Every Minecraft Far Lands, Ever. 

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Finally, after all this time someone ACTUALLY explained how and WHY the far lands generate. That visual with the cubic chunks mod helped me make sense of it the most! Awesome video.

"hello, it's tom scott, today we're here at the 32-bit integer limit" "cave johnson here, i'm at the 32-bit integer limit. the lab boys tell me if i go any further i'll loop back to the other side of the map due to integer overflow. whatever that means"

My Bacherlor thesis was literally called 'Procedural Generation Using Perlin Noise with User Preferences', and my love and respect for Minecraft (and especially the generation) actually started with this study. And the fact that I am watching this video and see how all the studies I have done are applied in this video, it feels so rewarding

The Far Lands are genuinely one of, if not *THE* most interesting phenomenon in the history of Minecraft. Nothing really comes close in terms of how iconic, timeless and _weird_ of a ''bug'' it is. I could listen to trivia facts about these bizarre accidental creations for hours, and that's why I love Ant's channel so much.

I love the part where he is yelling. You get the comedic effect of him yelling, but you don't get the earsplittingly loud increase in volume that absolutely RIPs headphone users. It's details like that which AntVenom seems to nail every single time.

Of all the RU-vidrs I've watched, you made the reasoning behind the farlands glitch the easiest to understand

Fun fact: The farlands also exist on the old console editions! The same exact patch for them is there, but because worlds are limited size, you can never see them if you unpatch the farlands. By forcing the scale of worldgen to be insanely small, it actually generates not only the farlands, but also the sky farlands! I have a proper override that forces the farlands to generate past a certain chunk distance from spawn. It works, but the farlands are capped to y=128. It's pretty cool how they're identical to java's, since the worldgen code is mostly 1:1 (set the biome scale to large before making the world, and then it's identical to java 1.13!).

I would certainly not be opposed to Mojang re-adding the Farlands to the game. They’re so mysterious and beautiful. Waaaay cooler than the current world border.

Ngl in the past few days I started to miss your far lands content and was re watching your old videos on them..perfect timing

7:08 "Well, if youve kept up with me thus far" Meanwhile me: Uhhh yeah, math! I think?

One note. Minecraft is using 3d perin noises, not 2d. Just, the higher you get, the more of it is "cut". 2D perlin noise is unable to generate things like hanging cliffs, overhangs, arches etc. because it give you no depth value, just height. Henrik Kniberg a former minecraft dev is describing it in his "Minecraft terrain generation in a nutshell" video. Another proof of that can be seen at 3:38 min of the video. Look at the "selector noise:". Below 3 variables are shown, Period, Period Y, Period Z - 2D perlin noise is taking only 2 dimensions as the input, and is returning 3rd one. 3D perlin noise on the other hand is taking 3 dimensions, and is returning 4th one. This 4th dimension is threated differently than 3rd dimension in 2d perlin noise. It doesn't show you how "high" on the 4th dimension you should generate terrain, it just show you where blocks should be, so e.g. values below 0 are air, and above or equeal to 0 are stone. World generation shown at the graph above, again at 3:38, as well as the farlands terrain is impossible to generate with just 2d perlin noise

Allam A. has confirmed last year, that the Fartherer and the Farthest lands are not true FL interations, but rather structures that break down back into the Farther Lands after several thousand blocks. And there is the infinity bit mod that actually confirms that.

It's kinda funny how often AntVenom talks about the Far Lands, while the bug that causes them in the first place was fixed about ten years ago.

I feel like having some kind of notation for different kinds of Far Lands would make naming them easier. There could be 4 levels: • 1 - Far Lands; • 2 - Farther Lands; • 3 - Fartherer Lands; • 4 - Farthest Lands. Additionally, there could be 4 designators: • E - Edge Far Lands; • T - Sky (Top) Far Lands; • B - Void (Bottom) Far Lands; • C - Corner Far Lands; -• V - Vertex Far Lands.- A pair of edge designators of the same level give the corner designator: E2E2 becomes C2. -A pair of corner and sky/void designators of the same level give the vertex designator. The void designator prepends a minus sign to the V level: C4T4 becomes V4, C4B4 becomes V−4, E4B4 stays the same.- Example usage: • E1 - Edge Far Lands; • B2 - Void Farther Lands; • E2E1 - Edge Farthest Edge Far Lands; • E1B1 - Edge Far Void Far Lands; • E2B1 - Edge Farther Void Far Lands; • E1T1 - Edge Far Sky Far Lands; • E2T1 - Edge Farther Sky Far Lands; • E2T2 - Edge Farther Sky Farther Lands; • C3 or E3E3 - Corner Fartherer Lands; • -V−1 or- C1B1 or E1E1B1 - Corner Far Void Far Lands; • -V1 or- C1T1 or E1E1T1 - Corner Far Sky Far Lands; • E1T4 - Edge Far Sky Farthest Lands.

I love how mysterious, weird, and exclusive the early days of Minecraft are. The early happenings of Minecraft have like a nearly mythical status.

Whoa... This is just fascinating to learn... This video blew my mind, just like back then, in 2017-2018, when I first started watching your Breaking Minecraft series and learning about the farlands for the first time... And I want to say thank you for bringing me into this side of Minecraft all those years ago :)

I have a mod that goes beyond the 64 bit integer limit to explore the farlands and see the ways in which the terrain falls apart at extreme distances. I love the farlands.

Welp, it’s time for the 69,420th AntVenom video about Minecraft’s limits. 😮🍿

The only thing that is hard to remember is the extremely long names of some of those farlands variants.

I'm curious to know how this would look in the Nether and the End dimension. I can just only imagine End Sky Farlands. So for those wondering: You can actually generate the Sky Far Lands in a vanilla world. If you take the Y-Scale for the noise map and multiply it by an extremly high value you can actualy see them in-game! So it is a true thing that doesn't require the cubic chunks mod and that's just insane.

Imagine walking to the Far Lands in Minecraft, then realizing it's just an endless void of glitchiness 😂

I love far lands

This feels like an existential video, it's so far out of reach for a normal player that someone without cheats or mods could never comprehend it.

I would recommend, for clarity's sake, calling the vertical far land categories as "high" and "deep" instead of "far". So the above-normal sky far lands of the topmost level would be the "Highest Sky", the level below that would be the "Higher Sky", the layer below that would be the "High Sky", and the layer just above the normal terrain generation would be just the normal "Sky Lands". Likewise, the void lands, going from outermost to innermost would be "Deepest Void", "Deeper Void", "Deep Void", and "Void", respectively. So, how you would mark the lands that were in the corner two out and three up would be the "Corner farther higher sky lands".

If you go so far, you might find the missing Father Land

Even though it's all pre-calculated, I still get the same feeling of dread and wonder that I do when learning about deep space. Very well researched video!

I'm a huge worldgen geek but I've always wondered what had to happen to make the terrain go so crazy in the farlands. Thank you so much for going into the math behind this.

glad your still making content, here is to another decade my friend.

14:27 I love the way the corner sky far lands look, the terrain kind of looks normal but is broken up and mystical at the same time

As a farlands walker, I approve

AntVenom has some of the most technical, yet messy deconstruction and destruction of the game I’ve seen, love it!

I truly miss rewatching the old far land videos but THIS VIDEO has made my interest for this weird terrain generation has spiked even more.. thanks Ant Venom, this series, even if it is one is just so perfect to me.!

This is one of my favorite parts of Minecraft, I’m glad it’s being covered again!

Absolutely insane video. Loved every second of it and I love how much passion and dedication you have for breaking Minecraft. I first started watching your videos back in 2011 in your original coverage of the Far Lands. It's crazy how much to this silly little block game there is. As always great video and I cannot wait for your next one! Of course don't overwork yourself/burn yourself out either. Your health matters too.

The void far lands being submerged in water truly gives me that "abyssal" feel. You dont gotta worry about falling forever because theres a medium to swim in... but that medium to swim in goes down forever.

I raise to rename "FarthererLands" to just "FurtherLands" Normal game - Farlands - FartherLands - FurtherLands - FarthestLands

Great Video! I like your explanation. I really liked the use of music during the math sections and when you showed the graph blowing up.

Man, seeing you post is a hit of nostalgia. Would watch your videos everyday when I was a kid 😂

For a naming scheme I propose borrowing ideas from chemistry and have names like (optionally with positive/negative before X/Y/Z to specify direction): X-farlands - regular farlands on +-x Y-farlands - vertical farlands XZ-farlands - regular corner (?) farlands X-far-Z-fartherlands - regular farlands on X coordinate, fartherlands on Z coordinate X-far-Y-farthest-Z-fartherlands -regular farlands range on X, farthestlands on Y, and fartherlands on Z coordinate XYZ-farthestlands - farthestlands in all directions Etc.. Or maybe even avoid the somewhat silly farther, fartherer and farthest as names and do something like: X4Y2Z-farlands - corresponding to X-far-Y-farthest-Z-fartherlands, though that would be very uno virus what it even means when someone doesn't know such naming scheme

This is my favorite video you made so far in your RU-vid career. It’s just insane how far the farlands truly go, and who knows, maybe there’s something else more daunting to be be discovered…

I really wish they would embrace the Farlands and add it into the game instead of removing it. It could've been a more interesting border than the one we have right now, perhaps in a normal Minecraft world they could've made it so the final 1000 blocks before the border could be Farlands that you can actually enter and interact with, and then after those 1000 you get the border we have right now. It would give players a reason to try and traverse such a long distance just like how they did long time ago and they would also play along with such a historical phenomenon. Honestly a missed opportunity in my opinion.

I just watched a dramatic 15 minute video about a block game and I'm not upset about it

This was so in depth with detail it was like sensory overload. I never knew that these types of far lands existed thank you so much.

Always lovely to see a new Ant upload on my recommended! Hope you’re doing well!

I've always absolutely loved how you explain things! you make topics even normally ones that'd be boring really interesting to listen too!

I always wanted someone to bring the Far Lands back - as a biome. One that only appears at significant (but still humanly achievable) distances from spawn. maybe with the Alpha grass colors and some other additions to make it feel less like a bug and more like a mythical landmass type. And probably increased enderman spawn rates.

you're an absolute legend in this community, im glad that i grew up with this game and i appreciate all the og youtubers. really well made vid!! -old fan

is there a mod that allows for the Far Lands generation to happen throughout the entire world instead of only at the edges? I feel like this could be interesting for more wild and difficult world generation

The farthest lands of the far lands starts to feel like that scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

I just randomly clicked on this minecraft video for some nostalgia, and to my surprise its one of the most og minecrafters to date. Its been years since Ive seen a vid from antvenom and im so glad that you're still making videos. The old gen still remembers and loves you buddy

i could watch a several hour long video about this stuff its just so fascinating to me. also the yelling part is hilarious

The far lands freaked me out as a kid. Just unsettling and alien. Somehow minecraft capture how non Euclidean geometry from lovecraft better than any horror game.

This is what i watch this channel for Happy to see you creating something related to Minecraft (Hope to see you cover DistantHorizon mod)

I’m gonna cry, you were my childhood. I’m 24 now and I can’t tell you how grateful I am that you’re still making videos. Thankyou antvenom, ive got a few years of videos to catch-up on

Stuff like this is why Minecraft has managed to bring the art and tech people together. There's enough for both groups and more.

Theory: there could be another set of farlands after the farthestlands that occur 18,521,747,076,623,449,917,835,399,680 blocks away from center of the world. I’ll call them the fartherererlands.

A small part of my brain was expecting a smosh sketch

Finally a technical explanation, I was waiting for something more in depth for a while now. You said you love bugs and glitches, my thing is to understand HOW they happen and how they were fixed, thank you!

Man I have been waiting for another farlands video for so long!! They are always intriguing!!

this is actually the first video that i watched that i can properly understand for reasons why the farlands happen oh my god thank you edit: btw the fartherer and farthestlands are actually artifacts of terrain gen breakdown likely being the bug that affects the farlands in the 64 bit farlands mod where terrain just repeats itself to a point

You have no idea how many university-students who drunkly watch this

I love that your starting to upload consistently again, also the videos have been amazing! Great job Ant!

Minecraft's farlands is one of the reasons why I love algorithms and math in programming. Fascinating how algorithms for world generation can sometimes do crazy things when it reaches some kind of limit or unexpected condition.

YOOOOOOOOOOOO A CONTINUATION!!

Peak Minecraft video essay production time once more 🗿

The names of all the far lands variants broke me. Edge Far Sky Farther Lands doesn't even sound like anything without any context and I love it.

I never knew that I needed this until I watched this, great video!

i like to occasionally travel to farther west edge sky farthest land tbh

Do you think a video of the history of the bedrock farlands would be good? Good video thou

After so many years, I still find this stuff really fascinating. Thank you for this video!

It's crazy that 99.9% of a Minecraft world resides in the Farlands. The "normal terrain" is actually the smallest portion of a Minecraft world by a huge margin.

This video is absolutely incredible

Nice education on the Far Lands, Void Far Lands, and Sky Far Lands. I’ve been curious about them for years.

I love that 10 years later even though everything in my life has changed I still find joy in watching ant venoms content

13:41 For as long as I have known about minecraft, the far lands phenomenon has always had me very very intrigued, and even moreso the more I dive into coding and general computer science stuff. Ant, I beg you PLEASE make that video

Bro your content was my whole childhood, glad to see you’re still going at it!! Be good my man

This is the explanation I was looking for! This has been bothering me for years! THANK YOU!! Seriously, I hate how everybody just touched on the integer limit thing, and that's it, then they just started showing off the effects of getting closer to the world border and reaching the far lands, but never gave an actual technical explanation.

you know. i would love to watch a 1 hour+ documentary on everything about he Farlands, Voidlands, and Skylands.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO ON THIS FOR SO LONG THIS IS AWESOME

I love the far lands series it’s so interesting and reminds me of a time before modern RU-vid

I came back to this channel after randomly remembering the farlands existed after years and I can’t believe he’s still making videos about them to this day. Nice

The man, the myth, the legend, has returned. Amazing explanation on farlands generation! Very well done!

Great video man! I remember watching your videos growing up

You've cracked the code! It is fortunate that most of us play in the near lands, however, or else the far lands would become commonplace and uninteresting and we would pine for normalcy.

Absolutely insane. Quality content, man!

How many years later and you're still uncovering new information about the Far Lands, great video

Been playing Minecraft since I was a kid and its always helped me visualize principles I learned in school. Now that I'm finishing up a software engineering undergrad its interesting to look back on this phenomena to see the visual representation of the edge limitations of higher-level languages.

It's been SO long since we had a video like this!

AntVenom still providing the most introspective Minecraft content on the platform in a fun, detailed but easy to understand format Always get excited when I see a new upload!

If you compressed the Minecraft worlds so that the distance to the far lands was just one block, the farthest lands would still be further away than the far lands are without being compressed.

why do i really like to hear this guy talking about bugs and glicthes. Its just so good!!!

And then there’s bedrock: a few million blocks out (I’m not sure how many exactly), the terrain generates as normal, but all entities cease to collide with blocks. From there onwards, the further you go in that direction, the more difficult it is to travel perpendicular to the farlands. At around 12.55 million blocks, you reach the farlands. I’m not sure what’s in between, but at thirty million blocks out, you can literally only move parallel to the farlands, and vertically. All blocks now appear two blocks long, and every second block doesn’t exist visually. Also it is impossible to travel beyond this point by any means, even teleportation. As for vertical farlands, I’ve never known of a mod that generates them in bedrock, but I do know that many thousand blocks up, you hit an invisible ceiling which cannot be passed by any means, even commands. And downwards, there’s an invisible floor forty blocks into the void that you can just walk around on in creative or if you survive long enough in survival. You can teleport beyond that, but I’ve never checked what happens if you keep going down there.

Here we go again Another nice documentary video

There's something just oddly beautiful with how terrain generation acts once you reach all these far land variations, some of them actually look pretty cool!

Yes a new Aunt venom video! I love your content on the far lands.

came back after 5 years... you have changed ant... can still hear your enthusiastic voice years back

Assuming you have infinite blocks and build upwards nonstop, it would take 117 days to reach the Sky Farlands, and it would take 9527 days to reach the Sky FARTHER Lands. You would need to build upwards for 26.5 YEARS to reach that distance.

So glad your back antvenom

I like how the infdev farlands just look like an imposing barrier designed to trap you in cube world