The next Minecraft version adds a new resource to the nether: quartz. Unfortunately, like all new resource additions, it won't be in the existing explored areas of the nether...which is quite a lot of it.
I was discussing this with Woo, and I have a bit of a proposal: another world on the server which is intended primarily for resource exploitation instead of building. People could go visit it, take what they need, bring it back to the normal world.
Kind of like Europe and America...
ANYWAY.
This world could be replaced whenever a major resource/terrain change happens, and we want to take advantage of it without losing all our work in the current world, and everyone would be warned that this is the case so nobody spends a bunch of time building something.
Or we could just do this on an as-needed basis.
What do people think?
On an entirely unrelated note, don't try to ride a boat through the stargate.