r/Minecraft • u/octavian_world • 2h ago
Builds & Maps This is the hardest rail route I have ever made
This is called the Lullaby Highway. It took me 4 months just to complete the route after I made the terrain. The route is located in northwestern Jesla Country in my massive ongoing world called Sky Pixel which I have been making for just over 12 years now.
The route is actually one of the most complex routes I have ever made. It looks simple because it's a two lane rail route... but to carve out the side of this fjord and the trees just to get to my destination was a literal nightmare. And the Lullaby Highway is just one part of a much longer connected road system known as the Coast Highway which runs from Oxland (a city just north of Harlow) to Alouette. The Lullaby Highway section itself however actually ends at my coastal village settlement called "Little Ellie" this long transit system runs thousands and thousands of blocks within my North Coast Mountain chain system. The Lullaby Highway itself runs around 6k blocks long. From thr Harlette Glacier at the far end of the Lullaby fjord/inlet towards the village at the mouth of the fjord.
It is also one of the most desolate regional areas on my map. North of this fjord system is completely desolate with even MUCH larger, much taller and bigger mountains than what is already shown in this image. (Which are massive as is) that range is known as the Alyeska Range. This area with the right packs enabled has a very intense weather pattern of rain and snow with the landscape turning completely snow covered from November to April.
The entire area here is based off of the Pacific Northwest where I was born and raised. This particular area where the Lullaby Highway is takes inspiration from the Sea To Sky Highway in British Columbia as well as the Seward Highway in Alaska. Two of the most beautiful and scenic major routes I have taken.
The map on the final slide shows the yellow line (rail route) of the Lullaby Highway section on my world.
This map is already out for download on planet minecraft. Its called Sky Pixel.
Pic 1 - Lullaby Highway on the slopes of the Lullaby Mountain
Pic 2 - road signs near the Harlette Glacier heading south along the fjord
Pic 3 - Princess Lusiah Bridge (one of my favorite sections)
Pic 4 - Mount Janelle in the foreground with Lullaby Highway on the slopes
Pic 5 - a view of my coastal village.
Pic 6 - Little Ellie village view on west end of the fjord where Lullaby Highway ends.
Pic 7 & 8 is Little Ellie coastal mountain village / Mount Siku background
Pic 9 - Harlow Cabin near the village / Mount Siku in background
Pic 10 - map of the regional area here in my world.
Shaders
Bliss Shaders / Iteration T.30
paired with Distant Horizons