Not even Frodo and Sam from The Lord of the Rings had to walk as much as the Minecraft players who arrived in these strange lands

There are many reasons to play Minecraft, but I think only one involves smashing keys or burning the auto-walk or autorun command. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has ever thought about starting a game to do just one thing: walk in a straight line no matter what I find. And apparently some people took it quite seriously.

As you know, the maps of Minecraft

They are generated procedurally. Back in version 1.7.3, walking too much often caused the game to start crashing, affecting performance and terrain generation, among other things. There are a thousand and one captures of strange structures.

That’s when the players d iscovered a “new area” after walking a whopping 12,550,821 blocks

(approx) since the origin of the world. There are many hours of play, which can extend into weeks and months if you don’t have much time to play. What they found when they reached that point is known today as the Farlands or Distant Lands .

Turns out I was wrong when I said no one would walk to Farlands! I’ll make the next game cap 20% bigger, that should be enough. – Markus Persson, aka Notch, creator of Minecraft on Twitter

They can have many shapes, but it is generally shown as a huge irregular wall made up of different materials. What is certain is that the game was going quite badly, since it was accumulating errors as you progressed and in fact the Farlands They are the product of a terrain generation error. In short: a monumental kick worthy of Frodo and Sam in The Lord of the Rings.

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