A devoted Minecraft participant has managed to succeed in the sport’s Far Lands after 14 years of taking part in. This long-running Minecraft achievement has seen the participant elevate over $500,000 for charities through the years.
Older versions of Minecraft featured a bug that noticed the sport’s procedural terrain era fully break roughly 12.5 million blocks away from the preliminary spawn level. For almost each participant, that was far sufficient away that it did not actually matter, as they’d by no means go far sufficient away to ever encounter it. The anomaly noticed large partitions of stone seem on the finish of the map, and was dubbed the Far Lands by the Minecraft neighborhood. Nonetheless, it was patched out of later variations of the sport.
Minecraft Participant Reaches Far Lands After 14 Years
Taking part in on an older construct of the sport to make sure the Far Lands nonetheless exist, Minecraft YouTuber and streamer KurtJMac has lastly accomplished their journey after over 12.5 million blocks traveled. A clip from their October 4 stream reveals them lastly seeing the Far Lands for the primary time, concluding a journey that started again in March 2011, when Minecraft was nonetheless in beta. He was simply 40% of the way through his Minecraft challenge back in 2021, so he has managed to make fast progress over the previous few years.
Because the begin of KurtJMac’s Far Lands or Bust problem, he has raised over $500,000 for a number of charities and had his efforts acknowledged by the Guinness World Records for the longest journey in Minecraft. It isn’t clear what KurtJMac plans to do now that he has accomplished his journey, though few may blame him if a brief break from Minecraft was on the playing cards.
The open nature of Minecraft means that it is ripe for unique challenges for gamers to tackle themselves. These sorts of challenges don’t provide any in-game rewards; the satisfaction serves as its personal reward. Whereas this is not for everybody, the concept gamers create their very own enjoyable in Minecraft is a core tenet that has allowed the sport to thrive for therefore lengthy.
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November 18, 2011
- ESRB
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E10+ For Everybody 10+ Due To Fantasy Violence
