when you can go all the way round by boat? See all these exciting places from a new point of view:
- — Ocean City
- ↔ Junction Temple Of Supreme Fishiness
- ↔ Junction Sigma Castle
- ↔ Junction with Samoroth route
- ↔ Nazca
- ↔ Junction Dam
- ↔ Junction Giant Cookie
- ↔ TwinTowers
- ↔ Junction with Lothendal Route
- ↔ RigCity
- ↔ Glenfiddich
- ↔ Tayrons BioDomes
- ↔ Obsidian Palace
- ↔ Project Angel
- ↔ Central Nexus
- ↔ Casa de Austria
- ↔ South Benjamese Empire Junction
- ↔ HillValley / Epicaria
- — Ocean City
Branches
All branches of the Great Circle are marked with white buoys.
- Junction Temple of Supreme Fishiness ↔ Temple of the Heavenly Liquorice ↔ Temple Of Supreme Fishiness
- Junction Sigma Castle ↔ Sigma Castle
- Samoroth route: Junction with Great Circle ↔ Samess Cove ↔ Giant Cake
- Nazca ↔ Aryina City ↔ HellFireForge
- Junction Dam ↔ Dam ↔ Batugus
- Junction Giant Cookie ↔ Giant Cookie
Lothendal Route (Orange/White)
Explore the wild lands of Freedonia's east and relish the sights of ancient Port Dhal, or attend a game of Pigchinko at Lava Town. If you are feeling adventurous, go all the way to Mycelia in the eastern ocean.
- → Junction with Great Circle
- ↔ Emucraft (unmarked branch; why would you want to go there anyway?)
- ↔ Junction with Shypixel route
- ↔ GodlyCheeze's Asian Temple
- ↔ Port Dhal
- ↔ Lothendal Wood & Stone Company
- ↔ Al Wahat
- ↔ Edge of the World Pier
- ← Mycelia
Branches
- Shypixel Route (Orange): Junction with Lothendal route ↔ Lava Town
SlowRiot Route (Red/White)
Go from Spawn to the Central Nexus by boat! You could, of course, just go through the South-East Nexus, but where's the fun in that? In a boat, you will pass lots of interesting places along the way:
- → Spawn pier
- ↔ PirateShip
- ↔ Cheese's Show Room
- ↔ Oppressia
- ← Central Nexus
Acsidol Route (Yellow/White)
"hey the water at your beach house is turning to ice" - 
bubba_basti
Because of the then-new snow biomes and the destruction of its original destination, the Acsidol Route had been drastically shortened. With Rutopia having become a warp, 14mRh4X0r planned a route through the eternal ice.
Aeginus Route (Lime Green/White)
Visit the picturesque town of Autumnwood and check on the progress of the construction of UnderWater while you're at it.
- → Glenfiddich
- ↔ Oakland
- ↔ UnderWater
- ← Autumnwood
Enjoku Route (Purple/White)
Connects the ancient city of HillValley with Bastiansdorf in the far west.
- → HillValley (junction with Great Circle)
- ↔ Georgetown
- ↔ Astro Nova
- ↔ North Benjamese Empire Junction
- ↔ Noelle (junction)
- ↔ Rasuka
- ↔ Deckland Junction
- ↔ Pacifica
- ↔ Valley of Arches
- ↔ Junction Holiday Resort
- ↔ Junction thesprazzzler's Island
- ← Bastiansdorf (junction with Mushiana Route)
Branches
- Benjamese Empire Branch: Benjamese Empire Junction ↔ KSCity ↔ Tussenstad ↔ BenjaminStad ↔ TwanStad ↔ Isfiskholt
- Eco-tour: Junction Holiday Resort ↔ bubba_basti's homework holiday resort
- Awesome landscape: Junction thesprazzzler's Island ↔ thesprazzzler's Island
- Noelle: Town designed for new players
- Mushiana Route (Pink/White): Novum Culta ↔ Bastiansdorf
- Deckland Branch (Cyan/White): Deckland Junction ↔ Deckland
New Venice Route (Light Blue/White)
Journey to the beautiful town of New Venice from the Central Nexus, passing Diamondmall and Artville, with a very quick branch to Greenhaven Village.
- → New Venice (junction with Snow Golem Route)
- ↔ Diamondmall
- ↔ Diamond_City
- ↔ Barendrecht
- ↔ Artville
- ← Central Nexus
Branches
FlyingJellyfish Route (Magenta/White)
The ultimate adventure: cross the vast Freedonian ocean in your tiny boat, explore a mysterious temple on a jungle island, discover underwater caves and ravines, admire large-scale artwork at StatuePark, attend a lecture at Avalon University, navigate treacherous swamps and winding rivers, and when you're done, have a cool drink at the NewHaven Ocean Bar.
- → Novum Culta
- ↔ Junction Banhammer Island
- ↔ Mycelia
- ↔ Kangaroo Islands
- ↔ Monkokoro
- ↔ Rose Island
- ↔ Junction StatuePark
- ↔ Waterchinko
- ↔ Avalon
- ↔ Forsaken Island Village
- ↔ Junction Forsaken Island Temple
- ↔ Xandronia Oil Co.
- ↔ Pinktopia
- ↔ Cloud City
- ↔ Junction NewHaven
- ← NewHaven
Branches
- Statues: Junction StatuePark ↔ OvisAries ↔ StatuePark
- Archeology: Junction Forsaken Island ↔ Forsaken Island
- Banhammers: Junction Banhammer Island ↔ Banhammer Island
- Remote village: Junction Untertal ↔ Untertal
- Boaty McBoatBranch: Junction NewHaven ↔ North Of Nowhere
- Mushiana Route (Pink/White): Novum Culta ↔ Bastiansdorf
- Heaven On Sea: (Underneath main bridge) New Haven ↔ Heaven On Sea
Sprazz Route (Black/White)
Travel to Melouthous from the Enjoku Route - with branches to Game City and MountJackal.
- → Enjoku Route
- ↔ Epicville
- ← Melouthous
Branches
- Gaming Hub: Junction Game City ↔ Game City (Unmarked)
- Major City Link: Junction Mount Jackal ↔ MountJackal (Unmarked)
14mRh4X0r Route (Blue/White)
Travel the mountainous route between the Acsidol and Sprazz routes and visit the scenic Birchwood
- → Junction with Acsidol route
- ↔ Nexus Hub North-East (Red) 1
- ↔ Diamond Hill, Cherath and Eiremall
- ↔ Junction with Birchwood branch
- ↔ Shypixel's Gorges
- ↔ Game City
- ← Junction with Sprazz route
Branches
- Birchwood: Junction with 14mRh4X0r route ↔ Birchwood (unmarked)
Lord__Reginald's lighthouseMushiana Route (Pink/White)
- Also known as the Anna Route
Connecting from Novum Culta and the FlyingJellyfish Route to the southern expansion of the map, all the way to Bastiansdorf in the west.
Made by Anna_28 with help from 
MusheyRoom and 
MIAGT.
The Mushiana Route will also be extended to go around the map and reconnect with the FlyingJellyfish Route to create a giant circle. For more information see the Mushiana route plan.
- → Novum Culta
- ↔ Diplomat Highway
- ↔ The Library of Babel
- ← Baker's Edge
- ↔ Darkshadow Village
- ↔ Sumer
- ↔ Junction RED
- ↔ Jackal-Corp HQ
- ↔ Pie Island
- ↔ Cascade Hotel
- ↔ Sandy Bottom Nexus Temple
- ↔ Shaver Island
- ↔ Sandy Bottom
- ↔ Ironguard
- ↔ Pogo Island
- ↔ nikta's private island
- ↔ Automata
- ↔ Junction Pink Forest
- ↔ Twin torches
- ↔ Flag of Switzerland
- ↔ Frostagon
- ↔ WizardHome
- ← Flower Farm
- ← Foray
- ↔ Explorer's Island
- ↔ Megalon
- ↔ Mount Nyan
- ↔ Tal Rasha's Tomb
- ↔ Fourth Bay
- ↔ Sporangium
- ↔ Acacia South jungle temple
- ↔ Acacia Glade
- ↔ Ponn Village
- ↔ Southern Outpost
- ↔
cibrage's village - ↔ Junction New Eden branch
- ↔ Czech it out!
- ↔ Junction Sunrise Hotel
- ↔ Sunrise Hotel
- ↔ RobbiePitts' Pyramid
- ↔ Junction Acacia Rivers
- ↔ Acacia Roads
- ← Vizima
- ← Highest Natural Block
- ↔
Draco297's place - ↔ Port Lochrainn
- ↔ Temple of the Gods
- ↔ Waterboy0048 Mining Co. Mesa Division
- ↔ Junction GodWall Branch
- ↔ The McDonald's
- ↔
superfajter's place - ↔ Cammo11 & Supervogel1's Isle
- ↔ Junction Janlyn Arena
- ↔ Ivy Estates
- ↔ Fakestaff HQ
- ↔ DankOceanBridge
- ↔ Treetown
- ↔ Alkoisland
- ↔ Junction Winter Branch
- ↔ Snappy's 3D Pokémon Statues
- ↔ Zekrom
- ↔ Spring City
- ↔ Lavender Isle
- ↔ Monumental Tower
- ↔ Maywell village
- ↔ Weaselburg
- ↔ Nyfitsa island
- ↔ CoffeeTowne
- ↔ Bastiansdorf
- ↔ thesprazzzler's fishing shack
- ↔ Saikyo
- ↔ Mushiana Harbour at Project Moon
- ↔ Agarsted, formerly Aeston South Outer Islands
- ↔ Bastillia Isle
- ↔ Gamelous Isles
- ← Cobble Port and Aeston Harbor of Refuge at Aeston Isle
Branches
- Flyingjellyfish Route (Magenta/White): Novum Culta ↔ New Haven
- American branch: Diplomat Highway ← Little America
- Baker's Edge branch ← Baker's Edge
- Sumer Branch (pink/white): Junction - Junction Sun Route (-> Light Sun Bay, Pietoria) ← Sumer
- R.E.D. branch: Junction RED ↔
Excalibur_NUMNUM's Grinder V3 ↔ R.E.D. island ← De's Town of Explaininess - Eternia Detour (Pink) Mushiana Route ↔ Mushiana Route ↔ Aeginus Route
- Syrus branch: Ironguard ↔ Amontein ↔ Treetopia ↔ Gran Syre Under Construction/Awaiting Connection by
Draglide12 ↔ NECROPOLIS ↔ Dragon River Peak City (junction with Emerald Route) - Tassoni Branch (Magenta/Blue) → Junction ↔ Milva ↔ Radiant Lagoon ← Tassonia
- Pink Forest branch: Junction Pink Forest ↔ Anna's Forest ↔ gricer and friend's place ↔ Brocean ↔ New Dublin ↔ New England ← Freedonia Witch Farm
- Sugar branch: Junction Sunrise Hotel ← MineWood
- New Eden branch: Junction New Eden branch ← New Eden
- Acacia Rivers branch: Junction Acacia Rivers ↔ Azurban ↔ Acacia Road International ↔ Inn of the Modding ↔ Fortress al Drake ← Al'un Village ← Rustgrove ← Pallet Town
- GodWall branch: Junction GodWall Branch ← GodWall
- Janlyn branch: Junction Janlyn Arena ↔ Desert NPC Village ← Janlyn Arena
- Double branch: Junction Janlyn Arena ← Meridian City
- Jibbly branch: Ivy Estates ↔ Cozville ↔ Jibtopia ↔ The Rings ↔ Zalnosk ↔ Ravenswood ← The Ancient Citadel of Arcadia
- Winter branch: Junction Winter Branch ↔ Aperture Logo ↔ Centari Forest ↔ The Iron Reef ↔ Winterthorn (junction with Snow Golem Route)
- Enjoku Route (Purple/White): Bastiansdorf ↔ HillValley
- Moon branch: Mushiana Harbour ← Hafenburg
- Callian branch: Mushiana Harbour ↔ Aquamos ↔ Lake Callian ↔ Port Beerian/Iron Mall ↔ Sergei Fortress
Newport Route (Cyan/Light blue/White)
A boat route that is mostly canals through the southwest area of the map. Built after the 2020 map expansion and have Newport as its main destination. Made by 
Martin19_12 and 
snakyman.
- → NewCity17
- ↔ VanishTown
- ↔ Newport (main destination)
- ↔ Project Eros
- ↔ Bumble Bee Intersection
- ↔ Bunker City
- ↔ The Nest
- ↔ Carder Bee Intersection
- ↔ Mining Bee Intersection
- ↔ Mason Bee Intersection
- ↔ New Poitiers
- ← New Eden
Route modification permissions
If you need to change a section of this route for whatever reason, you can do it, as long as you provide a new connection with a minimum width of six blocks. You also have to add buoys to the new part to prevent confusion.
Branches
The Bee branches are made by 
ChivalricCode.
- Bumble Bee Route (Orange/Brown): Bumble Bee Intersection :↔ Flower Faerie
- Carder Bee Route (Yellow/Brown): Carder Bee Intersection :↔ The Nest ↔ Valley of the Mountain Kings ↔ Flower Fantasy
- Mining Bee Route (Orange/Gray): Mining Bee Intersection :↔ Wolf Castle and Bear Cave ↔ Finland
- Mason Bee Route (Yellow/Black): Mason Bee Intersection :↔ Flower Field
- Newcity17 route (same colors): Starts where the main route to Newport ends.
Amethyst Route (Magenta/Pink)
A boat route through the central southwest area of the map. Made by ChivalricCode.
Snow Golem Route (Snow/Jack o'Lantern)
Zigzagging through the southwestern corner of old Beta terrain, this boat route goes from New Venice to Winterthorn, thus serving as a connection between the New Venice and Mushiana routes. The buoys aren't made of wool, but rather two snow blocks topped with a jack o'lantern, hence the name Snow Golem Route. Made by 
Daltalf with the help of 
Txkeykeeper and 
RainBd.
- → New Venice (junction with New Venice Route)
- ↔ Dye in a Fire Arena
- ↔ Yet Another Tower
- ↔ Mons Albus
- ↔ Eevee's Playground
- ← Winterthorn (junction with Winter branch of Mushiana Route)
Branches
- RMS Titanic Branch (red/red) Winterthorn ↔ Summervale ↔ RMS Titanic
Emerald Route (Emerald Block/White)
Travel from Dragon River Peak City to the Emerald Mall, enjoying the high-quality destinations along the way! This route will hopefully be a helpful addition to the infrastructure in the most Southern region and form a useful connection to allow others to go further in the future. Built by 
Ren in late 2021, with help from 
Erttum and Anna_28 in planning. Click here to get a map view of the junction at Dragon River Peak City.
- → Dragon River Peak City (junction with Syrus branch of the Mushiana route)
- ↔ Garidan
- ↔ Arch-Warwick
- ↔ Isle of Fallhaven
- ← Emerald Mall
Swedish Route (Blue/Yellow)
Explore the sparsely populated northwestern part of the 1.12.2 expansion. Maybe stop and attend a race at the Mendington Ice Circuit:
- → Snaketown (Snakyman Holding A Giant Salami)
- ↔ Tenochtitlan
- ↔ New Sweden
- ↔ Mendington
- ← North-west outpost
Branches
- Bee route (Yellow/Black) started on 23rd of January, 1 day after the creation of Valheim (Valheims own Route), currently it is only a Branch of the Swedish route, but it will be expanded in the near future.
Maid Route (Light Green/Green)
Travel in the North Western 1.12.2 expansion area with this line. Starting at the same point as the Swedish Route (near the Snakyman Holding A Giant Salami Statue), Built by 
Maidy_Yuki on June 30th 2022, and a new extension opened on August 4th 2022 connects the Swedish Route to the Mushiana Route
- → Snaketown (Snakyman Holding A Giant Salami Statue)
- ↔ Isle of Snak (New Forrrest)
- ↔ Trexlergrad
- ↔
Cuecue2027's Town - ↔ Snow Branch Junction
- ↔ Misashima Station (Junction inside the Tsukiyama Channels System)
- ↔ Tsukiyama
- ↔ Poggington
- ↔ Zvarri Branch Intersection
- ↔ Mihastopol
- ↔ Junction to Nexus Borderlands Purple 2 and Gold Mall
- ↔ Atlantis Mk.II
- ↔ Bird City Area
- ↔
Stickysocks2006's base - ↔ Skylands
- ↔ Unknow Archipelago
- ↔ Ruth Island
- ↔ Tedster Island
- ← Mushiana Boat Route Junction
Branches
- Zvarri Branch (Lime/Lime) Zvarri Branch Intersection:
Vestgon's Village ↔ Zvarri - Banner Branch (Magenta/Magenta) Banner Branch: Vexillum Village ↔ Atlantis Mk.II
- Snow Branch (Green/Cyan) Snow Branch Intersection: Misashima Station ↔
Leonado56's base ↔ Trolltown ↔ 
KingThomasVII's Castle ↔ Snowland ↔ The Slums ↔ North-west outpost (Swedish Route Junction)
Panthera Route (Yellow/Brown)
A boat route in the Northern area of the map. Buoys placed by ChivalricCode and 
SadieSadie.
- → North Of Nowhere (junction with FlyingJellyfish Route Boaty McBoat Branch and Mosaic Route)
- ↔ Point_Nemo_V2
- ↔ Nexus Borderland Hub North (Pink) 2
- ↔ Diamond_Town
- ← Hastings
Yugboat Route (Black/Red)
As far south as you can travel,
tracking along the near edge of the inhabitable world,
traversing deserts and the most inhospitable forests.
Buoys placed by 
YugRekooh
Still growing daily - as fast as I can paddle.
22.5km long at the moment. That's about 17% of the total distance around Freedonia
Simmuel Route (Lime Green/Light Blue)
Explore the ancient southeast corner of the original map with 
Simmuel's Route, connecting multiple landmark places in the region.
- → Port Dhal / Lothendal Route
- ↔ Isle of Muu
- ↔ Emucraft / Castle City (branch)
- ↔ Kurai Cho (branch)
- ↔ Newlands (branch)
- ↔ Pyetopia
- ↔ Nexus E3 / Townetria (branch)
- ↔ Nexus SE1 / Waterfall Branch junction
- ↔ Forestberg
- ↔ Thurston (branch)
- ↔ Mistral Valley (branch - WIP)
- ↔ Caso
- ↔ Xandronia (branch)
- ← Aeginus Route junction
For more information refer to SimmConnect's page regarding this Boat Route.
Branches
Waterfall Branch (Lime Green/Pink)
- → Nexus SE1 / Simmuel Route
- ↔ MonopleVille
- ← Skyline*
Note: due to uneven water in this region, it is necessary to disembark and embark on the boat again on the designated platform between Skyline and MonopleVille.
Travel eastbound to the Navarro region, the United Texas Coalition's beloved home! The route takes you both sailing on the high seas and paddling through narrow rivers, and the grandeur of Dubina awaits at the end.
- → Flyingjellyfish Route (Junction with FlyingJellyfish Route)
- ↔ AnnEon
- ↔ New Market
- ↔ New Cairo
- ↔ Eloto
- ← Dubina
Cake Route (Pink/Light Blue)
This boat route is one of the shorter ones as it primarily serves to connect Cakeville to the existing bout route system.
- → Emerald Route (Junction with Emerald Route)
- ↔ Americaville
- ↔ Cakeville
- ← Village of Ballahack
Mosaic Route (Black)
While this boat route serves as the primary transportation from Nexus Borderlands Hubs to the site of the mashup of Freedonian's builders to make the ultimate mansion chunks, it also connects two of the FlyingJellyfish Routes. The reward for 25 participants was only achieved on 27 December 2022; over 5 months since the event's conclusion by someone who has not even partaken in the particular event.
- Boat route is displayed with black & white stripes on the map overlay for visuality's sake.
- → Mosaic Mansion
- ↔ Untertal (junction with the FlyingJellyfish Route Untertal Branch)
- ↔ Nexus Borderlands Pink 3 (Pink Tree City)
- ↔ North Of Nowhere (junction with FlyingJellyFish Route Boaty McBoat Branch and Panthera Route)
- ↔ Edgeton
- ← Nexus Borderlands Pink (North) 2
Branches
- Tigris Route (Blue concrete / White concrete)
- Mosaic Mansion southeast ↔ Babylonia
- Forrrest Loop (Green / Black)
- Through the ocean of maparts, drive yourself to settlements created from nothing to a large piece of land with creative touches.
- → Nexus Borderlands Hub N2
- ↔ Nexus Borderlands Hub N1
- ↔ North Noob Island
- ↔ Snakyman Holding A Giant Salami (junction with Maid, Swedish and Bee Routes)
- ↔ Project Chunk Fix
- ↔ Mooshroom Reserve
- ↔ Socorro
- ↔ Maltapple (transfer to the Maltapple Route)
- ↔ Zeraora &
Hijacked_ maparts - ← Loopback to Nexus Borderlands Hub N2
Shack Route (Blue/Orange)
Explore the Northeast Wilds of the 1.12.2 expansion. See one of the many unfinished circular builds in the water or simply take in the wilderness before landing on the beaches of Shackcity:
- → Delta City
- ↔ Monkokoro (Junction with FlyingJellyfish Route)
- ↔ Jcgs Town
- ↔ Donor Isles
- ← Shackcity
Branches
- Nexus Connector (White): Nexus Intersection ↔ Nexus Borderland Hub East (Orange) 1
Cat Route
- → Junction with Great Circle & Lothendal Routes
- ↔ HellStar Bridge
- ← Junction with the SlowRiot Route
Quarantum Route
- → Winterthorn (junction with Snow Golem Route and Mushiana Route Winter branch)
- ↔ Transgender Pride Bridge
- ↔ Junction Mushiana Routes
- ↔ Griffinden
- ↔ Rub mapart
- ↔ Fort Chuwu
- ← Nexus Borderlands Hub SW2
Ian Route
- → Nexus Borderlands Hub W2
- ← Pumpkin Town
Bier Route
- → Newcuntington Southeast
- ↔ CVN68
- ↔ Skate702 Base Rebuild
- ← BierTown
Baba Buoy Route (Green/Orange)
- → Flyingjellyfish Route (Junction with FlyingJellyfish Untertal Route)
Future
Planned, accessible
These places are already accessible from the network, but the way is unmarked:
- Lily Pagoda (from Great Circle near Casa de Austria)
Planned, inaccessible
These places could be made accessible with reasonable effort:
How to mark a Boat Route
Plan
- Thorough planning can save you a lot of work. Placing a few wool blocks seems like an easy task, but it's actually quite a difficult and slow process once you get to deep water.
- After choosing the start and end points, find a route that does not require many canals or even tunnels to be dug on the map.
- Connect to the existing network if possible.
- Avoid snow biomes if possible. Note that some frozen areas are no longer snow biomes because of Minecraft updates, and will not freeze again once you've cleared a canal through the ice. VoxelMap or JourneyMap (or any other minimap mods) can help a lot here.
- The more settlements or points of interest you can connect, the better.
- Choose a block and colour combination that is not in use. If it's just a short branch off the main route, use just one colour. Most branches are marked in white.
- Find a name for the route. Traditionally, they are named after well-known players who have some connection to them, but you can choose any name you like.
- Document your progress on this wiki page from the planning phase in order to avoid situations where two players use the same colour combination or build parallel routes.
Buoys
- A buoy consists of two blocks placed vertically of different blocks or colours with a torch on top, the lower block at water level. The most commonly used blocks are wool.
- If there is an obstacle on one or more sides so that it's dangerous to pass the buoy there, attach redstone torches to the impassable sides of the buoy.
- Buoys should be spaced so that the neighbouring ones can be seen with the render distance of 4 chunks. Do not place more or less than necessary to guide players.
- All buoys should be placed on the same side of the waterway. If you have to place one on the opposite side to mark an obstacle, invert the colour combination, e.g instead of orange-white on the left side place white-orange on the right side of the way.
- To place a buoy in deep water, there are four methods:
- Build a dirt tower from the seabed up to 1 block below the surface. Place the buoy on top and remove the tower with a diamond shovel starting at the top. A helm with respiration and/or aqua affinity enchantments helps greatly.
- Place a lily pad on the water and place one wool block under it, which will make the lily pad pop off. Place the second block and torch on top of the first wool block.
- Wear Frost Walker Boots and walk on ice, breaking ice where you want to place the buoy. Place the first wool where the broken ice was, and place the second block and torch on top of the first block. This method might be messy, however, so make sure not to clog up any boat routes with ice, but the ice should go away naturally.
- Simply use
/up 1to place a glass block. Please break it once you are done.
Canals/Tunnels
- Look at the map to see if there is a better way. Building a Canal or even a tunnel is much more work than placing buoys and will slow you down considerably.
- When digging canals or tunnels, try to alter the landscape as little as possible.
- Canals should be 5 to 6 blocks wide to allow two boats to pass each other. Very short canals may be narrower, but must be at least 3 blocks wide.
- Tunnels need the same width as canals, and a height of three blocks above water level to allow players to leave the boat without taking damage.
- Light up canals and tunnels with torches on both sides, at least every 5 blocks.
Dealing with Snow Biomes
- Go around if you can; it's incredibly tedious to break all the ice unless with the help of Efficiency pickaxes or /heatwave, and a lot of work to keep the water from freezing.
- Build a roof, leaving at least three blocks of air above water level. Use glass if possible to make it less intrusive.
- If there is open water on both sides of the canal, you can place two rows of blocks (snow is customary because it fits the environment) above the ice parallel to each other, from one end of the frozen area to the other, leaving a space 5 blocks wide between them. Remove the ice between and under the blocks. The water will not freeze again, because it can only freeze next to a solid block.
- Simply lighting it up will not work! High-intensity light does melt ice but does not keep it from forming as it used to in earlier Minecraft versions, so you'd have a canal with patches of ice forming and melting constantly - highly dangerous.
Equipment
When marking a boat route, you will need:
- A generous supply of blocks of your choice
- Many torches
- Redstone torches - amount depending on the route
- Dirt to noob tower to the water surface
- Lily Pads to facilitate placing buoys in deep water
- Logs - compact storage for wood to make workbenches, boats, signs, whatever you may need
- Shovel to clear underwater scaffolding and dig canals. Efficiency enchantment helps.
- Pickaxe for building tunnels, rarely for canals
- Shears to quickly remove misplaced wool blocks
- One bucket to fill your canals with water.
- Weapons and armour to deal with mobs. Try to get a helm with the respiration and/or aqua affinity enchantments. Remember that Knockback on swords is bad when fighting skeletons in the water!
Boat route data
Once you are complete with placing buoys, you can record the coordinates of your buoys with the help of the Macro / Keybind Mod. This will require /jumpto and technical skills, so it is best to leave it to players who know how to do this work. With this process, boat routes will be displayed on the server's Overviewer map.
History
- Beginning of August 2011: nosefish marks the route from HellFireForge to Samess Cove with white buoys.
- End of August 2011:
stromhurst approaches him with the request to connect Ocean City and the Temple Of Supreme Fishiness, which nosefish accepts. To match the colours of Ocean City, nosefish chooses green and white as the colours of the buoys. He later decides to try to extend the route all the way to Glenfiddich, which works out surprisingly well. HellFireForge and Samess Cove become branches. The idea of a larger network of routes forms. - 1 September 2011: Orange and white route completed. After staring at the map for an unhealthy amount of time, nosefish sets himself the task to make the green and white route into a full circle.
- 7 September 2011: Great Circle Route completed. Read and see what nosefish did next.
- 12 September 2011: shypixel has built an awesome glowstone canal through the ice surrounding the harbour of Lava Town and asks nosefish to connect it to the network.
- 14 September 2011: SlowRiot Route and Shypixel Route completed.
- 21 September 2011: Acsidol Route and Hippywood branch completed.
- January 2012: Ice is forming on some sections of the Boat Routes after changes to the biome code in a recent Minecraft update.
- 31 January 2012: The Great Circle is once again navigable. The Acsidol Route was shortened to end at the Santana because of ice.
- 1 February 2012: Aeginus Route completed, following a request by
Aeginus to connect his town Autumnwood to the network. - 15 February 2012: Started extending the Lothendal Route towards Mycelia. Completed on 16 Feb. 2012.
- 8 March 2012: Lothendal route changed near Emucraft to avoid yet another pesky snow biome.
- March 2012: Another Minecraft update, more new snow biomes blocking several long sections of the Great Circle and SlowRiot routes.
- 19 June 2012: All blockages have been fixed. The waters of Freedonia are once again safe.
- 7 January 2013: Enjoku Route and two branches completed.
- 29 January 2013: 14mRh4X0r conceives the idea of a boat route connecting New Venice to the Central Nexus.
- 4 February 2013:
crystalriver approves, and she, 14mRh4X0r and thesprazzzler set to work starting from New Venice, marking the route with light blue/white buoys. - 8 February 2013: The Light Blue/White boat route is finished after thesprazzzler marked the last part of the route.
- 6 March 2013: nosefish completes marking the FlyingJellyfish Route.
- 28 March 2013: thesprazzzler completes marking the Sprazz Route.
- 26 March 2015: After clearing out a lot of space for a new route and an extension of the Acsidol route, 14mRh4X0r commissions
Haromis to mark these. The new route is to be marked with blue/white buoys. - 28 March 2015: Haromis finishes marking both routes and named the blue route the 14mRh4X0r route.
- 21 November 2015: Anna_28 and MusheyRoom start on the Mushiana Route.
- 9 January 2016: The Mushiana route is connected to the Flyingjellyfish Route and Novum Culta.
- 29 March 2016: Haromis adds Noelle to the Enjoku Route at
JZTech101's request. - 10 October 2017: The Mushiana route is connected to the Enjoku Route and Bastiansdorf.
- 7 September 2020: The Mushiana route, worked on by
Hirudo6, now extends through Saikyo and terminates in Aeston Isle. - 23 October 2022: Simmuel Route built, connecting the surroundings of Forestberg with
Lothendal Route. - 27 December 2022:
rhyzofan completes construction of the Mosaic Route connecting Mosaic Mansion and North Of Nowhere, with connection to northern Nexus Borderlands Hubs added later on. - February 2023:
TTuge builds the Eternia Detour which includes 5 new routes of various lengths connecting the existing routes of Aeginus Route, Mushiana Route and Simmuel Route Waterfall Branch. - 27 March 2023:
XavierSilverMC completes a route of Green/Orange starting off the Flyingjellyfish Route Untertal Branch and extending out towards Verdantium Isle.
Boat route data
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