Few games offer the kind of freedom that Minecraft does. Whether you're building gigantic fantasy structures, making your own games, or just exploring random Minecraft seeds, Mojang's iconic sandbox game is still brimming with possibilities over a decade after its initial launch. One player has been pushing one such possibility to its literal limit by hiking through blocky hills and square valleys in search of the Far Lands, a location so far away from your spawn point that Minecraft's procedural generation begins to fail. After ten years, and over $450,000 raised for charity, his lonesome journey has gathered a considerable following, even if he still has a long way to go.
“I was just looking to make something a little bit different," Kurt 'KurtJMac' McNamara says. "At the time, I hadn't done any research into how far away the Far Lands actually were. It was just a spur of the moment decision: 'Oh yeah, I can do that, let's try to walk to the edge of the map, that sounds interesting'. I didn't fully grasp the sheer distance, time, and effort that would be required.”
The Far Lands isn't so much a place as it is a glitch that overloads the world, warping the terrain, and causing massive rifts to appear. The glitch is only present in older versions of the game (McNamara plays on Beta version 1.7.3) and occurs 12,550,821 blocks away from any seed's given start position. At the time of writing, Kurt is roughly 4,857,000 blocks into his journey; about 39%.
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