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This timeline is still being actively constructed.The Silent Era
February 27th, 2010 to March 25th, 2011
Notch added infinite terrain to Minecraft, which included the earliest version of the Far Lands
2010-02-27
The infinite generator was overhauled, generating a new type of Far Lands. Only their general shape would change after this.
2010-03-27
Fractal uploaded a video titled End of the infdev which is the first video showing off the Far Lands, at the World Boundary.
2010-06-07
The Halloween Update is released, and the terrain generator will remain unchanged until the Adventure Update. This Far Lands shape becomes the most commonly visited.
2010-10-30
littelblue1 uploads Minecraft : to the edge EP. 1, which is the first known instance of a long-distance journey. It doesn't mention the Far Lands by name, likely because it was uploaded before the term was coined. Unfortunately, there is no Episode 2.
2011-02-12
Notch mentions terrain generation, distance limits, and the Far Lands in a blog post.
2011-03-09
First Steps
March 26th, 2011 to September 8th, 2019
KurtJMac starts Far Lands or Bust, which is the first widely-known instance and true attempt of someone venturing to the Far Lands. He became the pioneer of the idea as a whole—its prevalence in popular culture to this day, and the existence of most if not all journeys that followed, can be attributed to his walk for charity.
2011-03-26
As of the Adventure Update Part 1, the Far Lands were fixed and no longer naturally generate in Java Edition.
2011-09-14
TinfoilChef begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2012-11-03
HaskieGaming begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2014-01-01
HaskieGaming comes across the repeating spawn chunks for the first time. This is the first documented instance of the occurrence, though it went under the radar.
2014-01-21
RetroApo begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands by going through the Nether.
2014-07-01
Pocket Edition 0.9.0 is released, which included infinite terrain. As such, PE had its own version of the Far Lands and a new effect dubbed the Stripe Lands.
2014-07-10
BetterSkatez on the Minecraft Wiki uploaded a couple of Far Lands-related pictures, one of which shows the first known instance of the duplicated spawn chunk bug taking place at X = 268,435,456.
2014-09-21
HaskieGaming ends up abandoning his journey at 70% completion.
2015-01-25
RetroApo arrives at the Far Lands via Nether Intermediate. This is the first known instance of anyone legitimately traveling the distance to reach the Far Lands, and a roofless Nether Intermediate at that.
2015-07-07
Xelanater watches a video showcasing the spawn chunk duplication bug and would later inform AntVenom of it. It talked about the bug taking place every power of two, including at 268,435,456. Unfortunately, the video has since been privated.
2015-07-09
Minecraft Story Mode Episode 4 is released, having a major plotline involving the Far Lands.
2015-12-22
AntVenom publishes the video titled MOST BIZARRE CHUNK GLITCH EVER in MINECRAFT? which gets the spawn chunk duplication bug to a wider audience.
2016-12-21
The Golden Era
September 9th, 2019 to August 11th, 2021
KilloCrazyMan begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2019-09-09
eckwall begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2019-09-10
KilloCrazyMan arrives at the Far Lands, marking the first person to travel the 12,550,821 blocks to reach the Far Lands. He would go on to inspire many others. Part of his publicity came from a video by AntVenom about his journey.
2020-06-20
cobraunie begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2020-07-21
EnderShower begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2020-09-19
Figonometry begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2020-10-01
TinfoilChef uploads his final Far Lands journey video.
2021-01-20
MysticalMidget begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2021-01-31
celestialgaze begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2021-02-10
Figonometry arrives at the Overworld Corner Far Lands. This is the first known instance of someone reaching the Corner.
2021-06-13
Figonometry begins a journey to the World Border, becoming the first person to start a second journey.
2021-07-17
Xelanater starts his Ultimate Minecraft Polyworld series.
2021-08-09
Starting the Archival Efforts
August 12th, 2021 to September 17th, 2022
Figonometry starts a Discord server with the name Far Lands Archival Server, initial archiving project put on hold.
2021-08-12
cobraunie arrives at the Far Lands.
2021-09-16
MysticalMidget arrives at the Far Lands. Immediately after, he continued onward to the World Boundary.
2021-10-17
cobraunie joins, MysticalMidget joins
2021-11-23
Sav begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2022-01-18
Figonometry reaches the World Border. Part of his publicity came from a video by AntVenom on the topic of his journey.
2022-01-30
Archiving project starts, for saving footage and metadata of completed journeys.
2022-03-19
Xelanater begins a journey to the Nether Far Lands across the roof.
2022-03-14
Walkers Index is created
2022-03-22
Xelanater arrives at the Overworld Far Lands via Nether Intermediate, marking the first Nether Intermediate across the roof.
2022-03-25
Xelanater joins, first rules discussion, server renamed to The Council of Farlanders
2022-04-24
Two Farlanders shake hands on a mountaintop
2022-05-22
eckwall joins
2022-06-04
Xelanater arrives at the Nether Far Lands, marking the first person to reach them legitimately.
2022-06-18
Second rules discussion, further categorization developed along with legal and illegal mods. Discord server undergoes heavy alteration with the creation of the Farlander, World Border, and Nether traveler roles (and the Sponge role), Multiple categories are created such as Admins & Mods (unused), Notifications (unused), Welcome & Infon (unused), the text channels are split into the Archive category for the index and journey archival, the future mod repository is placed into Resources category.
2022-07-01
The Certificates of Completion were put into production, and an official logo was made.
2022-07-29
TinfoilChef passes away.
2022-08-13
Beamof4 begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2022-08-14
FOM development starts in b1.7.3
2022-08-27
Third rules discussion, final categorization developed, resources category expanded to include farlands information and speedrun information, discussion of a Minecraft server hq started
2022-09-03
Early Access Public Opening of the Discord server.
2022-09-16
A Slow Start
September 18th, 2022 to December 31st, 2023
Full Public Opening of the Discord server. At this time, there was some getting used to new people showing up.
2022-09-18
The rules and guidelines formally decided on by the Council of Farlanders officially go into effect for all journeys started afterward.
2022-09-20
EnderShower arrives at the Far Lands.
2022-12-30
Farfadox begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2023-01-26
KilloCrazyMan joins the CoF Discord server. This marks a time when everyone who completed the Overworld journey was brought together in one place.
2023-02-14
Farfadox decides to go through the Nether for the rest of the journey.
2023-04-12
MandevilDave begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2023-09-18
Sav begins a journey to Nether Far Lands.
2023-10-05
Farfadox arrives at the Far Lands via Nether Intermediate. His arrival was widely popular, especially among the Spanish-speaking community.
2023-11-25
The Dark Ages
January 1st, 2024 to September 13th, 2025
WingKn0x begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2024-01-27
eckwall fights the accusations of his tools being illegitimately earned with a video where he goes back to spawn and shows his setup phase progress.
2024-05-16
SteveGamer begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2024-05-17
Sav arrives at the Far Lands.
2024-06-09
celestialgaze arrives at the Far Lands.
2024-08-31
Essential groundwork began on the website as an expansion of the journey database.
2024-11-30
The website as a whole was presented as a university project and publicly shared.
2024-12-03
Sav arrives at the Nether Far Lands. This is the first time a person reached both the Overworld and Nether Far Lands legitimately.
2024-12-25
Aura Sphere begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2024-12-27
Leupho begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2025-02-01
MandevilDave arrives at the Far Lands. Rumor has it that to this very day, he still has not uploaded all his VODs.
2025-03-28
Sav is promoted to administrator of the CoF Discord server.
2025-05-15
In an attempt to rejuvenate the server, Sav updates channel names and organization.
2025-05-28
Leupho arrives at the Far Lands.
2025-07-18
Beamof4 arrives at the Far Lands.
2025-08-15
The Renaissance
September 14th, 2025 to Present
AntVenom publishes a video titled KurtJMac's 14 Year Minecraft Far Lands Journey.
2025-09-14
KurtJMac arrives at the Far Lands after 14 years, marking the end of the legendary Far Lands or Bust series that began it all.
2025-10-04
Xelanater invoked the "must be approved by ⅔ of the verified Farlanders" rule about making an exception for Clarinha, who experienced a power outage without any backups.
2025-10-13
The journey verification system was implemented on the website, allowing for manual reviews from council members.
2025-10-22
WingKn0x arrives at the Far Lands.
2025-10-25
Sav starts the daily backup reminder.
2025-12-10
KurtJMac continues his walk orthogonally— Far Lands and Beyond begins!
2025-12-31
Swuum begins a journey to Overworld Far Lands.
2026-01-11
Mrcoolbro7 begins a journey to the Overworld Far Lands.
2026-02-01
SteveGamer arrives at the Far Lands. Swuum begins a journey to the Overworld Farther Lands via Nether Intermediate titled Swuum's Moon and Back.
2026-04-11
The official Minecraft channel releases a video He Walked in Minecraft for 14 YEARS covering KurtJMac's journey.
2026-05-02
Mrcoolbro7 arrives at the Far Lands and sets the first official record at 97 days.
2026-05-08
Aura Sphere arrives at the Far Lands.
2026-06-07
Xelanater is promoted to administrator.
2026-06-15
Leupho begins another journey to the Overworld Far Lands. Swuum arrives at the Far Lands.
2026-06-20
AndreiXYZ starts working on a sheet keeping track of every spawn chunk visited on completed journeys.
2026-07-16
Sav creates the #debate-worldborder-rules channel on the server to better clarify allowed and disallowed techniques for World Border journeys, to reflect the new features available in new Minecraft versions.
2026-07-18
Figonometry releases an overhauled version of the Farlander Optimized Mod with several new features.
2026-07-30
Leupho arrives at the Far Lands in 42 days, setting the new real-world record.
2026-07-31
The historical document of Farlander activities was passed on from Figonometry to Xelanater and was brought up to date.
2026-08-19
The property ENABLE_FARLANDS was added to 26.3 Pre-Release 1 which disables the traditional Far Lands fix and introduces other distance-related effects.
2026-09-01