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the farlands is so fascinating, both as a consequence of how Minecraft functioned, and from a theoretical in universe perspective.

I'm absolutely sure I'm not the first person to think about it, but like imagine being a person who explored too far, and now you find yourself at this place where the natural rules of the world seem to break down, or perhaps the rules are being laid bare for the first time.

What you thought you knew, how you thought the world worked, it's not real, it never was, the proof is staring back at you.

The landscape is so foreign to anything you've seen in your entire life of exploring, nothing is clear except one thing, you should not be here.

You can't leave though, to travel back from where you came would take so long, and this alien landscape is so strange, the human need to understand refuses to let you leave.

I kinda wish the farlands could be reintroduced as an official "biome"

I know they won't, but it's such a cool world feature that because of its insane distance from spawn, would be unlikely to affect the typical game experience

I think the strength of Minecraft (or rather one of its many) is the unique things that can happen to you, the weird one off situations that statistically will never happen to anyone else you know, that element of wonder is what brings people back time and time again, and the farlands could be something like that. that feeling of wonder is also why Herobrine as a concept is so captivating, I think.

>looks inside

Most thing nowadays will have characters be openly queer, when in the past, there was pretty much only Queer Coding.

100% yes, giant pandas will scavenge carcasses or slaughter the occasional smaller animal if they think they can get away with it. they might be herbivores now, but they descended from carnivores and did keep a few of their ancestors' snacky tendencies!

pandas are still more flesh-hungry than the average herbivore though, which we know from the Peacock Incident (the panda went out of its way to hunt and kill it when it wandered into the panda's enclosure) and the presence of both deer and monkey parts that have been found in wild panda scat samples.

despite everything, panda is still a bear