The Longest Walk in Gaming History is Finally Over
He started when Minecraft was still in beta. Now, after raising half a million dollars for charity, KurtJMac has finally reached the promised land of glitched-out terrain.
I want you to think back to March 2011. The world was a different place. Most of us were blissfully unaware of what a "vlog" was, and "influencer" sounded like a strain of the flu. It was around that time that a man named KurtJMac booted up Minecraft and decided to do something profoundly, beautifully stupid. He decided to just... walk.
His destination? A mythical, bug-ridden promised land at the edge of the world known as the Far Lands. A place where the game’s code shits the bed and the world collapses into a psychedelic nightmare of broken geometry. And now, after more than 14 years, he’s finally fucking done it.
A Pilgrimage to a Digital Anomaly
So, what in the hell are the Far Lands? For the uninitiated, they were a genuine phenomenon in older versions of Minecraft. Specifically, the Beta 1.7.3 version KurtJMac has been trekking through since 2011. This was the last build of the game where the terrain generation code would completely break down after a certain point.
That point is about 12.5 million blocks from where you start. It’s a place where the world stops making sense, a digital monument to computational error. This wasn’t a quest to see something beautiful the developers made. It was a pilgrimage to see where their creation fell apart at the seams.
Far Lands or Bust... for Charity
Here’s the part that elevates this from a weird hobby to something genuinely respectable. The entire journey, dubbed "Far Lands or Bust," was a massive fundraiser. Over the course of his 14-year walk, KurtJMac raised around half a million dollars for charity.
Let that sink in. A dude walking through a blocky, procedurally generated world raised enough money to make a real, tangible difference. He documented the whole thing, of course, across more than 800 episodes and countless livestreams, turning his absurd quest into a long-running community event.
The Final, Glitchy Steps
The historic moment happened live on Twitch on October 4, 2025. After more than a decade of walking, KurtJMac took his final steps into the corrupted landscape. He placed a simple sign that read, "Here Farlanders First Set Foot Upon Far Lands! October 4, 2025," marking the official end of one of gaming's longest and most bizarre sagas.
It’s a strange thing to witness the conclusion of something that has become a piece of internet folklore. It’s like watching a unicorn finally reach the end of its rainbow, if the unicorn was a blocky avatar and the rainbow was a mess of broken code. He’s not completely done, either. The plan now is to explore the weirdness around the Far Lands, because why stop now?
This whole endeavor is a testament to the beautifully weird things people will do. In a world of fleeting trends, one guy stuck to a single, monotonous goal for longer than most marriages last. It’s a monumental, ridiculous, and ultimately inspiring achievement. A piece of internet history, written one block at a time.