The world border is both a physical and arbitary line that marks the edges of the SMPEarth overworld.
Features
The world border can be seen on the SMPEarth Dynmap represented by a red rectangular outline that surrounds and bounds the playable area of the overworld. However, unlike the default vanilla word border, the borders on the SMPEarth server are invisible. Due to a special mod/plugin installed on the server, players are able to teleport from one end to another, allowing circumnavigation.
However, some transports would fail upon circumnavigation such as planes (which would immediately malfunction if travelled across borders, hence the warning displayed each time any players interact with the plane GUI) and wooden boats (players will be ejected from them and sink to the seabed, or, in some cases, both players and boats are teleported under the ice sheet instead of the surface).
WilburSoot managed to exploit this feature for his Transatlantic Median. Though planes and boats were rendered useless in order to circumnavigate the world, minecarts can still be used as an alternative. Therefore, Wilbur monopolized the global minecart supply and installed a redstone-powered railway bridge. It allows players to travel from east to west (and vice versa) by stopping right before the world border and required them to walk through and get teleported to the other side to continue the minecart journey. Often times during the bridge's construction, Wilbur lost his minecarts into the area outside of the border, in which he could not reach as he would instantly be teleported to other side of the world. The Transatlantic Median, upon its completion, has since become the only safe mode of transportation to travel past the longitudinal world border.
Contrary to popular belief and the common notion that SMPEarth is a sphere, much like the actual Earth, the server also allows circumnavigation from south to north, and vice versa. However, this feature is little-known to other players except for some such as KaraCorvus, Ph1LzA, Eret and Jamakattack, to name a few.
Donut Earth Society
Eret discovered this for the first time on Day 21 which led him to believe that the world is not shaped like a sphere, but rather a torus. This led him to believe that Earth is, in fact, shaped like a donut, and established a secret society called the Donut Earth Society (D.E.S).
The World Border Experiment
Meanwhile, Jmak set out an experiment on Day 33 to discover whether it is possible to breach through the world border. Though the obvious answer to the question is no, Jmak spent most of his time in the Arctic region finding ways to counter this such as using bed spawn glitches, jumping and falling from a high distance and even throwing ender pearls. None of these attempts worked. Later, JoshA20 revealed the ability to traverse across the border and reach the far lands and briefly allowed Jmak to have these privileges.
The Angel Dust Crusade
On Day 58, a massive map art of Quaqmire Angel Dust was found in two places, one on the site of Hazbinhotel which was initially demolished by DinksterDaily and his companion, King Burren but was restored presumably by Chip; the other outside the world border north of the Northern End Portal.
On Day 59, Dinkster and Burren approached and convinced Josh to let them go past the world border and eradicate the map art once again from the face of the Earth. Josh agreed under one condition: a boat race between the three of them. After signing a contract with the God (Josh), the three of them raced over the Arctic wasteland and won, earning them the opportunity to venture to the Farlands for about 54.9 minutes, which both Dink and Burren chose to use it later.
On Day 65, the three of them met again and went to the Farlands. Unfortunately, the map art was not found there as they expected, even though it still appeared on the Dynmap. After multiple trials and errors, the crusaders decided to write several messages directed to Chip such as FUCK U CHIP and USE CODE BURREN. The next day, the Farlands was removed from the Dynmap and ceased to exist.
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