# Far Lands or Bust **Far Lands or Bust** (often abbreviated FLoB) is a [Minecraft](https://www.edgepedia.org/minecraft) video series begun by YouTuber KurtJMac in March 2011, in which he walks on foot from world spawn to the Far Lands, a terrain-generation glitch region roughly 12,550,821 blocks from spawn, in Survival Mode without mods, cheats, or the Nether shortcut.[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) The first episode was posted on March 7, 2011, and the journey ran for more than 14 years before KurtJMac reached the Far Lands on October 4, 2025.[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) Along the way the series became a charity fundraiser that has collected over $530,000 for a range of causes.[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) | Key fact | Detail | |---|---| | Started | First episode posted March 7, 2011, on KurtJMac's YouTube channel[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) | | Game version | Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, the last version to contain the Far Lands bug[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) | | Destination | The Far Lands, a terrain-generation glitch beginning around 12,550,821 blocks from spawn[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) | | Method | Walking in Survival Mode, no mods, cheats, teleportation, or Nether shortcut[3](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/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) | | Arrival | October 4, 2025, after 14 and a half years[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) | | Charity total | Over $530,000 raised by fans since 2011[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) | | Output | Over 850 YouTube episodes plus hundreds of hours streamed on Twitch[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) | ## Spoilers ### Plot #### The expedition begins (2011) In March 2011, Kurt spawns in a fresh Minecraft world and plays it straight: he punches trees, builds a starter shelter, and does the usual early-game chores. In the eleventh episode, published March 28, he packs essential supplies, turns west, and vows to reach the Far Lands without mods or cheats, never to return to spawn. He knows the destination is around 12.5 million blocks away and, by his own account, expects the walk to take a couple of months or, at worst, a couple of years. The rules of the journey are brutally simple. Because the Far Lands were patched out of Minecraft after Beta 1.7.3, Kurt is locked to that ancient version forever, a version with no sprint button, no hunger bar, and no shortcuts. Every episode is a fixed ritual: he spawns at his last camp, checks his coordinates with the F3 debug screen, walks west across whatever terrain generates, boats across oceans when he must, and beds down at a new shelter before signing off. The distance counter becomes the series' heartbeat, and fans learn to read it like a sports statistic. Two milestones arrive early and set the series' twin engines running. First, the charity: beginning with Episode 031, Kurt launches a fundraiser for Child's Play, a charity that supplies toys, games, and books to children's hospitals. His initial goal is a modest $820, and fans blow past it in five days, raising $822.74, so he keeps raising the target, eventually to $8,200 and beyond. Second, the companion: in the episode after the fundraiser begins, Kurt tames a wolf, who is promptly named Wolfie. Wolfie becomes the series' co-star, teleporting alongside Kurt for millions of blocks, sitting on command, and occasionally being carried in a boat across water, since wolves are famously bad swimmers. On November 12, 2011, during a charity livestream marathon called FLoB-athon 2011, Kurt presses F3 and discovers he has walked 292,202 blocks from spawn. At the end of the season he builds the 292202 Monument at the site, the first of the series' monuments to its own arithmetic. #### The long middle (2012–2021) What follows is one of the strangest sustained projects in gaming: a near-daily walk through an endless procedural wilderness, narrated in a calm, dry voice over roughly 40-minute episodes. Kurt talks about gaming, space news, personal stories, and fan questions while the terrain scrolls by, and the audio track is also released as the Far Lands or Bust: Podcast Edition. The formula barely changes for a decade. The math itself becomes the drama. Long before the Far Lands, Minecraft's floating-point arithmetic starts to wobble, and viewers begin calculating where the next numerical boundary will fall. On April 8, 2015, during Episode 470, the terrain jitter visibly doubles, confirming that Kurt has crossed the floating-point boundary at coordinate 2,097,152, a quarter of the way to his destination. Fans had correctly predicted the exact coordinate. A glitch in a decade-old game gets treated like a comet sighting, with an audience doing the orbital math alongside the traveler. The series' obscurity ends in 2014 and 2015, when [The New Yorker](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-new-yorker) writes about the walk and [Guinness World Records](https://www.edgepedia.org/guinness-world-records) certifies it as the longest journey in Minecraft. By 2021, the tenth anniversary, fans have raised over $450,000 for causes that have expanded well beyond Child's Play to include the Equal Justice Foundation, animal welfare groups, and the CDC Foundation's COVID relief fund. #### Arrival (2025) **The walk that was supposed to take two years takes fourteen and a half, and in 2025 Kurt finally reaches the Far Lands.** After more than 850 episodes, hundreds of hours of Twitch streams, and roughly 12.5 million blocks, the flat, repeating western wilderness gives way to the broken, towering, impossible terrain that Mojang in 2011 declared no normal player would ever see. The man who set out in Beta 1.7.3 with a wolf and a donation goal of $820 arrives at the edge of the world with a charity total over half a million dollars and an audience that had, in many cases, grown up alongside the journey. The Far Lands turn out to be exactly what the legend promised: a wall of glitched, floating, cavernous terrain where the game's generator simply gives up, and Kurt walks into it, ending the longest stroll in gaming history. ### Characters - **Kurt J. Mac** is the walker, narrator, and entire cast for most of the series. Unflappable and dryly funny, he turned a stunt walk into a meditative institution, checking his F3 coordinates each episode like a pilot logging flight hours. - **Wolfie**, a tamed wolf adopted early in the journey, is the series' only companion. She teleports at Kurt's side for millions of blocks, rides out ocean crossings in boats, and is so central to the series that fans consider her the deuteragonist. - **The Farlanders**, Kurt's fan community, function almost as a character themselves: they calculate floating-point boundaries, name monuments after coordinate milestones, and drive the charity counter from $820 to over $530,000. ### Interpretations and controversies The series has no ending controversy in the usual sense, but its very length became a running debate: for years, viewers argued about whether Kurt would ever actually arrive, or whether the Far Lands were a horizon that existed only to walk toward. The eventual arrival in 2025 settled it. There is also a perennial technical debate in the community about the Far Lands themselves, since Mojang fixed the terrain generation bug shortly after Kurt began, making his Beta 1.7.3 lock not a stylistic choice but the only way the journey could exist at all. ### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations The series has a podcast edition, Far Lands or Bust: Podcast Edition, which repackages the walk's audio as a running conversation about gaming, space news, and fan questions. The 292202 Monument and the various waypoints built along the route survive in the world as a kind of built archive of the journey. There is no adaptation in other media, though the series has been profiled by The New Yorker and certified by Guinness World Records. ## The journey KurtJMac began playing Minecraft in late 2010 and started the series as a [Let's Play](https://www.edgepedia.org/lets-play) commentary channel; in the eleventh episode he decided to head west with the goal of reaching the Far Lands, a region he had read about in a blog post by Minecraft's creator on terrain generation.[4](https://farlandsorbust.com/about.html) The Far Lands appear in Beta 1.7.3 when the noise generators responsible for terrain shape malfunction due to integer overflow (when a number exceeds its storage limit, corrupting terrain generation), producing massive spongy walls of distorted terrain with long dark tunnels; the bug was fixed in Beta 1.8, so the version KurtJMac plays is the last in which the region naturally generates.[5](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands) The walk covers roughly 12.5 million blocks, about 12,500 kilometers in game terms.[3](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/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) At the game's walking speed of 4.3 blocks per second, the distance would take just under 136 days of continuous six-hour walking days; KurtJMac's pace, spread over episodic sessions, stretched the trip across more than 14 years.[5](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands) He traveled with a tamed wolf, Wolfie McWolfington, and pressed the F3 key to display coordinates only 12 times over the whole journey, relying on landmarks and signs instead.[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) Episodes function largely as a podcast, with the game providing a backdrop while Kurt discusses gaming, space news, and viewer questions.[6](https://www.api.motion.ac.in/vruscuuk/51384GS/xlukndr/25034G84S3/challenges_in__procedural-terrain_generation.pdf) The journey is recognized as a record: Guinness World Records lists it as the longest journey in Minecraft.[7](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/115885-longest-journey-in-minecraft) KurtJMac was not the first to complete the walk; the Minecraft Wiki records KilloCrazyMan as the first player to finish without a Nether shortcut, in June 2020, for which Notch awarded him $6,000.[5](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands) But the Far Lands or Bust series is described as the first widely known attempt, and the community of "Farlanders" who followed is attributed to it.[8](https://www.farlands.cc/timeline/) ## Charity fundraising KurtJMac turned the expedition's popularity into a fundraiser, citing inspirations such as the Zeldathon and Desert Bus for Hope.[9](https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/far-lands-or-bust-ends-kurtjmac) Donations have gone to Child's Play, Direct Relief, the Progressive Animal Welfare Society, the Equal Justice Initiative, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the [Near East](https://www.edgepedia.org/near-east) (UNRWA), among other gaming, public health, animal welfare, and human rights charities.[10](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/it-took-14-years-for-a-streamer-to-walk-to-the-far-lands-in-minecraft-but-his-long-journey-is-finally-over/) The total passed $468,000 by the time of his Patreon description and exceeded $530,000 after the journey's conclusion.[11](https://www.patreon.com/kurtjmac/about) • [2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) The series has been featured in The New Yorker online and on BBC4 Radio.[11](https://www.patreon.com/kurtjmac/about) ## Community rules and verification A community website at farlands.cc maintains formal rules for Far Lands journeys. Rule changes must be approved by two thirds of verified Farlanders, and the current rules apply in full to any journey started on or after September 20, 2022.[12](https://farlands.cc/rules/) The rules require terrestrial travel, forbid tampering with the save file, teleporting, or [Cheat Engine](https://www.edgepedia.org/cheat-engine), allow any in-game difficulty, and invalidate a journey if the Minecraft version is downgraded, though version updates are permitted.[12](https://farlands.cc/rules/) Verification requires footage or screenshots of every 10 percent milestone, readable coordinates on screen or at least 90 percent raw footage at a minimum of 240p at 1 fps, and footage of arrival.[12](https://farlands.cc/rules/) Over 120 journeys to the Far Lands had been tracked as of 2026, with about one sixth completed, one third in progress, and roughly half inactive or abandoned.[5](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands) ## Arrival and aftermath In September 2025, the YouTuber AntVenom published a video calculating KurtJMac's position from his walking pace between rare F3 coordinate readings, estimating he was about 200,000 blocks, or less than 24 hours of walking, from the Far Lands.[1](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) KurtJMac arrived on October 4, 2025, during Day 69 of a daily sub-a-thon fundraiser for UNRWA, spotting the floating chunks of the Far Lands from a boat at sea.[13](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/minecraft/after-14-and-a-half-years-and-over-usd500k-raised-for-charity-minecraft-youtuber-kurtjmac-finally-reaches-the-far-lands/) He climbed the terrain, placed a memorial sign reading "Here Farlanders First Set Foot upon Far Lands! October 4, 2025", and continued exploring with Wolfie.[10](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/it-took-14-years-for-a-streamer-to-walk-to-the-far-lands-in-minecraft-but-his-long-journey-is-finally-over/) The series did not end at arrival. KurtJMac continued playing in the same world under the title "Far Lands and Beyond", exploring the glitched landscapes around and beyond the Far Lands, and the official Minecraft channel released a documentary short about the journey, "He Walked in Minecraft for 14 YEARS", on May 2, 2026.[2](https://farlandsorbust.com/) • [8](https://www.farlands.cc/timeline/) A podcast edition of the series distributes the episodes in audio form.[14](https://shows.acast.com/flob) ## References 1. [After 14 years and nearly $500,000 raised for charity, one dedicated Minecraft player is finally set to reach the fabled end-of-world Far Lands, GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/survival/after-14-years-and-nearly-usd500-000-raised-for-charity-one-dedicated-minecraft-player-is-finally-set-to-reach-the-fabled-end-of-world-far-lands-a-feat-that-may-just-be-one-of-the-single-greatest-achievements-in-gaming/) 2. [Far Lands or Bust! official site](https://farlandsorbust.com/) 3. [Incessant gamer reaches fabled edge of Minecraft map after more than 14 years, Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/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) 4. [About Far Lands or Bust](https://farlandsorbust.com/about.html) 5. [Far Lands, Minecraft Wiki](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Far_Lands) 6. [Challenges in Procedural Terrain Generation](https://www.api.motion.ac.in/vruscuuk/51384GS/xlukndr/25034G84S3/challenges_in__procedural-terrain_generation.pdf) 7. [Longest journey in Minecraft, Guinness World Records](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/115885-longest-journey-in-minecraft) 8. [Timeline, Farlands.cc](https://www.farlands.cc/timeline/) 9. [14 years after he set out, Minecraft icon's 'Far Lands or Bust' journey is over, PCGamesN](https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/far-lands-or-bust-ends-kurtjmac) 10. [It took 14 years for a streamer to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft, but his long journey is finally over, PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/it-took-14-years-for-a-streamer-to-walk-to-the-far-lands-in-minecraft-but-his-long-journey-is-finally-over/) 11. [Kurt J Mac, Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/kurtjmac/about) 12. [Journey Rules, Farlands.cc](https://farlands.cc/rules/) 13. [After 14-and-a-half years and over $500k raised for charity, Minecraft YouTuber KurtJMac finally reaches the Far Lands, GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/minecraft/after-14-and-a-half-years-and-over-usd500k-raised-for-charity-minecraft-youtuber-kurtjmac-finally-reaches-the-far-lands/) 14. [Far Lands or Bust: Podcast Edition, Acast](https://shows.acast.com/flob) --- *Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Early English-language web series (1997–mid 2010s)* *Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026* *Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.* License: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license