I recently decided that I want to actively pursue a few official Minecraft world records. For the last couple of months I planned on one day breaking the record for longest Minecraft marathon, but now, there's a few others I want to try since I have the time. The first one I'm going to try will be called Project Tunnel, where I try to break the world record for the longest tunnel built in Minecraft. The current record was built in creative, so that's what I'm going to use in single player mode and I'm going to record the construction in addition to the walk through video of the tunnel and most likely the videos will be uploaded here.

I will also be posting all sorts of updates on my twitter page with #ProjectTunnel for all sorts of updates for things like total distance, blocks dug, total time, etc.

Think I can do it? Right now, the record is just a 1 block wide, 2 block high tunnel, so if I stick to that, it shouldn't take too long to break the record.

Heres a brief update on the project for day one.

More than 23000 blocks were either dug up or placed and the distance of the current tunnel is about 65% if that of the record holder. However, on the site of the record, there are comments saying people have built tunnels up to 10 times longer and are waiting for their applications to go through, so I might have to go above and beyond. Might also at the same time go for longest minecart track as well.

People have done these for like, 1 billion blocks (or as far as the map goes) It's crazy how much time people put into these. Good luck with this thought, hope you can get it. 

Barathemos : Thanks, but I really doubt that people would put THAT much time into just a tunnel, even in creative, it takes about an hour just to make 3000 blocks, so just something that's like 100,000 blocks would require more than 30 straight hours of just digging without stopping.

If you think people wouldn't put that much time into a tunnel then you obviously don't know about KurtJMac. He holds the world record currently for longest distance traveled in 1 direction in Minecraft (he has gone over 1 million blocks in 1 direction) and he was spent the last 4 years doing it.

Not saying you can't do this but there are other people who have done things like this already and have done them for years.

geeogree : Forgot to update this in a while. He just travels doesn't he? Not actually building stuff.


I've been working on this for about 30 minutes a day for the last couple months and have already passed dug out 100,000 blocks.

zanderlex : yeah, he just travels. But still, if a youtuber is doing something similar for 4 years now then someone else has probably also been doing a tunnel for a long time.

Again, not saying you shouldn't try but I don't know if it will be worth it. I'm pretty sure you have to pay money to get your submission verified which doesn't seem worth it in a case like this.

geeogree : Well, even if there is someone who's doing it on there own, it's just for their own stuff if they don't make it official, and right now the official one is only in the 10's of thousands of blocks.

You only have to pay if you want your submission approved in like a week, other than that it's free.