General Notes

These rules are managed by The Council of Farlanders.

  • Rules are subject to change, but must be approved by 2/3 of verified Farlanders.
  • All rules will be applied in full to any journey that was started on or after September 20, 2022.
  • Do not tamper with the save file, teleport, or utilize Cheat Engine.
  • Downgrading the Minecraft version invalidates the journey, but version updates do not.
  • Only terrestrial journeys (walking, swimming, etc) are acknowledged.
  • Utilizing the Nether to recover from a crash during an Overworld journey is legal.
  • Any in-game difficulty is allowed.
  • Any runs submitted that are illegitimate/invalid will still be archived, but will be marked.

Illegal Actions

  • Using any mod that is capable of affecting gameplay in any way (Inventory Tweaks, Better than Adventure, etc)
  • Changing the system clock to affect gameplay speed
  • Duplication bugs of any sort
  • Cannons that are used to launch any sort of entity (player, ender pearls, etc)
  • Utilizing tridents, elytras, or flying machines
  • Using Beta 1.6 Test Build 3 to get free resources
  • Teleportation bugs of any sort (such as using boats or ender pearls with portals)
  • If you think it might be illegal, it probably is.

(Non-specific) Journey Verification Requirements

  • Footage/screenshots of every 10% milestone
  • Show coordinates OR 90% raw footage
  • Footage of arrival
  • Footage must be a minimum of 240p at 1fps
  • Coordinates must be readable
  • (BONUS, non-essential) Screenshots with coordinates

Legal Mods

  • Optifog/Optimine/Optifine
  • Sodium
  • Lithium
  • Phospor/Starlight
  • Farlander Optimized Mod
  • Xelanater's Coordinates Mod

Legal Bugs

  • Autowalking (stuck movement input) bug
  • Boat boosting
  • X-ray past 8-million precision loss
  • Nether skylight in duplicated spawn chunks IF the skylight was made legitimately
  • Planting seeds block-deletion
  • Xelanater's Coordinates Mod