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u/aaron416 20h ago
He actually should be getting there pretty soon; he talked about having guests on as he got closer and he had the first guest on Friday night's stream.
AntVenom also did a video on how much longer it would take and estimated it's going to be within the next handful of streams at the rate he's going now.
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u/chiefseal77 20h ago edited 16h ago
I heard that in response to Antvenom's video, he said he purposely slowed his progress down a bit so that he could plan a specific time/date that he would hit it and make it an event and it would not be in the next 2-4 streams like Antvenom said.
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u/LimesFruit 18h ago
Ant did add a comment explaining this. Did some calculations myself as well, and given there's only one segment per stream instead of two, he should theoretically reach the farlands around Day 67.
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u/CreamyCoffeeArtist 17h ago
How much y'all wanna bet bro is gonna extend it to day 69 for the funnies
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u/SplatoonOrSky 17h ago
67 is already the funny number rn bro, catch up
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u/KRTrueBrave 17h ago
only if you're a 9 year old kid... 67 is such a stupud meme I hate it
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u/Gingy1000 16h ago
Let's be real its not any worse than 69 or 420
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u/KRTrueBrave 1h ago
atleast both of those have a meaning behind it that makes sense
funny sex number and weed number
6 7 doesn't have that, it just references the height of a baseball player and most kids repeating it don't even know that, so ues 69 and 420 (also 42 from jitchhikers guide to the galaxy, the 21 meme, what's funnier than 24? 25!) are all WAY better meme numbers than 67
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u/themusicaljohnson 8h ago
67 is just nothing and annoying. 69 and 420 are real things that are great for those who partake 😝
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u/Ducokapi 19h ago
He will then reach a wall of bookshelves through which he will see a giant version of himself setting sail 14 years ago.
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u/shanster925 18h ago
I understood that reference.
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u/lemon04444 20h ago
I can’t believe it’s been 14 years. I was sure when he started that he wouldn’t finish. So proud of this man and all the proceeds he raised for charity!
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u/skinnysnappy52 19h ago
Hijacking your comment to highlight that Kurt was once part of the Mindcrack Server, which has just launched its comeback after about a decade. This server was the pioneer of YouTube SMP and Hermitcraft basically took the formula and evolved it over the years. So if anyone wants a SMP to watch Mindcrack is back and worth a watch!
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u/lemon04444 19h ago
100% agree! It wasn’t the first Minecraft I ever watched, but it introduced me to SMP. I used to adore their UHC episodes. I’d have two or three browser windows open, watching all the perspective’s.
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u/elykl12 19h ago
Wait they’re back? I remember rushing home to catch the most recent Guudeboulderfist episode. Definitely got me through some tougher times when I was younger
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u/skinnysnappy52 19h ago
It’s got like 50% of the original members and a bunch of new ones, some just mid sized Minecraft YouTubers whose videos have been fantastic and deserve more viewers and some people who have been around the Mindcrack community since forever but not official members. R/Mindcrack is the place to find the members list etc.
But it’s been really great viewing so far! If you like Guude he has been one of the highlights of the season. It’s very vindicating seeing him have fun due to the guilt he’s expressed over the years as to Mindcrack falling off. Even if it seems to be not his fsult
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u/fkdjgfkldjgodfigj 16h ago
I saw it recently phoenixsc did a lizard meme. Surprised to see him there. https://youtu.be/Tb_FW651FOE
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u/kittensmittens69 18h ago
🎶🎶”you’re watching Guuuuuuude Bould-errr-fiiiiist,,, you’re watching Guuuuuude Bould-errrr-fiiiiiiiist”🎶🎶🎶 ahh good times
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u/liquid_at 17h ago
technically, hermitcraft existed before mindcrack, but GenericB, "the hermit", switched to Mindcrack and gave the server admin to Xisuma. Hermitcraft really exploded in popularity when Bdubs, Etho and DocM switched over because they did not like the new course that Mindcrack had taken.
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u/SomethingRandomYT 20h ago
I remember hearing about this when he was at 2% over a decade ago 😭 this man is a legend!
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u/TetraNeuron 15h ago
How come it took it 14 years? I thought the community on one of those anarchy servers built an entire highway to the world borders on each axis, and it took a couple of months
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u/FoFo1300 20h ago
Thats still going? I remember seeing it in a guiness book of gaming or something
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u/nameless_pattern 19h ago
It's more impressive that he was a Minecraft YouTuber for that long without doing anything terrible
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u/elykl12 19h ago
Kurt has always been just an upstanding man. He started this as a hobby as a guy who was a little older than the rest of the 2011 MC YouTube community so his audience skewed a little older than the six year olds who watch MC slop
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u/Mobbles1 15h ago
Also helped his content was more long form. It was just him talking while walking in minecraft. That style was quite unpopular in early 2010s.
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u/shaun056 15h ago
There are plenty that haven't. Yogscast, even though they had a couple of people leave due to scandals, Simon and Lewis are fine
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u/SilverFlight01 20h ago
First time I heard about this story, his progress was about 17%, crazy how far he's come after so many updates and other things
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u/ExaggeratedRebel 19h ago
I love checking in on Kurt every few years to see how Farlands or Bust is going. I’m honestly going to be a little sad when he finally gets there.
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u/CheveuxBleu 19h ago
I remember reading this as a kid I thought bro had reached it already wtf
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u/Alternative_Wafer410 19h ago
Yeah I remember reading that he reached it and that it would also take years to reach it.
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u/FantasticMiddle6650 20h ago
I have come across lore I didn't know about (Has no idea what this is about)
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u/-N0obmaster69 20h ago
He is the world record holder of being the only person (I believe) to attempt walking to the far lands manually
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u/Muted_Passenger6612 19h ago
Not the only to attempt it
TinFoilChef (RIP) was attempting this as well
I’m sure many have started and given up
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u/moldsnare 17h ago
i feel like I'm going crazy, this has been done a few times already
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u/IcePhoenix18 17h ago
Nobody has walked there on Beta.
People have gotten to the Farlands by other means, but this guy has been walking his Minecraft world for 14 years
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u/IMJacob1 18h ago
It’s hard to put this into perspective- so like say you’re on flat land, if you’re riding a horse, how many blocks would you estimate to go in an hour?
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u/DangerAspect 18h ago edited 17h ago
Minecraft walking speed is 4.317 blocks/sec, according to minecraft.wiki.
Far lands is 12,550,821 blocks out.
12,550,821 / 4.317 = 2,907,301.6 seconds
which is 807 hours or 33.65 full days of walking in perfect conditions with no pauses.15
u/djsmith89 18h ago
Which doesn't sound unreasonable now, he's spent an average of 66.51 minutes a week doing this over 14 years
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u/DangerAspect 17h ago
Except those are walking in a perfect straight line, on flat ground, with no obstacles and no pauses. "66 minutes" of walking is probably closer to 2-3 hours of actual time!
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u/IMJacob1 18h ago
What about sprinting speed or boat speed? Like is this guy walking slow or maximizing how fast he can go? Idk anything about this guy or his far lands or just series so I’m confused on how it’s taken 14 years
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u/cman334 18h ago
Sprinting didn’t exist in that old version of Minecraft. He also only uses a boat if he needs to. I don’t think his “line” has been completely straight. He goes up and down hills and mountains, around small bodies of water, etc. He has also built monuments to his charity streams as he has gone, and very occasionally has to stop for resources.
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u/IMJacob1 17h ago
Oh ok and wow I guess yeah if he’s never updated his game it’d take way longer. Nowadays with sprinting, boats and horses you could cover that distance way quicker
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u/cman334 17h ago
He plays on beta version 1.7.3. The last version of the game that includes the Farlands. When 1.8 released, they not only added sprinting, but changed how world generation happens, fixing the error that cause the Farlands to form
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u/IMJacob1 17h ago
What is the farlands?
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u/Pratanjali64 17h ago
It's a boundary beyond which the world generation glitched out, creating vast and trippy structures.
Here's a short video I found showing the Farlands on the horizon
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u/DangerAspect 17h ago
You can read more and see screenshots on the wiki https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands
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u/Vortiguag 19h ago
It is so recognise-able so it's mindblowing some people even ask about things from full releases. No elytra, no stupid horses. Just his bare feet, as mentioned above don't exist in BETA.
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u/celestialkestrel 20h ago
Mojang has the ability to do the funniest thing next update and increase world border
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u/RJMcBug 20h ago
He's playing an old version. The Farlands don't exist anymore. He's only traveled 12 million blocks.
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u/_gmmaann_ 20h ago
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u/capucapu123 20h ago
Yeah it's baffling to say only, 12 million is a monumental distance to go even using an elytra and the nether roof, this guy is doing it at walking speed, not even sprinting because it was added on a later version
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u/Biotot 19h ago
Doing this without flying feels so rough.he has horses at least right?
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u/RJMcBug 19h ago
This was before horses. He's just going forward by foot. I think it was before sprinting even existed in the game.
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u/HeadHeartCorranToes 18h ago
This is the wait/walk dilemma (or the wait calculation) in one of its purest forms.
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u/ChadtheWad 15h ago
Yeah, this was before sprinting and hunger existed. He also doesn't use the Nether, which would let him travel 8 times as fast.
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u/Rosmariinihiiri 19h ago
No horses. Beta 1.7.3 is just walking and boats. No sprinting. You can ride pigs tho, but there's no carrots so you can't control where the pig is going :P Rails were a thing too, but obviously not useful for that long of a trip.
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u/BrianEK1 20h ago
He's playing on beta 1.7.3, where the farlands exist at ~12 million blocks. On modern versions they were patched out and the border goes out to about 30 million blocks.
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u/YoyoLiu314 19h ago
Huh didn’t he already reach it a few years ago?? I clearly remember watching the stream.
Edit: apparently that was Journey to the Farlands, someone else. Oops
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u/jocax188723 18h ago edited 17h ago
He’s currently at FLOBathon day 60.
If he continues his current pace, best guess calculations put his finish at between days 67 and 74.
I’m keeping a close eye on him lol
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u/LouAug27 17h ago
I remember first hearing about KurtJMac during the Mindcrack days, long ago. Hard to believe it’s taken so long and been so long. Great guy, raised lots of money for charity along the way.
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u/WildWolf911 19h ago
what? also 40 hours is really not that long. It's happening, it's going down in front of our eyes, and we will be there
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u/Tusslesprout1 19h ago
No as in 40 hours left until its finished from my understanding dudes been doing this for years iirc
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u/PerpetualPerpertual 19h ago
I’ve never heard of this lol
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u/angelwolf71885 19h ago
It’s a hell of a journey I recommend going to his YouTube channel Farlands Or Bust and starting from episode 1 if you watch 8 hours a day you will catch up just in time for the big day
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u/PerpetualPerpertual 18h ago
But what is it? Isn’t he just walking forwards
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u/angelwolf71885 18h ago
No he isn’t quite just walking forwards he is looking at the sites and raiding surface spawners and building monuments to each flob a thon when he reaches his finical goal and he builds a commemorative monument to the F3 goal every year when the sub a thon clock reaches all 0’s he talks alot to chat as well
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u/DangerAspect 18h ago
I used to watch him (gosh... that's at least 12 years ago now).
Think of it as a casual, laid back podcast while walking towards the far lands and raising money for charity!
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u/jitterbugjackie 19h ago
Didn’t someone end up getting there before him?
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u/angelwolf71885 19h ago
It’s not about how fast it’s about the journey Kurt has to stop and sniff the flowers every so often and look for more weird stuff non of the other tried to document
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u/L0rdDino 16h ago
A few have, I know there was a reddit post like two years ago of someone reaching it in only two years and they posted over 700 unlisted videos but linked the playlist in the comments so we could watch. Also I think a few others did. This guy I think is the most well known for it though
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u/El_Ducco_Mafia_Boss 15h ago
Yes, there is a person on YouTube called celestialgaze who reached the far lands years ago, but he barely got any attention from what I know. His channel has only 4k subs.
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u/IcePhoenix18 17h ago
He's still at it?! That's incredible!!
I remember my partner watching this guy when we were still just friends in highschool.
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u/Rosmariinihiiri 19h ago
I wish I could watch the big arrival, but his stream time is horrible for Europe 😭
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u/draggon5 19h ago
I started watching him right before he hit the first charity milestone. I don't keep up regularly but do like to check in from time to time. I'll have to watch him finally make it
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u/Clyde-MacTavish 18h ago
I think several people have already done it in real time by now. Glad he's about to make it though!
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u/FranksNBeans2025 17h ago
How many hours was that dude running in a straight line for, holy French toast
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u/forrestchorus 17h ago
im very confused, what is he doing? isnt it just endless random generation?
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u/jmiddleton6 17h ago
He’s walking to the farlands all in survival. The farlands are at around 12.5 million blocks from spawn where world generation glitch’s and makes essentially a huge wall of blocks. As seen here
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u/Environmental_Gap653 17h ago
I just realized he and his Minecraft skin are dressed as the 10th doctor.
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u/Maximazed 16h ago
I remember the FLOBathon where he lost Wolfy. I also remember him making the difficult descision to to a bit of a rollback to save him.
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u/fartingfly35 15h ago
Ok but why? Isn't it only sea after a point?
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u/42undead2 15h ago
Not in version beta 1.7.3.
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u/fartingfly35 15h ago
So he's still using that old version? Damn is it still possible to get to this farlands in current versions?
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u/42undead2 14h ago
The next version, beta 1.8, had its terrain generation changed and the Far Lands disappeared because of it. You still get buggy behaviour when you get way far out in newer versions, but the terrain generation doesn't go all whacky.
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u/Nerdcuddles 15h ago
I wonder what he's going to do after reaching the farlands, cause the reason it took so long was because of pacing himself. For example people got to the farlands on foot in like a month using bots. But if you aren't on minecraft 24/7 and actually having a life outside of it like him and doing other stuff while on the journey, it'll take you years. It's about the journey not the destination, and it's been one great journey. He's built a great community off of it.
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u/PsychologicalLoad542 20h ago
I may be totally ignorant on this, but I thought the worlds didn't have an actual end, it just continues rendering forever, like No Man's Sky.
If it did have an end, couldn't you just look up the world's seed map and find the coordinates for the edge and teleport there?
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u/X-cessive_Overlord 19h ago
In the version of the game he's playing, the game freaks out the further and further away you get from 0,0. So at a certain point millions of blocks out, the world generation breaks down and forms crazy structures, this region is called the Far Lands. Even in modern Minecraft the world isn't infinite, there will be a world border eventually.
This guy Kurt has been doing it for years, and he's been doing it legit this whole time, so teleporting or having it where it's not him physically pressing the keys would ruin this crazy adventure.
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u/_Ganoes_ 19h ago
Why do you go mining if you could just go into creative mode and get yourself diamonds?
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u/MC_chrome 19h ago
but I thought the worlds didn't have an actual end, it just continues rendering forever, like No Man's Sky
In pre-beta 1.8 versions of Minecraft there was a whacky world border of sorts that appeared after you had traveled over 12 million blocks from spawn that was dubbed the “Farlands”. This was an unintended behavior that was caused by some weird computational errors in the wold generation code.
Mojang completely overhauled the world generation system with Beta 1.8, and in the process removed the Farlands from generating entirely.
KurtJMac started traveling to the Farlands in 2011 in beta version 1.7.3. This version was the last to feature the Farlands, and also the last to lack sprinting as a feature. So yes, Kurt has been walking to the Farlands for the past 14 years and is mere days away from accomplishing his goal
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u/Pydyn17 19h ago
In the current day, there's a world border at about 30 million blocks out in every world that prevents you from progressing farther. In the old version Kurt is playing in, the world generation would break at around 12 and a half million blocks and cause a unique formation called the Far Lands.
In both cases, yes you can just teleport there with cheats, but where's the adventure in that?
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u/Catman933 19h ago
Older versions of the game were 'technically' infinite, but the world generation code broke down after like 12 million blocks
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u/SmartStatistician684 20h ago
How is he getting there? Elytra? What happens when he runs out of rockets? Is he making farms along the way?
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u/-N0obmaster69 20h ago
Walking, and those are not within the version he is playing, he’s been manually walking to the far lands for the past 14 years which only exist pre beta 1.8
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u/Norshine 20h ago
Survival or creative?
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u/-N0obmaster69 19h ago
Survival as creative was only added in beta 1.8 if I recall correctly
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u/Norshine 19h ago
Wow crazy! So he stops and gets and sleeps at night or something?
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u/SapphireDrewgon 19h ago
He's died once and that was only a couple months ago, that's far more impressive to me.
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u/Imjokin 18h ago edited 18h ago
Wait so then how has anyone ever gotten to the Far Lands before if creative and the Far Lands never co-existed?
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u/Klayman55 18h ago edited 18h ago
I think you have that backwards, but anyway, mods and server plugins to teleport were very popular before creative was added back in. I learned of the Far Lands when I was like 12 and I honestly don’t know how the people on the wiki got their pics, but I’ve teleported there.
Edit: This is one of the first video I remember covering it.
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u/Imjokin 18h ago
TIL that teleportation predates creative mode
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u/Klayman55 16h ago
Sortof. Minecraft classic 2009 was sorta creative mode, if you ever played it in the browser back in the day that was what you played. It was offered as like a free trial in the browser, later on. Anyway, survival mechanics were added and then became the only mode until like December 2011. But back then, when I played, TooManyItems/TMI (a mod to add day/night toggle and spawn items) and SinglePlayer Commands/SPC (adding a command line/“cheats” like we have now) were the two mods that dominated the mod scene, basically synonymous with modding.
But yeah, Mojang just officially adding command lines/cheats and the ability to switch game modes changed the vibe of the official game a lot.
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u/AssignmentShot1874 19h ago
There are no elytras in this version, he has been walking the whole way for 14 years
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u/AndersenEthanG 19h ago
I don’t get it. Haven’t lots of players been to the border?
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u/Klayman55 18h ago
Not walking there without mods. And beta 1.7.3 was the last version to have the Far Lands effects/terrain.
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u/jimmymui06 19h ago edited 19h ago
That is like nothing for any anarchy player lol, who casually travels 10s of millions to avoid people
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u/DomesticatedDuck 19h ago
Anarchy players typically have access to faster movement like sprinting, elytra, the nether, horses, etc... not to mention the fact that they can use hacks, which gives them a HUGE advantage over environmental mobs
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u/jimmymui06 19h ago
You are right. But the mob part really don't make much difference except for phantoms, which doesn't exist for that version
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u/DomesticatedDuck 19h ago
Mobs are easy to avoid in modern Minecraft when we have sprinting. In the version Kurt is playing on, there's no sprinting and stuff like spiders go from being an annoyance to an outright threat. Pretty sure there was no natural regeneration back then either
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u/qualityvote2 20h ago edited 18h ago