Far Lands or Bust (abbreviated FLoB) is an online video series created by Kurt J. Mac in which he plays the video game Minecraft. The series depicts his journey to the "Far Lands", a distant area of Minecraft worlds where, in certain old versions of the game, the terrain generation does not function correctly due to an integer overflow, creating a warped landscape.[1][2] Kurt began traveling in March 2011,[3][4] and completed his journey to the Far Lands on October 4, 2025.[5][6]
Episodes of Far Lands or Bust 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 charity to reach fundraising goals.[4] This charity of choice was originally Child's Play, for which the show raised over $400,000.[7][8] From 2018–19 and 2023–24, the charity was Direct Relief.[9] In 2020, the charity was the Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in Washington, from which Kurt adopted his own dog, Juno, in 2017.[10] On August 30 of the same year, Kurt announced he would no longer be using PAWS as his charity, mostly due to complications with their donation system, instead switching to supporting the Equal Justice Initiative.[11] Since then, the series has supported the CDC Foundation, Rise Above The Disorder, Equality Texas, and UNRWA.[12][13]
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 (in theory) a virtually infinite world for the player to explore.[2] However, due to computational limits in earlier versions of the game, at a distance of roughly 12,550,821 blocks from the center of the world the terrain generation algorithm behaves unexpectedly, creating a sudden warped landscape.[14]Markus Persson, popularly known as Notch, 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."[1] 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 Kurt took that as a challenge.[15]
Due to changes to the game's code, recent versions of the game do not contain the same error, and terrain continues to generate normally at distances up to 30,000 kilometres (19,000mi) from the center of the world.[2] Kurt has continued to record his series in version Beta 1.7.3,[16] the latest version of the game in which the Far Lands are still present.[17] Persson estimated in 2014 that walking to the Far Lands would take approximately 800 hours.[18] Even further out (32 million blocks), the player falls into the void. This is, to an extent, intended by the developers.[19]
Over 30 legitimate journeys to the Far Lands have been verified as of October 2023.[20] About 1/3 have been completed (some using a 1/8th shortcut through the Nether dimension), 1/3 are in progress, and 1/3 have become inactive (including one death, TinfoilChef).[21] For example, in June 2020, this goal was first reached by KilloCrazyMan and, in August 2022, it was reached by MysticalMidget, after 2,500 hours and 32 million blocks of walking.[17]
F3 monuments
In the game, a debug screen can be opened by pressing the F3 key, which displays the player's current coordinates in the world.[22] In Kurt's journey to the Far Lands, F3 is only pressed once each season's charity donations goal has been met, as a way to conclude the season. Additionally, he builds a monument to commemorate each occasion.
An exception to this was when he crossed a point where the floating-point error grew from two texture pixels to four. On August 8, 2020, Kurt witnessed an increase in the floating-point error jitter during a live stream (listed as episode 793.5). Kurt pressed F3 in the next episode, 794, to confirm he had hit the milestone of 4,194,304 blocks. He built a monument to mark the point.[23] The next time this occurred was April 16, 2024, during that year's FLoB-a-thon, when he noticed the jitter increase again after 8,388,608 blocks of total progress.[24][25]
Completion
Kurt reaching the Far Lands on October 4, 2025
In September 2025, AntVenom, a Minecraft YouTuber, predicted that Kurt was within 200,000 blocks of the Far Lands.[26]
On October 4, 2025, Kurt reached the Far Lands during a specially planned Twitch stream.[5][6][27] In a post on his YouTube channel, Kurt stated he intends to continue the series after reaching the Far Lands.[28]
Progress summary
Season
F3 press
Episode
Date
Duration of the journey
Distance travelled
World size (MB)
Seasonal donations
Notes
In blocks
%
Season progress
Goal
Total raised
1
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1
March 7, 2011
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Unknown
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Creation of the map and beginning of Kurt's adventure.
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