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One man is walking to the end of Minecraft

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I'm gonna be in Minecraft

Minecraft is a game of creation, imagination and building massive dick sculptures. No wonder it’s so popular. Despite the fact that it gives Zoe vertigo and makes everyone here feel small when they see what Gavin’s kids have created inside that game, there’s something for everyone. And one player aims to spend his game walking all the way to the end of Minecraft itself.

Speaking to The New Yorker via Kotaku, Kurt J. Mac spoke about his plans to spend quite a bit of time walking until the end point of that building game. Plans that he had been following since March 28, 2011. According to the interview, the idea to walk until the end came about when Mac noticed a blog post from Minecraft creator Notch detailing the Far Lands of the game.

That particular bit of terrain can’t handle all the generated code, resulting in weird bugs and shapes, but it was no danger to players so Notch left it in the final game. “My gut feeling is that nobody ever has (gone there) so far, and nobody will. Walking that far will take a very long time. Besides, the bugs add mystery and charisma to the Far Lands,” Notch wrote way back then.

Wanting to see these far lands for himself, Mac started walking. And walking. And then he walked some more. And then he walked even more, because damn, Minecraft is big. “In my ignorance, I thought the journey might take a year or so,” Mac said.

Had I known that the Far Lands were so many thousands of kilometres away, I might have been more hesitant.

It’s taken Mac three years in order to walk around 700 Km in the game. Which isn’t bad at all, until you realise that he still has another 12 000 Km to go. So what’s keeping Mac going? The journey and interesting interactions along the way, he says.

And possibly insanity mixed with determination at this point. Mac has documented his odyssey on his YouTube channel, which is worth a look at.

Last Updated: January 27, 2014

58 Comments

  1. Lol, crazy

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    January 27, 2014 at 09:23

    lol @ header. Well played indeed.

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  3. TiMsTeR1033

    January 27, 2014 at 09:24

    will he be in world records?

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    • Unavengedavo

      January 27, 2014 at 09:34

      No, but he will die a virgin…

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      • TiMsTeR1033

        January 27, 2014 at 09:35

        That is given!

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        • Unavengedavo

          January 27, 2014 at 09:37

          Hopefully he doesn’t end up as one of those 72

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  4. Alien Emperor Trevor

    January 27, 2014 at 09:24

    I read that as massive dick sculptures give Zoe vertigo & make everyone else feel small. My coffee isn’t working. Help.

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    • Unavengedavo

      January 27, 2014 at 09:33

      Then we both need stronger coffee O_o… I was about to post the same before I read your comment

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      • TiMsTeR1033

        January 27, 2014 at 09:36

        I have only had 1 cup and feel like death! Word of advice, Do not make too hot curry. Ones body suffers the next day badly!

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    • RinceThis2014

      January 27, 2014 at 10:31

      Haha Nor mine brother 😉

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  5. Hammersteyn

    January 27, 2014 at 09:31

    Johnny Walker should sponsor him.

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    • Admiral Chief in Vegas

      January 27, 2014 at 09:34

      XD

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    • oVg

      January 27, 2014 at 09:41

      He prefers Red Square 😛

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  6. Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

    January 27, 2014 at 09:34

    This is what I love about games..All the mystery surrounding and intrigue that gamers can find. Which is why I love Dark Souls so much This is really too cool

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    • TiMsTeR1033

      January 27, 2014 at 09:37

      I am doing rather well in Dark souls now, Rang first bell and killing Stone giants or guards in Darkroot garden..

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      • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

        January 27, 2014 at 09:39

        Fanastic Bro , Howd you find the Gargoyles?

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        • TiMsTeR1033

          January 27, 2014 at 09:40

          Were not too hard, I killed the first one before second could get to me, then when second one was busy with his whole fire breathing crap attacked the shit outta him!

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          • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

            January 27, 2014 at 09:41

            Nice! Did you cut his tail off though?

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 09:41

            yep!

          • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

            January 27, 2014 at 09:42

            NIce. Gargoyle Tail Axe in yo face!

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 09:43

            Its a nice weapon! I wanna get a Ghost blade though.. Just need to find someone or somewhere to get those stones so you can kill ghosts. I hopefully will get a ghost blade then..

          • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

            January 27, 2014 at 09:45

            Well you could always curse yourself, though, but there is no point in heading into New Londo so early, as the passages are blocked and you need a key

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 09:46

            I need better sword!

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            January 27, 2014 at 09:49

            Don’t forget to upgrade your equipment. Just wait until you craft this bad boy…

          • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

            January 27, 2014 at 09:56

            Quelaag!!! This only effective for Dex chars though

          • Unavengedavo

            January 27, 2014 at 09:58

            Mmmm, fury sword… I has it and it is epic!!! Damn, now I have to play it again. Took a bit of a break to start with Mass Effect, it’s feels so weird playing a game that you can pause O_o

    • Unavengedavo

      January 27, 2014 at 09:42

      Most people hate Darks Souls because the game has no clear story or direction. But they never bother to explore and just look into it. That is when you discover what it is all about, and the rest is filled up with your own imagination/interpretation

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      • Umar Break Dancing Cyborg

        January 27, 2014 at 09:44

        1 Billion times this ^….For me, Dark Souls has one of the best stories to date. If you actually take the time to explore and find out about the world, you will find an extremely rich lore that is so deep yet very flexible for you to interpret.

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      • oVg

        January 27, 2014 at 09:46

        I tried playing for 40 hours before even looking at the guides on the internet. I wished I had sooner.

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  7. VampyricSquirrel Monk

    January 27, 2014 at 09:40

    The maps are really huge… the area on a map is only a fraction of what’s actually there. I wouldn’t even try to run to the end of the Minecraft world… that being said, it’s easier to just go to The End and kill the Ender Dragon.

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    • TiMsTeR1033

      January 27, 2014 at 09:42

      Ender Dragon? There is a dragon in Minecraft?

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      • VampyricSquirrel Monk

        January 27, 2014 at 09:42

        Of course there is

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        • TiMsTeR1033

          January 27, 2014 at 09:43

          This is news to me!

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          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 09:45

            You’ve probably never played Minecraft… or at least not in the past 6-12 months when the Ender Dragon was released.

            Sadly you get credits and a really random story after killing it.

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 09:46

            I had Minecraft I got bored in a day..

          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 09:54

            lol… i still have minecraft… still play it from time to time.

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 10:09

            creative or survival?

          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 10:12

            Survival… Creative is just too, easy. I play on survival and build up asap.

            The one I did have on creative (changed to survival afterwards) is… funny… I saved one village from being zombified (obsidian wall, lava moat, etc), but every other village on the map is completely dead.

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 10:15

            perhaps If I played online..

          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 11:42

            Used to have my own server running… thinking of making another

          • TiMsTeR1033

            January 27, 2014 at 11:47

            Don’t become like my buddy Paul nooooo!

          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 12:06

            Hahahaha! I had a pretty cool world with my obsidian tower… took forever to build… smack bang in the middle of the map and all these random buildings around it that people built for themselves… the archery fights were epic lol

      • oVg

        January 27, 2014 at 09:44

        The game is shit in explaining how to play it. You have to go on-line to understand the sequence of events one has to do in order to unlock a gate to the Ender land.

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        • TiMsTeR1033

          January 27, 2014 at 09:45

          I thought it was just basically build your house ect survive and build some more!

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          • oVg

            January 27, 2014 at 09:47

            There is survival mode where all the beasts come out at night and kill you. You have to make sure you have a house by then.
            Then there is creative mode where you can build anything while floating.

          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 09:55

            Yeah and entire villages disappear in a single night thanks to the zombies in the game… they turn the villagers and then the sun comes out and they burst into flames.

          • oVg 60fps > 30fps

            January 27, 2014 at 10:41

            No jokes, Minecraft is actually a Horror game. Most of it is spent underground mining in the dark. So make those candles or you will loose all of your inventory when killed and the candles help you find your way in the underground maze to find all of your diamond pick axes that are left behind from your last death. Like Dark Souls.

          • That Tall Ork Norm

            January 27, 2014 at 11:03

            Like a blocky version of Don’t Starve.

        • kwa

          January 27, 2014 at 14:38

          i still havent been to the ender land after a year of minecraft, but i play the FTB unleashed or direwolf20 minecraft, ( more things to do ) and build sweet stuff, like my lab storage area thing with logistics pipes =D

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          • oVg 60fps > 30fps

            January 27, 2014 at 16:10

            sweet bro 🙂

  8. oVg

    January 27, 2014 at 09:40

    I enjoy doing odd stuff like this. I walked (not run) around the GTAV map following the contours along the peaks. It took me 6.5 hours. I cannot imagine doing that in Minecraft considering the graphics will get very boring after the first block one has to jump over. No thanks.
    Give me graphics like Skyrim or GTA and I will happily strut along enjoying the day night cycles.

    NOW GIVE ME MY OCULIS SKYRIM DAMMIT 😛

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    • RinceThis2014

      January 27, 2014 at 10:37

      You called? This was the Anime game called ‘squeeze em boobs…

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      • oVg 60fps > 30fps

        January 27, 2014 at 10:45

        Are you playing with the naked elf queens boobies?

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        • RinceThis2014

          January 27, 2014 at 10:50

          Dwarf actually 😉

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          • VampyricSquirrel Monk

            January 27, 2014 at 11:42

            You’re reaching too high for it to be a dwarf

  9. Rags

    January 27, 2014 at 10:07

    Must confess I’ve watched quite a few episodes of this journey. 😛

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  10. RinceThis2014

    January 27, 2014 at 10:30

    This hurts my brain! Still don’t understand Minecraft…

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  11. fred

    January 27, 2014 at 10:38

    Don’t see the point myself … of the whole Minecraft thing actually.

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