For over 420 days, the Minecraft streamer MysticalMidget traveled 2,500 hours in one direction to ultimately plunge to his death at the edge of the world.
Background of the action:
- With nearly 1,000 followers on Twitch, MysticalMidget is among the smaller streamers on the platform.
- With unusual actions, he tries to draw attention to himself
- In February 2021, he began his journey to the end of the (Minecraft) world
- This ended on July 11, 2022, with a fall into the abyss
To the End of the World
What is it about? In the approximately one-minute clip, streamer MysticalMidget can be seen walking through an extremely glitched-looking Minecraft world while his friends cheer him on. He himself calls out “The world says no” a few times, and then the moment arrives: one more step and he falls with a scream through the ground into the abyss.
After a remarkable 420 days, he reached the edge of the world and clipped through the ground. For a few seconds, he managed to delay his inevitable death by eating bread, which heals in Minecraft, and then it’s “Game Over.”
You can watch the entire clip in English here.
What’s Behind the Action
What exactly happened? Especially in open-world games, players often see reaching the end of the world as a challenge. There are often barriers, invisible walls, or hidden surprises from developers.
According to his own statements, Mystical is the 5th person to have walked to the “far lands” (in English: far lands). These are located at the outermost edge of the generated world. To reach them legitimately, without cheats or teleportation, one must travel about 12 million blocks from the central (0;0) coordinates.
However, he went a few – or more precisely 20 million – steps further and crossed them to reach the actual end of the world. In the newer versions of Minecraft, there is an insurmountable wall at this point. Therefore, the streamer had to time travel and play the Beta 1.7 version. There, there is no wall, and the landscape seemingly continues.
To achieve this curious goal, Mystical invested over 2,500 hours spread over 420 days. Reactions on Reddit are mixed. Some admire the persistence, while others consider it the biggest waste of time ever.
What characterizes the “far lands”? Besides the fact that they are not very easy to reach, the far lands are primarily characterized by their extremely unusual geography. They consist of a wild mix of biomes that one normally does not see in Minecraft.
Additionally, the enormous amount of blocks generated on the long journey affects performance. First of all, movements become jerky, the framerate drops, and the CPU is impacted. This can lead to game crashes.
In the current version, behind the “far lands” you will find a wall, but in the older versions, there are so-called “Ghost Blocks” or “Fake Blocks” that cause you to fall right through as soon as you step on them.
However, Mystical is not resting on his laurels. Still in the stream, he switched to the 1.19 version of Minecraft and continued playing in a different world.
Other content creators also continue to find creative challenges to tackle. This recently ended for well-known YouTuber HandofBlood sparsely dressed in a cauldron.
