The series depicts his journey to the "Far Lands", a distant area of a Minecraft world in which the terrain generation does not function correctly, creating a warped landscape.

[3][4] Episodes of Far Lands or Bust typically act as a sort of podcast, with the game providing a backing track while Kurt discusses recent events in his life, news and science.

[2] However, due to computational limits in earlier versions of the game, at a distance of roughly 12,550,821 blocks from the center of the world the terrain generation algorithm behaves unexpectedly, creating a sudden warped landscape.

[14] Even further out (32 million blocks), the game fails to check for collision, leading the player to fall through the map to their death.

[13] In the game, a debug screen can be opened by pressing F3, which displays the player's current coordinates in the world, plus the biome.

On August 8, 2020, Kurt witnessed an increase in the floating-point error jitter during a live stream (listed as episode 793.5).

An estimate by professional Minecraft builder MegaMinerDL in July 2024 calculated that Kurt could in fact reach the Far Lands in a mere 80 days.