Far Lands or Bust
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| Created by | Kurt J Mac |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 (as of December 2, 2014[ref]) |
| No. of episodes | 658 (as of October 7, 2017[ref]) |
| Distributor | YouTube |
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| Original network | kurtjmac on YouTube |
| Original release | March 6, 2011 – present |
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| Far Lands or Bust | www |
Far Lands or Bust (abbreviated FLoB) is an online video series created by Kurt J. Mac in which he plays the independent video game Minecraft. The series depicts his journey to the "Far Lands", a distant area of a Minecraft world in which the terrain generation does not function correctly creating a warped landscape. Kurt has been travelling since March 2011 and as of January 2014[update] is expected to take another 22 years to reach his destination. The episodes typically act as a sort of podcast, with the game providing a backing track while Kurt discusses recent events in his life, news and science. The show also encourages viewers to donate to Child's Play charity in order to reach a fundraising goal. As of October 2017[update] the show has raised $407,300 for Child's Play. The show holds the world record for the longest journey in Minecraft.
The original name of the series was Minecraft Adventures. In episode 11, Mac started to walk to the Far Lands. Starting from episode 31, the series were renamed Far Lands or Bust. In episode 32, Mac tamed a pet wolf he called Wolfie.
Minecraft is a sandbox video game which places players in a 3D procedurally generated world. As a player walks in any direction, the game generates terrain ahead of them, creating a virtually infinite world for the player to explore. However due to computational limits in earlier versions of the game, at a distance of roughly 12,500 km from the center of the world the terrain generation algorithm behaves unexpectedly, creating a sudden warped landscape.Markus Persson, the original developer of Minecraft, commented that "Walking that far will take a very long time. Besides, the bugs add mystery and charisma to the Far Lands." The name "Far Lands" was adopted by the community to refer to this area. Persson also said it would be "impossible to reach the Far Lands" and Mac took that as a challenge.
Due to changes to the games' code, more recent versions of the game do not contain the same error, and terrain continues to generate normally at distances up to 30,000 km from the center of the world. Kurt has continued to record his series in an older version of the game where the Far Lands are still present.
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