On October 4th 2025, kurtjmac completed his fourteen and a half year long journey to walk to the Far Lands in Minecraft. The first to take on daunting challenge, it was a great moment to watch. Kurtjmac is not the first to have reached it through walking in the Overworld, though. While there are hundreds of thousands of points on the Minecraft map Kurt reached first, throughout the years, people have taken on the mantle, and frankly blitzed it.
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If you're interested in revisiting Minecraft from the Beta era, here are some notes. MultiMC is a third-party Minecraft launcher that allows you to have multiple separate instances of Minecraft versions, with a great interface to manage it. It isn't required, but I'd recommend using it. It is trivial to use play Minecraft 1.7.3 itself. The official launcher & MultiMC can be used to easily spin up an instance. My primary issue with playing older versions of Minecraft is the janky mouse input: it frequently skips & accelerates unnaturally, making it difficult to control.
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