Yukar9 wrote:Sure, you can call it like the nether. But the nether still takes hours to travel, and it's not useful at all in the way this would be.
It's unvanilla, but less so than the pvp world (pvp world is instant teleports, complete safety, completely free, from anywhere.) This would be instant, but dangerous and not free (to setup.) I think a lot of people have gotten too comfortable with the ease and safety of the pvp world.
Let's take the example of someone living a quarter of a million meters from the origin (they live 250,000 meters from 0,0, exactly).
For all purposes of this hypothetical situation, we'll assume you can make it to and from the origin and the hypothetical base that's 250,000 meters away by sprinting in a straight line with no interruptions between the two points, including breaks by food, to defend yourself, ect. As far as you are concerned, you are sprinting along a flat plane for as long as it takes you to reach the origin.
Minecraft's sprinting speed is 5.612 meters per second (source: minecraft wiki). Traveling 250,000 meters at 5.612 meters per second means you would complete this travel after (250,000/5.612) seconds, or 44,547.3984 seconds (rounded down to 44,547 seconds for simplicity), which equals 742.45 Minutes, or roughly 12 hours, 22 minutes, and 27 seconds.
Traveling this same scenario through the nether (which can easily be accomplished by making an underground tunnel), you would be effectively traveling eight times faster than you would if you were traveling the overworld, since one meter moved in the nether equals eight meters moved in the overworld. This brings your effective sprinting speed to (5.612*8 m/s) which is 44.896 meters per second. The same 250,000 meters you traveled in the overworld takes (250,000 m/44.896 m/s seconds), which equals 5568.4248 seconds (rounded down to 5568 seconds for simplicity), which equals 92.8 minutes, or about one hour, 32 minutes, and 48 seconds.
It only takes an hour and a half to cross far past what most players consider a safe distance from spawn, and even then getting within 10K or so of spawn is good enough to travel the rest via the overworld on foot. If you're having speed problems I feel bad for you son, minecarts exist and travel about twice as fast without you even having to hold anything down.
Expanding upon the previous math, if we know we travel at 5.612 meters per second, you can calculate just how far you can travel in the overworld in one hour, which is (5.612 * 3600), which equals 20,203.2 meters. Multiplying this by a factor of eight gives you the effective overworld distance one can travel in a single hour via the nether on foot, which equals 161.6256 kilometers.
Of course the obvious solution to this is to not cater to the people who insist on living a million blocks from spawn (which it would take 49 and a half hours to travel from there to the origin, six and a fifth hours via the nether) and encourage them to live closer to the origin if they don't want to be inconvenienced by distance.