After strolling in direction of the Far Lands for over 14 years, streamer KurtJMac’s “Far Lands or Bust Marathon Subathon”, often known as the FLoB-a-Thon mission, has been accomplished. The digital hike, which started in March 2011, reached its finish objective on October 4, 2025, when KurtJMac lastly walked into the fabled, vertical Far Lands on the fringe of the Minecraft map.
Moderately than an official a part of Minecraft’s biomes, the Far Lands are the results of a glitch that happens on the far edges of the procedurally generated sandbox world. Wanting very very similar to a Swiss cheese, the Far Lands type a excessive, straight wall stuffed with unending, cave-like holes. The Far Lands are estimated to spawn 12,550,821 blocks from the middle of a Minecraft world, so for those who got down to stroll there, in survival mode and with out cheats, as KurtMJac did in his Far Lands or Bust marathon, it’ll take lots of of hours to achieve your objective.
If you happen to’re keen to take a look at Minecraft’s Far Lands your self (although you would possibly wish to use mods quite than stroll for 14 years), beware that the glitch has been mounted in later variations, which is why KurtJMac accomplished his feat in Minecraft Beta 1.7.3.
Those that have missed it will possibly watch the stream on KurtJMac’s YouTube channel. Three hours, 43 minutes, and 25 seconds into the video, you may witness Kurt crusing throughout the ocean, in direction of what appears like an odd wall of mist, earlier than abruptly reworking into a wonderful wall of Far Lands rock.
Though Kurt knew he was nearing his objective, the precise place and biome sort of the Far Lands had been nonetheless a shock. In Kurt’s case, as if to underscore the distinction with a traditional biome, the Far Lands spawned within the ocean.
KurtMJac isn’t the primary to finish the journey into the Far Lands with out cheats or shortcuts, as this achievement goes to KilloCrazyMan, who accomplished his hike after simply 9 months in June 2020. Nonetheless, KurtMJac’s journey might be essentially the most well-known Far Lands mission, because it at the moment holds the Guinness World File for the longest journey in Minecraft.
Moreover, because of viewer donations, the Far Lands or Bust sequence has raised over $525,000 for charity since its inception in 2011. Former recipients embrace Youngster’s Play, Direct Aid, and the Progressive Animal Welfare Society. The present charity objective is to boost $50,000 for UNRWA USA, a UN company in assist of Palestinian refugees.
Having walked for lots of of hours, unfold throughout 800 Far Lands or Bust episodes, KurtMJac’s first step into the Far Lands looks like the top of an period, however he isn’t performed but. As promised on the Far Lands or Bust web site: “There are various extra glitched landscapes and curiosities to discover round and past the Far Lands that ought to maintain us busy for months… and maybe years to return!”
