After 13 years, Minecraft's most legendary journey to the Far Lands has just passed the final milestone before the end
Apr. 19, 2024Far Lands or Bust has hit another massive milestone
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In early versions of Minecraft: Java Edition, if you traveled far enough away from the starting position, you’d eventually reach a spot where the terrain generation glitched out and created strange worlds filled with impossible landscapes. The edge of the world became known as the Far Lands, and while the glitches that created those lands were patched out well before the 1.0 version of Minecraft first launched, the idea of the Far Lands became so legendary that it’s been referenced as far afield as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Now, KurtJMac crossed a particularly notable milestone. As you progress further from the start location, the game’s old floating point precision errors - a programming issue far too complicated to fully explain here - cause movement to appear increasingly jittery at certain distance thresholds. As of this week, KurtJmac has crossed the last of those thresholds.
You can see the moment of discovery in thisTwitch clip. KurtJMac moves some distance past the threshold before he pauses and realizes, “Something’s changed.” After wondering, “Is that just me?” he goes back to confirm the line where movement changes. “That’s not so bad,” KurtJMac says, despite the fact that he now appears to be jumping a full block forward at a time. That’s not so bad at all; it seems like we’re moving in slow motion."
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