What with our claiming so many Islands around us it occurs to me that we need a faster way of getting to and from each Island as we develop them. As a result I would like to propose zoning for potential in-country rails and horse tunnels, as well as one necessary route.

Firstly I think that Horse tunnels should be zoned to y-level 30 so as to be both sufficiently below the ocean and sufficiently above both diamond mines and rail tunnels so as to avoid running into them.

Secondly, I think that rail tunnels for the empire should be zoned to y-level 20 so as to be sufficiently below both the ocean and the horse tunnels, and sufficiently above most diamond mining activity.

Futhermore, depending on the height of the rail and horse tunnels, there should be a small gap of a few blocks for any international rails to pass either between the two tunnels, or below the rail tunnels, yet still above diamond mining level.

As for my proposals for routes. I would like to put two horse tunnels along these brown lines. with other possible routes from that point being the Green, then Purple route directly to, and then under grenadeninja's offshore platform to NDZ. Or the Brown then Purple route to grenadeninja's offshore platform and then into town.

For now I'm going to dig the Brown route going south because I think we need some sort of horse tunnel, and I need the stone. It's easy enough to redirect it later.