Gamers spend more than 1 decade and 10 billion VND to get to the end of the Minecraft world

Minecraft is larger than the area of ​​the Earth.

Few games bring the freedom to players like Minecraft, whether the gamer is a person who likes to build giant structures or just wants to survive and explore the lands in Minecraft randomly, Mojang’s iconic sandbox game is still packed with the best that any gamer will love.

Saying Minecraft is an endless world is not entirely true, but the map in this game is even larger than the area of ​​our Earth. The algorithms have created a super large world, making it impossible for any gamer in the world to explore all of Minecraft’s maps. Each time you play, the player is in a completely new position set by the in-game algorithms.

It is endlessly vast, but there is a gamer who wants to push the limits as high as possible when this player decides to go to the end of the Minecraft world, also known as Far Lands, a location very far from the normal spawn point. After more than 10 years of in-game walking and over $450,000 in charity fundraising, the gamer’s solitary journey has garnered a huge following, even if he still has a long way to go. front.

The gamer mentioned above is KurtJMac, an ordinary Minecraft player like millions of other players but has a great desire to find the promised land. “I just wanted to create something a little different. At that time, I had not done any research or information about the Far Lands nor how far it was. It’s just a big decision of my life and I can do it, let’s try to get to the edge of the map, because that sounds interesting.”

Far Lands is not a great place or a promised land, it is just a place created by Minecraft’s faulty algorithms, warping the terrain and causing large cracks to appear. The problem only appeared in older versions of the game (Beta version 1.7.3) and was about 12,550,821 blocks away from the distance that gamers usually spawn in the game. At the time of writing, Kurt has about 4,857,000 blocks left on his lifelong journey to the Far Lands, about 39% out of 100%.

He uploaded the first video of this journey to YouTube on March 7, 2011. Curiosity as well as playing a popular game Minecraft made Kurt’s journey attracted a large audience. . “It was May, when I started to see an increase in views,” Kurt explained. “I’m a fan of Zeldathon and Desert Bus for Hope, so I thought this was a walk and I might as well turn it into a charity. I started with a very simple goal of raising $820, and it gradually grew to where I am now $450,000.”

Between 2014 and 2015, the journey to the Far Lands gained some attention through The New Yorker, followed by certification from the Guinness World Records for longest journey in Minecraft. Kurt has also appeared at various game fairs, mainly at PAX to meet his fans and supporters. It is not known when Kurt will end his journey of more than 10 years to reach the Far Lands, but nothing is impossible and success will come with just perseverance.