It took Christopher Columbus seven months to reach America. Marco Polo even spent four years on his trip to China. The YouTuber can use both KurtJMac only smile wearily, because he himself has been on the move for more than eleven years. However, he did not have to leave his desk for this, because Kurt has been moving through one and the same Minecraft world since 2011.
Where are you going?
But where is the YouTuber headed so purposefully? Shortly after Minecraft was released in 2011, Kurt decided to push the seemingly infinite worlds to the limit and travel to their edges. Because Minecraft inventor Notch had claimed that it was impossible to achieve this. Reason enough for Kurt to accept this challenge. He uploaded his first video to YouTube in March 2011:
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An ambitious undertaking, because the YouTuber has to cover a distance of around 12.5 million blocks, which corresponds to 12,500 kilometers on a Minecraft scale. How big a Minecraft world actually is and more answers to frequently asked questions can be found in this article:
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Over time, the number of viewers who followed the unusual travel journal from Minecraft grew. In 2016, Kurt’s journey was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records longest journey in Minecraft accepted.
It will probably be at least another decade before it arrives at its destination. Kurt also takes his time with his project and after each year erects a monument at the end of the distance covered. Something like this would be unimaginable, especially for our author Dominik Winkler, who had to let go of Minecraft in frustration:
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It goes on – for a good cause
At least Kurt has now 5 million blocks left behind and thus still more than half of the way ahead. Even after more than a decade, the YouTuber is not about to give up. Because the trip now has another purpose: Kurt collects donations for charitable purposes from the spectators. This has already raised more than $400,000.
