The Farlands: Theories and Predictions

This is a community journal, and anyone is free to add theories or discovered info. This book belongs to the [???????] Library, so please do not remove it for extended periods of time.

This book goes into depth of the mysterious Border, and what may lie beyond. Most work here is assumptions, and until there's solid proof, there is no way to pass the Border, into The Farlands, nor what lies in wait.

## **Known info**

### **What is The Farlands?**

The Farlands is everything beyond the Border, everything we cannot traverse. The Farlands appear to look exactly like our own world within the Border, with different biomes, creatures, and general life. Normally, this wouldn't be interesting enough to warrant a whole book, but the question that has captured us for years is *what lies within it?* Because we can't travel within it, we don't truly know anything about it. It appears like our own lands, but why is it locked off? Why can creatures pass through it, but not sentients? What are the harrowing noises some hear while mining nearby?

The possibility of more recourses, infinite landscapes, and most excitingly, new creatures and terrain, is what keeps us hooked onto this mystery.

### **What is the Border?**

The Border is the infinitely tall wall of glass-like substance, which is unpassable by us sentients. It's entirely transparent, save for the shimmering blue lines that cross it's surface. Millions of miles away from the center of our land, it tends to only be seen by those already looking for it, or out to map the entire world.

Though we cannot pass through it, other creatures- mobs, can. They freely wander between the lines, as if it didn't exist for them. No one knows why we cannot go through the Border, and why mobs can, and we might never know. All we truly know about it, is that it's what encompasses our known world, blocking us, and only us, from outside lands.

## Theories

### Why does the Border exist?

No one knows! Is it to keep us safe from what is past there? Is it simply to keep us locked within? Is it real? The most popular theory is it serves only to keep us within an enclosure of sorts. Since only mobs can pass through, that seems to be the only sensible outcome. Perhaps it keeps us within so that we don't ravage The Farlands, milking its natural recourses? If so, then who put it here? Was it always here? Like the rest of these, we are only left with more questions than answers.

### What is in The Farlands?

Unlike the previous question, we actually have proof that something more is past the Border, and within The Farlands! On the surface, some travelers noted small, flying yellow lights in the distance of Farland swamps. Along with this, new sounds have been heard near Farlands swamps as well, one that can only be described as croaking. Loud and hoarse, we don't know the source of it. It may be the glowing beings, but we can't be sure.

Similarly, within the caves near the Border, roaring, bellowing, pulsing, and a variety of sounds were heard. Since we cannot investigate, our only chance at seeing what the source these sounds were was to lie in wait, watching open parts of the Border that lead into more cave systems. Despite this, nothing has been found. With the fierce calls echoing throughout the empty walls, it might be best that we don't find out.

### Is it possible to escape the Border?

It isn't believed to be possible. Ancient scraps of scripts and books read tales of people passing through the Border, even for a moment. However, despite our best restoration attempts, nothing sensical could be made of it. Recorded attempts have included using ender pearls, pistons, mobs, minecarts and boats have been made, again, to no avail. While it might be possible that certain techniques allow us to pass through, as for now, it is not possible to escape the Border.

## Sub Theories

Here is a place for the community to write and record new information, discoveries and theories. Anyone is free to write here, as long as it relates to the subject and isn't a joke entry. To write one, create a new sub-heading with a fitting title, and record your thoughts.

### Expansion

Some claim that long ago, our piece of the world was smaller. The border, smaller. Keeping us out, as it does now. But that changed. The border changed. The border suddenly, without warning, receded a thousand blocks, revealing new lands. While these old legends can't be proven, they are plausible. After all, how do we know that it cannot expand? And, if these claims are true, will it expand again? What could we find beyond this ancient wall? Only time will tell.