“It was May, or so, when I started to notice the view numbers going up,” Kurt explains.
The mix of a rising format, a popular game, and a unique angle meant it wasn’t long before Kurt had a big audience. He uploaded the first episode of his journey to YouTube on March 7, 2011, right when Let’s Plays were starting to dominate the platform, with channels like Smosh and The YogsCast at the forefront. At the time of writing, Kurt is roughly 4,857,000 blocks into his journey about 39%. The glitch is only present in older versions of the game (Mac plays on Beta version 1.7.3) and occurs 12,550,821 blocks away from any seed’s given start position. 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. I didn’t fully grasp the sheer distance, time, and effort that would be required.” 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’. “At the time, I hadn’t done any research into how far away the Far Lands actually were. “I was just looking to make something a little bit different,” Kurt ‘KurtJMac’ Mac says. 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. 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. 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.
Few games offer the kind of freedom that Minecraft does.
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