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Far Lands
Minecraft location
The "Far Lands" as it appears in Beta 1.7.3 of Minecraft: Java Edition
First appearanceEarly versions of Minecraft (2011)
Created byMojang
In-universe information
TypeWorld generation error

The "Far Lands" is a glitch present in early versions of the sandbox video game Minecraft (2011), appearing as a wall of corrupted terrain indicating the edge of the game's world. The glitch is caused by floating point errors in the code, which accumulate the further the player travels out from the center of a Minecraft world and ultimately results in glitched terrain and errors in the game's physics. The Far Lands only exist in early development versions of the game's Java Edition and were patched out before the official release; the last version with the Far Lands is Beta 1.7.3.

While the Far Lands only existed within early versions of Minecraft, they became popular within the game's fandom. Multiple players embarked on journeys to travel to the Far Lands by walking, including YouTuber Kurt J. Mac and his let's play series Far Lands or Bust that ran from 2011 to 2025, and KilloCrazyMan, who in 2020 became the first user recorded to have reached the Far Lands. The Far Lands were later featured in the 2015 episodic video game Minecraft: Story Mode and referenced in the 2018 crossover fighting video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Overview

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Minecraft is a sandbox video game where players explore procedurally generated worlds made up of voxels (cubes).[1][2] These worlds are intended to be virtually infinite, although technical limitations prevent this. Current versions of the game feature a world barrier that prevents the players advancement past 30 million blocks from the center of the world.[3][4]

Earlier versions of the game, however, had no such hard barrier, and the game would begin glitching the further out the player went.[5][6] Ultimately, this culminated in the "Far Lands", a fissured wall of corrupted terrain that generates after traveling 12,550,821 blocks away from the world's center,[7][5] and indicates its edge.[8] The wall of terrain is caused by floating point errors in the game's code, which accumulate the further the player gets out from spawn and ultimately result in the glitched wall.[9] Other effects from traveling long distances in the world included errors in the game's entity pathfinding, physics,[10] and player movement.[5][6]

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson noted the existence of the Far Lands and other glitches since first adding infinite worlds to the game. In a blog post in March 2011, and later in an interview with The New Yorker, that he knew Minecraft terrain generation would start breaking down the further the player traveled. However, he did not find fixing these errors to be an urgent issue, thinking that players would likely never travel far enough in regular gameplay for it to be a significant problem.[11] He also thought that the terrain generation and other long-distance errors would add more "mystery and charisma" to the Far Lands,[10] which he penned the name of to refer to these errors.[11] The Far Lands and its related errors were patched out of the game by it's official release;[8] the last version of the game with the Far Lands is Beta 1.7.3.[12]

Legacy

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Despite only existing in early versions of the game before its official release, the Far Lands gained notoriety within the game's community.[8][13][14] The Far Lands is featured in the fourth episode of the episodic video game Minecraft: Story Mode,[15] and is the namesake for Steve's "Classic Mode" route in the 2018 fighting video game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.[7] In September 2026, a debug option was added to Java Edition that re-enables the generation of the Far Lands, although it generates differently than in beta versions of the game and generation errors begin at two million blocks out instead of twelve and a half million.[13]

In 2011, YouTuber Kurt J. Mac started a Minecraft let's play series titled Far Lands or Bust, aiming to walk from the center of the world all the Far Lands.[12] The series began on March 28, 2011,[11] and concluded on October 4, 2025. The series raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for multiple charity organizations, including Child's Play, Direct Relief, and the Equal Justice Initiative.[6] Guinness World Records recognized "Far Lands or Bust" as the world record for the longest recorded journey in Minecraft.[16][17] Multiple other players also embarked on their own journeys to reach the Far Lands, many of which did so before Mac did;[8] the first recorded player to walk to the Far Lands was "KilloCrazyMan", who walked from the world center to the Far Lands in nine months and completed his journey in June 2020.[18]

In 2026, the Far Lands became the name sake for the "TikTok Far Lands", a category of TikTok videos considered too obscure or horrifying to be recommended to users under normal circumstances. Jessica Maddox, a professor at the University of Georgia, compared the Minecraft Far Lands to the video category, arguing that the former represented a point in the game where players could not travel any further, while the latter represented an "end of the internet where things get weird".[14]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Gallegos, Anthony (23 November 2011). "Minecraft Review — PC Review at IGN". IGN. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
  2. ↑ Ashdown, Jeremy (11 November 2010). "This is Minecraft". IGN. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Guthrie, Robert (17 August 2016). "Minecraft's 'Infinite World' Versus No Man's Sky's 'Infinite World'". Kotaku. Archived from the original on 4 August 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Peel, Jeremy (7 February 2013). "Just how big is a Minecraft world? Big, as it turns out". PCGamesN. Archived from the original on 9 September 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 McGlynn, Anthony (10 April 2021). "One Minecraft player's ten-year journey to the Far Lands". PCGamesN. Archived from the original on 5 October 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 Macgregor, Jody (2025-10-05). "It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  7. 1 2 "Minecraft Player on a Decades-long Walk to Far Lands". Gamepressure.com. 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "After 13 years, Minecraft's most legendary journey to the Far Lands has just passed the final milestone before the end". GamesRadar+. 2024-04-19. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  9. ↑ Evans-Thirlwell, Edwin (2023-09-07). "Starfield modders are trying to join up maps into complete planets, cue memories of Minecraft's Far Lands". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  10. 1 2 Persson, Markus (10 March 2011). "Terrain generation, Part 1". The Word of Notch. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2010 – via Tumblr.
  11. 1 2 3 Parkin, Simon (2014-01-23). "A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  12. 1 2 Morales, Jowi (2025-10-06). "Incessant gamer reaches fabled edge of Minecraft map after more than 14 years — has been walking towards mythical 'Far Lands' at the edge of the map since 2011, covering 12,500km in-game". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  13. 1 2 Kaneko, Shion (2026-09-02). "『マインクラフト』最新開発版にて「ファーランド」を復活させる"隠しオプション"が見つかる。約15年ぶりに姿をあらわす、幻の地". AUTOMATON (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  14. 1 2 "The unsettling world of the 'TikTok Farlands'". www.bbc.com. 2026-06-19. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  15. ↑ Davis, Justin (2016-01-14). "Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 4 - A Block and a Hard Place Review". IGN. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  16. ↑ "Far Lands or Bust: One man and his wolf walk across Minecraft for charity". PCGamesN. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
  17. ↑ "Longest journey in Minecraft". Guinness World Records.
  18. ↑ Stella, Marloes Valentina (2025-10-06). "Minecraft streamer completes 14-year journey walking to the Far Lands". Polygon.com. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
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