How to get to the Far Lands in Minecraft Java

Hey guys this is nitro zombie and i’m here at the far lands in minecraft java and i’m going to show you guys a step-by-step of exactly how to get here so you can experience this for yourselves the far lands are a terrain generation glitch that occurs millions of blocks out from spawn

This bug occurred in the earliest versions of minecraft java and it still exists to some degree in the current versions of minecraft bedrock is the point where normal train generation ceases to exist and it essentially forms the edge of the minecraft world the far lands start at 12 million 550

821 blocks out on both the x and z axes in modern versions of minecraft java the world ends at the world border which is 30 million blocks out from spawn so while the far lands don’t exist in modern versions of minecraft java we can still visit them by loading into

Older versions of the game and we do that through the minecraft launcher so we’re going to want to make a couple of new installations of the game up here in the top left next to the play tab you hit installations and these are the current versions of minecraft that you have installed and

Loaded up and over here on the right side there’s a few different check boxes normally you’re just going to have the first one the full releases one checked if you get into playing on snapshots this is the one you’re going to have checked and this is the one that we want this is

How you get access to the old historical versions of the game and you’ll see that it has a warning dialogue here that says whenever you run the historical versions you want to do it in a separate game directory to avoid corrupting your worlds and that is extremely important because

We don’t want to accidentally open up any of the worlds that we’re currently playing on in older versions of the game where it can possibly corrupt and make those worlds unplayable plus jumping back and forth to old versions of the game even if it’s a new worlds will mess with your saved settings

So by making a new directory we will not have an issue with that so let’s go ahead and click on historical and let’s make some new installations the first installation we’re going to make is going to be in an old version of the game where we can access the farlands

So the farlands were in the game from an early version known as inf dev all the way up until beta 1.7.3 so we’re going to go ahead and make it in 1.7.3 although you can make it an earlier version and we’re going to go ahead and name this installation farlands beta

And then we’re going to go ahead and make the new game directory and you do it here in this tab so we want to hit browse and it’s going to pull up this window here and it should automatically have the minecraft folder highlighted

So all you need to do is go down to the bottom left hit make new folder and we’re going to name this one farlands as well and then hit ok and that’s all you need to do it made that new directory under minecraft as a farlands folder

So now it will not interfere with any of the current worlds we play on or the settings so we’ll go ahead and hit create and we’ve got that one ready to go so let’s make one more installation so the other installation that we’re going to be making is in

Version 1.12.2 and the reason that we’re going to do it in that specific version is because it’s the last release that you can port farland’s terrain into all of the other releases later once again change how terrain’s generated so it’s got to be this one so basically

What we’re going to be doing is we’re going to be going into the old version of minecraft the beta installation that we made we’re going to be traveling all the way out to the far lands using a little bit of trickery that we’ll get into soon and then we’re going to be porting

That terrain that we generated into this newer version of the game where it’s easier to move around and appreciate that terrain it’s not so buggy and difficult to get around so we’re going to go ahead and use 1.12.2 and i recommend doing an optifine installation to make it run a little bit better

It’s not that difficult to do just go to the optifine website and they have all the old versions of optifine as well just like minecraft does so we’re going to do 1.12.2 and we’re going to go ahead and rename this firelands 1.12.2 and then we’re going to go down here and

Use the same game directory that we made for the beta so this time we’re going to expand the minecraft folder and then we’re going to go down to the farlands folder that we created click on it until it’s highlighted and it’s listed in this box here and click

Ok so that will make this installation use that same directory as well and let’s go ahead and create this one so now we’ve got our two new installations and they save their files into a different directory so it doesn’t interfere with the current worlds and installations we have

Or their settings so let’s start by opening the 1.12.2 installation that we made and here we are in an older version of the game i’m going to go ahead and change some of these settings turn off the music turn the sound down a little bit see if there’s anything else i need to

Change here let’s go to unlimited let’s crank the brightness all the way up i think that’s good for now let’s go ahead and make a world and we want to do this in creative and we’re going to name this farlands and go ahead and create

So here we are in the new world that we just created let me quickly kind of explain to you how this is going to work so i mentioned earlier that we’re going to be using this newer version of the game to access the far lands in the old version of the game

And that’s because in the older versions of the game where the far lands existed there was no spectator mode no creative mode and no teleportation command that would allow you to quickly get out there and see them so basically we’re going to be using this version of the game we’re going to

Be teleporting out to the coordinates where the far lands would be and we’re going to quickly exit and we’re going to load up this save in the old version of the game where the farlands will be right in front of our eyes so let’s go ahead and put in the command

That we need i’m going to control v paste the teleportation command that we need and i’ll have this down in the video description so you can quickly copy and paste this without having to write it out for yourself so as soon as i click enter and we get teleported

Out it’s going to be about 120 blocks shy of where the far lands will be i’m going to quickly exit out before the terrain generates and then we’re going to load into the beta version so let’s go ahead and hit enter train starting generate i’m going to quickly exit

And now i’m going to go ahead and back out of this version of the game and load up the beta version we’re back here at the launcher i’m going to go ahead and pick the farlands beta installation that we made and load it up this certainly has an old-school feel to

It we’re going to go ahead and turn the music off and the sound down and we’re going to go into single player and this is the farlands world that we created in 1.12.2 in a word of warning before we load this up it’s going to be crazy scuffed whenever we get in there

Into the beta farlands area the game pretty much breaks down out there it’s difficult to move it’s very hitchy and the frame rate will tank the closer you actually get to the far lands terrain so we’ve got to quickly get in move around try to load in as much as that terrain

Is possible and then poured it back over into the 1.12 world so we can actually move around and look at it without the game breaking on us so let’s go ahead and load in and we’re going to be coming in at y90 it’s a it’s kind of a safe middle ground where

Hopefully we’re going to load in and not be so high up that we’ll take lethal fall damage and we’re not going to be low enough to be suffocating in a hill or a mountain but if you happen to load in and that happens just start the process over again

Make a new 1.12.2 world port it over to beta and it should only take a time or two before you get in safely so let’s go ahead and load in okay and we went down to two hearts not bad and there are the far lands and i loaded us in to

The corner far lands where the x and the z far lands intersect so we can get a real nice view here and you’ll see that the hit boxes are a little bit off and as we move around it’s it’s almost like a stop motion where it’s just really hitchy

Right now the frame rates pretty good we’re around 75 to 80. the closer we get it’s gonna load in a bunch of gravel and sand that’s going to be falling and it’s going to create entities and just really bog down the game so that’s the main reason why we have to

Load this into a newer version so we can really appreciate the farlands this is a beautiful sight though i honestly think that this is something that all serious minecrafters should experience once in their minecraft live so let’s get a little bit closer so we can load in as much of this as possible

Frame rate is going down a little bit but it’s still pretty stable honestly let’s get over to the corner a little bit more it’s really disorientating trying to move around here okay we’re still in the 40s now it’s getting a little bit lower 30s it’s actually not tanking as much as it

As it has in other far lands and that’s something that you can kind of experiment with you can do this multiple times and the far lands will always be different okay we’re getting low now i’m going to go ahead and save and quit and load into the 1.12.2

Installation okay we’re back here at the launcher i’m going to go ahead and load in that 1.12.2 installation here we are back in 1.12.2 we’re going to have to update the settings again like i said moving back and forth between versions of the game will mess with your settings

So that’s a big reason why you want to have a separate installation different directory so you don’t have to mess up all of your settings and keybinds that you have let’s go to video let’s go max frame rate let’s up the brightness again and we will up the render distance a

Little bit once we get out there and load some of this in and here is the world that we want to convert back over and let’s go ahead and hop on in and we’re back in 1.12.2 so we’re gonna have a little bit of lag over here as well

As we load in the far lands and you can see that that the terrain in general is just gonna be corrupted and there’s gonna be jagged lines um and you will be able to get in creative here but what you’ll need to do to get into spectator and use any commands is

Open it to land so we’re going to go ahead and do that we’re going to go ahead and open it to land turn cheats on so now we can go into spectator mode and let’s fly around a little bit and let’s find the farlands and there they are

The beta farland’s terrain that we loaded in and that now we have ported over to the newer version of the game so we’re gonna kind of fly around here and load it in some of it loads in quicker than others this one seems to be loading in pretty

Quickly sometimes you’ll need to kind of hang out in one spot if it’s not loading in just let the game catch up we even have some mushrooms over there that’s interesting okay let’s go ahead and load all of this in oh my gosh i love that that is just beautiful looking right there

Okay so we got a pretty good swath of it here i’m gonna go ahead and up the video settings the render distance now that we’ve loaded most of it in and get a good fly around and then after the terrain that you generated as far lands it will resume

Normal train generation so really you’re just going to have a little section of far lands as much as you were able to load in whenever you’re in the beta world but it’s enough that you can really get an appreciation for what it looks like in the kind of terrain

That existed at that time so we really got a cool section of farlands here and if your computer will support it you can go ahead and turn on shaders let’s go ahead and put on sue see what it looks like with that oh yeah and you can really kind of go in

The middle of it all and experience it it’s it’s really a sight it’s just so strange this train generation so that’s really all there is to it guys most of the time is spent making those new game installations and the new directories but once you get proficient in hopping

In and out of the different versions of the game and loading in the far lands it’s a lot of fun to experiment with finding different versions of the far lands and you can actually find nether far lands it’s a little bit more dangerous it involves making a nether portal whenever

You make that first 1.12.2 world hopping in the nether before you teleport out to the far lands coordinates and it’s just kind of a dice roll if whenever you load into that beta world if you’re going to be safe if you’re going to fall down to a lava

Lake it takes a little bit more time to get it right but i’ve definitely done it plenty of times before and and it’s doable so i really appreciate you guys watching i hope that you guys are able to make it out here for yourselves and i’d like to hear from you guys in

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