After A Epic Journey Lasting Almost 15 Years, YouTuber KurtJMac Has Finally Reached Minecraft's Far Lands

It's taken 14-and-a-half years, but Minecraft YouTuber KurtJMac has yet reached the Far Lands.

In an effort truthful bodacious it adjacent has its ain Wikipedia page, KurtJMac kicked disconnected his travel backmost successful March 2011 aft Minecraft creator Markus Persson suggested it was "impossible" to get there. And portion KurtJMac whitethorn not beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic to person reached the outer edges of the procedurally generated world, his effort is 1 of the astir famous, taking astir 15 years to execute and crossing the enactment connected October 4. He adjacent holds a Guinness World Record for the Longest Journey successful Minecraft without utilizing cheats oregon exploits, and has raised implicit fractional a cardinal dollars for charity.

KurtJMac yet reaches the Far Lands successful Minecraft. Image credit: YouTube / KurtJMac.

The Far Lands technically nary longer exist, having been patched retired of Minecraft ages ago, but they were discovered aft a terrain procreation bug created a unusual wall-like structure, fundamentally signalling the precise borderline of the world. You tin spot the infinitesimal KurtJMac realized helium reached the Far Lands connected his YouTube transmission astatine 3:43:27 connected the video "FLoB-a-Thon — Day 69 — THE FAR LANDS." He thought helium was getting adjacent — unless his balloons had been waiting determination for implicit a decade! — and aft acknowledging the crippled felt "a small spot laggy," the mythical partition came into view.

"Ohhhhh!" helium cried erstwhile helium saw it. "Who had their bets connected Ocean Biome?! Good gravy!"

"We whitethorn not beryllium the archetypal radical to person reached the Far Lands," KurtJMac continued, "but successful my publication we are perfectly the archetypal to person brought on specified an astonishing community, a generous community, and I would not person changed immoderate of it to person gotten present immoderate sooner. And I precise overmuch admit each of you being here."

So what happens next? As KurtJMac enactment it: "I'm conscionable gonna ever westward, everlastingly forward!"

Last week, Minecraft announced a large caller crippled update, Mounts of Mayhem, that volition beryllium spearheaded by the summation of, well, a spear. The sharp-tipped instrumentality is the archetypal caller limb added to Minecraft successful immoderate time, and the archetypal caller tiered point — 1 that is disposable successful progressively much durable variants — added since the hoe, backmost successful 2010. It'll present immoderate absorbing caller gameplay possibilities, including jousting.

For now, Minecraft fans tin engaged themselves with the game's latest update, The Copper Age, which is retired present and adds those adorable affable copper golems.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.