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One YouTuber has achieved gaming history in a project that took over 14 years to complete, as he managed to reach the 'edge of the world' in Minecraft solely by the strength of his own legs.
While people have taken it upon themselves to complete weird and wild gaming challenges ever since the medium was popularized, the rise of live streaming has given people an even bigger incentive to try what nobody else would.
We've seen people complete several difficult FromSoftware games back-to-back (and beyond) without getting hit once, and the entire practice of speedrunning has seen techniques and strategies repeatedly evolve in order to achieve the best possible time.
One YouTuber's recent achievements are defined by quite the opposite though, as he spent 14 years of his life trying to do something that only a handful of people in history have achieved, and he raised a staggering amount of money for charity in the process.
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As reported by Dexerto, streamer and YouTuber KurtJMac started his challenge to reach what's known as the 'Far Lands' in Minecraft all the way back in March 2011, and it was only this past week that he finally completed the journey.
If you're unaware, the Far Lands is an unofficial area in the game that is situated around 12,550,821 blocks from where the player spawns, and represents a terrain anomaly where the procedural generation of the world fails, manifesting a massive wall of random terrain blocks.
It's effectively an unintended easter egg that has morphed into a myth in the player base over the years, and most people make their way to this point by using teleports or cheats.
Kurt, however, didn't want to take the easy way, and instead decided to take it upon himself to walk all the way there by foot, and the entire process has taken him over 14 years.
He finally achieved the feat during day 69 of this year's annual FLoB-aThon, and has raised over $500,000 for various charities over the course of lengthy journey, including recent donations to the UNRWA Humanitarian Aid for Palestine.
This earned him his very own Guinness World Record, with the awards body recognizing his feat as the 'most money raised by a charity walk in a video game (individual)' making it a significant achievement in two different forms.
Despite spending so much of his life attempting to reach this particular point, he has revealed that he has no intention to stop the journey, targeting some of Minecraft's other oddities in future videos and streams.
"Additionally, by no means do I intend to stop playing the Far Lands or Bust world after October 4th," he wrote in a post on his YouTube channel. "There are many more glitched landscapes and curiosities to explore around and beyond that should keep us busy for months... and perhaps more years to come!"
