19 Oct 2024
Founded as Moon
mingailas started the clan with CapyKing10, CaT_345, Volizray and xm4nn_. The rename to The Highway Men came days later, once it was obvious where the work was.
Our story
Started with a pickaxe.
From a small crew called Moon to the people connecting an entire server. The roads kept growing, and so did THM.
The clan
- Founder
- mingailas
- First name
- Moon
- Owner
- Ryazor, since 21 Mar 2026
- Before
- xm4nn_, then mingailas
- Precursor
- Highway Extension Group
- Standard
- 5 wide, obsidian
- Status
- Active
Roads, not bases.
mingailas founded the clan on 19 October 2024 under the name Moon. It was renamed inside a week, by which point CapyKing10, CaT_345, Volizray and xm4nn_ were already in the Nether and highway work had become the whole point.
The Highway Extension Group had just gone quiet, leaving 6b6t's main axes half-finished. THM picked them up and kept digging, over 100,000 blocks a day at peak. In March 2025 THM and The Watchmen agreed the five-wide standard, and the rest of the server followed.
The clan has changed hands twice and kept working through both. mingailas stepped down in August 2025; xm4nn_ moved up from co-owner and held it until March 2026, then promoted Ryazor. Under all three the axes kept moving outward, and on 8 May 2026 the last of them reached the border.
Log
How it got built.
Late 2024
100K blocks a day
Crews concentrated on the Nether axes and cleared six figures of blocks daily. THM became the de facto successor to the Highway Extension Group.
Mar 2025
Five wide becomes the rule
THM and The Watchmen negotiated a single width for all main Nether highways. It was unpopular for about a month, then it was just how highways are built.
21 Mar 2025
The 12-hour dupe
Ooranges posted a video of a TNT duplication exploit the clan had been keeping private. It was patched roughly twelve hours later, one of the shortest-lived public dupes on the server.
4 Aug 2025
mingailas steps down
The founder left the clan and the community after serious allegations. xm4nn_, until then co-owner and one of the first members, took over.
27 Jan 2026
Kitbot changes hands
Ooranges retired after building and running Kitbot since February 2025, and handed the bot and all of its code to MagnusKrill.
30 Jan 2026
The Meteor add-on ships
MagnusKrill released THM's own Meteor Client add-on. It splits the job in two, digging five-wide tunnels or paving finished ones with obsidian, so crews can divide the work and restock less often.
2 Mar 2026
Cardinals paved to the border
Every cardinal highway, north, south, east and west, was paved in obsidian all the way out to the Overworld world border.
21 Mar 2026
Ryazor takes over
xm4nn_ retired for personal reasons and promoted Ryazor from co-owner to owner before leaving.
8 May 2026
The last tunnel: 3.75M
South-east, the final remaining tunnel, was dug out to 3.75 million blocks. Every world border and every world corner in the Overworld can now be reached on a Nether highway.
Ongoing
Sabotage, and repair
The Highway Sabotage Collective walls off multi-thousand block stretches for weeks at a time. Repair crews clear them and the highways stay open.
Tooling
We wrote our own.
Nobody hands out kits for a 3.75 million block dig. Two tools carry the repetitive half of the work, and both came from inside the clan.
Kitbot
Discord bot
Hands out kits, teleports members to the working end of a highway on demand, and tracks how far each axis has got.
- Built by
- Ooranges
- Maintained by
- MagnusKrill
- Handed over
- January 2026
THM Meteor add-on
Meteor Client add-on
Digs five-wide tunnels, or paves finished ones with obsidian. Keeping the two jobs separate lets a crew split the work and restock far less often.
- Written by
- MagnusKrill
- Released
- 30 Jan 2026
- Two jobs
- Dig · Pave
Alliances
Who we allied with.
- The Watchmen4 Aug 2025 · closed
- The SpawnKeepers25 Dec 2025
- The Imperials4 Jan 2026
- TSR28 Mar 2026
- Dyselexia4 Apr 2026
- Saturn4 Apr 2026
- Lockdown Ops3 May 2026
- Cosmical31 May 2026
- Strata Crew3 Jun 2026
The Watchmen
Disbanded 5 Apr 2026beast_machine brought The Watchmen to 6b6t in early 2025 after years on 2b2t. They were the first clan THM signed with, and the pair settled the five-wide standard between them. After that they out-built every group on the server except THM itself.
They ran giveaways at a scale nobody has matched since. The clan closed on 5 April 2026; the highways they extended are still in use.
23
Member bases built
20,000+
Kits given away
#2
All-time highway output